Correspondence.
**. '■ ."■" ' ' L, ■■» . ' ■'- ' - ■ ■■ ii -■■■- 11 - ■ TO THE EDITOB OB THE ' NELSON EXAMINEB.' Sir — I confess that, like the " Canterbury Man," I thought you were indulging in a little satire, when you suggested, tfee propriety of naming the chief town in the province Cromwell. Doubtless it was well for England that Cromwell lived and reigned at the time he did, but I think it was equally well for England when Cromwell ceased to live and reign, for if his life had been protracted a dozen years, she would have been more firmly gagged and tethered by him than ever she had been by his predecessor and victim, the weak and unstable Charles Stuart. If this city (in nubibus) is to be named after one of the illustrious republicans of the Commonwealth, surely the name of the dauntless and singleminded Blake, whose words on the eve of battle were, " Sailors, it is still our duty to fight for our country, into whatever hands the Government may fall,"— or that of the patriot Hampden, would be far more appropriate than the name of a regicide and usurper, 5 * W. C.
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XV, Issue 91, 11 February 1857, Page 2
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186Correspondence. Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XV, Issue 91, 11 February 1857, Page 2
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