The South-African crisis - pagina 15

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

ignorant of

military discipline as

all

11

ClilSIS.

nnderstood

is

it

by European armies, they fight in perfectly homogeneous manner, each of them being an officer to himself and co-operating on his own initiative for the end which their cornet indicates.

Their religion thoroughly Calvinistic,

is

the very soul

of their chivalrous existence and completely harmonises

The Old Testament, above all, has impressed them with the paramount value of fervent piety in the with

it.

consolidation of the national strength.

why

This explains

they open their councils of war with prayer, and to battle singing the Psalms of David

march

;

reviving

thus the traditions of the armies of Grustavus-Adolphus, of the Huguenots, and of Cromwell. Through religious affinity, their

well-defined predilection for Protestantism

no matter

is

for

astonishment in the descendants of

the Gueux and the Huguenots, but

they

from

me

exclude, all

for

their

opinions,

in

Catholics

the names of several avowed Catholic functionaries

1814

Catholic

whom negro

took curate

possession

whom

of

When

the Cape

the English

they found a

the Boers were tolerating but

is

above

all

suspicion.

women which have

known

Liaisons

2)

with the

nations, are

amongst

Their married

life

is

too that President Kruo-er on Auj^ust 20th 1899 proposed

to the Volksraad a modification of article 31 of the constitution. 2j

Their

always been the disgrace

and the scourge of colonising the Boers absolutely unknown. It is

i)

the English took care to drive away.

morality

1)

not true that

Roman

service under the State. Dr. Leyds has given

the South African Republic,

of

it is

TiiEAi,, Soitth-A/rica, p.

139.

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