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Coronation Ceremonies
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words of our constitution—by a celebration of unusual impressiveness. There was a serious purpose of national importance; the direct line of the “Kamahamehas” having become extinct, it was succeeded by the “Keawe-a-Heulu” line, its founder having been first cousin to the father of Kamahameha I. It was wise and patriotic to spend money to awaken in the people a national pride. Naturally, those among us who did not desire to have Hawaii remain a nation would look on an expenditure of this kind as worse than wasted.
