This legislation should be, and I do not doubt will be, not only just to the natives and all other residents and citizens of the islands, but should be characterized by great liberality and a high regard to the rights of all people and of all foreigners domiciled there.
Message to the Senate Transmitting a Treaty to Annex the Hawaiian Islands
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