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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10

Page 31

Page 31.

Surely it is not meant that all publications are to be condemned, except those which approve of the course taken by the Government. In a Dependency, it is possible that the policy pursued by the Government of the Dependency may tend to counteract, or even to defeat, the policy of the Imperial Government. If that is deliberately believed to be the case, is every man to be censured who expresses that belief, with due caution and regard to circum stances?

The Debates in the House of Representatives in August, 1860, made it notorious throughout the country that there was a great difference of opinion amongst the Colonists themselves as to the proceedings of the Government. I believe that notoriety to have had a most wholesome effect in checking the spread of the war. The Natives were thereby encouraged to believe that what was done at the Waitara was not the doing of the Pakeha as a race, and would not be approved by the Queen.

page 17

My remarks on the Taranaki Question were put forth in the beginning of December, after hostilities had continued for nine months.

As to the declarations of the Governor referred to in this Note, it is to be remarked that, with the Natives, words weigh little against deeds.

It does not yet appear whether the assurance conveyed to the Bishop of New Zealand respecting, the "lawful rights of Chief and Tribe 3 has ever been circulated amongst the leading Native Chiefs.