The South-African crisis - pagina 24

THE SOUTH- AFRICAN

20

CRISIS.

The kwown Boer President Mr. Brandt declared very plainly: ''Your friends and your allies we are willing to be: but your subjects, never." ^) Unhappily her.

England has not wished for that. These treaties have both

been

violated:

That of Bloemfontein by the

Kimberley

judicial robbery of

that of the Sand-River

;

by the arbitrary annexation of 1877.

It

would only be period

of their dealings

amenable

still

from ambition

however, to acknowledge

which actuated the English in the

that the motive earlier

right,

the

to it

with the Boers was

moral code.

Though not

free

yet betraj^ed nothing of that brutal

egoism and passionate materialism of which Mr. Chamberlain

has since become the rabid apostle.

Scarcely

mindful

of

English

piqued themselves on being the defenders of

the

real claims of their old colonists the

the supposed rights of the natives. Deceived by reports

from their* missionaries, after

belief,

and

by a sentimental love for primitive man, the fashion of that time, most of them, Deists

well as Christians, were convinced that the Boers

illtreated the blacks

a

worthy of

astray

led

as

little

divine

and that the English had received

mission to protect them.

It

was the time

of the Aborigines Protection Societies so eloquently stig-

matised by moral,

Edmund

social

society,

Froude

p. 43.

it

Little satisfied with the

political condition of

the

end of the

must seek

for its ideal,

Liberalism

believed that 1)

and

Burke.

at

contemporary last

century

not amongst

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