The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-14

The following is the text of the
protest sent by Liliuokalani to the
various foreign diplomats just be-
fore the PRONUNCIATION of the new
Constitution
SIR: Having in mind the amicable
relations hitherto existing between
the Government which you here rep
resent and the Government of Hawaii,
as evidenced by many years OF friend
ly intercourse, and being DESTROYS OF
bringing to the attention OF your
Government the facts here following,
], LiIiuokalani, by the grace of God
and under the Constitution of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom, Queen, do hereby
sole mnly protest, that L am now ana
have continuously been since the 10Th
day of January, y. ID. 1891, the Con-
stitutiOnal Sovereign of the Hawaiian
Kingdoms; that on the 18th day of jan
uary, \. ID. 1898, lin the words of the
President of the United States him.
self: "By an act of war, committed
with the participation of "a diplomatic
representative of the United States,
and without authority of Congress,
the Government of feeble but friend
" and cOnfiding people has been
OVertnrOWn. y SuDSldnlldi
has thus been done which due re-
gard for our national character as well
as the rights of the injured people
REQUIRES we should endeavOr to re-
pair" that on said date l and my
Government prepared written pro-
test against any and all acts done
against myself and the Constitutional
Government of the Hawaiian King
dom by certain persons claiming to
have established a Provisional Gov
eminent of and for this klngdomi
that said protest was forwarded to the
President of the United States, also &c
Sanford b. Dole, the Chairman of the
Executive Council of the said Provis-
ioual Government, and was by the
latter duly acknowledged; that IN re
Spouse to said protest the President oi
the United States sent special com
missioner in the person OF Hon. Jas
III. Blount to Honolulu TO make al
accurate. full and impartial lnvestlga'
ton of the facts attending the SUBJ
version of the Constitutional Govern
ment of Hawaii and the installment
in its place of the Provisional Gov
ernment: that said Commissioners
arrived in Honolulu on the 29th day
of March, a ID. 1898, and fulfilled his
duties with untiring diligence anC
rare tact and fairness; that said Com
missioner found that the Government
of Hawaii surrendered its authority
under a threat OF war, until suci
time ONLY as the Government o
the United States, upon the
facts being presented to it, shoulC
reinstate the Constitutional Sow
ereign, and the Provisional Govern
ment was created TO exist until terms
of union with the United States o
America have been negotiated anC
agreed upon, and also that but for tn
lawless occupation of Honolulu unde
false preteXts by United States forces
and but for the United States Minis
ters recognition of the ProVlslona
Government when the United State
forces were its sole support and con
Stituted its only military strength,
and my government would neve
have yielded to the Provisional Gov
eminent, even for a time, ana Tor IN
sole purpose Of submitting my case L
the enlightened justice of the Unite
States, or for any purpose; also tina
the great wrong done to this feeble bu
independent state by an abuse OF tn
authority of the United States shoul
be undone by restoring the legltlmat
government.
That since the happening of sai
events, the executive, and the Con
Sress of the United States have for
mally declined the oYertures of tn
said Provisional Government for tn
annexation of the Hawaiian Island
to the United States.
That notwithstanding said recite,
facts, SAID Provisional Government
has continued to exercise the func
tiOns of government in this kingdom
to the present date, and that its cOurs
from the time of its inception to tn
present, has been marked by a success