The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-18
BOER AND BLACK MAN..
Tales of BIoodshed Told by Native Wit
1aesses-AIarm at Sale of A rms and A M I.
munitiOn to Beers.

| munitiOn TO Beers.
1t was long before could give credit
| to the tales of bloodshed told by native
Witnesses and had | received no other
testimony but theirs | should probably
have continued skeptical to this day as
to the truths of the accounts. But
when / found the Beers themselves,
some beWailing and denouncing, others
glorying in the bloody scenes in which
| they had been themselves the actors, ]
was compelled to admit the validity of
the cruel anomaly. They are all tradi-
| tionally religious, tracing their descent
from some of the best men (Hugenots
and Dutch) the world ever saw. Hence
they claim to themselves the title of
Christians" and all the colored race
are 'black property" or creatures.
They being the chosen people of God,
the heather are given to them for an
inheritance and they are the rod of di-
vine vengeance on the heather, as were
the Jews of old Living in the midst of
native population much larger than
themselves, and at fountains removed
many miles from each other, they feel
somewhat in the same insecure position
as do the Americans in the southern
states. The first question put by them
to strangers is respecting peace, and
when they receive reports from disaf-
fected or envious natives against any
tribe the case assumes all the appear
ance and proportions Of a regular insur
rection. Severe measures then appear
to the most mildly disposed among
them as imperatively called for, and,
however bloody the massacre that fol-
lows, no qualms of conscience enSue-it
is dire necessity for the sake of peace.
Indded, the late Mr.. Hendrick Potgeiter
most devoutly believed himself to be
the great peacemaker of the country.
English traders sold those articles
which the Beers most dread, namely,
arms and ammunition, and when the
number amounted to five, so much
alarm was excited among our neigh
bors that an expedition of several hun
dred Beers was seriously planned to
deprive the Bakwains of their guns.
Knowing that the latter would rather
have fed to the Kalahari Desert than
deliver up their weapons and become
slaves, / proceeded to the commandant,
Mr. Gera Krieger, and, representing the
evils Of any such expedition, prevailed
upon him to defer it; but that point be-
ing granted, the Boer wished to gain
another, which was that ! should act as
spy over the Bakwains.
| explained the impossibility of my
complying with his wish. even though
my principles as an Englishman had
no IN, h,,. -
an instance in which Sechele had gone
with his whole force to punish an un-
derchief without my knowledge. This
man, whose name was Kate, rebelled
and was led on in his rebellion by his
father-in-law, who had been regicide in
the case of Sechele's father Several of
those who remained faithful to that
chief were maltreated by Kake while
passing into the desert in search of
skins. We had just come to live with
the Bakwains when this happened and
Sechele consulted me. | advised mild
measures, but the messengers he sent
to Kake We're tainted with the words
He only pretends to wish to follow the
advise of the teacher; Sechele is cow
ard; let him come and fight if he dare" ]
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