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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 30, 23 January 1862, Page 3

TO MR. GEORGE WORGAN, (Per favor of Hawke's Bay Times.) Sir, —Lang syne I have been a great admirer of the productions of your pen, from the period of an answer to Veritas, published in the Herald two years ago, which did honor to your head and heart. How greatly was I astonished, then, on receiving the Herald of Tuesday last, to find one from you, or at least bearing your signature, which showed the most cringing servility to authority and Maori domination. That you have ere now advocated “ strong, firm, but fair measures in dealing with the aborigines” I well know, but what there is in the mockery of these principles which is held out to us by Sir George Grey to enlist your sympathies I cannot conceive. You, at least, cannot be so ignorant of the native race as to suppose that they will really “ become liable to all the duties and responsibilities attached to the great privileges of the British subject,” though they will, when not too deeply sunk in rebellion, be willing enough to accept of all “ rights and privileges” and whatever beyond this Sir George may offer them ; but with regard to “ submission and obedience” you ought not to pretend to be so blind as to think that they will submit to these, or that the Governor, who has condoned rebellion, permitted robbers and murderers to go scot free, allowed of the existence of an Imperium in Imperio, which sets Her Most Gracious Majesty’s laws at nought, will insist on any such thing. ‘ Ho, sir, the laws they will obey will be their own will, as expressed by them in runanga —they are to get the verdict and the Europeans to pay the costs.

Yours respectfully (until now), A British-born Subject,