The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-14
THUS "RoyAL" REGRETS ARE TOLD
DIPLOMATS.
The Text of Bulletin" aud " Holomua'
Editorials Rehearsed in Nice
Legal Phrase.

since the Goth day of January, A. d.
1891, the Constitutional Sovereign of the
Hawaiian Kingdoms; that on the 18th
day of January, a. d. 1S03-Gn the
words of the President of the United
States himselO:-"By az act of war,
committed with tie participation of a
diplomatic representative of the United
States, and without authority of Con.
gress, the Government Of a feeble but
friendly and confiding people
has been overthrown. "a sub
stuntial wrong has thus been
done which due regard for our
national character as well as the rights
of the injured people requires We
should endeavor to repair; that on
said date | and my Government pre-
pared written protest against any and
all acts done against myself and the
Constitutional Government of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom by certain persons
claiming to have established a provis-
ional government of and for this King
dom; 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
the latter duly acknowledged; that in
response to said protest the President
of the United States sent a special
Commissioner in the person of Hon.
Jas. II. Bloupt to Honolulu to make an
accurate, full and impartial investiga-
ton of the facts attending the subver-
sion of the Constitutional Government
of Hawaii and the installment in its
place of the Provisional Gov
eminent; that said Commissioners
arrived in Honolulu on the Goth
day of March, A. d. 1893, and fulfilled
his duties with untiring diligence and
with rare tact and fairness; that SAID
Commissioner found that the govern
ment of Hawaii surrendered its authority
under a threat of war, until such time
only as the Government of the United
States, upon the facts being presented
to it, should reinstate the Constitutional
Sovereign, and the Provisional Govern
ment was created to exist until terms of
union with the United States of Ameri-
ca have been negotiated and agreed
upon, also that but for the lawless oc-
cupation of Honolulu under false pre-
texts by United States forces, and but
for the United States Minister'S recog-
milton. OF the Provisional Government
when the United States forces were its
sole support and constituted its only
military strength, l and my government
would never have yielded to the Pro-
visional Government, 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 alb
use OF the authority of the United
should be undone by restoring the legi-
innate government.
That since the happening of said
events. the executive, and the Congress
of the United States have formally de-
clined the overtures of the said Pro-
visional Government for the anneXa.
ton of the Hawaiian Islands to the
United States.
That understanding said recited
facts, said Provisional Government has
continued m ayarc,sa tho functinnS nj
Government in this kingdom to the
present date, and that its course, from
the time of its inception to the present
has been marked by a succession OF
arbitrary, illiberal and despotic acts
and by the enactment and enforcement
of pretended laws subversive of the
first principles of free government ano
utterly at variance with the traditions
history. habits and wishes of the Ha.
waiian people.
The said Provisional Government has
now recently convened, and is now
holding what it is pleased to term ;
Constitutional Convention, composed o.
nineteen Q9) self-appointed members
being the President and Executive anC
Advisory Councils of said Provisiona
Government, and eighteen Q8) delegates
elected by less than ten per cent. 90
of the loyal voters of the Kingdom
consisting almost entirely of aliens
and chiefly of such aliens as have n,
permanent home or interest in Hawaii
and which said convention is now con
sidering a draft of a constitution Copy
of which is hereto annexed) submitted
for its approval by the Executive Coun
Gil of said Provisional Government con
sisting of the President and Minister
thereof.
That it is the expressed purpose of tn
said Provisional Government to pro
mitigate such constitution as shall b
approved by SAID convention withou
submitting it to vote of the people, o
of any of tine people, and to thereupol
proclaim a government under such con
stitution, and under the name of tn
Republic of Hawaii.
That the said Provisional Government
has not assumed a republican or olhe
constitutional form, but has remained
mere executive council or oligarchy, st
up without the assent of the people
that it has not sought to find a pei
manent basis of popular support an
has given no evidence of an intention
do so; that its representatives assei
that the people of Hawaii are unfit fo
popular government and frankly avo'
that they can be best ruled by arbitrar
or despotic power, and the propose
constitution, so submitted by said f,
ecutive Council of the Provisional Coy
eminent for the approval of said col
vention does not provide for or col
template free, popular or republica
form, of uovarnment-but does cOnten