Believing, therefore, that the United States could not, under the circumstances disclosed, annex the islands with out justly incurring the imputation of acquiring them by unjustifiable strategies, I shall not again submit the treaty of annexation to the Senate for its consideration, and in the instructions to Minister Willis, a copy of which accompanies this message, I’ve directed him to so inform the provisional authorities. Indeed, the fact that after having known as for the landing of the United States forces on the plea of danger to life and property the Committee of Safety themselves requested the Minister to postpone motion, uncovered the untruthfulness of their representations of present peril to life and property. But he replied that the troops had been ordered, and whether or not the committee had been prepared or not the landing ought to take place. Furthermore, the provisional government acquiesced in her surrender in that method and on these terms, not solely by tacit consent, however by the optimistic acts of some members of that authorities who urged her peaceable submission, not merely to avoid bloodshed, but because she may place implicit reliance upon the justice of the United States, and that the whole subject would be lastly thought of at Washington.

That it was not in such possession of the federal government property and businesses as entitled it to recognition is conclusively proved by a note discovered in the files of the Legation at Honolulu, addressed by the declared head of the provisional authorities to Minister Stevens, dated January 17, 1893, in which he acknowledges with expressions of appreciation the Minister’s recognition of the provisional government, and states that it isn’t yet within the possession of the station house (the place the place numerous the Queen’s troops have been quartered), although the identical had been demanded of the Queen’s officers in charge. But the United States had allied itself along with her enemies, had acknowledged them as the true Government of Hawaii, and had put her and her adherents in the position of opposition in opposition to lawful authority. Nevertheless, this wrongful recognition by our Minister positioned the federal government of the Queen ready of most perilous perplexity. On that ground the United States can not correctly be put in the place of countenancing a unsuitable after its commission any more than in that of consenting to it prematurely. A considerable incorrect has thus been performed which a due regard for our nationwide character as well as the rights of the injured people requires we should always endeavor to repair.

For example, Toronto, Sydney and Auckland are of better financial importance than their respective nationwide capitals, hence the need for consulates there. Indeed, the entire military pressure of her kingdom was on her facet and at her disposal, whereas the Committee of Safety, by precise search, had discovered that there were but very few arms in Honolulu that were not within the service of the federal government. Nevertheless, at the call and beneath the auspices of the Committee of Safety, a mass meeting of citizens was held on that day to protest towards the Queen’s alleged unlawful and unlawful proceedings and purposes. But for the infamous predilections of the United States Minister for annexation, the Committee of Safety, which must be referred to as the Committee of Annexation, would by no means have existed. She surrendered not absolutely and permanently, but quickly and conditionally until such time as the facts could be considered by the United States.

Accordingly, some hours after the recognition of the provisional authorities by the United States Minister, the palace, the barracks, and the police station, with all of the army sources of the nation, have been delivered up by the Queen upon the illustration made to her that her trigger would thereafter be reviewed at Washington, and while protesting that she surrendered to the superior drive of the United States, whose Minister had brought on United States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would help the provisional authorities, and that she yielded her authority to stop collision of armed forces and lack of life and only till such time because the United States, upon the information being presented to it, should undo the action of its consultant and reinstate her within the authority she claimed because the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. She surrendered to not the provisional government, however to the United States.