The proper title to the Texas resolutions is shown by the Congressional Globe to have been. "Joint resolutions declaring the terms on which Congress will admit Texas into the Union as a State." That is certainly no precedent for acquiring Hawaii as a Territory. and which no Senator at present contemplates ever becoming a State. By passing these resolutions Congress is not only disregarding all the precedents in our history for the acquisition of territory. but it. is violating the great underlying principle of our system of government. and ratifying and confirming the robbery of a whole people of every right and privilege. of their country. their government. and their happiness. By the passing of these resolutions the Monroe doctrine passes out of existence. the United States departs from its position as an American state. guarding every other American state from the aggressive policy of any European power. and assumes the rOle of an Asiatic power. with a "sphere of influence." zone of tariff. and a voice in the partitioning of China. These must follow the establishment of our Pacific outpost. naval and military. in Hawaii. Then we must assert our power and influence in the middle of the Pacific. and take a step in a direction which no Senator can point out or fix its limit. a "leap into the angry flood" with which Europe threatens China. the beginning of a new departure. the initiation of a policy unknown to all our previous history. inconsistent with all the precepts of the fathers. and totally at variance with all that has "made and preserved us a nation." Such departure from principle finds no warrant in the annexation of Texas. and no justification in any present emergency. but is an outrage alike on the American and Hawaiian people for which there is neither reason nor excuse in any existing condition of public affairs.