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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 230, 28 September 1880, Page 2

To tiie Editor of tub "Evening Mail." Sir — The article in your paper of last night respecting Tohu and Te Whiti and their influence over the feeble minded Natives we fully believe. Is it not high time that the Government stepped in and put a stop to their pernicious doings, took them in charge, and confined them in the same prison in which so many of their unhappy dupes are incarcerated, and tb.U3 convince the Natives one and all that these two impostors are as weak and feeble as themselves, equally powerless with themselves, and thus unmask them for all time? I know the weakness of the Natives well on such subject, and that whilst under the spell of these two men they are no longer free agents, and that such i> their dread of them that they dare not disobey for fear of the consequences. Under these circumstances are we not punishing the morally innocent whilst protecting the guilty and soreening them from harm instead of scotching them in their den? Surely it i 3 time their wicked doings were put a stop to, not far the sake of the Europeans alone, but also for the unhappy Natives. By taking and punishing the really guilty pair you would break the spell that overawes the t Native mind and rescuo them from their cruel thraldom to these two impostors. I am, &c, W. H. Nelson, Sept. 28, 1880.