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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10

Par. 24

Par. 24.

Of this so-called Address of Governor Fitzroy I have spoken above (p. 10). The four passages here thrown together, as if they were all parts of that Address, are taken from three distinct documents: the first and second from the Address; the third from the Notice to the Absentees; the fourth from what I have called the Leading Article in the Maori Gazette of 2nd September, 1844.

The drift of the third passage is obscured by r. Richmond s departure from the translation page 37 (itself defective) put forth by the Government in the Appendix to the Memorandum, page 24. The words "men of Taranaki," meaning; the absentees, have become "men at Taranaki."

Before leaving this subject of Governor Fitzroy's alleged plans and words, I will state again briefly the fallacy which pervades Mr. Richmond's reasoning on this subject.

Governor Fitzroy had before his mind two classes of people: 1st, those who had been parties to the sale to the New Zealand Company's agent in 1840; and 2ndly, those who had not been parties to that sale. To this latter class belong the people of the Waitara.

As to the former class, he insisted on certain terms. Their act had led the Pakeha to form a settlement. The Governor therefore was not content to abandon that settlement. The Pakeha must retain all that really belonged to the sellers. The absentees should do what they pleased, either keep or sell.

As to the latter class, the Governor recognized their claims in all their integrity. Mr. Bell has told us (above p. 13) bow the Natives understood that.

The fallacy of Mr. Richmond's argument is this, that he treats the terms insisted on in reference to the first class, as being the measure and limit of the rights recognized as belonging to the second class