The Invasion Of Hawaii In The Late 19th Century

In the late 19th century, there was much debate stirring in the United States. Years after the purchase of Alaska from Russia, the United States began to set their sights on a new potential addition to the country: The Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian Islands were seen as a prospective inclusion as Hawaii had much considerable aspects, including obtaining a military base and spreading nationalism, and seen as great commercial and industrial advantages. But the fact of the matter is, truthfully, the United States had no right nor authority interjecting themselves into the lives of the Hawaiian people, fraudulently and unconstitutionally overthrowing Hawaii. Many of the methods used to obtain such a lovely country were unconstitutional and morally erroneous, taken under the facade of wanting to turn the territory over to a strong civilized nation for protection and advancement.
It was an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, violated international rights both toward the natives and toward friendly nations with whom they made treaties, and the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government was overthrown. Queen Liliuokalani had signed her official protests on January Seventeenth, 1893, to the Provisional Government and was received by government under the assurance that the case was referred to the United States of America for arbitration. This was proven to be a false assurance, because immediately thereafter her protest and communications to the United States Government expressly declared that Queen Liliuokalani had yielded her authority to the forces of the United States in order to avoid bloodshed, and that she recognized the futility of a conflict with so formidable a