This brought the matter before Congress, where,
as we have said, it is now being carefully considered.
In her book, Liliuokalani makes this strong appeal to the people of the
United States not to take sides with those who have driven her from her
throne:
"O honest Americans, as Christians, hear me for my downtrodden people!
Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is precious to you.
Quite as warmly as you love your country, do they love theirs. With all
your goodly possessions, covering a territory so immense that there yet
remain parts unexplored, possessing islands that, although near at hand,
had to be neutral ground in time of war, do not covet the little
vineyard of Naboth's, so far from your shores, lest the punishment of
Ahab fall upon you, if not in your day, in that of your children, for
'be not deceived, God is not mocked.' The people to whom your fathers
told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons
now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time
of trouble, and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices
of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes."
In view of all that Liliuokalani has to say, the recent interview with
President Dole is particularly interesting.
After explaining that no special powers had been granted him on his
present mission by the Hawaiian Senate, the President declared it was
the belief of the friends of annexation that if the recent amendment of
Senator Bacon, to let the question be decided by a vote of the Hawaiian
citizens, had been accepted, the vote would be in favor of the treaty.
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