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Queen Lilioukalani's Abdication Speech Analysis

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This quote from Queen Lilioukalani's "Abdication Speech" is the second part that Queen Lilioukalani stated. This states that at the time of this agreement she was mentally stable and she will disown and disclaim all the laws, rights, or title she was given by the Government of Hawaii and under the new Government (U.S.) laws, she will claim only what rightfully belongs to her. This was important, along with the rest of the speech, to end the Government of Hawaii and end the Hawaiian and U.S war that has been going on for so long. This is another important aspect of this speech because this states that the Queen herself will not possess any rights that the Government of Republic of Hawaii had anymore and will disown any titles that was granted to her. The reason this is important to the study in this course is that, though Queen Lilioukalani says that she wasn't under any "mental reservation or modification", she was probably actually under a lot of pressure for making this speech. Since at the time there was a war going on and she knew that many people of Hawaii didn't want to give up the islands or their government to the U.S., she knew that she had to end the war and not lose any more blood since the war has gone on far enough and that many Hawaiians died. So she had to make this speech to end all the …show more content…

Since at this time the Bayonet Constitution was enacted and possibly the U.S wanted the Queen to say this so that her people will listen to her and give up as well. This abdication speech had many elements to it and because of that American Imperialism could be seen today as a "tyrant" force since the U.S, when it was establish, had many ways to dispose of those who got in their way with acquiring more land, one example would be the Indian Removal

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