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Excerpt from History of Australia, Vol. 2 of 3 He was patient, politic, and well disposed. If he wanted the ardour of conviction which would make him cast away the scabbard in a right but losing cause, he could conceal his chagrin on occasion, and calmly work, and induce others to work, for a distant object of which they did not, like him, foresee the result. He was received (8rd Dec. 1881) with enthusiasm. The rising sun was worship (1 in all approved, and in some uncustomary, ways. A public meeting Of the inhabitants adopted an address contrasting strangely with the one presented by Forbes to the retiring Darling. The past six years had been a season of public endurance from an inveterate system of government a reign of terror and discord. They warned Bourke pointedly against (mr. Macleay) the chief executive officer of the late Govern ment. For the language of the framers of an address no lar e meeting can be held responsible. Many men agree to, or 0 not protest against, that which if calmly appealed to they would condemn. But the framers of such an address. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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