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purpose it is quite necessary that they should have wide political powers; (2) as to the mode of raising funds for the maintenance of the government of the colony— this must not come out of the proceeds of the sales of land, as he once proposed, but from some other source."
There was the rub! The one thing needful was lacking, and although Mr. Gouger, with his aspiring and hopeful nature, could write with an easy mind, "the funds must come from some other source," it was many a long day before that source was found.
