Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3345, 11 September 1879, Page 2

Correspondence.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

■;. Sib,—l was so well pleased with Sir <<jr^brge Grey's speech, as reported in' the Auckland Weekly .News, that I should every working man to hare an opportunity of reading it, aud in order to give them nil a chance to see it, I propose for you to publish it in a pamphlet form, and charge twopence for it. I would be one of ten to be responsible for the expenses of publishing it. I know it would be road with the greatest of interest throughout the colony now and for generations to come; it'isja speech delivered from the heart, andjgoes to the heart; it is full of firei.and' Energy that burns again, and makes you hot all over. I often thank God fo> raising up such a great statesman to be our leader at this critical time; although Sir.Gobrge had a very lnodeg^ tU'W of himself when he snidin his speech that there was" hundreds and thousands qualified to take the Leadership as well as himself. In this he was wrong, as many gmil men tn;il<e the same mistake, they do not appear to be conscious of their own power and greatness. It is my opinion tlutt there h nob another man in the world so well qualified to take the lead in New Zealand as himself.

A j»reat many people hare seen those evils that are now brought forward ao prominently—but what could we do? Without this mighty leader wo were as helpless as children, hut with him at our head we have all power; without such a leader we are like small atoms or drops of water, but when those small insignificant atoms ore combined together, they nialco large mountains, and when those drops of water are united, they form the mighty ocean. The great fault of many of- the Opposition is too great a love of self. They appear to think that this world was made for their own private use, and that wo are only here ou sufferage. They need their hearts enlarging, an that they could love some one else besides self. A great many public men have the foolish notion that they are not known, and that we do not know what is passing in their inner man. They are like the ostrich, who puts its' head out of sight, and then fancies it cannot be seen. Their real selres are as open and plain to read as a book. I think it is admitted ou all hands that this is a particular crisis for New Zealand, and will be written and talked about as such for generations to come. Therefore, we neither want fools nor villians, b^fc good men and true, to represent us in Parliament at the coming session, and, as Shakespeare has it, true men are true to themselves, and then ; it follows, as sure as day follows night, I thou cannot be false to any one; but, if! they are false to themselves, they will be false to their family, and to society, and sure to bo false to their constitution. Anyone that studies English history matt