RESIGNATION OF THE HON. MR. WHITAKER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 339, 13 December 1864, Page 4

RESIGNATION OF THE HON. MR. WHITAKER.

One of our oldest and ablest politicians whose public career commenced with the earliest days of Government in Niw Zealand, yrstuday resigned his seat as a number of the Legislative l ouncil in consequence of the combination in the legislature of this Colony -which has virtually excluded the voice of Auckland men from liny voice in its connHls, jmd lieennt-c oi" the Lurritd slipshod vay in which legislation has been carried on during the present- session, a session made available for but one object the spoliation of Auckland, and a genera] scramble hv the South for political loaves and fishes, Mr. Whitaker has felt that any longer to retain his scat was to retain the mere semblance of the exercise of power in the councils of the Assembly, was to mislead the people of this Province into believing that they were represented in the Councils of the Colony, when really fhey were excluded from all power by a majority of cither House whose plans of combination and action were laid down and arranged at private meetings out oi doors. °

Mr. Whitaker has taken a course which will meet with the unqualified approbation of the people of this Province. Jlc lias placed on record, and in the most resolute and dignified manner in which it could be done, a protest against the tyranny of the South. By one and all of the Auckland members of either House we trust the same course will be pursued. Auckland has been virtually disfranchised, and men who now retain their seats in doing so can oniy serve, not Auckland and the colony, but. themselves. We trust that no Aueklandmember " iU he found attending the Assembly at Wellington. We had hoped that, .so far as the House of Representatives is concerned, that .Logisltit n e body would not have been prorogued before the Auckland members had with one voice tendered their resignations to the Speaker. It is a duty whiehthey owe to the insulted and injured constituencies which the} lepresent. It is their last and strongest protest against Southern tyranny and spoliation, ft is such men as" those, who, like Air. W hitalcer, shall have laid down the fruits of their public career on the altar of their country, will, when this country is an independent colony, receive them back with double honour from the hands of a grateful people. Till (hen let Auckland, as she is now virtually remain literally disfranchised in the Generai Assembly of'Kew Zealand.