The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 63
Despatch from Lord Derby (then Lord Stanley) when Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir George Grey, June 13, 1845
Despatch from Lord Derby (then Lord Stanley) when Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir George Grey, June 13, 1845.
"I repudiate, with the utmost possible earnestness, the doctrine maintained by some, that the treaties which we have entered into with these people are to be considered as a mere blind to amuse and deceive ignorant savages. In the name of the Queen I utterly deny that any treaty entered into and ratified by Her Majesty's command was, or could have been made in a spirit thus disingenuous, or for a purpose thus unworthy. You will honorably and scrupulously fulfil the conditions of the Treaty of Waitangi."