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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10

9. (See page 14)

9. (See page 14)

Cessation of Tribal Wars and Massacres after the commencement of regular Colonisation in 1840.—In a pamphlet put forth the other day by the so-called Aborigines Protection Society—but whose better style and title would be the "Aborigines Destruction Society"—and which I believe has been widely circulated among Members of the Legislature in the hope of getting a crushing Verdict there against the Colonists in some Debate on New Zealand Affairs-it is virtually asserted, among other fictions, that the Security of Life and Property enjoyed by the Natives in New Zealand has been no greater since England's Colonisation of the Country than it was before. Now, undoubtedly, cases of murder, and even two or three of those graver squabbles among the Tribes, leading to little battles, did occur after 1840—but to any man who has lived in New Zealand, and known it for the last twenty years, the Sun at high noon is not more patent to him than that the Security of life and Property which has been enjoyed by the Natives in New Zealand since the regular colonisation of the Country commenced is as much greater than that enjoyed before as the Security now enjoyed in England is greater than that enjoyed in the days of Norman William and the Scandanavian Vikings.