Orange Jacobs: “Every act of legislation ought by clear and accurate provisions cover every element of the subject matter stated in the…”

The silent influence of our institutions has secured the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands--the gem of the Pacific and the outward bulwark of the Pacific States.

However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.

While the light of ages comes streaming down the pathway of history, it illumes the present and enlarges the scope of human knowledge, yet it gives no prophetic insight, hence, which will be the final victor is unseen.

Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.