Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 23
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mother country of ought to bear all the expense insistent incident to the protection of the prisoner population. - But if the outrages perpetrated are not set for forth in true colours, and if the most important information is suppressed who are there at home to take up the Cudgel for those who suffer most so very severely.
It is true that when Colonel Arthur called upon the masses to come forward to make an attempt to capture the Natives, the call was obeyed with alacrity, and the Colony able to bear the Expense. - An upright Government, careful provident of the resources of the Colony, was able in a situation to defray a large expenditure incurred in the Expedition, but the Colony could not again bear a similar repetition. - The Colonists could only encounter it, provided the personal assistance of them was not required, but when the levies were kept in the bush for nearly two months, even the expenses were not so severely felt, although considerable, as the injury caused to the industry of the Colony which upon a fair calculation exceeds for the sum expended by the public in advancing the line.
If the Colony is worth preserving if it is a receiving place for prisoners com having committed offences at home, if it has proved a place of refuge to many respectable persons from Great Britain who the pressure