THE GOVERNOR'S LATE PROCLAMATION OF THE 1st APRIL, CALLING ON NATIVE TRIBES TO COME IN AND GIVE THEMSELVES UP.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 262, 8 May 1865, Page 2

THE GOVERNOR'S LATE PROCLAMATION OF THE Ist APRIL, CALLING ON NATIVE TRIBES TO COME IN AND GIVE THEMSELVES UP.

[communicated.] A GotEDNOE’s proclamation. I never see one without thinking of the old squatter •prayer in the othe colony (N.S. W.) “..From blacks, *scab, wild dogs, and Governor’s proclamations, good Lord deliver us.” ‘Verily of the first and lust vve have/ bad enough. Tins one in particular, what does it really, mean unless an extension of time up to Julia: 5 next, for the purpose- of giving the rebels one other chance*, as though the natives did not by this time regard all communications of the kind with the profouudest. indifference or contempt. The “ quack doctor” and his assistants may thank-themselves (spite of their puffing and trickery to preserve credit) their medicaments cease to affect the natives for good or ill. This last “ remedial does it contain any real quality of medicine?' or is it what ait quack doses have been heretofore—semblance and humbug? Is there any truth and sincerity in this ? If so, then the doctor is to be pitied that, liis patieuts stuffed with wind-bags, refuse to place any truth in this, which, If -swallowed*.'digested, and believed in, .would be a real “ remedial pill” to .the salvation of the patients* whose' disease, originally hypochondria, produced by vague longings and discontent, has by judicious quackery terminated in raging fever,, threatening -destruction to the doctor* his shop, and to bis patieuts alikei At this time who is most to blame—the people, whose pampered" self-luffifiiency has brought,-themto this frantic state, or theman who, thinking to serve his ambition by pandering to priestly guile, to loud-mouthed,; I \ *dEtoran' to catch mewiisalfell. j ixid kissed the plaoato makq.it well ? ; Hr Oonmr. I, I '

simple enthusiasm, to stalking, black-coated brought this people to the dire gulf into'which they have plunged, and to whose *' lowest depths” they -still seek a “ deeper stilt T* Has the purpose been served ? Does there appear the smallest chance that it will be served ? No ! Tune alone can heal the breach", and" I fear bitter and bloody the traiaiag'the natives will have to .go through, before the yoke (which placed gently and ■ftrmtf hatebeenemluml —-nay more, liked—which hoar they must and shall), will be regarded with anything but impatience and dislke.

The natives have never yet been brought face to face with the truth —all yet has been but “ skipping ghosts” anl magic lanthorn spectra. No plan, no one course of plain manly purpose and fair dealing—nought- but Expediency, plausibility, and scene-shifting. Has not each assistant of the. Quack Doctors establishment had his favorite remedy; each commissioner, magistrate—each official down to the bottle-washers, errand boys, plaster-spreaders, bill-stickers, and veriest scrubs,- connected with and living hy the “ system,” had their pet quackery,' adininis ; tered on every hand, with or without opportunity ? Until somC mighty “ swallower of formulas” and destroyer of quackeries appear amongst us, or until “ an angry people” shall arise, and with indignant voice, say “ No! such things shall be no longer”— there is no hope. Shall we for ever sitting like lepers round the pool of Bethesda wait for an angel’s visit to stir the black and sullen waters of our. councils ? Cannot means be found'within our own scope to tear aside the blighting veil which shrouds native administration from vulgar 1 eyes, and let God’s air, truth, and light upon a state ot things alike ruinous and disgraceful, get rid of the silent “ secret service utterly destroy and cast-put the theory that certain individuals are alone gifted by Providence with ability to understand and manage the native mind ? For cajolery and humbug substitute fair open dealing ; cease to allow officialdom to batten on Government land jobbings, Instead of bags of sugar and tickets for soup expediency-policy-manage-meut. write up the words “ Taw and Order,” and call upon every man to compel obedience (by sheer brute force if necessary) to those principles by which alone the native race can be preserved. The Circumlocution Office, and priestly influence, are its worst and deadliest foes.