Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-08-13
THE QUEENS PROTEST.
A Mastery Document
Dole Outdone.
Honolulu, H l..
June 2Sth, 1894.
Dole Outdone.

SIR Having in mind the
smicable relations hitherto ex-
listing between tie government
which You here represent. and
the government Of Hawaii as
evidenced by many years Of
friendly intercourse. and, being
DESTROYS Of bringing to the at
tention Of your government the
facts here following
Il. Liliuokalani, by the grace
Of God and under the Constitu-
ton Of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Queen. DO hereby solemnly pro-
test that am now, and have
continuously been since the Goth
day Of January, =. d. 1891, the
constitutional Sovereign Of the
Hawaiian Kingdom, that on the
18th dav Of January, a. d. 1898
lin the words Of the President Of
the United States HIMSELF BY
an act Of war, committed with
the participation Of diplomatic
representative Of the United
States. and without the authority
Of Congress, the government Of Il
feeble but friendly and confding
people has been overthrown. A
substantial wrong has thus been
done which a due regard for our
national character as well as the
rights of the injured people re-
quires we should endeavor to
repair: that on said date, | and
my government, prepared a writ
ten protest against any and all
acts against myself and the Con
stitutional Government of the
Hawaiian Kingdom by certain
personsSclaiming to have estab-
lished Provisional government
OF, and for this Kingdom, that
said protest was forwarded to the
President Of the United States,
also to Sanford b. Dole, the
Chairman of the Executive
Council of the said Provisional
government, and was by letter
duly acknowledged; that in res
ponse to said protest, the Presi-
dent of the United States, sent
special commissioner in the
person of Hon. James H.
Blount, to Honolulu to make an
accurate, full, and impartial in
vestigation Of the facts attending
the isubversion of the Constitu-
tional Government of Hawaii,
and the installment in its place
Of the Provisional government;
that said Commissioner arrived
in Honolulu, on the Doth day of
March, A. ID. 1898, and fulfilled
his duties with untiring diligence
and with rare tact and fairness; :,
that said Commissioner found
that the Government of Hawaii
surrendered its authority under a
threat of war. until such time
only as the government of the
United States, upon the facts be-
ing presented to it, should
reinstate the Constitutional
Sovereign, ana the Provisional
government was created to exist
until terms of union with the
United States of America have
been negotiated and agreed upon,
also that but the lawless occupa-
ton of Honolulu, under false
preiexts by United States forces,
and but for the United States
Minister'S recognition of tue
Provisional government. when
the United States forces were its
sole support and constituted its
only military strength, |, and
my government would never have
yielded to the Provisional gov
eminent, even for time, and for
the sole purpose of submitting
my case to the enlightened /
justice Of the United States, or
for any purpose; also. that the |
great wrong done to this feeble
but Independent state by an
abuse of the authority of the
United States. should be undone /
by restoring the legitimate gov
eminent.
That. since the happening of
said events, the Executive and
the Congress of the United |