To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, July 29, 1853.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 834, 30 July 1853, Page 3

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, July 29, 1853.

Sir, — It it a fact worthy of very particular notice, that nearly the whole of the gentlemen candidates of the Constitutional Association were not long ago rank Radicals, — how do they, or can they now account for the great change that has taken pltre in their politics ? Did they not cry out loud enough against Sir George Grey's despotic administration? Did they not avow that it was most infamous? Did they not avow also that the people ought to have the power and control of their own Government ? And why do they now wish to get and keep to themselves for" the long period of four years the whole power, and wrench it from the people for whom they have striven to obtain it ? Is this Radicalism, or is it high Toryism ? If it is not very high Toryism it certainly smells very strongly ot it, if not of something worse. These gentlemen, once so liberal, have now the col effrontery to

ask the electors to place And confine in the hand* of as lew as possible the whole power, viz. — -by asking them to- elect one man to represent them in two Council*, awl if they could they would maa third represent them. Now what does this smell of? Why, it "stinks of the fumes of aw Oligarchical Government, and if the Electors of this Colony do not veil infoim themselves, and be very much on their guard, they certainly wilt be the dupes and slaves of an Oligarchical Faction, and may most certainly bid:good bye to the liberty and freedom which they now possess. If the Electors see their great danger in tim& they wi)l get the pledge, the whole pledge, and nothing bat the pledge ; and if their men are honest they cannot refuse it. Exact the pledge — get this and you get self government — get it not and yon get an Oligarchy. I request Mr. Editor you will give insertion to my remarks, and I am certain that many of our unthinking Electorswill benefit by them. I, myself, am a small man with a large family, in daily expectation of having it augmented, and with these prospects before me for many years to come please God ; but if — . I had better say no more just now, but with your leave shall again advert toother subjects of importance, especially to the prospect of increasing taxation which to us looms so plainly in the future, if we are to groan under the despotism of a grasping Oligarchy. I am, your obedient Servant, ALARM.