The New zealand Herald. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1565.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 494, 13 June 1865, Page 4

The New zealand Herald.

AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1565.

BPECTEMUR AGENDO. " Give every mau Uihia ear, but fow thy voice: 'IV.ko oucli man's eonsuro, but roaorvo tl>y JU'lffment, Tbi* übovo all,—To thlue ovnosolf bo true; And it rr.uit follow, iw tlio nljjht the day, Thou catint not tbcm bo false to any man."

Titb tract of the Aborigines Protection Society which we published the other day contains a considerable amount of mawkish, childish, insipidity, and is also calculated to do a great deal of mischief. It is evidently written by some one who imagines himself brimful of all the Christian graces. It is attempted to bo written down to the level of tho understanding of thoso for whom it is intended, and assumes that they are weak and unoffending lambs surrounded by wolves who are ever watching an opportunity to rob them and despoil them of their property. There is also an assumption of tlio vastly higher degree of christian culture and christian practice among the Maoris than among the colonists, who are plainly called the " bad whites." There is then everything to foster tlio pride and vanity of these native model christians—these murderers of priests and people —and to encourage the notion of their superiority to the pakeha. The mildness of the advice given to them as respects some of their greatest and most heinous crimes, or the manner in which some of them, murderfor instance, are passed by without comment, seems strange indeed when coming from such extraordinary super-excellent men, as those whose names are appended to tho document to which we are referring. They do not take up their story, and denounce i:: '• ithcring terms, after the manner of tho Prophets and Apostles of old, and oven of the Divine Founder of Christianity himself, tho horrible murders that have been committed by the Maoris in the land, or their debauchery and the filthiness of their lives, from children to almost hoary age ? not so. But they must have known that these things exist among the natives. "Why not "probe the festering sores that are corrupting and ruining both the souls and bodies of those to whom they vender their advice, instead of ignoring their existence, and speaking to them as if they were not only guiltless individuals, but even examplers of every Christian virtue, and were persecuted and ill-treated by tho "bad whites" who have colonized these islands. Now is this tho way to address people who have yet to learn what real Christianity and real civilisation is. People who