Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 72, 12 December 1893 — Hawaiian Affairs. [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian Affairs.

CITATIONS FROM STATE DOCUMENTS. I —■■■ ■ PKLTEDEXTSi. ! Pr.ESLDENT TYLER’s P.EPLV TO SECKETAKY WEBSTEK. President Tyler. to whom the ! message was addressed, spoke as follows: “Considering, therefore. that the Uuited States possesses 1 so very large a share in the inter- ) conrse with thnse is!%nds, it is | deemed not uufit to make the declaration that this government 0 eks, nevertheless, uo pecnliar j :;uvantages, uo exciusive control over the Hawaiian (TOvernment, : but is content with its Midependent existence, anj anxions!v wisbes for its security and prosperity. WHAT SECKETARY MAKCY WB0TE IN 1853. Secretary Marcy, in 1853, wrote: “TV hile we do not inteud to attempt the exercise of an\ exclusive control over them, we are resolved that no other power or State sha.l exact any political or comraercial relations from them whieh we are not permitted to enjoy’, far less to establish nny protectorate over them.” SECRETARY KLAINE T0 MR. COMLY. Secretary Elaine, in writing to AIr. Comly, said: “The United States has declined, even at the reqnest of the Hawaiian people, to assuRie over their aftairs a protoctorate, whieh would onlv be a thinly disguised domination, iiiid confined its efforts and its iuAuenee to strengthen their govornment and open to their eommerce and enterprise the readiest and most profitable connection with its markets, but this po!icy bas been based upon a belief in the real and sub.stautial independence of Hawaii.” WHAT SECRETARY WEBSTER WRoTE IN 1842. Secretary Webster in 1842 i wrote on the qnestion as follows; “The L nited States. therefore, are more iuterested in the fate of the islands and of their government than any other nation ean be, and this consideration inindnces the President to be qnite willing to declare as the sense of the government of the United States tbat the government of the Sandwich Islands ou£ht to be resi>ected; that no power, either, ought to take possession 01 the islands as a conqnest or for the pnrpose of colonization, i and that no power onght to seek forany exclusive rights or preferences with it in any manner of commerce.'’