World History
Morgan Report
Morgan Report. Those interested in Hawaiian history will be pleased to learn that the Morgan Report is now available online.
It is a Senate report issued in 1894 which examined what role the United States played in the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893. It found that the US role in the Hawaiian revolt was minimal.
The Morgan Report refutes the allegations made by James Blount in his Blount Report which was issued in 1893. Blount failed to swear in witnesses or even interview some of the key members of the revolt. Despite these flaws, the Blount Report has been online for years. It is nice to see the Morgan Report available online as well. This will help researchers and historians get a fuller view of the events of 1893 in Hawaii.
The site is set up as a Wiki but visitors can not edit the content. This is probably a good idea as I imagine that this site would get vandalized a lot from some in the Hawaiian separatist community. The site owner (Jere Krischel) will issue accounts to anyone who wants to help out with the project though.
From the site:
The "Morgan report" is today's name for a report to the U.S. Senate by its Committee on Foreign Relations, whose chairman was Senator John T. Morgan, Democrat of Alabama. Senate Report 227 of the 53rd Congress, second session, was dated February 26, 1894.
The Morgan report was printed as part of a large volume containing other government documents: "Reports of Committee on Foreign Relations 1789-1901 Volume 6." In that volume the "Hawaiian Islands" section begins with its own title page being page 360. The actual content of the Morgan report doesn't begin until page 363 of the larger volume 6. The page numbers shown on this webpage are the same as printed in the larger volume 6. Therefore, anyone desiring a page number for the Morgan report as though it is a stand-alone document should subtract 359 from the numbers shown on this webpage.
In what may have been a surprise to Cleveland, the Morgan Report thoroughly repudiated the conclusions of Blount, and with the Morgan Report's conclusion, the matter was legally closed. Cleveland explicitly accepted the conclusions of the Morgan Report, continuing to engage in international relations with the Provisional Government, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii, and even negotiating treaties originally ratified under the Kingdom government with the Republic.
Although sovereignty activists insist that the Provisional Government was a puppet government, installed by the U.S., as per Cleveland's December 18, 1893 letter to Congress, it is critical to note that with the submission of the Morgan Report on February 26, 1894, Cleveland accepted that his original assertions were in error.
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