Exploits of Mr. Brown’s Friends at Onehunga.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 746, 8 June 1853, Page 3

Exploits of Mr. Brown’s Friends at Onehunga.

A Meeting of Mr. William Brown’s supporters was held at Mr. Norman’s Inn at Onebunga on Monday evening, which, for the credit of the district, we might be willing to let pass without record or comment, if it were possible by our doing so to prevent any publicity being given to the disgraceful proceedings which took place on the occasion. This, however, cannot be; as already the character of the Meeting is a general theme of conversation, and the conduct of some of the actors in the scene a subject of equally general and indignant reprehension. A. letter in our other columns, written by one who witnessed, and was made painfully to fed, a of what he has described, confirms the report of the proceedings as given by two or three other eyewitnesses, and affords an instructive illustration of the spirit, temper, and love of liberty and fair , play manifested by Mr. Brown’s friends, and of the means by which some of them are trying to force him into the Superintendency. It is not improbable that before our next issue we may have further accounts of the notable exploits of Monday night, continued to later hours than that of Mr. Crispc’s violent expulsion from the Meeting—a Meeting in which he had been assured by the Chairman that he was privileged to remain and to take a part. But bis narrative, even standing alone, cannot fail to impress any impartial reader, who may s till be uninformed as to the modes by which it is sought to secure Mr. Brown’s election. This indeed is but a single mode: there are others not less disreputable, although more quiet and private, which may hi due time be dragged from the secrecy in which the praclisers of them fondly suppose they are concealed. But all such means will recoil upon the heads of those who employ them, and render the defeat which awaits Mr. Brown more deep and degrading than it otherwise might have been,. It isridiculously foolish now to say that Mr. Brown is opposed merely by the DfewZealander , or by what is said by Mr. Brown’s friends to be the ‘‘ New-Zealander’s party.” The New-Zealander is not dependent for its sustentalion on the support of any party, but relies on the support of the moderate and intelligent public —whose interests it advocates, and, we can unhesitatingly add, whose voice it speaks, in resisting the arrogant pretensions of Mr. Broun. It is not one party, 0r one denomination, or one class that is opposed to Mr. Brown as Superintendent, but, sin hj an union of all as perhaps no other object connected with the introduction °f the New Constitution could effect so compactly and firmly, as the object of averting h’°m the Province the evil threatened by Mr* Brown’s ambitious attempt to thrust nmself upon it as its' Superintendent.

Rut we have no intention just now of enlarging on the ideas thus suggested. We have done so before, and shall have opportunities to do so again before the election. Our immediate purpose is merely to call the attention of our readers to the statement of a portion of the sayings and doings of Mr. Brown’s supporters on Monday night, —as it is laid before us and them, with the verification of the writer’s name, in the letter which we publish. The question will naturally arise—what stale of society, order, and government might we not have reason to anticipate, if the parlies engaged in this transaction were our rulers?