We have seen how successive governors sought to bring the emancipists forward, and the heartburnings it occasioned.
On the whole it was not strange that there should be fierce warfare between the better classes and the emancipists as a body.
One of the sorest points of contention was the admission of these emancipists to serve on juries in criminal and other trials.
They were mostly emancipists or ticket-of-leave men, who occupied crown pastures without paying for them, or spent their energies in stealing horses and cattle.
The manner in which he favoured and encouraged the emancipists came to be a by-word.
But no more emancipists were made magistrates after 1824.
The colonial administration has found even less satisfaction in the emancipists than in the convicts still under restraint.
It was because the emancipists formed a body so powerful that their opponents were more or less afraid of them, and stood really at bay, fighting with their backs to the wall.
The Europeans were made up, in nearly equal proportions, of convicts still undergoing sentence, and emancipists compelled to reside in the colony.
But beyond question, many of the emancipists throve.
In 1880 it had risen to eight thousand; and according to recent published official returns, the effective population, taking convicts and emancipists together, numbered nearly ten thousand.
Beyond doubt, the emancipists formed a very corrupting element in general society.
At this time there were some four or five thousandemancipists living as free charges, lodged, fed and clothed at the cost of the state, yet making absolutely no return.
The free community became sharply divided into emancipistsand anti-emancipists.
He endeavoured to mollify by his liberality, those he could not govern by restraint: he multiplied licenses for the sale of rum, and emancipists aspired to commercial rivalry with the suttlers in commission.
They proposed to put down the abolition press, to send emancipists to the Council, and to assert the majesty of their numbers against their emigrant oppressors.
The hostility of the opulent emigrants to the eligibility of emancipists was intense and lasting.
To the employers they predicted ruin; to the houseowners, desolation and emptiness; to the publicans the reign of puritanism; to the emancipists the ascendancy of the free, to be followed by unextinguishable persecution.
His alleged hostility to the emancipists excited resentment, and detracted from his usefulness.
Emancipists sat on these juries, and exulted in the privilege.
That great and good man displayed, in every debate, the generosity of his temper: always the enemy of despotism, every form of oppression called him into action, and the emancipists were largely indebted to his eloquence.
He, however, secured for the exclusionists the recognition of their favorite principle, and not only were emancipists pronounced ineligible for the future, but those already in the commission found it expedient to resign.
The determination of the free to make no distinction between those who merited the oblivion of their offences, and emancipists atrocious in their history and character, rendered the hostility of caste more inveterate.
Prompted by this feeling, the emancipists formed themselves into committees at all the settlements, and obtained the countenance of the Governor to a plan for moving the British legislature, to correct the anomalies of the law.
He raised to the bench, and invited to his table, several emancipists of wealth, and made their social reception the condition of his favor.
The patriotic association advocated an unrestricted concession of political rights; the anti-emancipists a limitation of the franchise to such as were always free.
It was observed by Mr. Bigge, that when Macquarie made some emancipists magistrates, and professed by that dignity to restore them to the station they had lost, he forgot that they were elevated to a rank they had never filled.
Many emancipists in Sydney had become wealthy by the vices of the less cunning and thrifty, and created a social state, without a precedent.
He attempted to prove that financial oppression had driven back the expiree on his former course, which the anti-emancipists maintained he had never forsaken.
Whether just or not, the formal exclusion of emancipists was a supplement to the penalty of the law, and, as such, must have been taken.
It would never do for us Kentuckians to let such an act pass unpunished; we should have half the slaves in the state bolting for the borders, and claiming the protection of emancipists like yourself and others.
From that time the British emancipists gained strength, and in 1792 resolutions for the abolition of the slave-trade were carried in the House of Commons.
The old disputes between Emancipists and Free Settlers were ended long ago, and the questions that greatly agitated the population of the first half of the century have now become matters of history.
The free settlers wanted the emancipists to be deprived of all civil rights and kept practically in the same position as the convicts.
The quarrel between the free settlers and the emancipists continued during Macquarie's administration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emancipists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
