EXTRACT From the "Nelson Examiner."

Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 131, 12 July 1845, Page 4

EXTRACT From the "Nelson Examiner."

{Concluded from our last.) But we put it to him, whether anything but laughter can come of such a gentleman’s sitting down cosily, with his feet on his fender perhaps, and a bottle of claret beside him, in the unapproachable sanctity of his library or other snuggery, to compose addresses like tha one we are speaking of, to colonists in a wild country, unprotected, amid bands of bloodthirsty, cunning savages. Let him oulv fancy himself thus haranguing such settlers in the politest terms ;—“ Let me entreat you, with the utmost respect for n-f/xqt cV* r ?Rt ifyr* 1? MTfJ V „«s 7 mP*' t fellow-countrymen, to suffer yourselves to be massacred by Maories whenever they desire it. Only think what beautiful truths, what lovely theories you will be illustrating by so doing. What unanswerable demonstrations will your own dead bodies be of our favourite theorems, —what gratifying little corollaries to i: those of your massacred children ! True, I confess 1 might not altogether relish such slashing ratiocination myself 5 and would decline having any claret drawn except from a bottle ; but you will surely delight in proving our narrow texts—> will exult in sacrificing your lives to confirm our sectarian paradoxes. 1 entreat you then to be magnanimously murdered; and, with perfect assurances of the highest consideration, respectfully wish you good morning.” If Mr. Jeff rson and his society really wish to preserve peace, and not merely to acquire notoriety by publicly and energetically advocating their somewhat preposterous notions, let them exert ail tha influence they have with the Colonial Office, to send us out such a number of troops as may at once overawe the natives, and prevent tvar by rendering it hopeless.

But, if they will not do this, let them show their sincerity by coming out hero and pulling themselves in the same circumstances in which those are on whom ‘hey lavish their gratuitous advice. They will then indeed testily to the truth of their opinions, or speedily prove and acknowledge them absurd and impossible. And we pledge ourselves for ail our fellow-colonists, if they will give us this proof of their sinceriiy, to proeme for them a locaiion in the most dangerous outskirts, and, however much it may go against our grain, not to render them any assistance in case of attack, nor by any hasty or intemperate demonstrations of sympathy in any way interrupt the progress of their experiment. Bo this, Mr. Jeffersoa, and we shall respect yon and your motives more than, we confess, we ate able to do at present.