No. 303.
Mr. Peirce
to Mr. Fish.
Legation of
the United States,
Honolulu, March 6, 1875.
(Received March 29.)
No. 318.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith extract
from the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, of this date, giving an interesting
account of
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a ceremony and
addresses at the legation on yesterday, on the occasion of the formal
presentation, through roe, to the United States Government, of two copies,
printed on silk,, and herewith transmitted, of the resolutions adopted by
the Hawaiian people, at a mass meeting held by them on the 20th ultimo, and
of which I informed you in a previous dispatch, No. 317*
The committee for the presentation consisted of three members of the
assembly, namely, the honorable Messrs. Moanauli, Kawainui, and Z. Poii,
accompanied by the cabinet ministers, four in number. It is presumed that
the Department of State may transmit a proper reply to the resolutions, and
to the minister’s note of the 17th February, conveying His Majesty’s thanks
to the Government and people of the United States, referred to in my No.
315.
With great respect, &c.,
[Inclosure in No. 318.]
PRESENTATION OF RESOLUTIONS.
[From the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, March 6.]
Yesterday, at 11 a.m., his excellency Henry A. Peirce, United States
minister resident, at his villa in Nuuanu avenue, received their
excellencies W. L. Green, W. L. Mo eh on u a, J. S.Walker and R. H.
Stanley, the King’s ministers, and the honorable Messrs. J. Moanaouli
and J. U. Kawainui and Mr. Z. P. Poli, which last were committee of the
citizens of Honolulu deputed to present to Mr. Peirce a copy of
resolutions unanimously adopted at a mass meeting held at Kawaiahao
church, on the 20th ultimo. (The resolutions appeared in our last
issue.) After the introduction of the committee to Mr. Peirce, the Hon.
Mr. Moanaouli addressed him as follows, in Hawaiian, which was read in
English by the minister of foreign relations:
“Mr. Minister: On behalf of the citizens who
assembled in mass meeting at Kawaiahao church, Honolulu, on the 20th of
February last, I have the honor to present you the following
resolutions, which were unanimously adopted on that occasion. It was the
wish of the citizens that you transmit the same to the President of the
United States of America, as an humble testimonial of their appreciation
of the courteous reception and generous treatment of our beloved
sovereign on the occasion of his visit to that country.”
His excellency was pleased to reply as follows:
“Your excellencies and gentlemen of the
committee: It is with much pleasure that the legation receives
from your hands copies of the resolutions unanimously adopted by the
Hawaiian people, assembled at a mass meeting held on the 20th of
February last; and wherein they tendered thanks to the Government and
people of the United States for the courteous manner they entertained
His Majesty, their sovereign, while in the United States; and, moreover,
for having conveyed him in a national war-vessel to and from San
Francisco.”
“The resolutions, in the form now presented, beautifully imprinted on
white satin, will be transmitted to my Government by the next outgoing
mail, and I feel confidently sure will be received with that sensibility
of true feeling due for so worthy a tribute of the generous and grateful
appreciation entertained by the Hawaiian people for those of the United
States.”
