During this time a monarchy evolved. Guided by benevolence,
the monarch walked hand in hand with missionaries, while dissenting voices
where shuttled away, shuttered elsewhere, away from governance.
Sixty years. In
1838, Liliʻuokalani was born. As she grew older and the population continued
to shrink from disease, her faith must’ve been strong to protect her from the curse
of dying.
Could these broadcasts have been
stories handed down from tutu to keiki, and when the keiki herself became tutu,
did she terrify her own new keiki by describing the flesh-eating spirit that consumed
the new citizenry under the monarchy? Does she go on to describe her strength
and her newfound faith in the lord that saved her?
Liliʻuokalani grew up in the court of Kamehameha III,
and lived during the reign of Liholiho, Lot, Lunalilo and Kalakaua. She ascended the throne in 1891, and overthrown
two years later.
In 1893 when Liliʻuokalani was overthrown, France was
celebrating the centennial of the French Revolution. In 1893, 100 years had passed since the
Committee of Public Safety sent Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI to the
guillotine. Was this what Lorrin
Thurston, Sanford Dole, and John Stevens suggested when they appointed
themselves as the Committee of Public Safety and warned Lili’uokalani that if
she didn’t step down “heads will
roll?"
Sixty years, another marker. Lili’uokalani
mourned during her sixtieth birthday. In 1898, she saw her overthrown kingdom,
annexed by a foreign power. Most merchants,
planters, and missionaries however, celebrated when President
McKinley overturned President Cleveland’s decision of restoring Liliʻuokalani’s to the throne.
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