The South-African crisis - pagina 85

tHE SOUTH AFRICAN

81

CRISIS.

Africa would belong to the English alone .... tlie

and

ol

negroes.

Hut,

horrify

as

mere idea of such

the

them, and does not for a

their projects, let

beaten presage

track of

of

a

crime

moment

would

enter into

them know that to persevere in the violence would undoubtedly be the

the beginning of the end of the greatness

of England

in

point

Perhaps she would

of power.

succeed in disarming the people

;

she will never destroy

the fecundity of the B(ter w^oman. In less than a century,

from their former numbers of G0,000, the Boers,

thanks to this marvellous fecundity, have grown to half a million.

In the coming century, they will reach, three,

and South- Africa will be theirs. The wife of general Joubert, who accompanied him into the thick of battle, is the perfect type of this Boer four, live millions,

woman whose will

be

national vaal,

able

all

forecast,

into

all

her children

inspire

to

spirit.

fi-om

the

So long as the lioness of the Trans-

surrounded by her young

England

and who

fecundity passes

the

lions, shall

roar against

heights of Drakenberg, never will

the Boer be definitively subdued.

KUYPER. Amsterdam, January

15*''

1900.

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