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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 758, 20 July 1853, Page 3

TO THE WORKING MEN OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND. 31 ELL 0 W ELECTORS, *— The time has arrived when the electors of the operative and labouring classes are called upon to discharge their duly to the cause which many of them have, in public meeting assembled, pledged themselves to suppeft, I would beg to advise you not to be led astray by a man who would evidently wish to thrust himself upon you, merely to gratify ambition and thereby injure, if not defeat, the very object he has many limes publicly pledged himself to use his best exertions to support. It has been generally admitted that the electors have an undoubted right to canvass the public conduct of candidates for otlices of honour and trust. I, therefore, beg to lay these remarks before the operatives and labourers, touching the conduct of one of such candidates. Bid not Mr. John Makepeace allow himself to be placed on the operatives’ and labourers’ committee, by a vole passed at a large public meetin* held in Mr. Thompson’s assembly room on the 19th of April? Did he not sanction and highly approve, by a short speech, in which he slated that “ it was a step in the right direction," this resolution —“ That the committee now formed be requested to select and bring forward one or more candidates for representatives from the operative and labouring classes for approval or disapproval, on Friday evening, April 22nd, to which lime this meeting he adjourned.”? Did be not, on that very evening, 22nd of April, move this resolution, which was seconded by Mr Cadman and carried unanimously—“ That this meeting hereby pledges Itself to support the three candidates who shall have the largest number of votes attached to their names, after the poll has been taken this evening.” ? Did not Messrs. Dignanand Schultz take such poll, which proved that out of a meeting of between two and three hundred, only three solitary voles were given to the said Mr. John Makepeace? Was he not, therefore, rejected, recording to the very spirit of his own resolution?— Did he not afterwards meet with, and agree to work with the committee, and also sanctioned their address by signing the same, in which these words were published in both our local newspapers,—“ We, the committee, lake this opportunity of pledging ourselves to go forward with the movement, at the same lime of earnestly soliciting your support to carry your object to a successful issue ?”—the same address concluding with these impressive words, “ Trusting that the whole will be carried on with peace, unity, and concord , and that each, and every one f will do his duty.” ? Did not the said Mr. John Makepeace, at a large public meeting, denounce Mr. William Brcwn, and (he other members of the Provincial Council, for throwing the people overboard, the first opportunity they had of serving the people? And did he not become a member of a committee, and labour for the success of the very man he publicly accused of throwing the people overboard ! ! Did be not act and vote with us up to the time when the Governor, Sir George Grey, presented the Committee with the book, containing the New Constitution Act? And has he not sat on two committees a few evenings ago?— When, now at the eleventh hour, the same Mr. John Makepeace—who was rejected at a public meeting—who was also a member of our «m----mittee, and thereby pledged to unity—allows himself to be brought forward as a candidate, and appears neither to have the principle nor the moral courage to declare that such a step would be contrary, nay. in direct opposition, to a cause in which be had so repeatedly plighted his word and honour? Operatives and labourers, can you (rust such a man? If not, 1 call upon you as a friend and supporter of your cause, to mark your indignant disapprobation of such unfaithful Jim Crow" conduct, by voting on this day of election for Sir. JAMES DEKUOM, the committee’s candidate —a working man, who has hitherto proved himselfconsistent, and in other ways a friend to the working classes. Yours, &c., WM. GRIFFIN. Wednesday Morning, July 20, 1833.