A PROPHETIC SPEECH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2233, 30 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A PROPHETIC SPEECH.

We are indebted to a wntti in the Argus foj the following — being tlu j fit st speech of the fiist Governor of Australia uttered 100 jears ai.'o, when that couutry was a desolate wilderness : -Forth steps Captain Arthur Phillip, delicate of form, pale of face, sweet and kindly of expression ; he add leases to the freemen of the colony a speech which well deserves, both tor system and feeling and matter, to be regarded as the pioneer effort iv Australian literature. How singularly prophetic ha\e been the woids of this fonndtr of the 'c ist hopeful of colonies ! How elevated the style of thi-. seaman — a warrior fro'n his youth up wauls, who had fought through three long struggles. "We are here," he said — "To take possession of this tifth division of the globe on behalf of the B:itish people, and to found a state which we h )pe w.Il hereafter not only occupy and rule this gi*_at country, but will also lie the beneficent patroness of the entire southern h"ini.Nphere. F<.r jj-aud i> the project \\ hv U Iks before tlio ynuthf.il n irioti ! Ei.ou.rh of honor for any st ite no ill it lie to occupy the fiti -t po ition iv n eountiy so \ i^t, >o beautiful, y » !ertil(>, so M^^ul iii < Inn ie, so ik li in .ill tliM-ti bounties tii it Nat me can "-onfer. E'MUL'h of sni'iit for ,>ny n it. un would it be to have been tho fii-t, as this colony v\ ill be to throw open so extensive and sj highly fa>o\md a co\uitvy to the occupation of mmkiad ; to explore its region*, to discover its live!*, to subdue ltd fore-its, to render acce»si'>lo ifs mountain*, and make pathwijs through the deports; enough ot lvw.ird would it be to Imvo tho privilege of ei.j iyin_c those blewngs and tiea^uies which mn>t spring fro n the po3sosiJdii and o c ipation of sii'-h a country ; its fei'ilo plain-, tempting; only the slijihte^t labour of tho liusbandman, to produce in -ibundaoee thjtaiicst andrichesfc fruits, its inteiurnable pastilles, the future home of iioc : »bandb and herds innumerable ; its ip.irßM'al wealth so great as to promise that ie may \et ii\al those treasuies which {lotion loves to describe." He was a b >ld prop'iet, this first Governor of ours ! But it is impossible ha could have umleistood that all his imagination foresaw' was to be realised m les3 than a centmy from the time he was speaking? How strange the contrast when his audience, fi ed by his long and eloquent additss, tu>ncd from the vi&iona of lancy to tlie matter^ of reality. Some t-.iU dotted out a barren point; a band of sullen eonwets and their redcoated julhs. Fiom these were to sptnii,' tint lo:.g line of gloiies. Truly ho had t.nt 1 ! in lii> mis-ion, this man w hoiii the dniniiig e\eof William Pitt had choaeu to be fuuudei of Australasia.

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