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Thos Irvin's
Charlottetown May 2nd 1842.
Hon. Sir,
I again take the liberty of troubling you respecting the provisions your legislature has made respecting the improvement of the Indians. I sent you the Island papers containing a report of the debate on my petition in favour of the Indians. and also a letter which I fear have miscaried. On refering to the papers you will see the silly grounds on which the claims of the poor aborigines have been dealt with by our humane legislature, the fact is, Our Assembly is little better than the servile tools of a very bigoted, despoetic, clique that would sacrafise every claim of humanity for the purpose of upholding their arrogant pretentions to aristocrative superiority! What hope then that such persons will trouble themselves about the fate of the aborigines whose present state is a libel on their actions; I have compiled an elementary work something similar to or rather on the same principle as Murray's Spelling Book which if printed and the Indians taught to read it would be, I am convinced, of incalculable Advantage to them.