Fiji (Classic Reprint): Its Political Aspect, From 1870-1873: Its Political Aspect, from 1870-1873 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The many misrepresentations, which have been made from interested sources, of the real feeling entertained by the white residents in Fiji with respect to the institution and effective carrying out of a responsible constitutional government, has rendered it a matter of advisability, if not absolute necessity, that a full and impartial account of what has really taken place in the kingdom, since Cakobau was proclaimed its monarch, should be placed before, those who have any interest, material or other, in this group. While, therefore we propose to place before our readers a narrative, so succinct as possible, of the proceedings of Ministers, Parliament and People - we shall not confine ourselves to a description of the effect of so called responsible government upon the white population only, but endeavour to show how its influence and results have Worked upon the minds and habits of; the aboriginal race; and to point out why the problem of self-rule has proved so difficult of solution, and to whom the rise of any feeling of antagonism which may exist in the breast of the native as against the white race, is really owing. In doing this, we shall earnestly endeavour to give a plain unvarnished state ment of facts, which will, from fits truth and capability of proof be useful, as well in the future as in the present, alike to the politician as to the mere reader of the history of the passing age; and perhaps serve by the light afforded by its disclosures, to save our future legislators and rulers from committing grave errors; the result of inexperience, assump tion.or ignorance. Approaching our task in this spirit,' we shall naught extenuate or aught setdown in malice but, relating absolute occurrences, quoting from publ'shed Speeches, letters and articles, we shall do.most impartially leave those into whdse hands this brochure may fall to form their own Opinions as to whether our conclusions be correct, our deductions natural. In the outset we wish it to be distinctly understood that, altho' this pamphlet may be printed and published at the office of the Fiji Times; and. We shall find it necessary to quote largely from that Journal yet it is a work in no way connected with that publication;but undertaken at the request and expense of some of the most influential residents of the kingdom, whose interests being materially identified with its progress or retrogression, are of opinion that they cannot in justice to themselves, submit longer to that tacit admission which silence is popularly supposed to' give, of the truth of assertions made recklessly, and with unhallowed purpose by certain unscrupulous political adventurers who, possessing little or no stake in the country,'

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