The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 67
Sir George Grey
Sir George Grey.
And, therefore, gentlemen, at the risk of all the unpopularity you can cast upon me, I testify, in the face of the colony, that there is a power in New Zealand incapable of falling in, I believe, with representative institutions, and that power is Sir George Grey. (Tremendous uproar, hooting and groans from the back of the hall gentlemen. I have never said-and anyone to point out that I have [ unclear: e] an unkind word of Sir George—(disorder)—and if [ unclear: anybody] have, I ask you not to [ unclear: blie] (Three cheers for Sir [ unclear: George] followed by three groans for Mr [ unclear: O] You must know that it is not [ unclear: be] that will do it. You must bring [ unclear: arg] Now, I say this, gentlemen, that [ unclear: if] get into Parliament with a [ unclear: following] seven, or eight men after him, he [ unclear: wil] neither to the Government [ unclear: nor] Opposition, and good and [ unclear: effective] ment will become dimply [ unclear: impo] (Uproar.) Gentlemen, if the [ unclear: colo] New Zealand send Sir George [ unclear: Grey] lament with any tail behind him, [ unclear: the] the slightest use talking of [ unclear: retren] You will have no [ unclear: retrenchment.] feeling with regard to Sir [ unclear: George] almost one of affection, because [ unclear: he] exercise a magnificent influence [ unclear: for] our democracy if, instead of sitting [ unclear: i] ment, where he has no power (loud [ unclear: he] stood outside where he would [ unclear: guardian] of the liberties of the [ unclear: pec] could make magnificent orations [ unclear: is] crises which would compel the [ unclear: Gov] to do right, and he might be a [ unclear: mag] force in New Zealand of a kind that [ unclear: ha] been seen in any country in the [ unclear: I] recognise in Sir George Grey great [ unclear: of] purpose, and that he has the real [ unclear: the] colony lying at heart, and I [ unclear: w] say that of any man unless I believed true. But, I say again, in [ unclear: make] him an effective representation must have in him sound practical [ unclear: character], and the training of Sir [ unclear: Grey] has been such as, in ray [ unclear: op] render him unfit to work in [ unclear: representatives] of the people, [ unclear: ing] and hisses, culminating [ unclear: i] cheers for Sir George Grey, [ unclear: follo] three groans for Mr Connell. The [ unclear: paused] to consult his notes, [ unclear: whereup] cries of "Go on, Connell," were [ unclear: raised]