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"outside element which hampers them in their plans. All this
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would no doubt be lessened by
"discussion at the Council table.
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In conclusion, I need hardly
that it is with no personal
"object that I have given
expression to these
opinions
I write entirely on public grounds.
"It is impossible for any one
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my position not to remark the
strength here of local, as
distinct from national, sentiment, and to feel how desirable it is
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agree, generally, with
the views thus forcibly expressed by
General Sargent, and, as I have
stated elsewhere, I
confirm
his
assertion that those views are held
strongly also by
the Judges of
the
Supreme Court, and by the general
society of this Colony, both Civil
and Military. There is an
important point raised by him, which has not previously, (so far
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as I am
aware), been brought under Your Lordship's notice. General Sargent