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earnestly desired that a veil ought be forever thrown over
the actual history of the collision between our
Christian nation and the heathen aboriginies. But
it is impossible. The late Revd L.E. Threlkeld did not
shrink from telling the men whose flocks and herds
were perishing from drought 20 years ago that their
blood of murdered blackfellows cried to heaven against
the colonists. And to this day it would appear by
reports which reach us from the north that by some
of our Colonial pioneers "powder and shot" are
regarded as the only convincing arguments by which
the aboriginies can be taught to respect the lives and
property of the civilized. It is tedious and painful
to be reminded of these things; but it is necessary in order to
show what the subject of the lecture is, - the characteristics
of a mere remnant of a race once very
numerous, but wasting rapidly before the advancing
tide of Colonization, [written?] in some case by
the cruel violence, in many more by the vices and
diseases of British Colonists