, 1876-05-27
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MR.. SURGEONS LECTURE.

until last night, owing to the weather.
The Lecturer called this an agreeable dis
appointment, and congratulated the com
munity to the fine weather that has set in.
The lecture was rather numerous
ly attended, aud the lecturer thanked
for the kindness and patronage he had
met with, in spite of the bad impression
of himself and what he had to say, which
he knew had preceded him. He
peremptorily denied the truth of the
assertion that has been made in the News.
papers, and, he believed, had also reached
this island, that he had been employed
as an emissary or agent by anyone whom
soever to further any interest whatsoever.
He never had been and never would be-.
What he had done, and what he was doing
now, be had done on his own accord and
because be was for fair play to all parties.
He expressed his admiration of the calm
and dispassionate way in which things were
taken in this island, which he contrasted
with the way ia which matters went on
in Barbados. If the Barbadians had been
possessed Of a little of that mo i~eratiOn and
impartiality which he had already observ-
ed here, that fine Colony would never
have been thrown into the confused state
it is now in. The Lecturer strongly vim
dictated the Governor, Sir Graham Briggs,
and the other adherents of the policy Of
confederation, which is, as is well known,
the policy of the British Colonial Cover
ment. The cause of the lamentable ex-
Cesses to which the masses had resorted in
some places of that island can be clearly
traced to the reckless conduct of the "patri-
clans" of the place, to those who ought to
know the danger OF stirring up against the
Governor and the Government the more or
less ignorant masses. They had gone about
the country holding Monster Meetings,
telling the people that federation
meant slavery, and that the Governor
had come out to make them slaves.
They dressed up "landloupers and
Cypri8ns" in uniforms and ribbons and had
them driven about in carriages in
Bridgetown to mimic and deride the Gov
ernOr, the chosen representative of the
Queen, and Mrs. H9nnessy. But when
the masses saw that the parties who were
in favour of the Government were shot
down and beaten, and that those who act
ed in that dastardly way were let go when
brought to trial, and when they heard
that iabourers were discharged for signing
petitions to the House of Assembly in
favour of the Government, heard that the
Governor was cursed and abused publicly
in the streets, and when the Police arrested
the offenders the Magistrate dismissed the
case, they began to turn against those who
would have used them as their tools. It
was then no use as far as they, the common
people, were concerned that the different
papers of the island ever so unanimously
continued to publish the most outrageous
and foul ISLANDERS about anyone who would
not join them in condemning the sagacjous
and wise acts of the Imperial Government
and the Governor. The suspicion of the
people was reused, and, as could have
been f%oreseen, they next turned against
their employers, and then the cry was
universal and loud that the Governor
should use the ~severest measures, in order,
the Anti Confederates thought, of throwing
all the blame upon him for shooting down
the labourers, many of whom by this
time had turned loose and committed
excuses which would seem to call for such
action. The Governor, however, did no.
thing rashly, and his sagacity has saved the
Colony from q rebellion. The Lecturer
here explained how he had to flee from
the island to save his life from the hands