CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10] — Page 361

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I feel and know better how to remove any obstacles which may be presented in carrying it out, than those attending a scheme conceived by a different mind: -

I added that all that I could do, and in which I should by no means fail, would be to lay before the Governor, whose arrival was expected at every moment, Your Excellency's Despatch, and make him thoroughly acquainted with all the particulars bearing on the subject, as also with my views as to the solution of the question.

I beg here to reiterate that promise, and in closing this despatch.

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I request Your Excellency to believe in the sincere regret which I feel in not being able to act on this occasion in a manner which should have been more in consonance with the liberal and high-minded views of Your Excellency on the subject in question, and in doing which I should have felt the double satisfaction of having contributed towards the attainment of an end eminently just and of having responded to the repeated proofs which I have received from Your Excellency, of Your cordial desire of acting in concert with this Government, both morally,

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I feel and know better how to remove any obstacles which may be presented in carrying it out, than those attending a scheme conceived by a different mind: - I added that all that I could do, and in which I should by no means fail, would be to lay before the Governor, whose arrival was expected at every moment, Your Excellency's Despatch, and make him thoroughly acquainted with all the particulars bearing on the subject, as also with my views as to the solution of the question. I beg here to reiterate that promise, and in closing this despatch. Page 359 I request Your Excellency to believe in the sincere regret which I feel in not being able to act on this occasion in a manner which should have been more in consonance with the liberal and high-minded views of Your Excellency on the subject in question, and in doing which I should have felt the double satisfaction of having contributed towards the attainment of an end eminently just and of having responded to the repeated proofs which I have received from Your Excellency, of Your cordial desire of acting in concert with this Government, both morally,

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