HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
 
their ideas. At the meeting they made incendiary remarks and 
aipointed what they called a committee of safety. The Hawaiians 
called a massineeting and passed resolutions supporting the actions 
of the Queen. It was a movement intended to reassure the people 
and to ward off the danger which they saw was approaching. 
The troops remained in front of the palace until dark, when they 
withdrew to, the Arion Hall. 
That evening the Royal Hawaiian Band played as usual at the 
Hawaiian Hotel, and a large crowd of people met and everything around 
was quiet and peaceful. Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock Mr. S. M. Damon 
called at the palace. He told me that he had been asked to join a revo- 
lutionary council, but that he had declined. He asked me what he 
should do and whether he should join the advisory or executive coun- 
cils, suggesting that perhaps he could be of service to me; so I told him

to join the advisory council. I had no idea that they intended-to estab-

lish a new Government. 
At about 2:30 p. m. the establisment of the Provisional Government 
was proclaimed, and nearly fifteen minutes later Mr. J. S. Walker came 
and told me "that he had come on a painful duty, that the opposition

party had requested that I should abdicate." I told him that I had no

idea of doing so, but that I would like to see Mr. -Neumann. Half an 
hour later he returned with the gentleman, and I explained to him my 
position, and he advised that I should consult my friends. I immedi- 
ately sent for Mr. J. 0. Carter, Damon, Widemann, Cleghorn, my 
ministers, also Mr. Neumann, Walker, and Macfarlane being present. 
The situation being taken into consideration and found, that since the 
troops of the United States had been landed to support the revolution- 
ists, by the order of the American minister, it would be impossible for 
us to make any resistance. Mr. Damon had previously intimated to 
Mr. Parker that it was useless to resist, their party was supported by 
the American minister. Mr. Damon also said at , the meeting that it 
was to be understood that I should remain at the palace and continue 
to fly the royal standard. At 6 p. m. I signed the following protest: 
I, Lilinokalani, by the grace of God and under the constitution of the Hawaiian

Kingdom, Queen, do hereby solemnly protest against any and all acts done
4gainst 
myself and the constitutional Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom by certain

persons claiming to have esl blished a Provisional Government of and for
this King- 
dom. 
That I yield to the superior force of the United States of America, whose
minister 
plenipotentiary, His Excellency John L. Stevens, has caused United States
troops 
to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would support the said Provisionul

Government. 
Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life,
I do, 
under this protest and impelled by said forces, yield my authority until
such time 
as the Government of the United States shall, upon the facts being presented
to it, 
rundo (?) the action of its representative and reinstate me in the authority
which I 
claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. 
Done at Honolulu this 17th day of January, A. D. 1893. 
(Signed)                           LILIUOKALANI R. 
(Signed)                           SAMUEL PARKER, 
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 
(Signed)                          WM. H. CORNWELL, 
Minister of Finance. 
(Signed)                           JoHN F. COLBUeN, 
3Minister of Interior. 
(Signed)                           A. P. PETERSON, 
Attorney- General. 
(Addressed) 
To S. B. DOLE, Esq. and others composing the Provisional Govern. 
ineut of the Hawaiian Islands. 
 
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