The South-African crisis - pagina 26

THE SOUTH- AFRICAN

22

CRISIS.

competent to form a correct opinion, concurred, that

no other part of the world was bondage so

in

light."

^)

^'No slaves", writes Mr. Fronde, had less to complain of than those at the Cape"

And

^}.

Captain Percival

himself, the great calumniator of the Boers, wrote in

must be allowed that in general the slaves "In London howewer we are in are well treated." ^) it is still Mr. Froude who speaks the habit" "of 1804:

''It

—

attributing

Boers"

the

and every

virtues to the natives

the

all

to

injustice

—

Mr. Purvis

^)

constantly

is

compelled to declare "That the Government exaggerated their love for the slaves while they trampled underfoot

of the colonists"

the rights

Bishop

great

judgment on the spot

W.

when he had

Natal,

of

Dr. Colenso also, the

^).

corrected his

in 1880, in a letter to Mr. F.

Chesson, bore the following testiaiony on behalf

Boers which

of the

"My

conviction

is

is

worthy of b^ing remembered. have been most

Boers

that

the

that

they have acted admirably,

shamefully treated,

restrained by wise leaders, and have done their utmost

avoid

to

bloodshed.

And

as

their treatment of

to

the natives, have the Boers done anything so horrible,

we,

as

killing

women and

hundreds of

dynamite in the caves of Indomo?" too

severe

but

the

famous favour 1)

^)

do not deny that the Boers have been sometimes

I

life

children by

or

fact official

;

and

Theal pp. of John

1,

in

that

committed excesses;

we have

as

enquiry

that

resulted

1816,

of

seen,

in

the their

any case whatever can be placed to the

4, 181.

Williani

have

the}^

remains,

^)

p. 11.

3)

p. 283.

Colenso, If pp. 533

and

*) p. 15.

519.

s)

]x

8.

^)

The

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