Froude or
any other equally [73] unworthy counsellor supervene? That the
leading minds of Trinidad should believe in an elective legislature
is a logical consequence of the teachings of the past, when the
Colony was under the manipulation of the sort of Governors above
mentioned as immediately succeeding Sir Arthur Gordon.
This brings us to the motives, the sordid motives, which Mr. Froude,
oblivious of the responsibility of his high literary status, has
permitted himself gratuitously, and we may add scandalously, to
impute to the heads of the Reform movement in Trinidad. It was
perfectly competent that our author should decline, as he did
decline, to have anything to do, even as a spectator, at a meeting
with the object of which he had no sympathy. But our opinion is
equally decided that Mr. Froude has transgressed the bounds of decent
political antagonism, nay, even of common sense, when he presumes to
state that it was not for any other object than the large salaries of
the Crown appointments, which they covet for themselves, that the
Reform leaders are contending. This is not criticism: it is slander.
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