SIR GEORGE GREY.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3033, 4 November 1878, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—l think yon will hare pleated many of the readers of your paper at well an myself in publishing Sir George Grey's speech in your Saturday night's issue. This speech gives one fresh heart and faith in right and truth. When corruption and falsehood appear to prosper and thrive so, and have such a long run, it has such a tendency to make people give up fighting for truth and right and join in the cry to give up the fight, corruption being too strong, and cannot be conquered; but in this speech it shows such a glorious triumph of right over wrong. According to that speech Sir J. Vogel admitted that a million and a-half of money was spent in obtaining support for the Public Works Policy, and also that native officers and their friends have made large fortunes. by the use of their | position and public money to get land from the natives. Those are strong j charges; but now that party is as weak as children in the presence of Sir George and Ministry. When anyone wants to say any* thing bitter and strong against Sir George, they quote the old stale charge against him, "That he goes in for the interest of the whole world." This is the old charge that they still continue to taunt him with; they think that this is enough to convict an/ man of nSental imbecility. I have often tried to analyse this sentence, and cannot find anything wrong in it. Here is a man doing his best to establish laws that are just and right, and if established, would be a benefit to the whole world; but I suppose those little-souled men cannot see it; they have iot yet got a standard high enough to measure such a- high-minded man as Sir George Grey with; men that have always lived in a large hogshead, and only get a Eeep out of the bung-hole, cannot compreend him; they do not know what to make of him. They can easily comprehend a man that goes in for riches or honour, but for a man to have sympathy for his fellow men every way, and has an undesirable pleasure in relieving human suffering, and in blessing man and making him happy, this is a world those grovelling men have never set one foot in, and they are puzzled to make him out. He has already broken into that party that have been trying for years to make the working men very poor and themselves very rich. If ever man was fit to be trusted and be an autocrat whose will would be law it is Sir George Grey. He has earned the gratitude of the working men, and they render him his due with the greatest of pleasure. I venture to prophesy that when Sir George is low laid in the grave that grave will be sought by the working men, and they will stand over it with tears in their eyes and head uncovered in profound respect and veneration of the great and good man who has fought for them so long and so well.—Yours &C" ■». .^ J.HOBK. Upper Albert street, Nov. 4th, 78.