Page 4 Advertisements Column 4

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 329, 14 December 1860, Page 4

T^O A. SAUNDERS, ESQ^ Sir,—A general election now pending for members to form a House of Representatives, we, the underBigned Electors of Wa'mea East and South, respectfully request you to allow yourself to be nominated as a candidate at the ensuing election. Your consistent and uniform advocacy of the natioiial interest, couple.d with the untiring energy^ and unflinching zeal displayed by you through a political career for some years before the,public* fully entitle us to believes that a farther and a higher trust being placed in your hands would meet with your most earnest and attentive consideration, and be conducive to the best interests of the province generally and the colony at large. James Poppleton Horn, William Price M.P.C. Jonathan Mears Walter Newport Levi James Henry Hubbard W. T. Bottrell E. Baigent, sen., M.P.C. Robert Boddington Charles Beit Charles White Andrew Malcolm James Knapp Richard Hart W. M. Gowan David Hammond Edward G. Rennell James Connel James Haycock Edmund Dartnall George Rutherford Daniel Eyles William Loudon James Small Thomas Haycock James Gibbs James Harford Isaac Gibbs Richard Seymour William Eyles Thomas Andrews J. Primmer James Wadsworth J. Bonnington William Flower Benjamin Lusty Henry Garnett William Holdaway ' William Jordan Humphrey Gifford James Ladley George Gifford George Wratt Thomas Butler William Ricketts Thomas Saywell Sydney Higgins T. J. Thompson Thomas Wagstaff R.G.Crocker James Maule JohnSheat George Jordan J. Flower Jarvis Raughton William Wooley Esmy Thomason Francis Gapper Benjamin Thomason C. Schwass John Wagstaff George Castle George Eves H. C. Fanzelow Edward Harford F. Sextus Ferdinand Nieman Gottfried Sextus John Brewerton Harry Ruffell Thomas Newman \ Paul Spanger George Sharpe John Griffith James Harris John James John Andrews Joseph John Herrick James Hyde T. Tunnicliffe Herman Fayen Walter Mead James Jarry Thomas Tunnicliffe jun, Simon B. Silcock John Lines William Jessop Charles Gaukroger William Birkett Johnßolings William O'Dwyer Antonia Forshelew Patrick O'Dwyer Joseph Tennemore W. J. Herrick John Arnold Thomas Coleman, sen. Henry Midgley Edward Whibby William Wadsworth James Allcock Jacob Watson William Neal Joseph Hoult, jun. Thomas Lines Joseph Trass ' C. P. Kearns John Batt J. H. Taylor John Mears Robert Robinson John Curran, jun. Charles Saywell. J. H. Symes TO THE ABOVE-NAMED ELECTORS.— Gentlemen, —I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your very flattering communication, in which you request me to allow myself to be placed in nomination as a Candidate to represent this large and important district in the House of Representatives. The undeviating kindness I have experienced from the people of this province, and the unflinching manner in which they have supported me in any feeble efforts I have hitherto made to promote and protect our united interest, give them so strong a claim upon my gratitude, that I do not feel myself at liberty to urge any personal inconvenience or any pecuniaryor domestic sacrifice as a reason for not complying with your request. I must therefore at once say that, should 1 be elected, I will endeavor to serve you honestly, and only regret that I do not possess the ability, or even the amount of political information, which it is desirable that your Representative should be able to command. In a district so large as the Waimea I cannot reasonably expect, especially during the busy weeks of harvest, that any very large proportion of the electors will do me the honor to attend at any one part of the district that may be appointed as tne place of nomination ; I shall therefore take the present opportunity of briefly stating my views upon those questions which suggest themselves to my own mind, and shall be happy to meet you at more than one part of the district to answer any inquiries or offer any further explanation of my own opinions or intentions, should it be your wish that I should do so. The present disastrous war is a question which will, I hope, not long demand the attention of your future representatives: but as it is one upon which the inhabitants of this colony must necessarily feel deeply interested, you will naturally expect^ that I should make you fully acquainted with my views upon that question. War, and more especially a civil war, will, in my opinion, always be regarded by every honest, enlightened, and humane statesman as an evil only to be resorted to as a last extremity, and one which it is his duty, if possible, to avoid by every exertion of energy, forethought, prudence, and even conciliation; but when war becomes inevitable, sound policy, economy, and humanity alike demand that it should be prosecuted with that vigor and determination of purpose which is alone calculated to bring it to a speedy termination. In both of these respects the present Government appear to me have signally failed in their duty. By neglecting to thoroughly educate and civilise at least a portion of the aborigines they have neglected to avail themselves of a benevolent and comparative inexpensive opportunity, of convincing an intelligent, brave, and sensitive ra.ee that the cultivation of the most friendly and peaceful relations with their British neighbors, the adoption of our institutions,and the recognition of our Government, were consistent alike with their interest and their honor By rashly removing Sir G. Grey's restrictions upon the importation of arms they have placed an abundant supply of effective weapons in the hands of an active, numerous, and warlike race: and then—without having taken any precaution, or made any preparation; without having placed any. arms in the hands of the European population of" these islands; without having ascertained that the British Government or.even the British Colonies were willing or able to assist them; without having assured themselves of the sanction of that Government which must find both the men and the money that will be necessary to bring this war to a successful conclusion—they allow a dispute about the purchase of a paltry 600 acres of land to be a sufficient reason for suddenly interrupting the peaceful relations of the two races, and plunging this previously prosperous colony into all the ruin, misery, and horror of a protracted intestine war. The temerity with which this war was commenced has unfortunately been quite equalled bytheindecisioi\and imbecility with which it has hitherto been conducted. lam not sufficiently acquainted with the secrets of either department to say what portion of our disasters we may attribute to Government, and what portion may fairly be ascribed to a want of Generalship; " bad workmen always blame their tools," and I see one of your late representatives is laboring hard to make the electors of this province believe that all our early disasters were owing to Colonel Gold's misconduct, and I am quite inclined to believe that the Colonel proved himself to be "neither a Wellington nor a Washington; but I should have thought much more highly of Dr. Monro's sincerity and patriotism if he had said a great deal more about Colonel Gold's misconduct in the House of Representatives and a great deal less at his various electioneering meetings; if he had shown him up in his true light wher. he was in the plenitude of his power, and said nothing about him after he had become perfectly harmless, but a more distant and more safe object of attack. Should the war not be brought to a close, or its conduct greatly altered, when your representatives meet, it will be their first duty to enquire who or what has prevented our soldiers from acting as British soldiers always do when properly directed. A well-founded, firm, and disinterested expression of opinion from the people's representatives could not be resisted ; and the obstacle to our success, whatever it may be, must be removed at any price, since a war conducted as tliis has hitherto been will not " convince the natives of our power," but of our weakness and folly, and lead us to nothing but ruin and disaster, misery and humiliation.