The South-African crisis - pagina 70

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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

deeper the

would

By

fall."

one of

lose

the

and

And

this

it

for

is

human progress

instruments.

We cannot do

which has been noble, proud,

England,

without this

of England,

fall

its finest

and Christian,

CRISIS.

which

may become

again.

so

reason that well-disposed people

best minds throughout the and the same time grieved and world, are at one

throughout Europe, the indignant

England

the wild and distressing spectacle that

at

persists

one

conquest,

forcing

in

of the

upon us by

this

war

of

most iniquitous in the history

of the ninetheenth century.

Fortunately, the future of England

our

that

are

is

she

not yet deterwill retrieve

mined.

All

herself.

Her reverses might become her

Already

one

prayers

salvation.

of her Archbishops has raised the voice

of repentance

and humiliation.

A

group of eminent

men, giving evidence of a moral com-age that commands our most sincere admiration and is inspired by the better

traditions

Harcourts,

Gladstone

of

—

the

Morleys, the

the Courtneys, the Steads, the Clarks, the

Laboucheres, the Harrisons, and so

many more

— are

most sacred treasures of their nation, and disputing every inch of the ground with vigilantly guarding the

the Jingoes

;

and they are raising their voices so loud

that soon their

voce

damantis

in deserio will

reach the

Highlands of Scotland. All possibility of a composition is not yet excluded. The fall of Mr. Chamberlain

would give the signal of salvation. And if a Cabinet of more discretion, abandoning all idea of vengeance, and caring nothing for military to confederated South Africa

susceptibilities, offered its

full

independence,

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