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[Page 254]

present day when strenuous efforts have been made and are making to abolish slavery in toto.

So, as it was with the negro slaves, so it is with respect to our treatment of convicts and the Aborigines of the South Australian provinces. An outcry is made which is not founded in truth. Who can read William Molesworth's bold assertion in the House of Commons, that numbers of convicts in this colony are huddled together in a narrow cell, without being able to stand up or lie down. Most of what is so said is mere fiction - fictions invented from some selfish motives

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