| Description | He sends this letter by T. S. Buckle, Surveyor, whom he much esteems.
When Collier proposed dismissing the native teachers from the Colonial schools MacCarthy took over paying their salaries, although he knew this to be irregular.
He cannot understand why an outward sign of conversion should be needed before a captured person [of black African heritage] can be baptized. He feels that good conduct and an expressed desire to become a Christian should be sufficient. Otherwise many will be driven away.
He will soon have room for missionaries at the soldiers' towns he is forming at York, Wellington, Hastings and Waterloo. |