"While I had been no more than an interested observer, quietly awaiting the course of justice, and conscious of the strength derived from truth and right on my side, their commissioners, with such influences as their indomitable assurance could command, had been working very had to get the present rule in Hawaii out of its political and financial difficulties, by passing over to the United States a country whose hospitality they have betrayed, a land which they do not and never can own."
This sentence aptly highlights the unbreakable connection between a land and the people that resides in it. A stranger can never truly possess a land without having any of their own history or connection with it, and even in its acquisition, its a meaningless act, with no memories, as the land will always be a step away from real ownership. It is the people that that makes a land rich; their history and culture. Without it, a land is bare.
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