The natives were prepared to receive our laws and institu-
tions, and to yield obedience to the Queen's representative ;
his word was law : — ^but when they perceived that it was not
the advancement of their race which was aimed at, but that of
the European alone ; that they as a people were ignored, that
no power was conceded, no place given to the chiefs in our
councils, no voice in framing those laws which they were
still expected to obey ; but only one grand object was kept
in view, the increase of one race at the expense of the other,
then a revulsion of feeling gradually took place. The flag
which they first assisted in floating over their land now
became an object of fear and dislike ; nor were their suspicions
lessened by designing foreigners and others ; they were told
the flag was an emblem of their subjection, and unfortunately
their fears afterwards were abundantly confirmed by Earl
Grey's celebrated despatch to Governor Grey, ordering him



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to seize the waste lands of the natives, contrary to the
express provision of the treaty, which guaranteed all their
territorial rights to them. This piece of injustice the
Church in New Zealand happily defeated, and compelled
the originator to deny his own intentions; even the
Missionary himself, by being loyal to his own country,
gradually lost influence with the native race ; in fact this was
in no little degree caused by the Government itself, which
when it fancied it had obtained all it could from Missionary
aid, then began to ignore him as well as the native, then the
latter likewise transfeiTcd his trust to those who openly
disowned the rule of Britain.
