PEACE AT FAIR PRICE.

Auckland Examiner, Volume IV, Issue 272, 13 June 1860, Page 3

PEACE AT FAIR PRICE.

(To Editor of Auckland Examiner ) „ R __ln your last issue is a letter from Mr. Firth himself right with you. He tells you the *Wectofhis speech at the public meeting, May 19, ” , “ to set the people of England right with rews\ to the position occupied by the colonists of this bland in this matter; with this view I said that if n Less had done its duty there would have been } ess occasion for the public meeting and the Petition 10 opinion that the Freedom of Religion So(of which Mr. Firth was the secretary,) • lit ere now have wrought amoral revolution, m d thereby have prevented the present physical tbellion with all its adjuncts and desolating reIt, For what consideration that society forsook ?“ pjinc'ple, perhaps Mr. Firth will tel!; I cannot. I think that it is within the pale of possibility that Teira.in selling the Witara block, may have included some portion of Kmgi s land ; but, if he d'dnot I submit that conference and mediation are the best policy to secure our national honor and to ' Dibit our common humanity, leaving all higher considerations apart. Physical force cannot work mental conviction, but may superinduce all the evils of civil war and destroy those men who, under better treatment, might have become our strongest defence against foreign G. Vaile. 11th June, 1860.