033 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(033.jpg) Recto Cap 4 1 immediately effected, but no the original cause of dispute was a pig and actions upon actions and prosecutions upon prosecutions arose out of this fertile ground - think of that ye legislators who are continually forming enactments for this young and thriving colony, The march of improvement [opsyhech] [past] [outruns] the leading [strings] made for it in every session think of that and pray let us have a pig act once a year at least Both in Town and Country another and certainly more feasible ground of discussion exists in the distinction between the emancipist and free emigrant, amongst the latter it is considered highly disrespectable to have any intercourse with the former except in the way of business - The body of emancipists now in the colony form a most prominent class - Many of them are men of considerable capital and property and can produce a preponderating influence directly in all mercantile transactions and indirectly in all public measures which affect the community - Yet the recollection of their former [Clemerits] leaves a strong line of demarcation betwixt them and their neighbours, an emancipist is tolerated as a man of business, and in every place except the [drawing] room he is in a great degree on a footing of equality with others, but should he presume to place himself in contact with the emigrant in his hours of festivity or amusement, he has the mortification to find that his company is considered as a contamination - Why should the brand of infamy be eternally fixed on those who have [sinned]; there are many amongst the emancipists who are men of education and talent and also possessed of considerable property, why should not a door be left open for them to be reinducted into the grade they have lost Datenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665511393/

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SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustralia

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