TRANSPORTATION.
We have ever deprecated the scheme of swamping our colonial settlements with convicts. It is one of the evils which are obvious at first, and likely to increase afterwards. It takes years to eradicate the taint of an unmixed convict population. The obstacles which either a majority or a disorderly minority of resident convicts offers to the dominion of law, and the conservation of order, are formidable, even where they are not fatal. The condition of New South Wales within the records of the last fifteen years, and of Van Piemen's Land till
within the last three years, is such as to discourage every statesman, who caree either for the reformation of offenders, or the welfare of colonies, from Inundating any country capable of supporting a civilised community with a perpetual torrent of wickedness and crime It is perfectly ea y to see what must be the state of society wherein to every honest and virtuous there is one worthless and depraved man, and where the worthless have been disciplined into greater crime and greater audacity by the or« ganization of gangs, and the consciousness of numbers. — Times, Febr. 20.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume V, Issue 214, 17 July 1849, Page 3
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