The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-16
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THAT your memorialists have
learned with grief and dismay that
the President of the United States
has entered into, aud submitted for
ratification by the United States
Senate, a Treaty with the Govern
ment OF the Republic Of Hawaii,
whereby it is proposed to extinguish
our existence as a Nation, and TO
annex our territory to the United
States.
8-Thst the Hawaiian people,
during more than half century
prior to the events hereinabove re-
cited, had been accustomed to par
ticipate in the Constitutional forms
of Government, in the election of
Legislatures, in the naturalization
of justice through regularly con.
stituted magistrates, courts and
juries, and in the representative
administration of public affairs, in
which the principle of government
by msjorities has been acknowledged
ard firmly established.
9-That your memorialists humbly
but fervently protest against the
consummation Of this invasion of
their political rights; aud they
earnestly appeal to the President,
the Congress and the people OF the
United States, to refrain from fur
Their participating in the wrong SO
proposed; and they invoke in sup
port OF this memorial the spirit OF
that immortal Instrument, the De-
claration of American Independence;
and especially the truth therein ex
pressed, that Governments derive
their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed, and here
repeat that the consent of the
people of the Hawaiian Isl.
ands to the forms Of Government
imposed by the so-called Republic
OF Hawaii, and to said propos. d
Treaty OF Annexation, has never
been asked by and is not accorded,
either to said Government or to said
project OF Annexation.
10--That the contamination of
the project of Annexation dealt with
10 said Treaty would be subversive
OF the personal and political rights
OF these memorialists, and of the
Hawaiian people and Nation, and
would be negation of the rights
and principles proclaimed in the
Declaration of American Independ.
euce, in the Constitution OF the
United States, aud in the schemes
OF government OF all other civilized
and representative Governments.
1l-Wherefore your memorialists
respectfully submit that they, no
less than the citizens Of any Amer
lean Commonwealth, are entitled to
select, ordain and establish for
themselves, such forms of Govern
ment as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and
happiness; aud that questions OF
such moment to the Hawaiian peo-
pie as are proposed to be settled by
said Treaty, are questions upon
which said people have the right, in
the forum OF Conscience, to be
heard; and that said Hawaiian peo-
pie have thus far been denied the
privilege OF being heard upon said
questions.
12-And your memorialists hum
bly, pray the President, Congress
and the people OF the United States,
that no further steps be taken to.
ward the ratification OF said Treaty,
or toward the extinguishment of the
Hawaiian Nationality, or toward the
absorption of the Hawaiian people
aud territory into the body polite
aud territory OF the United States
of America, at least until the Ha-
waiian people, as represented by
those citizens and residents OF the
Hawaiian Islands who, under the
provisions OF the Hawaiian Consti-