The South-African crisis - pagina 6

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

struggle

clerons

going

is

standing

are

Christians,

on

CRISIS.

between Christians &

by to see whether the Chri-

Europe or the Christians of Africa will

stians of

finally

get the upper hand.

England has ever won for herself the glory the champion of the independence of sed peoples

men bling

;

ol l^eing

weak and

oppres-

yet yonder, in South- Africa, there are old

of seventy with their grandsons [of fourteen scram-

over the rocks to

all

soldiers preparing to rob

lie

them

in wait for the

Enghsh

of the freedom of their

country.

A

cry of distress has gone up, a cry of the conscience

of Europe aroused not this time against the

against

the

country

of

Burke & of

country which once prided justice.

Is it

arrested?

itself

not a sad spectacle

Can

it

on ?

Pitt, its

Turk but

against the

inborn love of

Has progress been

be that in the century about to be

born we are going to retrogress? I.

If

trace

we wish clearly

to thoroughly understand the causes, to

the

origin of this unfortunate war,

we

must go back in history. On two occasions in the course of the seventeenth century Holland made an effort to colonise extensively beyond the sea: in America in 162S, at the Cape in 1650; and both these colonies have fallen into the hands of the English, by an act of aggression.

Yoik was occupied in

the 3"ear

General

Baird

1646;

New-

paix by Colonel Nicholson Cape was taken in 1806 by

en pleine

the

during the

war between France and

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