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AFRIKANDER VIEW.

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The following letter is taken from the "Times," of July 23rd, 1900. It shows the opinion of the loyal Dutch of Cape Colony as to what the nature of the settlement after the war should be:

SIR, You have now in Great Britain a deputation sent from here under the auspices of the "Afrikander Bond" to persuade the British people to restore to the two Republics recently existing in South Africa their independence. Like the members of that deputation, and the originators thereof, I am an "Afrikander," and my name will prove to you that I am a colonist of pure Dutch descent. I am, however, a loyalist, and proud to call myself a Briton, and to know that this colony, which is my "home," is a portion of the British Empire. It is because I am desirous that this country shall continue a portion of that Empire, and that its inhabitants, white and black, shall continue to peacefully enjoy the blessings which are only to be had under the Union Jack, that I crave for space in your paper to address the British people on the subject of this deputation.

I need not tell the British people how Her Majesty's subjects (and especially Her Majesty's coloured subjects) were oppressed in the Transvaal; they know that in that State an uneducated and poor minority tried to rule an educated and wealthy majority, and that the Legislature of that State was a disgrace to the 19th century. Yet this deputation, and the originators thereof, saw this oppression of free men, saw this scandalous legislation, and, although themselves enjoying every privilege that free men can have, they never protested against this scandalous oppression and legislation, but, on the contrary, when Her Majesty's Government intervened on behalf of the oppressed, they actually encouraged oppression and scandalous legislation by siding with the Transvaal against Her Majesty's Government. If these men had done their duty as British subjects there would have been no war. The British people

know how the Republicans, after sending Her Majesty's Government a most insolent ultimatum, invaded Her Majesty's territory, forced thousands of Her Majesty's subjects into rebellion, drove thousands of Her Majesty's loyal subjects ruined from their homes. Never a word of protest was heard from these men. Never a word against the rebellion, never a word against the "vandals" who invaded Her Majesty's dominions, destroyed railways and bridges, bombarded towns, and killed, ruined, and made rebels of the inhabitants. On the contrary, they gave these "vandals" every moral support, and proclaimed in their Press that the rebels were no rebels; rebellion no crime!

I need not tell the British people of the sad and terrible events of the last eight months. These men want a repetition of those events, for that is what the success of their mission means. But are the British people going to make a repetition of these events possible? Are they again going to allow their fellow-subjects to be oppressed by a tyrannical Government after all the valuable lives lost, and after the treasures spent? So long as the Republics, or a semblance thereof, exist in South Africa, so long will there be plotting against British supremacy, so long will there be strife and hatred, and so long will the recurrence of the sad events of the last eight months be again possible. Need I assure the British people that the one ambition of the Republics and the Afrikander Bond has been the eliminating of the Imperial factor from South Africa? Just look at the speeches made at the very congress which elected the members of this deputation. Look at the number of Bond members of Parliament who joined the invading Republicans.

I pray the British people not to listen to men who profess to be loyal, but who, nevertheless, countenanced rebellion in and invasion of Her Majesty's dominion without a single word of protest. I pray them to remember their duty to their fellow loyal subjects in South Africa, white and black, to remember their duty as a great colonising nation, and, above all, to remember that the inhabitants of the Republics have nothing to lose by coming under the British flag. In conclusion, I pray them support Lord Salisbury's policy, annex the Republics to the Empire, and so assure the future peace and good government of South Africa, and so make it possible for loyal British subjects to live in this fair country without being under the perpetual dread of coming revolution and war.

Thanking you in anticipation for insertion hereof,

Yours, &c.,

CAREL J. VAN ZYL.

Carnarvon, Cape Colony, July 2.

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NONCONFORMIST MINISTERS ON

THE WAR.

"One could only look with a sort of amazed scorn on the Christian people who thought the brilliant laying down of young life in the African war the greatest evil of the times."-The Rev. HINCHCLIFFE HIGGINS, at the Maze Hill Congregational Church, East Greenwich, Sunday, January 7th, 1900.

The Pastor of the Maze Hill Congregational Church is not alone among Nonconformists in his reprehension of those who see nothing but evil in the war now being waged in South Africa in the cause of justice.

From near and far ministers of religion of all denominations, missionaries, and others have raised their voices in support of the Government in their determination that there shall be equality for the white races in South Africa and justice for the natives.

However much they may abhor the shedding of blood, they recognise that the condition of things which existed in the Transvaal could no longer be tolerated, and that to obtain reforms at the cost of war was by no means so great an evil as were the oppression which Englishmen suffered at the hands of the Boers, and the cruelty with which the system of compulsory unpaid labour-the essential element of slaverywas practised by them.

DR. KENNEDY, one of the oldest Congregationalist ministers in London, in an interview with a representative of the Daily News, published in that paper of November 7th, 1899, said that at first he was prepared to ascribe our difficulties with the Transvaal to the manner and spirit of the negotiations.

"But,” he continued, "then I began to remember the past. "It came upon me like a flash that the fundamental principles "of the Transvaal Boers are to be found at a lower depth than 'any question of franchise. I am one of the few very old people

"who have personal recollections of Dr. Phillips and his difficulties with the Cape authorities of those days in defence of "the Hottentots-Dr. Phillips was the Superintendent of the "London Missionary Society's Missions in South Africa-and "I remember that the Transvaal really originated in the "hostility of a certain section of the Cape "Boer farmers to the freedom of the slaves "instituted by the British; and the Boers' resolve not to agree "to it led them to trek northward."

THE REV. G. J. GREENHOUGH, who some years ago was the Chairman of the Baptist Union of England and Wales, wrote a letter to the Daily News of the 30th December, 1899, from which the following extract is taken :

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Setting aside, however, the question about the Boer as a "Christian, my desire is that in South Africa there should be no dispute between Briton and Boer as to which is head and "which is tail. We want to have honest equality "established, and no more; but if it comes to this, that one must be above and the other underneath, I have no “hesitation in saying that the British power must not take the "under place; and if that be not the language of the Noncon"formist conscience, at least it is mine. It will be an ill day for Nonconformity, and even for religion, in this land, when it 66 comes to be believed that the Established Church has a "monopoly of religious patriotism, and that we Free Churchmen "have no pride in our great inheritance-no jealousy to “maintain the noble Empire which has been built, under God, by the courage and sufferings of our fathers, and that we love "every country better than our own."

The Wesleyan Synod assembled at Cape Town, representing a large section of the European community and also a numerous body of Dutch-speaking and coloured inhabitants of the Western Province of Cape Colony, on February 8th, 1900, adopted a resolution recording its entire approval of the policy of the Imperial Government, and giving utterance to the earnest prayer of the members that the military operations now proceeding may speedily result in the success of the British arms, that peace and righteousness may be assured to the land, an end