WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SAY AT THE TIME OF THE ILLEGAL OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM ?
"Whereas my good and great sister and fellow sovereign, her gracious majesty, Lili`uokalani, Queen of Hawai`i, has been wickedly and unlawfully dethroned by the machinations of Americans and person 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.
"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.
"Long live Lili`uokalani, the de jure Queen of Hawai`i."
- President Grover Cleveland, February 25, 1894
