Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-15
TO BE CONTINUED.
HORRORS OF A RACE WAR.
FrIghtful Possibilities II Savages Turn Upon
British and Beers.

British and Beers.
From the New York World.
If the Basutos, melted by the exam.
pie of their Christian and civilized
white brothers, have taken to the war.
path their example is almost sure TO be
followed by some, if not all, of the
various native tribes in South Africa.
The whites, who are to the blacks only
as one 10 six, or $685. 900 10 3,582,00O
in 1891, and estimated to be now $780,
900 10 100000, will have their efforts
TO annihilate each other accelerated by
wild and blood thirsty warriors, who
will pay not the slightest regard 10
what are ironically called the rules OF
civilized warfare; but will hasten to
turn loose passions none the less keen
for having been long under restraint.
In that case heaven should have
pity on the women and children whom
the black savages come near, for the
hand of man will be powerless to pro-
tect. Rowing bands, unrestrained by
the leash of military discipline, will
plunder and burn, will ravage and de-
slroy; and when ut last help comes to
the forsaken it will be too late.
The memory of native massacres is
still vivid among Beers and British in
South Africa. Indeed, the history of
both is one long struggle against saw
age foes. The killing of Piet Retief
and 900 others by the Zulus and the
slaughter of the tribe in revenge on
"Dingaan's Day" are two of the great
events in Boer annals.
One of President Kruger's experien-
ces was sufficient to leave an indellible
mark on any mans memory. In 1856
the Mapele and Markapans invited a
farmer named Hendrick Potgieter to
an elephant hunt. According to Mr..
Kruger they fayed their visitor alive,
and it was not until they disemboWeled
him that he died. His brother, who
went with Mr. Kruger and others to
punish the perpetrators of this horrld
deed, was himself shot, and his body
was recovered by marvellous act OF
heroism on Kruger's part. The Beers
subsequently, exacted a terrible re-
venge.
In the eastern province of Cape Colo
nv stand distorted tree trunk which
marks the spot where two British sol.
diers were fayed alive and slowly
roasted.
Step by step, however, the natives
have been forced back in war after
war, until during the past five years
what an English writer calls "Pax Bri-
tannica" has rested over the country.
In 1S11.12, in the first Katfir war, the
Kaffirs were driven back to the
Fish river; in 1878 in the second
Katfir war, they were forced back to
the Keiskaunna; in 1884 30 they in
vaded Cape Colony; in 1S46 4S was
the fourth Kaffir war, the "War of the
Asse;" in 1851 SO the fifth Katfir war,
and the submission of the Basutos un.
der Moshesh; in 1877 78 it was found
necessary to subdue Kreli and Sandilli &;
next year came the Zulu war, with
ISandhl wana, Rouke's Drift and Ulun-
ii and in 1898 was the war between
Cecil Rhodes's troops and the Matabele.
The British falter themselves, and
probably with truth, that they have al
ways treated the natives much more
kindly than have the Beers, who, they
say rule by the rifle and the ejambok,
the whip OF rhinoceros hide which cuts
like knife At every stroke. For this
reason the British think they have less
reason to fear native rebellion.
The fact is that the aborIgines look
upon both British and Beers as inlerlop'
ers and enemies, and would rejoice at
an opportunity TO be rid of both.
The invasion Of the Orange Free
State by Lerothodi's $4,000 warriors,
25 900 of whom are armed with guns
and rifles, the others with the assegai>,
would certainly make radical change
in the military situation in South Afrl
ca, and would give the Basutes an op
portunily to pay off an ancient grudge
against the Beers.
In 1868, after many years of alter.
mating peace and war, they were en-.
tirely crushed and their country was