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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN17CRISIS.They numbered 40,000 and representing anin 1834.average value of two thousand francs per head formedmost of the colonists the chief part of their small The Parliament of London which had possessions. forpromised compensati ...
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;THE SOUTH- AFRICAN18knowncallyflyand take their chancePharaonic terrorsitsThe Boer famihes in from their Egypt andas the great trek.thousands resolved totheirCEISIS.in thewide wilderness. Bet ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN19CEISIS.England had humiliated them before their andthemexposedtocruelslaves,lawlessness as fugitiveschased from the hearths of their ancestors. But instead of revolting,andtheirsubmitted ...
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THE SOUTH- AFRICAN20CRISIS.The kwown Boer President Mr. Brandt declared very plainly: ''Your friends and your allies we are willing to be: but your subjects, never." ^) Unhappily her.England has not wished for that. These treaties have bothbeenviolated: ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICANcivilizedmen, buthaunts of the ''noble savage"in thewhose simple and nomadic andvogue,the raceslifehad become the subjectRobinson Crusoe'sof idyllic interest.formever}'21CEISI ...
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THE SOUTH- AFRICAN22CRISIS.competent to form a correct opinion, concurred, thatno other part of the world was bondage soinlight."^)^'No slaves", writes Mr. Fronde, had less to complain of than those at the Cape"And^}.Cap ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN23CRISIS.what theof the jBoers has been surpassed bycharge originalEngh'shcolonist'shave permitted in similarThe eloquent pleading of M^"^- Beecher the American slaves under their originalcircumstances.S ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN24thattherehumane mannot aisCRISIS.London who But what that with these sombre inwould not condemn them as abominable. ventureIpagesowntheirinsufficientlybeammain ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICANCRICIS.25,incest.But on the other hand they have treated theirslavesasgoodthey have habituated themchildren;to w^ork; have softened their manners; and in South Africa you will hnd no man more skilful in ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRIKAN26CRISIS.face the difficulty of the colour questionwich the Englishhave persistently kept out of view. The Blacks are increasing in South Africa to an extent which mayOfwell give cause for uneasiness.old theyhad massa ...
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