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INTERESTS OF THE SETTLERS AND 
the system at present in force, when taking posses- 
sion of and occupying a country where there are 
indigenous races. By shewing the complete failure 
of all efforts hitherto made, to prevent the oppres- 
sion and eventual extinction of these unfortunate 
people, I would demonstrate the necessity of re- 
modelling the arrangements made on their behalf, 
and of adopting a more equitable and liberal system 
than any we have yet attempted. 
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 pre- 
sent beset our relations with t^ie Aborigines ; but 
to be effectual, these measures, at the same time that 
they afford, in some degree, compensation and sup- 
port 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 au- 
thorizing him to locate in the more remote districts 
of the country. 
From a long experience, and an attentive obser- 
vation 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 suffer- 
