The South-African crisis - pagina 84

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

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which are

alliance

in the air

CRISIS.

and which indisputably

all

tend to converge against this insular power which, in has galled the sympathies of

its self-sufficiency,

all

the

nations without gaining over any of them.

But suppose England surmounts that

her

temper succeeds

cool

all

these difficulties,

in avoiding all these

moral conscience does not awake, and

rocks, that her

that the taxpayer does not become tired of throwing

every time the

into

a

more considerable part

insatiable

gulf

of

of his savings

even then

South-Africa,

England would not be at the end of her troubles. Behind her in Africa she would have sown the seeds of a deep rancour,

of an unspeakable repugnance, of

an indistructible race-hatred, and these seeds would shoot

The determination

up.

shakable.

Never

England.

Subdued

they

will

brutal

b}^

of

be

the

Boers

is

un-

voluntary subjects of

every

force,

and every evening their prayers would

morning

rise to the

God

of their fathers to implore deliverance from the yoke

which they would

On

the

persist in cursing in their hearts.

opportunity that should

first

resume the struggle. In the

first

they would

offer,

war that should burst

on England, they would be the devoted

allies of

her

enemy. Read and re-read their manifesto "A Century

and each

of Injustice",

line

will

convince 3^ou that

their tenacity will never be overcome.

There

the

is

wound from which England,

she repent, will bleed for a whole century. to put it

down

the Boers by the brutal force of numbers,

would be necessary

sweep them

unless

In order

off

for her to extirpate

them and

to

the face of the earth. Then, indeed. South-

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