Hawaii — page 133: what you’re looking at

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124 LILIUOKALANI AND THE REVOLUTION. read. Ina dispatch announcing the assertion of a pro- tectorate, Minister Stevens said: | “The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it.” On the receipt of his dispatch Secretary Foster wrote Feb. 11, disavowing the minister’s action so far as it im- plied “the establishment of a protectorate, which is in fact the positive erection of a paramount authority over or in place of the duly constituted local Government, and the assumption by the protector of the especial respon- b sibilities attached to such formal protection,” or so far as it impaired “in any way the independent sovereignty of the Hawaiian Government by substituting the flag and the power of the United States as the symbol and mani- festation of paramount authority.” The flag was kept flying and the American garrison maintained until after the Democratic Administration came into power at Washington. Captain Wiltse was recalled, and Rear Admiral Skerrett was ordered to Ha- wail by command of President Harrison. Secretary of the Navy Tracy told him before he took his departure that the Government would “be very glad to annex Ha- ‘ wall, but as a matter of course none but the ordinary legal means can be used to. persuade these people ta come into the United States.” In Hawaii there was fear of British interference, and when the British cruiser “Garnet” arrived shortly after the American flag was hoisted, preparations were made for a defense. On Jan. 19 the Commissioners sailed on a specially chartered steamer for San Francisco, bringing the comicbooks.com — > 4