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Mr Ross would afford the Reverend Commissioner every facility, if the people wished to listen to him. But there were many reasons why he should not strikeout break in upon the strikeout appointed course of business. -- Mr Schermerhorn then appealed to the managers of the strikeout: 3 words election to protect him in his right to address the people. Major Currey remarked to the people that Mr Schermerhorn was his Superior Officer; that he claimed to speak as a privilege to which he was entitled; that being strikeout his superior, strikeout the strikeout subordinate must obey him; and therefore Major Currey hoped Mr Schermerhorn would be heard. -- "Aye" cried one, "he may speak, but we needn't listen." "We are the weaker" shouted numbers of voices, "and must do as we are bid." -- Mr Schermerhorn began his speech of three hours and twenty minutes, counted anxiously by the watch. In substance, he cautioned the people not to listen to the bad birds bringing bad reports to excite prejudice against him in their minds. He gave a sort of history of himself & of his becoming acquainted with "his personal & political