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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

We bring against the present Ministry the following grave indictment :—

I.	—We charge them with over-governing us.
II.	—We charge them with pursuing in all departments of government a retrograde policy, which must throw us back into the social darkness of the middle ages, and even further.
III.	—We charge them with having carried the separation of representation from taxation so far that the proletariate here can now dispose of the rights and property of the whole People.
IV.	—We charge them with having so largely increased the public debt that the colony must eventually become bankrupt.
V.	—We charge them with bringing about such a distrust, such a want of confidence, in the colony and its future, as seriously obstructs the development of our agriculture and mining, and manufactures and commerce. And
VI.	—We charge them with helping to produce in New Zealand a state of society not unlike negro or chattel slavery.