The South-African crisis - pagina 18

THK SOUTH-AFRICAN

14

Boers

CPJSIS.

met these reproaches with

invariably

"Sir,

:

you dont know the Cape", and the sad experience English

the

does

not allow them to say that the Boers

wrong.

Even after more than eighty 3^ears them they do not yet know either the

Colenso

were

on the Modder River and at

have had

experience

of

Cape or the Boers, as their defeats have well proved. The English only comprehend what has some likeness to themselves

and

for that reason they try to assimilate

everybody to their type.

But the Boers remain obstinately refractory and are stubborn in their determination to remain absolutely inassimilable.

III.

It

not a well advised government which having

is

installed itself in a conquered country does not

make

every eifort to respect as far as possible the suscepta-

and the customs of

bilities

its

new

To

subjects.

end any reasonable government will avoid

all

changes in political and social organisations; study

to

make

its

yoke scarcely

felt,

and

to

create the impression that ever3^thing

as

in

the time of

enquire

its

sudden it

will

will strive

is

Above

predecessor.

this

to go

on

all it will

into the grievances of the peoi^le against the

administration

it

has displaced and will do

its

best to

win the hearts of the people by effectual remedies. England above any other nation ought to have learnt that lesson of administrative sible for

her not to

know

wisdom

;

for it

was impos-

that in dealing with colonistes

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