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If it had been supposed that even Hawaii, with its overwhelming preponderance of Kanakas and Asiatics, would become a State, she could not have been annexed.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid argues that the annexation of Hawaii would not have occurred if it were believed it would become a state due to its population.
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