![handle is hein.journals/hwijlp6 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S NOTES-VOLUME 6
Volume Six of the Hawaiian Journal of Law and Politics continues its
unique and important mission as an interdisciplinary, double-blind, peer
reviewed journal rooted in the legal fact of the continuity of the Hawaiian
Kingdom nation-state. As the only publication of the Hawaiian Kingdom,
the Hawaiian Journal of Law and Politics is committed to exploring the
details of our government, law, history, and politics with rigor toward a
better understanding of the events of our past, and the decisions required
for our future. In the words of one of our more well known 'olelo no'eau
(wise sayings), i ka wa ma mua, i ka wa ma hope (The time before, the
time after), we look to the past to guide us on future decisions.
This volume starts with an article by Professor Niklaus Schweizer called
The USS Boston and Hawai'i: A Blujacket's Eyewitness Report.
Schweizer provides further details about the USS Boston and its role in
the events of January 1893 in Hawai'i from a newly rediscovered, first-
hand journal account written in German by enlisted sailor and ship's
painter August Gottfried Senst entitled Meine Dienstzeit in den
Vereinigten Staaten, Kriegsmarine ('My Service in the United States,
Naval Force'). Senst's journal shows us some of the timeline of the USS
Boston and provides us with details that add depth to the conspiracy
between Stevens and the Boston leadership. In one excerpt from Senst, we
can see how John Stevens himself misinformed the crew of The USS
Boston on the in-the-moment circumstances of January 14-16 while
personally boarding the ship and inspecting the crew on January 16th for
the landing of troops that day:
Um 3 Uhr kam Minister Stevens an Bord mit der Nachricht, dass
das Parlament und die Minister die Kunigin nicht weiter
anerkennen und eine Revolution unausweichlich sei. Ein
Kriegsrat wurde abgehalten und beschlossen verschiedene
Bataillone 5 Jahre lang zu landen [sic] zur Beschatzung
amerikanischer Barger und deren Unternehmungen. Wir
nahmen ein Anzug mit,.
At 3 o'clock Minister Stevens came aboard with the news that
the parliament and the ministers did not recognize the queen
anymore and a revolution was unavoidable. A council of war
took place and it was decided to land several battalions for a
length of 5 years [sic] in order to protect American citizens and
their enterprises.
Schweizer provides a masterful comparative analysis lining up excerpts
from Lucien Young's work on similar moments in conjunction with
Senst's journal entries to show how misinformation flowed from the
officers ofthe USS Boston to the enlisted men, and how all narratives were
later crafted to support the actions of the officers of the USS Boston, and
Minister John Stevens. This article thickens our understanding of the
narrative of events that took place on January 14-17, 1893.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/hwijlp6&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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