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dered the rich, as the old people amongst you and‘hose who have heard of the events of former times very well know. It was by the white men from Europe that that tyranny was brought to an end. You yourselves know that the white men do not pervert justice to suit their own ends, that they do not care to what caste or class an injured person betongs, but administer justice to all according to just and equal laws, and that they keep the peace of the eountry with a powerful hand. Henee, the people every where wish that their eomplaints may be inquired into, not by persons of their own caste and their own religion, but by“the gentlemen” themselves. This is the chief wish of all persons who have been wronged.
¢¢ Call not those your relations who were born with you;”
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¢“ The disease that was born with you will destroy you.” ¢ The medicine that was not born with you,”
“ But which comes from the far-off hills, will cure that disease:”
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“And there are those who resemble that medicine.”(Mad durei.) There are now some native officials who administer Justice impartially and without receiving bribes, and it is our hope that the mumber of sacl persons will inerease. But how did those persons acquire this new idea of doinz impartial Justice 7 Simply from the circumstance that they were educated by Christian gentlemen, were placed in emplovment under Christian gentlemen, and were intimate with them, and that they had acquired and have kept up some acquaintance with Christian books. In those parts of the country where Christian gentlemen are unknown, the native officials still call day-light darkness as of old, and receive bribes with both hands. Whilst the white men administer justice impartially and
arc a terror to criminals, they are not forgetful of mercy.