, 1876-04-08

WI NNoo'PAO 1uS iE-dCE. In SlG6 work ora
would think none but the mad and reckless
would take part, but our dutv as a nnbIic ;onr.
nallst' compels Us to say, such is not the case.
Long before our late NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
fREELIHG LETT our shores, public meetings.
presided over by men closely identified with
the landed interests had been held tbrougbout
the length and breadth Of the Colony. at Which
speeches were made, calculated DANG .ronslv
to inHame the passions of a class, which it is
now asserted, are easily excited, and BETRAYED
into violence. Language, that can never DO
remembered without the blush Of degradation
Dtlhg ieIf' was employed without stint against
the man who as a soldier and a gentleman was
SIMPLY performing his duty to the Community.
and to the Sovereign whom he represented.
Every weapon that could be used, BY the most
inscriptions Of demagogues, was unbesitating.
y employed. The peace of the community
was recklessIy endangered, by a wicked endea.
your to lnstll into the minds Of our uneduoated
labourers, the idea that a closer Political and
Administrative Union of he Windward Islands.
would cause the restoration of slavery, o. a
large reduction Of wages.
w can safe, fearless Of contradiction, thas
Dut loF inc steps taken by clergymen of the
SeFefal denominations, grievous mischief must
have resulted from the nnwarrantabIe attemnt
to draw the masses into the arena of political
conflIct. Such was the dangerous condition Of
ms Colony, when our present saQacious and
truly abIe Governor arrived, The difficulties
that We're before him, were of no ordinary char.
actef, aud so admirably did he surmount them
and his career, that he was literally
nailed as a Saviour, by men Of all shades of
political opinion. How actively, generously,
and succeSSIu y, be advocated that cause which
u ueSafVediy dear TO eYerV true son OF
lnls ancient Colony, the preservation of
our cherished Consti ution, are matters IN.
separately interviewer in the history Of
Barbados. How the scene has been chang
ea; how treaederousIy he has been treated,
lnSuIted and illuminated, are to the sorrow OF
every wise and just man in the community, also
craven on oar history. We earnestly warn
lnose whom passion, aud personal bitter.
ness OF feeling, may have prompted to resort
to a course which has created the storm now
passing over the Island that day of reckoning
/. near at hand When reason and oalmness
resume their sway, and all hat is to be seen,
Is me FuInous eff cts Of the agencies which
nave been employed, then will the hour Of
Fr'rl0utI0n have arrived! If all this outrage.
dlsI9yaIty and INSCRIPTIONS misconduct results
III lha loss OF our political liberties, cOndign
punishment will a~ssuredly follow. We call
attention to the official language of EARL
GRANVILLE set forth in His Exoellenoy's reply
to the Legislative Council, and we ask-Is
what has recently occurred likely to induce
lis Lordsbip to become the advocate of
violence, scurriIity, and sedition or will it
Intensity the opinion be has already 80 distinct.
y expressed, that what the House Of Assem-
bly, of Jamaica was, the Assembly of Barbados
Is. What Will be said in the mother. country
Of G. community which, at a time when its
staple product is seriously depressed, when the
pressure resulting from an exceeding small
crop, will pauperise thousands, disregards the
cries Of the pOyerty-stricken labourers the
pride and glory Of o~urlIsle' to lavish thousands
on the support of delegates who are sent to
England to buy at any cost tho support of an
English Journal or two,-a few parliamentary
agents, and to terrify the authorities of Down.
ing Street. What money ESQ dearly needed
by 50 large a humble here) is lavishly sup
piled to effect in the mother country, could
have been without the slightest difficulty Ao-
complished by cain judgment and sober
action here.
-" As far as it is possible to gather from the
melange of falsehood, scurrility and reckless
accusation 1t is charged that the policy of
the Imperial Government is being unduly
pressed upon the country. To this we can
give the most positive and unqualified denial.
Beyond placing the Dispatches of the present
and the late Secretary of State, together
with his own views before the Legislature and
people, the Governor has taken no aotien In
the matter. So far from this being the case