The South-African crisis - pagina 28

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

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that

there

humane man

not a

is

CRISIS.

London who But what that with these sombre in

would not condemn them as abominable. venture

I

pages

own

their

in

sufficiently

beam

maintain

to

is

the

history

English

have not

meditated the parable of the mobe and the

before

themselves

setting

day, as accusers of the Boers. It

up,

is

at this time ot

quite clear also that

English missionaries like Dr. van der

Kemp,

Dr. Philips

and Mr. Read who were indefatigable instigators of the anti-Boer movement, and in their methodist zeal treated

the Calvinism of the Boers as hypsocrisy, and incessantly excited

the

Cape Government and the native chiefs

against them, had never been honoured circles.

Too often

political pioneers rather

than ambassadors of Christ, system

in their

in British settlements the missionaries

have constituted themselves Glenelg

much

—

and the system

—

the

which they tried to apply at the

Cape miscarried deplorably

i).

The Boers know too

well that they have had no worse enemies than these

gentlemen in to keep

them

The

Boers

clerical

uniform and have endeavoured

at a distance.

are

not

sentimental

but

men

of

They understood that the Hottentots and the Bantus were an inferior race and that to put them on a footing of equality with the whites, in their families, in society, and in politics, would be simply folly. They have understood, further, the danger of mixed liaisons and to save their sons from this

practical genius.

scourge, they

have inculcated the idea that to have

carnal intercourse with the Kaffir 1)

Theal, p. 126.

women

is

to

commit

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