"The Resolution it is true desired to record its opinion
"that by no portion of this Community is litigation with the Brown resorted to or likely to be so, save under circumstances in which such a course is unavoidable, but as to litigation between Brown &c. it was impossible for the Public Meeting to pronounce an opinion, and it was because the Public have no guarantee of the animus which may actuate the
282 officers of the Brown in this respect, and because if such animus happened to be of an oppressive nature the litigious use of the law is of a onesided and so injurious operation, especially to the poorer and native interests in this colony, that such a decided objection was expressed to the principle here attempted to be established.
As Your Excellency does not feel at liberty to recognize the proposed