. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . deliver over everythingto the Provisional Government^ and the next dayshe retired to Washington Place. The revolutionhad been accomplished without resorting to arms,and the new government was duly installed. Aconvention was chosen that sat in Honolulu duringthe month of June, 1894, when a new constitutionwas framed, and on July 4th, a memorable dateto every American purposely selected for thisoccasion, the Republic of Hawaii was formallyannounced to the political powers of the day,with Sanford B. Dole as president. In
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . deliver over everythingto the Provisional Government^ and the next dayshe retired to Washington Place. The revolutionhad been accomplished without resorting to arms,and the new government was duly installed. Aconvention was chosen that sat in Honolulu duringthe month of June, 1894, when a new constitutionwas framed, and on July 4th, a memorable dateto every American purposely selected for thisoccasion, the Republic of Hawaii was formallyannounced to the political powers of the day,with Sanford B. Dole as president. In summing up the causes and results of thisrevolution it is easy to find reason for blame onall sides, but the weight of the evidence seems tobe against the upholders of the monarchy. Thatthe policy of the queen was short-sighted and reac-tionary was evident; that she was stubborn inher determination to restore certain monarchicalrights is beyond question; the constitution shewould have promulgated in its full intentions, asoffered, would have disfranchised every white man. f TTT BISE OF THE REPUBLIC. 133 on the islands unless the husband of a Hawaiianwoman, and would have made the property of thewhites alone subject to taxation. In her exten-uation it may be said that she had been driven todesperate measures by aliens who cared little forthe interests of the native population, and whohad no love for the monarchy however wellmanaged. One of the most earnest of therevolutionists, four years before was defendingthe Hawaiian monarchy in the legislature inglowing rhetoric and denouncing those who wereadvocating annexation as traitors. The republicestablished, and not getting what he had expected,he was anxious to return to the old form of gov-ernment with Kaiulani as queen and himself aspremier. But such examples need not be multi-plied. The Americans were naturally in favourof annexation from the beginning, and the mis-sionaries were the moulders of Hawaiian the greates
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