The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-30


II Is rot In India, alone TINT English aunfssasfo9
is progressing, but We find the same spirA equally
active in South Africa. War for more territory has
not yet ended in that region Our last sccounts ~
ceived by the Baltic indicated that peace 10 vet AFR
Off
The Cape OF Good Hope WAS first occupied by the
English in 1920, bat permanent settlement was
made. The Dutch Afterwards cslonizsd the Uape in
1850, and extended their settlements iawscds to
saldanha bay, and elsewhere In 1875, the English
re-took possession Of the Caps By the treaty Of
Amiens, however, in 1900. 1t again given up to
the Dutch; bus in 1906 the English again re-
sumed the occupation Of it. and to them it was fully
and finally coded by the Dntch in 1915. IL has ever
since remained permanent Eoglish territory.
The Britisb government laced it's chief value on
it as Asy al and military depot. 1t has become .
sort Of Southern Ocean Gibraltar to the English,
and is considered the key TO their Australian and
Indian POSSESSIONS IL is kind OF half way house
between England ard her distant colonies in Asia
and Australasia At the Cape of Good Hope ute an-
coal and sailing vessels water and re pro-
vision repair damages if necessary. Az Eoari~
time post, its possession is invaluable.
Within some years past, the English colosists at
the Cape, sustained by The nome govern meat, have
looked to extension of their territory IN South
Africa, with view of building up considerable
addition to the British empire. The grazing and
frontier population is composed chiefly of Dutch
grazers, or farmers, called Boors," varying in man.
and civilization by the locality thsy happen to
live at. These Doors found no difficulty in enorosch-
ing upon and enslavipg the Hottentots, chocolate
coored, feeble, stunted, and imbecie Of ARR
cans, living to the north and northeast Of the Cape
All territory taken by the Doors became, by conse-
qHence, English ground, the Doors themselves
being held to be SUBJECTS of her majesty.
There we're found in South africa, besides Hot
tentots, whom the farmers had enslaved free negro
class, of Dstch with the Afrc Ina, called
Africanders, and the powerful African race known
as the Kaairs or Cafes, pronounced ia India,
Ko6os) They occupy large and the most fer
tile tract of country in South Africa. Their terri-
tory lies the east side of the great African penn-
sula fronting the Indian Ocean, and to tho east Of
the Hottenrots, and to the northeast Of the Cape
of Good Hope The farmers sold Hottentots with
their estates, hogged thon when rehelous, and
treated them in all respects a.aves are treated
in Cuba or elsewhere.
Ia 1929, the English government, with a show Of
philanthropy, interpreted in favor of the slaves.
They made rome changes as to the extent Of fog
gng, Sc but to this day, slavery exists there to
all intents and purposes The eDslayed and robbed
millions in India, and the enslaved Africans in Cape
Colony-with the enslaved aud bartered Coolies,
all amount to nothing. II is all Cody in Eaglish
eyes. The Irish may perish by the way. Her Own
poor may starve in the streets Of London, and her
miserable ragged destitute ard iurm die in her ILL
contrived poorhouses-it is all nothing. But, OH
what psroxysms Of horror seize them when they shn
of American slavery They can shed tears over
ro1o hut ccf ~ ct.
oppressed poor, at their own doors, cannot reach
their Hndeos may sink into death by thou-
sands when starved by Eng isb oppression the Doors
of the Cape may enslave and destroy Africans BY
scores, and the voice of humanity pleads in vain
There is no pity, no sympathy, within their pious
hearts, except for American negroes. Away with
such silted hypocrisy Their affected sorrow poli
teal. They look upon the agitator as enssring
wedge to the dissolution of Union.
But, to the annexation question. Tae Doors
found in the Kaflirs people who proved an
over match for them. When they invaded their
territory with view of appropriating it, and,
making the Ksfirs slaves, as they had done with
the Hottentots, they found themselves matched
The Kafirs q tall we'll made African race,
Of light chocolate colored skin, and with
features and crania approaching nearer than.
most African races to those Of the European.
and, strange to say, practising the rite of crcun-
cision. Their civilization, as well wArke
courage, is fur in advance of the Hotentots .Taey
are well armed with bows and arrows, rs well az
with spears and firearms. Bsing encroached upon
by the colouists, we have stated, they, in 1885,
turned upon their enemies, invaded the colony.
carrying havoc and destruction in their path,
Since that period to the present. there has been
permanent peace. The Kafirs have held out till
now, against the bravest and most experienced
British generals, in command Of appointed and
brave troops Their indomi.able courage defed
the skill Of Sir Harry Smith, and /. yet
holding out against Earl Cathcart. So disas-
tIous have been English reverses, at times, as,.
to cast gloom over tho English public at home,
and to derress the funds.
TIE English now 6nd that the only means of De-
curing peace to their country, is to make a COM
plete conquest of the Kafirs, and to annex their-
territory, which is the richest and most fruitful to
be found in South Africa With the possession of
Kafirlsnd and the territory of the Bushmen, they
look forward to the easy annexation of regions
to the north. approximatine to the equator, de-
20 degrees south, while the Cape Of Good Hope is
in about "a degrees south latitude. Once in pos
session of the territory described, it would long
become practicable for the English to construst an
overland route from The Atlantic to the Indian
ocean, which would be important, as it would,
be through country under their immediate con-
troll
To all this schsme we do not object We say,
ego ahead" ye British saxons-your sway, per-
haps, will all be the best for Africa-at the sa ne
time we would exclaim, hands of-let US md our
Union alone; and If We wish, in IN honorable way.
to extend civilization and free government by an-
nexation, it's none of your business.
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most respectable drug Arms In Broadway stating tn
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me- and know .hstis true for they are above sehood
therefore there must be spurious article In market But
II one buys what purports to be watts Nervous Anti
dote and does not Immediately relieve the Of pain give