Excerpt from Papers Relative to the Establishment of a Representative Legislature: At the Cape of Good Hope
But in 1849 and 1850 events occurred which changed the whole aspect of affairs. On several occasions the Local Government had been informed by the Colonial Minister that labour would be supplied to the Colony by the transmission of convicted felons from Great Britain and Ireland, if the Colonist: wished it,' 'and on every occasion the Colonists had not only declined to accept the Offer, but unanimously protested against their country being made a. Receptacle for criminals in any form or modification that could be suggested. Juvenile delinquents had been proposed and rejected. The intention of Government to send to the Cape as a place of punishment certain political Offenders from Ireland, was also firmly opposed as afford.
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