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Queen Liliuokalani Excerpt from Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen (1898) |
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Before ascending the throne, for fourteen
years, or since the date of my proclamation as heir apparent, my
official title had been simply Liliuokalani. Thus I was
proclaimed both Princess Royal and Queen. Thus it is recorded in
the archives of the government to this day. The Provisional
Government nor any other had enacted any change in my name. All
my official acts, as well as my private letters, were issued
over the signature of Liliuokalani. But when my jailers required
me to sign ("Liliuokalani Dominis,") I did as they commanded.
Their motive in this as in other actions was plainly to
humiliate me before my people and before the world. I saw in a
moment, what they did not, that, even were I not complying under
the most severe and exacting duress, by this demand they had
overreached themselves. There is not, and never was, within the
range of my knowledge, any such a person as Liliuokalani Dominis. Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen was first published in 1898. |
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