, 1868-02-25

So His Majesty's Government, thinking it
correct IN principle, has thought proper to have
transplanted to st. Croix, by royal appointment,
a cand1datWs, sagaciOus in the PHILOSOPHY which
discusses the sources and methods of the material
wealth and prosperity of nations - with the
view of assisting Governor Birch in his expert
ments upon your trade and navigation But
hadn't they ''better leave we'll enough alone p
l am very much MISUNDERSTANDING the
new adept in the aforesaid philosophy may bring
with him a fund of knowledge of trade, equal to
the necessities,-that that source of your "to-
death-governed" islands wealth is nearly undone
by the restrictive, and fatal measures already
put upon 1T; and that new experiments will only
operate upon it, like the philosophers expert
ment upon a convulsed animal in an exhausted
receiver it must die in agony if he does not
pause, give it free, and sound circulation, and
suffer the energies to be revived and restored.
Your trade must die, if the living principles of
free-trade be not introduced; if goods of all
kinds, from ships Of all nations, be not permitted
to enter your port, and rOadstead, at equal rate
of duty if the WneTampled export-duty be not
abolished or, at all events, very consider ably
reduced.
But turn we to another of your correspondents.
| very sincerely admire, and applaud the man
ner in which "H." has handled the Communi-
Gator of the article in a previous number of the
Avis, headed Communicated" How the Com
municat0r must have writhed under the lash of
how crushed he must have felt, under
the avalanche that he had brought down upon
himself. The reply of"H." is keen and forcible,
and full of strong propriety, and cogent argu-
mentation. The Communication fully deserves
the caStigatiOn that he has received, for his
OAicious Official Z? interposition as u defender of
a "principle,' which has inflicted an irreparable
wrong upon the natives. Sir, that system which
the Communication advocates, as being Fright in
principle, that of filling every situation that
can be filled, by Danes,-aye, even to the place
of tides-man, lis a measure that more than any
other, probably, has served to ALLEVIATE the ahec-
lions of the natives from, and DESTROYED their
confidence in, the So called mOther-cOuntry.
Permit me to quote again from Mr.. Arnesen's
open letter to Minister Fenger: "If they "(Gov-
ernment)' were forced to have some regard to
the opinion of the people governed (the tax
payers) Government would not so easily COM
NIT plumbers on that point" (e. 9. 'that certain
situations, f. i. in the Custom Department here,
are of such a nature, that it could not be. con-
sidered right in principle to appoint any one in
them who was born and brought up in the same
place where the situation is')," and under the
same hypothesis, the officials would certainly
respect themselves, and be respected by the in
habitants of the Island, more than is now very
often the case" l said that this pernicious
system has alienSSed the affection, and the con-
fdence of the natives from the s~o-called mother
country and | contend that the Danes, trans
planted from their own country, have aided to-
wards that alienation have assisted in destroy
ing that confidence for they have never sought
to assimilate or incorporate themselves with the
natives; they have always considered themselves
a distinct, and separate body from the people
who have received them; they have always cor
daily loved themselves, aud as cordially hated
those who are not Danes; they have taken pos
session of the colonies, which they regard as
being created for themselves; they feel them
selves entirely emancipated they have come to
look upon the native public as their servants;
they are in a happy state Of oblivion how dearly
the taxpayers must pay for the honor of being
their servants and all, ~forsooth, because they
know, that they are preferred, and will be given
royal appointments. And now, instead of Gov
eminent trying to atone for its former errors,
instead of conciliating, and uniting, the antago-
niStic shirts that arc ayiStin0 Communicative