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latter cross results the unhappy bastard race Paketa-Maorl, 

 wliicli, like the quadroons of Louisiana and the mulattoes of 

 Hay ti, or the mestizoes of the Indian races of South America, 

 desj^ising the pure blacks and looked down upon by the 

 whites, are the sworn foes of both. 



It seems to us too hazardous a speculation to go into 

 minute investigations as to the decay of the Maori race, and 

 the most suitable means of averting that disaster, at the very 

 moment when^their foreign conquerors, in order to strengthen 

 their power, are actually engaged in a war of annihilation 

 with the aborigines.* It is much more important, and will 

 better repay our time, to enumerate the advantages which 

 must accrue to European, especially German, immigrants 

 into a country where the natives have played out their 

 part. 



As already remarked, there are few countries beyond the 

 limits of Europe which are so favoured as regards climate, 



* Of the bitter feelings excited by the Maori revolt among the inhabitants of Aus- 

 tralia, an idea may be formed from the fact that Dr. Mackay, a well-known personage 

 in political circles at Melbourne, seriously proposed to the Government of Victoria to 

 send a volunteer expeditionary force to the seat of war, to assist in suppressing the 

 rebels. The expenses, which Dr. Mackay estimated at £15,000 to £20,000, were to 

 be repaid by sales of land in the conquered portion. Nay, this learned expounder 

 of the "law" went so far as to pronounce the subjugation of these "savages" as 

 imperatively necessary. The men were to be shipped off to Melbourne, to work as 

 " slaves" for seven years ; the females to be carried away and disposed of as wives for 

 the Chinese and well-conducted white convicts ! Dr. Cairns, Bishop of Melbourne, 

 and other ministers of the gospel, adds this humane philanthropist, to be at liberty 

 to use " all fair means " (!!!) for their conversion. — Compare Sydney Morning Herald, 

 Saturday, July 21st, 1860. 



