Boer Politics

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onger animated by the same spirit of confidence, and are even beginning to wonder whether they have not fallen into the sa

eux Mondes?" and it appears that Dr. Leyds has been heard to say in Brussels: "M. Yv

cular, confine itself to lauding "the brave Boers" and the "venerable President Krüger," and to extolling the virtues with which it credits them, instead of studying their actual social c

w look upon it as quite natural, and are not surprised to find themselves bosom friends of Drumont, Rochefort, Judet, and Arthur Mayer. The Transvaal question unites t

of pigheadedness that clearly proves the influence of our method of subjecti

the Anglophobe movement, are thus naively furthering the aims of the Vatican and the Jesuits, whose endeavour has ever been to stir up Europe against England-England that shall never be f

their true light. Far from refuting it, I will quote from it. Th

the Natives,

de has sent forth the angelic message 'Peace on Earth,' even to w

waxing wroth with the English who, in 1816, in consequence of the representations of their missionaries, had instituted an enquiry as to th

uyper

ancient colonists, the English prided themselves

own. This virtuous p

rotection Societies,' so drastically exposed by Edmund Burke, saw their opportunity. With their Aborigines Societies, the deists posed in the politi

the deists nor the mission

e English in their American colonies; but greatly modified. I do not deny th

inently practical. They recognised that these

e difficulty of the colour question so per

d simple; but he gives vent to his hatred of the English who, far from checking that multiplication, assist it by their humane treatment of the natives. He is especially wrathful with Engl

appointed president of a kin

e money remained in the hands of London swindlers." The regret and the contumely are difficult to reconcile. Ancestors of the Boers had more than once acted in a similar manner towards the Dutch East India Company when dissatisfied with their administration, and unwilling to pay their taxes. But Pro-Boers have a curious habit of magnifying things. One would imagine, to hear them speak, that every Boer in the Cape had packed wife, children, and goods into ox-wagons and had trekked north. As a matter of fact, the greater proportion remained behind, and th

f the population. They had spread themselves over an enormous tract of country, and were in close touch with kaffirs and bushmen, cattle-lifters using poisoned arrows. Living in isolated fam

y a Man of Wa

comfortable dwelling, cultivating his tulips, priding himself upon his pictures, and

chmen, Hugenots, Germans and Scotchmen. Krüger and Reitz are of German, Joubert a

among the Hottentots and Basutos, in the same manner that the Normans, in the XIth Century, established themselves among the Anglo-Saxons. Abstaining from all manual labour, they devote themselves to their propert

erpart of an Arab chief, the sole difference being that the Boer is not a polygamist and has no tribe under him; on the contrary, the Boers swarm off in isolated grou

astoral life was pictured to us as mild as milk, as innocent as that of sheep in the fold, until Renan pointed out its qualities and defects. At the same time we were told of the Bedouins "with saddle, bridle, and life on the Islam," always mounted, always armed, always engag

ging civilisation which we call war-like, when its methods have been reduced to rules. In this stage politics mean the organisation of pillage. Mr. Kuyper is right. "The Boer is essentially a man of war and politics." He has employed his talents at the expense of Hottentots and Kaffirs; he has continued to employ them to the detriment of the Uitlanders; and he thought the