The South-African crisis - pagina 80

TRE SOUTH- AFRICAN

76

No one so

could forecast

eludes

be

depends on occurrences

eventualities

All that one

is

uncertain, that

so

in a position tO' say

England do not recover the

alone,

is,

that,

herself, the struggle will

With

desperate, bloody, and prolonged.

forces

it

by the most competent

even

prediction,

all

observer. if

on

fortuitous,

It

it.

CAISIS.

their ov^n

two Republics could not measure

themselves with the power of England, supported by

The

her auxiliary troops from Canada and Australia.

Boers

altogether

London. corner foot,

the

If

toss

some chance from no it is

hardly

fill

elephant puts out

one suburb

all his

of

powers to

goat that vexes him, trample him under

the

and

would

him

the

in

of success;

sacrifice, in

he will always have

air,

and

if

Great Britain shrinks

men, in reputation, or in

intrests,

not impossible that she will succeed, after a long

and costly war,

in crushing

momentarily her valiant

opponents. Still,

history as

she

the

first

auguries have not been favourable, and

addresses to her

was, was

its

warnings.

Greece, small

overpowered by the Persians.

not

Switzerland managed to escape from the deadly eml^race of Austria.

The "Beggars" (Gueux)

of Holland succeeded

power of Spain; and the Boers have the blood of the "Beggars" in their veins. They Besides, the}^^ are well armed.

in

resisting,

fight

for

on their own ground, ground that they know

thoroughly, and that defence.

They form

mobile and

alert,

and

their

tactics

years, the crushing

eight}"

is

exceptionally advantageous for

an

army

of

mounted

such as exists nowhere strategy

call

infantry,

else.

Their

forth the admiration

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