Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

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have fixed the course which the government of the United States
will pursue in regard to them. The annunciation of this policy
will not surprise the governments of Europe, nor be thought to
be unreasonable by the nations of the civilized world; and that
policy is, that while the governtlent of the United States, itself
faithful to its original assurance, scrupulously regards the independence of the Hawzaiian Islands, it can never consent to see
those Islands taken possession of by either of the great commnercial powers of Europe, nor can it consent that demands manifestly unljst and derogatory, and inconsistent weith a bonla fide
independence, shall be enforced against the government.
"The substance of what has here been said has been intimated
with sufficient explicitness to the Government of France; and we
have the assurance of M. Sartiges, Minister of the Republic of
France, that that government has no purpose whatever of taking
possession of the Islands, or of acting towards them in any hostile or aggressive spirit."
Ile concluded with the statement that the American Navy
would he kept in readiness in the Pacific Ocean for any emergency, as previously quoted.
The thundering enunciation of Daniel Webster reverberated
in the cabinet council halls of every capital in Europe. Never
again did a foreign warship approach the Hawaiian Islands with
hostile intent. France, aggressor on three different occasions,
with a show of naval force each time, retired from the North
Pacific area, and so did England, if ever she had a real hostile
desire to occupy these Islands.
The Archives show that France endeavored to placate the H-awaiian people, and in 1857 Napoleon III, with a pompous gesture, presented to the King a vast array of gold and silver tableware, his gift of friendliness, so his letter stated. The service,
which was used on state occasions by Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani, was
finally turned over to the Archives bureau, and, by act of the
legislature, the bureau has loaned the service to the Governor of
Hawaii, also for use on state occasions at Washington Place, the