THE "AUSTRALASIAN" ON SIR GEORGE GREY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 13, 15 January 1878, Page 4

THE "AUSTRALASIAN" ON SIR GEORGE GREY.

There is a good deal of glowing eloquence and fluency of jibrase in Sirj slumping speeches throughout -*but it is'diffidult to --collect from them anything like n coherent i a^i_tem'ent'- of '•-Ministerial pplicyV iHe tells tbe electors Hhat "It is our common and "our bounden duty to aim at this;4hßrt^efer^mdhVand -ev^ry youth in this couotry<sh6uldV»be-^hs(ffuot-d in political knowledge. 1 -Tfeel-ithaf, next to your religious v:dqty,ither'hext duty •which follows that^oiaud'i'forms part l really .of your religiooa'duty, as to con-i eider your duty to your fellow men and j ~Wat~whTch~y6u ought to do for the | public welfare and the common ;good."j Here in Victoria we know pretty wellj what this fusion of religion and politics j uiu'any'come'9 to— that . the warfare of* politics is merely embittered by secJar-j J iau animtisities, and 'that the profit goes' to the politiciariwho can pull the wiies of- sectarianism with the greatest skill.: But although Sir George Grey makes it a part of their religious duty for citizens to become politicians aad take an interest in the miserable squabbles: and trickeries of which our politics are: nuinly made up, he is not able to show them what they are to aim at when this part of their education is completed. Their political duty appears to be comprised in keeping Sir Geo ge Grey in •power.-and sticking to .him through thick and thin.; He --indeed explained. 10 trie reeidants of Auokland his plans for .bringing ihe Governor mnler the' heel of the Government. This deaira ; ble end is, in accordance 'with the ideas' of our own Premier, to be -reached i; by revolution. If the Crown, meaning r tbe Governor, goes on allying with tbe squatters and witb the Upper! House, "then the people would rise and create a form of Government chosen by themselves." Evidently the plans of Sir George Grey and those of Mr Barry* fere 'based i on ! pat , (illei r lines,, although neither of* 'the revolutionists ventures to tell the colonists whether separation from the mother country is contemplated as a consequence of their revolutionary proceedings. In another respect there is an analogy between -these two great statesmen. Each of -them succeeds in- conveying Hhe impression that, in the midst of the cloud of oratorical phrases in which he lives and moves and has his being, he has absolutely no view as to which direction he is to take,. or where be is to put his next step.