, 1876-10-18

have been followed by this community
with almost feyerish anxiety. aud most
people have a tolerabIy good idea of the
Immense trouble and difficulty His Excel
lency must have encountered We have
from time to time learned Of the different
eXpedients and endeayours he has been
forced to have recourse to, and every one,
friendly or unftiendly to the scheme which
was at the bottom of all, has admitted
that no one but a man uniting strong
energy, perseverance and unquenchlng
interest for the cause and for the
community for whose benefit it was
intended, could nave overcome them,
overcome them too, in q way not the
least burthensome for the community,
demanding 10 sacrifice, but rather
satisfactory and encouraging. That the
Governor, q man who before he came here
as Governor was a comparative stranger,
should have thus far devoted himself
to the interests of our little island,
we have every reason to be grateful
for, especially knowing, as we all do,
that his career in Denmark, had he
remained there, would have been a
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honorable one. The measure of his in
terest for the Colony and lis population
might bave conveniently and conscientious.
Iy been circumscribed to the limits of his
official workings, like so many Of his pre-
decessors in office, and like some of our
other officials, who, like some persons out
of " oficialdom'' make spasmodic efforts
at great achievements for the public veal
only to sink back again into the torpid
state of redtapism or such like weighty
subjects. But His ExceIlency, and
those who have honestly helped him,
officials or others, deserve our thanks, and
have it in full measure from this commu-
nifty. Without the Governor, however,
nothing would have been accomplished.
He has even, we believe, had to work at
times against the countermines Of those
who, perhaps, were jealous of his success,
in order to secure brighter days for this
Colony, which he had CHANGED to see ia
it's by-gone better days. For his and the
whole c%ommunity's sake, we hope they
will soon return under his auspices.
Long before His Excellency's arrival,
an address had been got up rendering to
him an expression Of the feelings entertain
ed IN the community towards him. This
address bears the signatures of IT'S men
of all classes, and might have received that
number q score of times over, but that
those are sufficiently indicative of the
uniyeraality and genuineness OF the senti-
ments OF high appreciation on the
part of the community Of what the
Governor has done.-As far as we I'M
derstand, His ExceIlency will be pleased
to allow it TO be presented Don
after his arrival.
In the foregoing brief remarks we
have %studiously avoided having even
the semblance of a desire to incom-
mode His Excellency with compliments
which could only be nauseous to
him. We believe we know so much of
him as to be able to say that his dislike to
public demonstrations would make such a
desire on our part still more disagreeable to
him. We have stated what we, together
with the community whose sentiments
WE believe we have expressed, take to be
che truth, and that sincerely and simply.
Our simple desire, as the organ of the
people is to express the deep ard heart
felt gratitude they entertain for His Elk.
c%elIency for bis untiring zsal and unparal-
leled TAT least here energy in promoting
and securing, as far as lies in man, the fu-
ture we'll being and prosperity of this