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ways and means to acquire Hawaii through annexation...Using his inside knowledge of exactly how far the U.S. was willing to go in order to obtain sovereignty over the Native Kingdom, Mr. Spalding later became one of the richest plantation owners in Hawaii by speculating on sugar increases and purchasing land from bankrupt natives." 83/ Kuykendall, Volume II, p. 216. 84/ Ibid., p. 217. 85/ Ibid., p. 22 3. Kuykendall ascribes more importance to the correspondence of a Captain Reynolds, commanding officer of an American warship anchored off Hawaii during reciprocity discussions in the kingdom's legislature. 86/ Liliuokalani, pp. 20-21. See comment by Louis Agard, p. 9, where he says: "Based on the precedents, the .small band of foreigners acting as the 'Committee of Safety' had no authority to intervene when Queen Liliuokalani proposed a new constitution which she later retracted." 87/ Discussion of Schofield mission inserted as a result of comment by Kawaipuna Prejean, p. 5. 88/ Belknap to Schofield, confidential, June 24, 1872, War Dept. Records, quoted in Kuykendall, Volume H , p. 248. 89/ Kuykendall, Volume II, p. 248. Kuykendall also speculates on the reasons for the mission at that particular time: "...the only obvious special circumstances that might have called it forth were the strained relations between the United States and Great Britain and the current interest of the United States in the development of steamship lines across the Pacific" (Ibid., p. 249, footnote). 90/ Liliuokalani's views on reciprocity added in response to a comment from Congressman Daniel Akakc that "it would be interesting to review and contrast the comments of Queen Liliuokalani regarding that Treaty and the motivation of the planters." 91/ Liliuokalani, p. 55. 92/ Kuykendall and Day, p. 152. 93/ Ibid., p. 156. 94/ Russ, The Hawaiian Revolution, p. 12.
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