The South-African crisis - pagina 8

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

had

American

lost her rich

need of consolidating the

CRISIS.

colonies,

England

felt

the

famous

conquests of the

seemed to her indispensable to secure a naval station at the Cape. Captain Robert who, on probably one of her agents i) Percival, Hastings in India, and

it

—

—

a voyage of observation, visited the Cape in 1S03 did

not

hesitate

the

harbours

Cape would indeed be nearly

the

of

bring

sufficient to

mere possession of

declare "that the

to

enemies into our power

all

Meantime neither

2)."

America nor at the Cape had

in

Eugland known how to win the sympathies other new

Dutch extraction. Every effort at fusion between them and their new masters was defeated by the tenacity of the race from the Low Countries. Even of

subjects

to-day,

the lapse of two centuries, In America,

after

animosity

the

of the people of

England continues as in

the

first

club

in

lively

as

New-York

Dutch origin against At a dinner

ever. I

have

listened to

remarks made against the injustice and the violent

methods of England such as have never been made either in

in

Natal or at Pretoria,

America have now almost

their

mother-tongue,

they yet

Although the Dutch lost

the

memory

everywhere

still

of as-

sociate together in unions called Holland Societies. Their

Dutch origin ^>

is

to

them

as a title of nobility of which

visited in the same manner Ce_ylon which like Cape was then a Dutch Colony and which England coveted. His

The same captain

the

report on Ceylon bares the identical title „Account of Ceylon." 2)

'•Account

large

others

portion

of the Cape, p. 330. of our

He

adds: "These considerations of a

dominions are of themselves, independent of

certainly sufficient to justify our attempt

of the Cape." (P. 394.)

to

all

take possession

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