The Aborigines' Friend and the Colonial Intelligencer/1855/Asia
Asia.
It will be in the recollection of the older members and friends of the Aborigines' Protection Society, that the state of the native tribes of the large and populous Asiatic dependencies of the British empire were by no means excluded from the notice of this Society. On the contrary, they afforded such numerous and important subjects for the attention and exertion of the advocates for suffering humanity, that a large and influential section of the Society, and its supporters, withdrew themselves from it for the purpose, as they trusted, of better espousing the cause of oppressed India. It might have injured the cause which that section took up to have produced a division of attention by the older Society continuing to be engaged with it, and its hands being full with subjects relating to other parts of the globe, it was very willing to feel itself excused. That section no longer exists as a distinct Society, and the present critical and most interesting position of East-Indian affairs calls upon us no longer to remain silent respecting them. The following articles will not only be acceptable to our readers, but will shew that we are not indifferent to affairs so deeply affecting the native races of Asia.