The South-African crisis - pagina 23

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

19

CEISIS.

England had humiliated them before their and

them

exposed

to

cruel

slaves,

lawlessness as fugitives

chased from the hearths of their ancestors. But instead of revolting,

and

their

submitted themselves, their wives

they

to

children,

all

the horrors of an exodus,

the atrocities of an unequal struggle with the natives.

all

And now they

that they saw the hour approaching,

were to gather the

Pharaoh,

as

they

With the help

said,

when

fruit of all their sufferings,

rushed after them in pursuit.

of a theory of international right which

1870 England herself has had to abandon, she

since

imposed on them

the

ten

times

accursed

yoke of

English supremacy.

That was a state of things which could not long.

A

last

native rising threatened to harass the English

even in Cape Colony. Other statesmen of more

liberal

views were installed at Downing Street. The Governor of the

Cape

necessity

of

and a new

Harry Smith, himself, recognised the

Sir

putting

an end to

political

agression,

Natal remaine(^ an English

era began.

from the Orange River was thus that the independence of the Transvaal was recognised by the Sand River convention January 17^1^ 1S52, and the indepen-

colony

but England

retired

and from the Vaal, and

it

dence of the Free State by the convention of Bloemfontein Feb. 22th

Why

i854.

then have not the ideas of justice and equity

which inspired these two treaties continued to guide the

councils of

case England

and grateful

Downing

Street?

Had such been

would have been safeguarded allies

bij

the

sincere

and everybody would have applauded

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