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EMMA KALE LEON ALANL 



lican, Democratic, National or Greenback, and 

 Union or Prohibition. To confine the regis- 

 tration and election boards to men composed 

 wholly of any one, two, or three of these par- 

 ties, would be a plain violation of the spirit of 

 our Constitution, and have a tendency to ham- 

 per and abridge the elective rights of those 

 belonging to the political party or parties who, 

 by law, would not, and could not, have any 

 representation on such boards. Such a law is 

 in direct conflict with the plain letter of the 

 Constitution prescribing the form of official 

 oath and prohibiting any other test for office." 

 It is also repugnant to a fundamental principle 

 of our form of government. " There can be 

 in a true republican government no political 

 or religious test in holding office, the political 

 and religious liberty of the citizen being at the 

 foundation of republican institutions." 



Statutes authorizing and requiring boards of 

 public officers to be politically divided are com- 

 mon in other States, and the provision of the 

 Michigan Constitution on which the Detroit 

 law was set aside is common in other State 

 Constitutions. 



EMMA KALELEONALANI, Qneen Dowager of 

 the Hawaiian Islands, born in Honolulu, Jan. 

 2, 1836 ; died there, April 25, 1885. She was 

 the daughter of Naea, a chief of high rank, 

 and was brought up in the home of Dr. Rooke, 

 an English physician, who had married her 

 aunt and settled in the Hawaiian Islands. She 

 received a fine English education, and was mar- 

 ried, June 19, 1856, to the King, Kamehameha 

 IV, who died Nov. 30, 1863. Their only child 



died at the age of four. She visLetl Europe in 

 1865-'66. She was a person of much amiabili- 

 ty and liberality, and founded the Kamehame- 



QUEEN EMMA. 



ha Hospital in Honolulu. Her funeral was a 

 great pageant. The body lay in state in her 

 house (the garden front of which is shown in 

 the accompanying illustration), covered with a 

 purple pall, while young girls prostrated them- 



QUEEN EMMA'S RESIDENCE. 



