The South-African crisis - pagina 81

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

European

of the

Especially,

staffs.

the capitalists of a Chartered

but

existence

for

it

is

neither for

Company nor

for a poli-

of pararaountcy that they risk their lives,

force

tical

CRISIS.

and

itself

for the

independence of

their country.

Fro

arts et focis

They know that the conscience

!

whole of Europe

the

is

on their

and they

side,

who

fathers

curse

and swear and

who pray

families

of

;

bluster, but

common name of

with

and,

accord, they have lifted their buckler in the

God

the

With such a moral

of justice.

has rarely had the best of

feel

They are not

inspired by the rightness of their cause.

mercenaries

force,

cannon

it.

But suppose that General Lord Roberts succeeds forcing the passes of the Drakenberg

that to

Bloemfontein

Pretoria,

the

English,

it

far

with

at

least,

their

from being ended,

merely

base

of

to

stantly

subjected

to

their

alarm

secure

operations

Elizabeth, and Durban.

harassed,

is

laid

then, surely, that the difficulties of

would only be

They would require an army

commencing.

men

is

in

and of Spytfontein,

occupied, and that siege

is

of

of 50,000

the communication at

Capetown,

Port

Their convoys would be con-

army

of investment would be

day and night

by

the

Boers,

buzzing in swarms about their camp. Soon, as at Lady-

smith and Modder River, the besiegers, caught between

two their

in

would become the besieged, and, although cavalry might then render them exellent service

fires,

keeping at a distance the bands of guerillas, they

would experience the greatest embarrassment in pretheir horses from the diseases of the country

serving

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