Henry Handel Richardson

Name: Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II
Author: Henry Handel Richardson

Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

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“Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II”, published in 1917, is a work by Henry Handel Richardson. It explores elements such as diggers, flag and speaker.

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ Brother diggers! We are met here to-night with a single purpose in view. Brother diggers! We are not met here to throw mud at our dear old country's flag! Nor will we have a word said against her most gracious Majesty, the Queen. Not us! We're men first, whose business it is to stand up for a gallant little woman, and diggers with a grievance afterwards. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ What you need, gentlemen, is not revolution, but reform; not strife and bloodshed, but a liberty consistent with law and order. And this, gentlemen,----"
("You'll never get 'em like that, Dick," muttered Purdy.)
"Not so much gentlemening, if YOU please!" said a sinister-looking man, who might have been a Vandemonian in his day. "MEN'S what we are--that's good enough for us." ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ Now, I put it to him: is there another country on the face of the earth, that would allow people of all nations to flock into a gold-bearing colony on terms of perfect equality with its own subjects?--to flock in, take all they can get, and then make off with it?" a point of view that elicited forcible grunts of assent, which held their own against hoots and hisses. Unfortunately the speaker did not stop here, but went on: "Gentlemen! Do not, I implore you, allow yourselves to be led astray by a handful of ungrateful foreigners, who have received nothing but benefits from our Crown. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ Are we Britons to sit still and hear our country's flag reviled?--that flag which has ensured us the very liberty we are enjoying this evening. The gentleman who has been pleased to slander it is not, I believe, a British citizen. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ When that's been done, this curse taken off us, then it'll be time enough to parlez-vous about the colour of the flag we mean to have, and about going shares in the Government. But let me make one thing clear to you. We're neither traitors to the Crown, nor common rebels. We're true-blue Britons, who have been goaded to rebellion by one of the vilest pieces of tyranny that ever saw the light. Spies and informers are everywhere about us. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ They should read in their school-books, and there they would learn that wherever a people had risen against their tyrants, the Union Jack had waved, not over them, but over the British troops sent to stamp the rising out. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ The big canvas tent on Bakery Hill, where the meeting was to be held, was already lighted; and at the tinkle of a bell the diggers, who till then had stood cracking and hobnobbing outside, began to push for the entrance. The bulk of them belonged to the race that is quickest to resent injustice--were Irish. After them in number came the Germans, swaggering and voluble; and the inflammable French, English, Scotch and Americans formed a smaller and cooler, but very dogged group. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ To such a state have we free-born men, men who came out but to see the elephant, been reduced, by the asinine stupidity of the Government, by the impudence and knavishness of its officials. Brother diggers! ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part I, Chapter II (1917)

“ The labour of THEIR hands had raised the colony to its present pitch of prosperity. And yet these same bold and hardy pioneers were held incapable of deciding jot or tittle in the public affairs of their adopted home. Still unmoved, the diggers listened to this recital of their virtues. But when one man, growing weary of the speaker's unctuous wordiness, discharged a fierce: "Why the hell don't yer git on to the bloody licence-tax?" ”

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