The U.S. 0ccupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
In his testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Army General Schofield stated:
- ìWe got a preemption title to those islands through the volunteer action of our American missionaries who went there and civilized and Christianized those people and established a Government that has no parallel in the history of the world, considering its age, and we made a preemption which nobody in the world thinks of disputing, provided we perfect our title. If we do not perfect it in due time, we have lost those islands. Anybody else can come in and undertake to take them. So it seems to me the time is now ripe when this Government should do that which has been in contemplation from the beginningÖî (emphasis added)