for my purpose, be it to describe the unfortunate situation of the Colony under your government during that period of excitement. Nor must I be understood on the present occasion to be impugning blame to this or that individual concerned in it. Suffice it to say, that the mass of personal charges and quarrels which then prevailed, the violent tone, distortion, exaggeration, and the exuberant repetition with which these charges were amplified and targeted, were not merely in the local press, but, as it seems, by parties who should have been ashamed of so abusing it, but also in the Council chamber
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