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course pursued by the missionaries is in all respects calculated to 

 produce the most happy effects. I am, however, well satisfied that 

 they are actuated by a sincere desire to promote the welfare and 

 improvement of the community in which they live ; I therefore feel 

 it my duty to bear ample testimony to their daily and hourly exer- 

 tions to advance the moral and religious interests of the native 

 population, not only by precept, but by example; and to their 

 untiring efforts, zeal, and devotion, to the sacred cause in which they 

 are engaged. 



I shall hereafter have occasion to speak of the institutions of which 

 they are the authors, and of their connexion with the government ; in 

 short, of their secular avocations. I have myself had intercourse 

 both with the missionaries and those who are their opponents ; and it 

 gave me pleasure to perceive that, with but three or four exceptions, 

 there was a degree of moderation exhibited by both parties, that 

 bespoke the dawn of a good feeling towards each other, to which 

 they had long been strangers. 



In consequence of this new state of things, I was not called upon 

 to listen to the vituperation and abuse of the missionaries that I had 

 been prepared to hear. A warfare was, however, kept up between 

 the individuals belonging to the rival nations of England and the 

 United States, which afforded ample room for the tongue of scandal 

 to indulge itself. The missionaries wisely abstained from all con- 

 nexion with either party ; and the governor, with much energy and 

 decorum, sustained with impartiality the supremacy of the laws. 



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