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... COLONISTS At a general meeting of emancipated colonists held in Sydney on 23 January 1821 the following resolutions were agreed to : 1st . That , by the humane and benevolent policy 276 August 1821 An auction in London: August 1821 The ...
... COLONISTS At a general meeting of emancipated colonists held in Sydney on 23 January 1821 the following resolutions were agreed to : 1st . That , by the humane and benevolent policy 276 August 1821 An auction in London: August 1821 The ...
Page 277
... Colonists of the Territory have been encouraged and protected , have created and acquired , and are now possessed of the larger moiety of the property of the Colony , and are become the middle class of society therein . 2d . That , from ...
... Colonists of the Territory have been encouraged and protected , have created and acquired , and are now possessed of the larger moiety of the property of the Colony , and are become the middle class of society therein . 2d . That , from ...
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... Colonists might be awakened to a sense of their innate influence and power - to the importance of rising above that degree of political degradation and fatuity into which their own supineness , want of union , and instability of public ...
... Colonists might be awakened to a sense of their innate influence and power - to the importance of rising above that degree of political degradation and fatuity into which their own supineness , want of union , and instability of public ...
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