Hawaiʻi becomes a Nation - Lilo ʻo Hawaiʻi i Lahui

A hard journey through Mexico

Ministers Timoteo Haʻalilio and William Richards set sail on July 18, 1842, on the schooner Shaw from Lāhaina, landing at Mazatlán, Mexico.

Ka Nonanona newspaper published Haalilio's letter to G.P. Judd, he writes that they arrived in Mazatlán on October 29, 1842. He says that they traversed that land in peace although the physical exhaustion was great. They were drenched by rain and snow in the mountains, valleys, and forests of Mexico, having forded rivers that lie beneath the mountains during the day and night. They endured hunger mounted on the backs of mules, yet he writes that they endured unharmed because God watches over them, and he sends his love to all including his wife, Hana. Ka Nonanona newspaper. January 17, 1843

He huakaʻi paʻakikī ma Mekiko Ua holo ʻo Kuhina Timoteo Haʻalilio lāua ʻo William Richards i ka lā 18 Iulai 1842, ma luna o ka moku kuna Shaw mai Lāhaina, a pae i Mazatlán, Mekiko.

Ua hoopuka ka nupepa Ka Nonanona i ka palapala a Haalilio ia G.P. Judd, kākau ʻo ia ua hōʻea lākou i Mazatlán i ʻOkakopa 29, 1842. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia ua hele lākou i kēlā ʻāina me ka maluhia ʻoiai ua nui ka luhi kino. Ua pulu lakou i ka ua a me ka hau ma na mauna, na awawa, a me na ululaau o Mesiko, ua hele lakou i na muliwai e moe ana malalo o na mauna i ke ao a me ka po. Ua hoʻomanawanui lākou i ka pōloli i kau ʻia ma ke kua o nā miula, akā ua kākau ʻo ia ua hoʻomanawanui lākou me ka ʻole o ka pōʻino no ka mea ke kiaʻi mai ke Akua iā lākou, a ke hoʻouna aku nei ʻo ia i kona aloha i nā mea a pau me kāna wahine ʻo Hana. Nupepa Ka Nonanona. Ianuali 17, 1843

The British Consul

Richard Charlton, a British trader first met Liholiho-King Kamehameha II during his work for the East India Company. He also met with King Kamehameha II during the King's visit to England in 1824 where he and his wife Kamamalu succumbed to measles.

In 1840, Mr. Richard Charlton, the first British ambassador to Hawai‘i, falsely claimed ownership of land which sparked a chain of events that ultimately led to the forced cession and restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom three years later.

​By late 1842, Charlton’s land claim remained unresolved. At the advice of Sir. George Simpson, King Kamehameha III dispatched emissaries, William Richards, and Timoteo Ha‘alilio, on a secret mission to negotiate formal treaties recognizing Hawai‘i’s sovereignty among various nations.

As soon as the secret mission for independence became known, Mr. Charlton followed the embassy to defeat its objective. He left suddenly on September 26th, 1842, for London via Mexico, sending back a threatening letter to the king, informing him that he had appointed Mr. Alexander Simpson as acting consul of Great Britain. Mr. Alexander Simpson was a relative of Sir George Simpson.

He was an avowed advocate of the annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom to Great Britain and insulted and threatened the governor of Oahu. King Kamehameha III declined to recognize him as British consul.

Meanwhile, Mr. Charlton laid his grievances before Lord George Paulet, commander of the British frigate “Carysfort,” at Mazatlán, Mexico. Mr. Alexander Simpson also sent dispatches to the coast in November, representing that the property and persons of his countrymen were in danger. These actions convinced Rear-Admiral Thomas to order the “Carysfort” to Honolulu to inquire into the matter.

The effects of this land claim also lingered within the Hawaiian judicial system and prompted His Majesty King Kamehameha III to enact the Māhele of 1848, forever changing the Kingdom’s system of land tenure.

Ke Kanikela Beritania Ua hui mua ʻo Richard Charlton, he kanaka kālepa Pelekāne me Liholiho-King Kamehameha II i kāna hana ma ka East India Company. Ua hui pū ʻo ia me ka Mōʻī Kamehameha II i ka huakaʻi ʻana o ka Mōʻī i ʻEnelani i ka makahiki 1824, kahi i make ai ʻo ia me kāna wahine ʻo Kamamalu i ka maʻi maʻi. I ka makahiki 1840, ua ʻōlelo wahaheʻe ʻo Mr. Richard Charlton, ka ʻelele Pelekāne mua loa i Hawaiʻi, nona ka ʻāina i hoʻāla ai i ke kaulahao o nā hanana i alakaʻi i ka hoʻihoʻi ʻia ʻana o ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi i ʻekolu makahiki ma hope. Ma ka hopena o ka makahiki 1842, ʻaʻole i hoʻoholo ʻia ko Charlton kuleana ʻāina. Ma ka olelo a Sir. Ua hoʻouna aku ʻo George Simpson, ka Mōʻī Kamehameha III i nā ʻelele, ʻo William Richards, a me Timoteo Haʻalilio, ma kahi ʻelele malū e kūkākūkā i nā kuʻikahi kūʻokoʻa e ʻike ana i ke ea o Hawaiʻi ma waena o nā lāhui like ʻole. I ka wā i ʻike ʻia ai ka mikiona huna no ke kūʻokoʻa, ua hahai ʻo Mr. Charlton i ka ʻelele e lanakila ai kāna pahuhopu. Ua haʻalele koke ʻo ia i ka lā 26 o Kepakemapa, 1842, no Lākana ma Mekiko, me ka hoʻihoʻi ʻana i kahi leka hoʻoweliweli i ke aliʻi, e hōʻike ana iā ia ua koho ʻo ia iā Mr. He hoahānau ʻo Mr. Alexander Simpson no Sir George Simpson. He mea kākoʻo ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻo ia no ka hoʻohui ʻia ʻana o ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi iā Beretania Nui a ua hōʻino a hoʻoweliweli i ke kiaʻāina o Oʻahu. Ua hōʻole ka Mōʻī Kamehameha III i ka ʻike ʻana iā ia ma ke ʻano he kanikela Pelekane. I keia wa, ua waiho aku o Mr. Charlton i kona mau ohumu imua o ka Haku George Paulet, ka luna o ka mokukaua Beritania "Carysfort," ma Mazatlán, Mekiko. Ua hoouna pu aku o Mr. Alexander Simpson i na elele i kahakai i ka malama o Novemaba, e hoike ana ua pilikia ka waiwai a me na kanaka o kona mau makaainana. ʻO kēia mau hana i hōʻoiaʻiʻo iā Rear-Admiral Thomas e kauoha iā "Carysfort" i Honolulu e nīnau i kēia mea. Ua mau nō ka hopena o kēia kuleana ʻāina i loko o ka ʻoihana hoʻokolokolo Hawaiʻi a ua hoʻoikaika ʻia ka Mōʻī Kamehameha III e kau i ka Māhele o ka makahiki 1848, e hoʻololi mau ana i ke ʻano o ka noho ʻana o ke Aupuni Mōʻī.

To North America

On November 2, 1842, ministers Haʻalilio and Richards survived their journey through Mexico's mountains and rivers and booked passage aboard the warship, Falmouth, headed to New Orleans.

I Amerika Akau I ka lā 2 o Nowemapa, 1842, ua ola nā kuhina ʻo Haʻalilio lāua ʻo Richards i kā lāua huakaʻi ma nā mauna a me nā muliwai o Mekiko, a ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia kahi ala ma luna o ka moku kaua ʻo Falmouth, e holo ana i New Orleans.

Relations established with America

Haʻalilio and Richards made their way to Washington, D.C., where they met with Daniel Webster, the U.S. Secretary of State who stated in a letter dated December 19, 1842:

“…the U.S., therefore, are more interested in the fate of the Islands, and their government, than any other nation can be; and this consideration induces the President to be quite willing to declare, as the sense of the government of the U.S., that the government of the Sandwich Islands ought to be respected; that no power ought either to take possession of the Islands as a conquest, or for the purpose of colonization; and that no power ought to seek for any undue control over existing government, or any exclusive privileges or preferences in matters of commerce.”

Hoʻokumu ʻia nā pilina me ʻAmelika Hele akula ʻo Haʻalilio lāua ʻo Richards i Wakinekona, D.C., kahi i hui ai me Daniel Webster, ke Kakauolelo o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa nāna i ʻōlelo ma ka leka i kākau ʻia i ka lā 19 o Dekemaba, 1842: “… no laila, ua ʻoi aku ka hoihoi o ʻAmelika i ka hopena o nā Mokupuni, a me ko lākou aupuni, ma mua o nā lāhui ʻē aʻe; a o keia noonoo ana, ua makemake nui ka Peresidena e hai aku, e like me ka manao o ke aupuni o Amerika, he mea pono ke mahaloia ke aupuni o na Mokupuni Sandwich; ʻaʻole pono e lawe i nā Mokupuni ma ke ʻano he naʻi aupuni, ʻaʻole hoʻi no ka noho aupuni ʻana; a ʻaʻohe mana e ʻimi i ka mana kūpono ʻole ma luna o ke aupuni e kū nei, a i ʻole nā ​​kuleana kūʻokoʻa a i ʻole nā ​​​​manaʻo i nā mea kalepa.

Respite in New York

The envoys spent January visiting and being hosted by friends as reported in the New York Herald from the Boston Carrier newspaper on January 24, 1843:

“The Sandwich Island chief, Haʻalilio, now on a visit to this part of our country, in company with Rev. Mr. Richards, has been treated with attention by many of our citizens, and has made a very favorable impression by his general appearance and address. He speaks English tolerably well, is a great observer of men and things, and evidently possesses a cultivated mind.”

Hoʻomaha ma New York

Ua hele nā ​​ʻelele iā Ianuali e kipa a hoʻokipa ʻia e nā hoaaloha e like me ka hōʻike ʻana ma ka New York Herald mai ka nūpepa ʻo Boston Carrier ma Ianuali 24, 1843:

“Ke kipa mai nei ke Alii o ka Mokupuni Sandwich, o Haalilio, ma keia wahi o ko kakou aina, me Rev. Mr. a me ka helu wahi. Ua ʻoluʻolu ʻo ia i ka ʻōlelo Pelekania, he mākaʻikaʻi nui i nā kāne a me nā mea, a ʻike ʻia he noʻonoʻo hoʻoulu ʻia. "

A sad experience of American culture

It was reported in the French newspaper, Le Globe, that: “Last Wednesday, Haʻalilio embarked in New York for New Haven, aboard the steamboat Globe, together with the Reverand [sic] Richards, who serves him as companion and interpreter on his diplomatic voyage.

When the time came for lunch, one of the employees gave to the Reverand [sic] two admission tickets, one for himself and one for his servant.

Mr. Richards explained that the alleged servant was not less than one of the highest and most powerful lords of the Sandwich kingdom, and the ambassador to the government of the United States.

The employee, after having examined Haʻalilio from head to foot, replied that he does not know anything about diplomacy, but that he knows how to distinguish white from black, and that in consequence, Haʻalilio, being of very dark copper colour, would have lunch at the table of the servants, or he would not have lunch at all.

This decision was appealed before the captain Stone, who refused to alter it. Thus the Reverand [sic], not wanting to separate himself from his illustrious companion, went to take part with him at the lunch of the servants.” Translation by Lorenz Gonshor

He ʻike kaumaha o ka moʻomeheu ʻAmelika

Ua hōʻike ʻia ma ka nūpepa Farani, Le Globe, penei: “I ka Pōʻakolu aku nei, ua holo ʻo Haʻalilio i New York no New Haven, ma luna o ka mokuahi Globe, me ka Reverand [sic] Richards, nāna i lawelawe iā ia ma ke ʻano he hoa a unuhi ʻōlelo ma kāna diplomatic. holo ana.

I ka hiki ʻana mai o ka manawa ʻaina awakea, hāʻawi aku kekahi o nā limahana i ke Kahu [sic] ʻelua mau tiketi komo, hoʻokahi nona iho a hoʻokahi no kāna kauā.

Ua wehewehe ʻo Mr. Richards ʻaʻole i emi iho ka mea i ʻōlelo ʻia ma mua o kekahi o nā haku kiʻekiʻe a ikaika loa o ke aupuni Sandwich, a ʻo ka ʻelele i ke aupuni o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.

Ma hope o ka nānā ʻana o ka limahana iā Haʻalilio mai ke poʻo a hiki i ka wāwae, pane maila ʻo ia ʻaʻole ʻo ia i ʻike i kekahi mea e pili ana i ka diplomacy, akā ua ʻike ʻo ia i ka ʻokoʻa o ke keʻokeʻo a me ka ʻeleʻele, a ʻo ia hoʻi, ʻo ka ʻeleʻele keleawe ʻeleʻele loa ʻo Haʻalilio e ʻai ai i ka ʻaina awakea. ma ka papaaina o na kauwa, a i ole ia, aole loa ia e ai i ka aina awakea.

Ua hoʻopiʻi ʻia kēia ʻōlelo hoʻoholo i mua o ke kāpena Stone, ʻaʻole ʻo ia e hoʻololi. No laila, ʻaʻole makemake ke Kahu [sic] e hoʻokaʻawale iā ia iho mai kāna hoa hanohano, ua hele pū me ia i ka ʻaina awakea a nā kauā. Unuhi ʻia e Lorenz Gonshor

The Paulet Affair

While Haʻalilio and Richards were en route on their mission to Great Britain, Lord George Paulet landed in Hawaiʻi and occupied the kingdom for five months. He immediately set up the British Commission to adjudicate all matters pertaining to lands of British subjects and foreigners.

The king’s envoys proceeded to London, where they had been preceded by Sir George Simpson and had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the 22nd of February, 1843.

Lord Aberdeen at first declined to receive them as ministers from an independent state, or to negotiate a treaty, alleging that the king did not govern, but that he was “exclusively under the influence of Americans to the detriment of British interests,” and would not admit that the government of the United States had yet fully recognized the independence of the islands.

Sir George Simpson and Mr. Richards did not lose heart but went on to Brussels on March 8th, by a previous arrangement made with Mr. Brinsmade.

While there, they had an interview with Leopold I., king of the Belgians, who received them with great courtesy. King Leopold promised to use his influence to obtain the recognition of Hawaiian independence. His influence was great, both from his eminent personal qualities and from his close relationship with the royal families of England and France.

Encouraged by this pledge, the envoys proceeded to Paris, where, on the 17th of March, M. Guizot, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, received them in the kindest manner, and made haste to recognize the independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom on behalf of France. Guizot made the same statement to Lord Cowley, the British ambassador to France, on the 19th of March, and thus cleared the way for the embassy in England.

Sir George Simpson had a long interview with Lord Aberdeen on the 25th of March. Sir George Simpson explained the actual state of affairs in the Hawaiian Kingdom brought by the illegal land claims of the British ambassador to Hawaiʻi, Richard Charlton.

Lord Aberdeen assured Sir. George Simpson that Mr. Charlton would be removed.

On the 1st of April, 1843, the Earl of Aberdeen formally replied to the king’s commissioners, declaring on behalf of Great Britain and H.M. Queen Victoria that: "Her Majesty’s Government are willing and have determined to recognize the independence of the Sandwich Islands under their present sovereign,”

Completely unaware of Paulet's occupation of Hawaiʻi, on June 1, 1843, while in France, Haʻalilio sent a letter to Le Globe in response to an article they printed stating that Hawaiʻi was now under the British crown.

Haʻalilio wrote, “These islands are civilized, Christian and independent. Their independence was recognized by the United States on the 19th of December 1842, and by the British Government on the first of April last. We have also a positive verbal promise of the same action acknowledgment by the French Government. Is it possible that a British Officer can have seized the islands on the 8th of March and the British Government acknowledged their independence barely three weeks after?”

Ka Paulet Affair

ʻOiai ʻo Haʻalilio lāua ʻo Richards e huakaʻi ana i ka huakaʻi i Pelekane Nui, ua pae ʻo Lord George Paulet i Hawaiʻi a noho i ke aupuni no ʻelima mau mahina. Ua hoonoho koke oia i ke Komisina Beritania e hooponopono i na mea a pau e pili ana i na aina o na kanaka Beritania a me na haole.

Ua holo aku na elele a ke alii i Ladana, kahi i noho mua ai lakou e Sir George Simpson a ua ninaninau me ka Earl o Aberdeen, Kakauolelo o ka Mokuaina no ko na Aina e, ma ka la 22 o Feberuari, 1843.

Ua hōʻole ʻo Lord Aberdeen i ka wā mua e hoʻokipa iā lākou ma ke ʻano he mau kuhina mai kahi mokuʻāina kūʻokoʻa, a i ʻole e kūkākūkā i kahi kuʻikahi, me ka ʻōlelo ʻana ʻaʻole ke aliʻi i hoʻokele, akā aia ʻo ia "ma lalo o ka mana o nā ʻAmelika i mea e pōʻino ai nā pono Pelekane," ʻaʻole hoʻi i ʻae ʻia ua ʻike piha ke aupuni o ʻAmelika i ke kūʻokoʻa o nā mokupuni.

ʻAʻole i pau ka naʻau o Sir George Simpson lāua ʻo Mr. Richards akā ua hele lākou i Brussels i ka lā 8 o Malaki, ma kahi hoʻonohonoho mua i hana ʻia me Mr. Brinsmade.

Iā lākou ma laila, ua hālāwai lākou me Leopold I., ke aliʻi o nā Belgian, a ua hoʻokipa maikaʻi iā lākou. Ua hoʻohiki ʻo Leopold e hoʻohana i kona mana e loaʻa ai ka ʻike o ke kūʻokoʻa Hawaiʻi. Nui kona mana, mai kona mau ʻano pilikino koʻikoʻi a mai kona pilina pili pū me nā ʻohana aliʻi o ʻEnelani a me Farani.

Ma keia hoohiki ana, ua holo aku na elele i Parisa, a ma ka la 17 o Maraki, ua hookipa maikai ia lakou e M. Guizot, ke Kuhina o ko na Aina E, me ke ano oluolu, a ua wikiwiki e ike i ke kuokoa o ke Aupuni Hawaii ma ka aoao. o Farani. Pela no o Guizot i olelo aku ai ia Haku Cowley, ka Elele Beritania i Farani, ma ka la 19 o Maraki, a pela i wehe ai i ke ala no ka elele ma Enelani.

Ua ninaninau lōʻihi ʻo Sir George Simpson me Lord Aberdeen ma ka lā 25 o Malaki. Ua wehewehe ʻo Sir George Simpson i ke kūlana maoli o ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi i lawe ʻia mai e ka ʻae ʻāina kūʻē ʻole a ka ʻelele Pelekane i Hawaiʻi, ʻo Richard Charlton.

Ua hōʻoia ʻo Lord Aberdeen iā Sir. George Simpson e hoopau ia o Mr. Charlton.

Ma ka la 1 o Aperila, 1843, ua pane aku ka Earl o Aberdeen i na komisina o ke alii, e hai ana ma ka aoao o Beritania Nui a me H.M. ʻO ka Mōʻīwahine Victoria: "Ua makemake a ua hoʻoholo ko ke Aupuni Mōʻī e ʻike i ke kūʻokoʻa o nā Mokupuni Sandwich ma lalo o ko lākou mōʻī i kēia manawa,"

Me kona ʻike ʻole loa i ko Paulet noho ʻana ma Hawaiʻi, i ka lā 1 o Iune, 1843, ʻoiai ʻo Haʻalilio i Farani, ua hoʻouna ʻo Haʻalilio i kahi leka iā Le Globe no ka pane ʻana i kahi ʻatikala a lākou i pai ai e hōʻike ana aia ʻo Hawaiʻi ma lalo o ka lei aliʻi Pelekania.

Ua kākau ʻo Haʻalilio, “ʻO kēia mau mokupuni he civili, Kristiano a kūʻokoʻa. Ua ʻike ʻia ko lākou kūʻokoʻa e ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i ka lā 19 o Dekemaba 1842, a e ke Aupuni Pelekane i ka lā mua o ʻApelila i hala. Loaʻa iā mākou ka ʻōlelo hoʻohiki maikaʻi o ka hana like ʻole a ke Aupuni Farani. Ua hiki anei i kekahi Luna Pelekania ke hopu i na mokupuni ma ka la 8 o Maraki a ua ae ke Aupuni Beritania i ko lakou kuokoa ma kahi o ekolu pule mahope iho?"

Hawaiʻi Independence & the Anglo-French Declaration

Haʻalilio and Richards returned to London to deal with the Paulet Affair. Lord Aberdeen, on the 13th of June, 1843, assured the Hawaiian envoys that “Her Majesty’s government had no intention to retain possession of the Sandwich Islands,” and a similar declaration was made to the governments of France and the United States.

On the 31st of July, 1843, Rear-Admiral Thomas formally restored the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom in a grand ceremony with King Kamehameha III at what is now Thomas Square Park in Honolulu. It was later at Kawaiahaʻo Church that the King would deliver in a prayer of thanks, what would become the motto of the Kingdom and remains the motto of the State of Hawaiʻi: Ua mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono-the (sovereignty, life) of the land is perpetuated by actions of balance, order, righteousness.

July 31st became a Hawaiian National holiday known as Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea-Sovereignty Restoration Day.

In October of 1843, Haʻalilio commissioned the College of Heraldry to create the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Royal Coat of Arms as an official symbol of State. In addition, the Hawaiian National flag would be formally standardized by this institution and adopted by Hawaiʻi's legislature in 1845 which remains the same flag of the State of Hawaiʻi.

At the conclusion of months of negotiations, Great Britain and France signed a joint declaration to the effect that “Her Majesty, the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty, the king of the French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands of a government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations have thought it right to engage reciprocally to consider the Sandwich Islands as an independent state, and never to take possession, either directly or under the title of a protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed…” recognizing Hawaiʻi’s independence on November 28, 1843.

November 28th is recognized as Lā Kūʻokoʻa- Hawaiʻi Independence Day.

Belgium followed suit on March 27, 1844, by way of a letter. 

On July 6, 1844, Haʻalilio and Richards received a dispatch from Mr. John Caldwell Calhoun, the United States, Secretary of State, informing them that President John Tyler regarded the statement of Mr. Webster, the previous Secretary of State, and the appointment of a commissioner “as a full recognition on the part of the United States of the independence of the Hawaiian Government.”

ʻO ke kūʻokoʻa o Hawaiʻi a me ka ʻōlelo Pelekane-Palani

Ua hoʻi ʻo Haʻalilio lāua ʻo Richards i Lākana e hana i ka Paulet Affair. Ua hōʻoia ʻo Lord Aberdeen, i ka lā 13 o Iune, 1843, i nā ʻelele Hawaiʻi "ʻaʻohe manaʻo o ke aupuni o ka Mōʻī e hoʻomau i ka ʻāina ʻo Sandwich Islands," a ua hoʻolaha like ʻia i nā aupuni o Farani a me ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.

Ma ka lā 31 o Iulai, 1843, ua hoʻihoʻi hou ʻo Rear-Admiral Thomas i ke ea o ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi ma kahi hui nui me ka Mōʻī Kamehameha III ma kahi i kapa ʻia ʻo Thomas Square Park ma Honolulu. Ma hope aku ma ka Halepule o Kawaiahao e hoʻopuka ai ka Mōʻī ma ka pule mahalo, he aha ka mea e lilo ai i ʻōlelo maʻamau o ke Aupuni a e noho mau ana ka motto o ka Mokuʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi: Ua mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono - ka noho aliʻi, ola - o ka ʻāina ua hoʻomau ʻia e nā hana kaulike, hoʻoponopono, pono.

Ua lilo ka lā 31 o Iulai i lā hoʻomaha Lahui Hawaiʻi i kapa ʻia ʻo Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea-Sovereignty Restoration Day.

I ʻOkakopa i ka makahiki 1843, ua kauoha ʻo Haʻalilio i ke Koleke o Heraldry e hana i ke Aliʻi Aliʻi o ke Aupuni Mōʻī Hawaiʻi i hōʻailona kūhelu o ka mokuʻāina. Eia kekahi, e hoʻopaʻa ʻia ka hae Lahui Hawaiʻi e kēia ʻoihana a apono ʻia e ka ʻahaʻōlelo o Hawaiʻi i ka makahiki 1845 a ʻo ia ka hae like o ka Mokuʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi.

I ka pau ana o na mahina kukakuka ana, ua kakau inoa o Beritania Nui a me Farani i ka olelo hoolaha e pili ana i ka manao o ka Moiwahine o Beritania Nui a me Irelani a me ka Moi o Farani. ʻO ka noho ʻana ma Sandwich Islands kahi aupuni hiki ke hoʻolako i ka pilina mau me nā lāhui ʻē aʻe, ua manaʻo ʻo ia he mea pono ke komo like ʻole e noʻonoʻo i ka Mokupuni Sandwich ma ke ʻano he mokuʻāina kūʻokoʻa, a ʻaʻole loa e lawe ʻia, ma ke ʻano pololei a i ʻole ma lalo o ke poʻo inoa. he ʻāina hoʻomalu, a i ʻole ma lalo o kekahi ʻano ʻē aʻe, o kēlā me kēia wahi o ka teritore i haku ʻia ai lākou…” e ʻike ana i ke kūʻokoʻa o Hawaiʻi i ka lā 28 o Nowemapa, 1843. ʻIke ʻia ka lā 28 o Nowemapa ʻo Lā Kūʻokoʻa- Hawaiʻi Independence Day. Ua hahai ʻo Belegiuma ma ka lā 27 o Malaki, 1844, ma ke ʻano he leka. I ka lā 6 o Iulai, 1844, ua loaʻa iā Haʻalilio lāua ʻo Richards ka leka mai Mr. John Caldwell Calhoun, ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, Kakauolelo o ka Mokuʻāina, e hōʻike ana iā lākou ua nānā ʻo Pelekikena John Tyler i ka ʻōlelo a Mr. o ke komisina "ma ke ano he hooiaio piha ma ka aoao o Amerika Huipuia i ke kuokoa o ke Aupuni Hawaii."