The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-04-30
NOT REHDY FOR HISTORY,
The Overthrow of the Monarchy
Not Yet for Record.

Copyright, 1896, by Funk s. Wagnalls Com
| pany, New York;
The feeling is still too bitter between
the Republicans or P. G.'s, as they
are contemptuously called by their
enemies, and the Royalists for the
exact truth "a to the overthrow of
the monarchy to be obtained. The
political feeling here is at about the
same heat it was in the United States
in 1866. The Royalists still call the
government provisional" and refuse
to recognize it.
To understand the cause of the
overthrow of monarchy one must have
knowledge of the history of Hawaii.
In the latter part of the 18th CEN
fury a powerful chief of Hawaii,
known as Kamehameha, captured two
American sailors named Davis and
Young. The latter was a boatswain
on the Boston frigate Eleanor, the
former on little sloop, the Fair
American. The latter vessel was
seized, it's captain and crew, with the
exception of Davis, killed, and its can
non taken on shore.
Young and Davis, being expert gun
ners, were spared to manage the artil-
lery for Kamehameha, who at once
began the conquest of the whole group
of islands. The two Americans we're
his generals, they married the daugh-
tiers of chiefs or princes, and were
given high Offices.
After several years of war all the
Sandwich Islands were conquered, and
Kamehameha declared king over ALL
He was succeeded by four direct des-
cendants known as Kamehameha
H., ILL.,, ~, V. The natives having
abolished ido]atry, in the year 1920
the missionaries sent by the American
Board of Missions came to convert
them. They were kindly received by
the natives, but by this time the is
lands had become a rendezvous for
whaling vessels, whose officers and
crews we're lewd, lawless men, and
they objected to the restraints of re-
ligion and deceucy.
The missionaries, however, had
come to stay, and, in an earnest man
ner, began the conversion of the
heather. They we're often threatened
by the lawless sailors, who regarded
their upright lives as standing rebuke
to their own immortality But, in
spite of all threats and danger, the
missionaries held their ground. They
had the respect and confidence of the
kings, who remained their friends,
and the cause of Christianity advanced
until all of the islands we're brought
under it's sway. Missionaries who
came to the islands young men, raised
families of children, grew old and
died. Children born on the islands
grew up, died, and left children, nat
ural born Hawaiians, the same as any
American citizen to-day is an Ameri-
can.
The bushes interests of the islands
soon began to attract the attention OF
the world. Americans came to en-
gage in agriculture or mercantile
pursuits. These dots on the face OF
the globe assumed great importance
and the English, always jealous OF any
advance of Americans in the acquisi-
ton of territory, began to turn her
attention toward the islands.
AS the American Congregationalists
and Presbyterians had succeeded SC
we'll, the Church OF England, from
purely political motives it is claimed
began religious conquest of the is
lands. From this time on there was g
struggle between Americans and Eng.
lish to control the ruling monarchs.
Kamehameha III gave the people
the first liberal constitution. All the
Kamehamehas seem to have been
friendly to the Americans, as they
we're probably under the influence OIL
Young and DAVIS and their descen.
dants.
The anti-missiouary party in time
became the anti-American party
History shows how England has
sought in the past to get control of the
islands, and how she objected to the
annexation of them to the United
States during the Forties, as the trade