THE Marlborough Express SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1868.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 144, 14 November 1868, Page 3

THE Marlborough Express

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1868.

.. Give mo the liberty to know, to utter, and to orgua freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.” —Milton.

In face of the appalling news received on Thursday last from the East Coast, we dare not express the sentiments we feel, as one idea has so firmly taken possession of our faculties, that we should perhaps in the heat of the moment give expression to thoughts that more mature reflection would convince us were premature. Extermination, by any or all means, should be employed against the rebel Maoris for their recent atrocities. This course we have advocated on previous occasions, and events that have lately taken place, confirm the opinion we formed that no permanent peace will exist until this project is adopted. Craftiness; treachery, and all manner of villany, must be met by employing means that will instil a wholesome dread in pei’petrators of these excesses. Honorable warfare has been found unavailing to check the cannibal propensities of the murdering Maori, and nothing remains but to use the lessons they have supplied us with, unless we are content to stand supinely by, and see our brethren, sisters, and children butchered in cold blood, and their poor bodies subjected to all the indignities that a mob of savages choose to inflict upon them 1 No mode of retaliation can be too severe —no vengeance too swift, to wipe out the stain of blood that discolors the Colony, and which will ever remain to the disgrace of the present Government, unless prompt and effectual measures be at once taken to exact a terrible retribution from the erst Chatham Island prisoners, no less than ohe bloody cannibal Tito Kowaru. The Colony will speedily rise in indignation against those who have the management of affairs if this be not done. Money is nothing, compared with Christian lives, and the Government may pour it out like water, if they will only put it out of the power of the murderers to commit such enormities as our telegrams inform us have been done upon defenceless people. We reserve for the present the reckoning •with the Ministry, who, being duly warned, have resolutely shut their eyes to the danger which besets us. Now the word must be Prompt Action , and no quarter !