The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-02-09
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heh', tuuu 10 acRIhs tno CblIeu
States to annex these islands and
their legal subjects. 1t is quite
willing even, to send commission
to Washington-if necessary--to as
siet their representatives there, in
the negotiation for the "barter'
1t i; said, that in 1892, one of the
leading missionary politicians, when
speaking of Queen Liliuokalani,
made the remark, "but what does it
matter so long as we have the pre-
vsiling influence over her. re-
public or annexation would lead to
the dominance of the natives" Any
voice from the (natives) legal sub
jects OF the country is pretty well
hushed up, by Article 10l, OF the
present Constitution.
Surely this Government and its
supporters, do not for one moment
suppose that the administration OF
the United States, will accept an
offer OF annexation from govern
ment which came into existence in
the manner it did; and further to
negotiate for an object which is not
in the province Of that Government
to offer. They cannot suppose, that
the claims of the legal subjects Of
the country will be ignored, or that
their protests will not be heard.
The following paragraphs from
the N. Y. Nation, will perhaps be
interesting reading:
The recognition OF one nation
by another, can never be Invested of
historical solempity.' 1T is thus a
continuous act, and so long as there
is moral integrity OF action, it is
limited only by the formal existence
Of the nation itself. 1t is not there
fore TO be momentarily offered, nor
to be arbitrarily withdrawn Opp
-251-253)
1.-The right to the land is in the
people. 1t is the possession of the
political people, The bounds OF
the nation, which are written in the
course OF the mountains, and in the
lines of the oceans, are written also
upon the hearts OF its children
opp. 66, 67)
"Political rights include the right
Of every person born in the nation,
to be and to remain in it's citizen
ship. The personality of each is to
be respected in it, and to act in it,
not negatively but positively, not
passively to be allowed, as if the ma
ton were only some power over it,
but it is to act as itself determinate
power in it, The freedom of the
people presumes that the political
order shall conform to the will OF
the political people.'-(pp, 101-l18.)
"'There are sometimes those who,
in the guise OF specious devotion
to freedom, are ready to consent to
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the nation,
and would conspire for the destruc-
ton of the whole organization in
which it has toiled towards its realiz-
alton, however, imperfect its ad-
vance. These Missionaries cannot
build again on the ruins it was so
easy to make; it is only destructive
powers that work thus swiftly; free
dom will not follow at their behest.'
-(pp. 122, 1881
"The Sovereignty of the nation
is inalienable; the State cannot
transfer it to another, nor divest it.
self of it, except that in the act it.
self, its own existence, and its own
freedom terminate.'-(p. 1907
Government de facto is strictly
the force which, at certain moment
may get hold OF and possession in the
State, without reference to its origin
or character; and it may maintain
itself by foreign influence or fraud.
That government is only legitimate,
which is the exponent OF the will OF
the people, and in conformity to its
organic law The govern ment can
not be imposed upon the nation by
any power which is external to it,
nor can it be inaugurated by CLIQUE