VOLUNTEERS.
' (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) '■ Sir, —The manifesto or circular of James Stormont Small, Captain Commanding Hauraki Engineers, is well calculated to strike 'aghast, or afford amusement to, such readers of your con* temporary as have taken the trouble to peruse it. Historians do not speak favorably of the times when the Pretorian Guards of Ancient Home or Ironsides of Cromwell were in the ascendant; pnd it is to be hoped that no candidate for Parliamentary honors will we found to demean himself so far. as to submit to such dictation. The parallel attempted to be drawn between the block rote of Volunteers and Good Templars fails utterly. One party receives public money, the other does not, and it will afford a test of whichever party may be returned to power, when it it seen whether the proceedings of Capt. Smalt and his confreres are> condoned or marked by the cancelling of the commission perverted tb purposes having an intimidating tendency.—l am, &c, : ; - ; .'•'■'■ .'.■■"' '•-"■'■ ;•:'■■ Qubbous. ; August 27th, 1879- J ■ j
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3332, 27 August 1879, Page 2
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173VOLUNTEERS. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3332, 27 August 1879, Page 2
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