King Kamehameha IV of the Hawaiian Islands issued a proclamation from his "marine residence" at Kailua declaring his nation's neutrality in the American Civil War. He barred any of his subjects from engaging in privateering and stressed that neither privateers nor their prizes would be sheltered in the islands except in cases of "dangers of the sea." (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
David W. Forbes, ed., Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900 (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2001) III: 298.
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