The South-African crisis - pagina 27

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

23

CRISIS.

what the

of the jBoers has been surpassed by

charge original

Engh'sh

colonist's

have permitted in similar

The eloquent pleading of M^"^- Beecher the American slaves under their original

circumstances.

Stowe

for

masters

English

has not yet l)een forgotten.

In the

wars which the English have constantly provoked with the Kaffirs Colenso reminds us that as

many

Zulus have been killed in a single battle

The manner Lobengula

lyddite

of

bullets in the recent conquest of the

Soudan staggers the imagination. quoted in

bombs

British

of

Company.

to the Chartered

disgrace

The havoc created by the and dumb-dumb

^).

which they treated the envoys

in

a

is

as 10,000

Official

documents

biography show us that in the

Colenso's

wars with the American Indians General

Geoffrey

Sir

Armherst did not hesitate to give an order to Colonel Bouquet to destribute smallpox blankets amongst them

and to employ

mas'tiffs to

devour them. His own words

were: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians

by means

of

blankets,

as

method, that can serve race,

by every other

well as

to extirpate their execrable

even by hunting them down by dogs"

Needless to say

I

monstrocities to the Ensrlis character. Again in the

^)

1873

in

when

he

Wleshadeuer the

visited

Tagehlall

rear,

that

2)

is

to

say,

that

all

the

am

convinced

officer

who had taken

waged with Guiqua tribes

him that a colonel had given the order: To

behind a

I

count Marillac asserts that

Cape an English

part in the war which the Englisli told

-).

do not dream of imputing these

Kaffir

in 1875

take the copOcrs

prisoners

were

to

— 80

to thf

be shot

hill.

p. 690.

The

Museum among

original

of these letters

may

be found in the British

the Bouquet papers, No. 21. 634.

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