. Riches and marvels of Hawaii; a charming description of her unique history, strange people, exquisite climate, wondrous volcanoes, luxurious productions, beautiful cities, corrupt monarchy, revolution, provisional government and annexation. Asiaticor a British sense. There is little doubt that, were the Hawaiian Islands, byannexation or district protection, a part of the territory of the Union,their fertile resources for the growth of rice and sugar would notonly be controlled by American capital, but so profitable a field oflabor would attract intelligent workers thither from the UnitedStat
. Riches and marvels of Hawaii; a charming description of her unique history, strange people, exquisite climate, wondrous volcanoes, luxurious productions, beautiful cities, corrupt monarchy, revolution, provisional government and annexation. Asiaticor a British sense. There is little doubt that, were the Hawaiian Islands, byannexation or district protection, a part of the territory of the Union,their fertile resources for the growth of rice and sugar would notonly be controlled by American capital, but so profitable a field oflabor would attract intelligent workers thither from the UnitedStates. None have advocated the value of Hawaii to theunited States more eloquently than John T. Morgan, theable Chairman of the Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs,who sees clearly the immense importance of future Amer-ican interests in the Pacific. The history of nations conclusively shows what theablest expounders of international law plainly teach, thatthe annexation of foreign territory is an act of nationalsovereignty. This inherent, primal power of a nation ex-ists outside of and independent of the written constitutionEvery nation capable of maintaining its independenceagainst internal and foreign attacks, is the master of its own. V. | >> — ** _ ?z fg £ V X ~ — ~ ~ H -- q b * -*-> ~ >. C P X /. c £ S ?a — B P^ P i. -Q H — — HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION. 311 sovereignty and never abdicates it by any recorded formu-lary. The assumption of construing the constitution ofthe United States to be supreme against our national life,prosperity and absolutely independent authority, will neverbe admitted by patriotic Americans, nor by sagaciousAmerican statesmen. The opposition to the annexation ofHawaii by a special school of legal writers, is only a repe-tition of what has repeatedly occurred in American historysince the adoption of the Federal Constitution. PresidentJefferson and those associated with him in acquiring theextensive territory of Louisiana, was obl
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