1,553 |
Swine | 18,563 | 6,804 |
Vessels | 15 | 8 |
Capital in trade | L150,000 | L100,000 |
|================|=============|
Total estimated Property | L1,123,600 | L526,136 |
| 526,136 |=============|
+----------------+ |
Excess in favor of Emancipists: | L597,464 | |
rather more than as 2 to 1] |================| |
| | |
--------------------------------+----------------+-------------+

[Footnote 115: "Now, in matters of opinion, man is like a pig: if you
force him on he retrogrades. If you are really serious in attaining a
point, make him believe the reverse is your object in view. Governor
Macquarie, finding a number of demurrers to his opinion, instead of
coaxing them into his views, looked upon them as his personal enemies,
and often treated them as such."--_Cunningham_, vol. ii. p. 112.]

[Footnote 116: _Bigge's Report._]

[Footnote 117: Ibid.]

[Footnote 118: Mr. Hall, a free immigrant editor, addressed a meeting of
emancipists (1822), and regretted he was not one of their number!--his
sincere regret that he was not an emancipist! This, it must be
recollected, was after dinner.]

[Footnote 119: _Wentworth_, 2nd edit.]

[Footnote 120: _Bigge's Report._]

[Footnote 121: When addressing the Secretary of State, Macquarie
observes--"In my opinion (speaking of the voluntary settlers), they
should consider they are coming to a convict country, and if they are
too proud or too delicate in their feelings to associate with the
population of this country, they should consider in time, and bend their
course to some other country, in which prejudices in this respect would
meet with no opposition. No country in the world has been so
advantageous to adventurers as New South Wales: the free settlers,
coming out as such, have never felt their dignity hurt by trading with
convicts, even when they were such." Again--"It has been my invariable
opinion, that a freeman, by pardon or emancipation, should be in all
respects considered on a footing with every other man in the colony,
according to his rank in life and character; in short, that no
retrospect should, in any case, be had to his ever h