The South-African crisis - pagina 19

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

15

CRISIS.

of a rival nationality she would have a difficult pass to

Quite on the

get over. She did nothing of the kind.

contrary

with arrogant presumption and selfconscious

;

strength of her then

of the

undisputed

power,

she

the Soers from the beginning and wounded them

ruffled

in their religion, in their sense of honour,

material

interest

;

and

this

was

all

done

and

in their

in the

most

Purvis has frankly acknowledged

mischievous manner.

that the history of "The British control of South- Africa of blunders

full

is

consequent on the ignorance and

Home

prejudice of the

government,

i/'

And Mr. Froude

in his lectures does not hesitate to say that. ''We are

merely reaping the harvest of seventy

management."

3^ea]\s

of mis-

2)

In their powerlessness to observe well, the English

turned

their

to

inner consciousness and evolved th&

belief that in trying to Anglicise the old colonists as

quickly as

possible,

they were

degree, their benefactors.

years

becoming, in a high

On January

l^t-

imperial

decree,

taking effect

in

1828,

deprive the colonists of the use of their in

1825, eleven

after their official occupation of the colony,

an

was issued to mother tongue

the courts of justice and in the conduct of public

affairs. It is scarcely possible to

more

conceive of a measure

At one blow the Boers saw themselves excluded from juries and deprived of their seats in public irritating.

councils.

Henceforth they were

inelligible as judges;

were compelled to have recourse to English advocates, and to incur the heavy expense of trans-

they

1)

p. 6.

^)

p. 4.

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