I Believe That By Far The Greater Majority Of The Settlers In All The Australian Colonies Would Hail With Real

Pleasure, the adoption of any measures calculated to remove the difficulties, which at present beset our relations with the Aborigines;

But to be effectual, these measures, at the same time that they afford, in some degree, compensation and support to the dispossessed and starving native - must equally hold out to the settler and the stockholder that security and protection, which he does not now possess, but which he is fairly entitled to expect, under the implied guarantee given to him by the Government, when selling to him his land, or authorizing him to locate in the more remote districts of the country.

From a long experience, and an attentive observation of what has been going on around me, I am perfectly satisfied, that unless some great change be made in our system, things will go on exactly as they have done, and in a few years more not a native will be left to tell the tale of the wrongs and sufferings of his unhappy race. I am equally convinced that all one-sided legislation - all measures having reference solely to the natives must fail. The complete want of success attending the protecting system, and all other past measures, clearly shew, that unless the interests of the two classes can be so interwoven and combined, that both may prosper together; no real good can be hoped for from our best efforts to ameliorate the condition of the savage.

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