The South-African crisis - pagina 31

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

During

their racial passion. year,

CRISIS.

my

27

,

tour in America, last

had confidential conversations with men-of-

I

white

me man

remains and always will remain their chimerical

ideal.

colour of all conditions, and

the

conviction

They

that

believe

of the

that

I

brought away with

conquest

over the

Abel was black and that the sign

which God put upon Cain was that he

curse

became white. Moreover the violent scene at Wilmington in 189S afforded another proof that between Blacks and Whites there will never be lasting certainly

And

reconciliation.

if,

sooner or

later,

the struggle of

extermination between Whites and Blacks breaks out afresh in South-Africa

all

the responsibility for

it

will

fall

upon Mr.

who

quite impertinently and with a presumption

more

up between the

rival

Chamberlain and his Jingo journahsts

than fool-hardy, have stirred races

a hatred whose livid flame,

when

it is

too late

they will try in vain to put out.

It

would be entirely

te mistake the restless fana-

London suppose that they could ever have given what in

ticism of the Jingos both at the Cape and in to

their to

own language they

the just

inspired

finely call a "fair chance''

and conciliatory tendencies

wdiicli

had

the treaties of the Sand River (1852) and of

Bloemfontein (1854). These treaties recognised absolutely,

and without any

restriction,

even with respect to

foreign policy, the independence of the South African

Republic

and the

Free

State,

the

former of which

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