Cleveland's Proclamation

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>[hawaii-nation] Cleveland's Proclamation

>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:25:00 -1000

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>Published in the New York Sun on February 26, 1894:

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>To My People:

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>Whereas, my good and great sister and fellow sovereign, her gracious

>majesty, Liliuokalani, queen of Hawai'i, has been wickedly and

>unlawfully dethroned by the machinations of Americans and persons of

>American descent in those islands, being instigated thereto by the

>devil, one John L. Stevens; and whereas, my well-conceived plans for

>the restoration of her sacred majesty have not had the result they

>deserved but her majesty is still defrauded of her legal rights by

>her refractory and rebellious subjects, and her position is a just

>cause of sympathy and alarm; now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,

>President of the United States, do hereby ordain and appoint the last

>day of April next as a day of solemn fasting, humiliation and prayer.

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>Let my people humble themselves and repent for their injustice to me

>and my great and good sister, and pray, without distinction of color,

>for her speedy return to the throne and the discomfiture of the

>miserable herd of missionaries and their sons, her enemies and

>traducers.

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>Long Live Liliuokalani, the de jure queen of Hawaii

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>Done at our mansion in Washington this 25th day of February, 1894.

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>Grover Cleveland

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>A true copy. Attest,

>Walter Q. Gresham,

>Secretary of State

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