The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-10-26
STORY OBJ BOER AND BRITON.
The Record Of British Greed and BOer
Determination for Hundred
Years.

The Record Of British Greed and Boer
Determination for q Hundred
Years.
Columbia State.
81 have but one lamp by which my
feet are guided" said Patrick Henry
on the eve of the American Revolu
tion, "and that is the lamp Of expert
ence. know no way Of Judging of the
future but by the past
So the Beers can say in their issue
themselves in their distrust of the
British amity which prompts the dis
patch Of $4,000 troops TO their borders.
Should they, relying upon the just and
benevolent purposessOf Great Britain,
have waited until an army more nu-
merous, it Is boasted, than Wellington
ever commanded could surround them
with It's Gordon of steel =? That Ia q
question which is answered by their
past, which is iiiuminei by tho Jig III oi
their experience.
The record will show why the Beers
do not have confidence in the respect
of Great Britain for their liberties. It
will show that the present war la but
the elimination of bloody feud of gen-
eratiOns, the product of q century OF
British aggression. Time after time
the Dutch of the Cape settlements have
migrated from their homes, seeking in
the desert escape from the rule of Eng
land, and as often the long arm Of Eng
them. To the south and the east and
the west OF them the British seized
lands and hemmed them in, and -ow
they are cut off from the north as we'll
by Cecil Rhodes new territory Of
British South Africa. There is no be-
yond. They are surrounded, and mi
grafton cannot serve. again to preserve
their cherished independence. The
purpose of England made known to
them by long experience and by pres-
emit menace they have no recourse ex-
wish to maintain them. Though the
chance of success. be desperate IT is.stili
chance, and In waiting there Is no
color Of hope.
The first white settlement in South
Africa was made by the Dutch, who
planted o colony at Cape Town in 1862.
In 1864 they were reinforced, as South
Carolina was, by an influx Of French
Huguenots, exiled by the revocation of
the Edict of Nantes. Nine years later
the little colony attempted to throw
Off the Dutch sovereignty, but England
sent o feet to cOerce 1t and reestab-
lished the authority of the Prince of
Orange. This was done, England, how
ever, retaining control of the country
until 1902, when Holland was given
possession. Within four years It was
seized again by Great Britain and has
been part of the empire ever since.
The Beers, disappointed in their
hopes of independence, were restive
under British rule and In 1885, their
disaffectiOn increased by the abolition
90 .louaru In tho Cana Hn1nnp fhoy
began to migrate to the northward.
Large numbers sold their farms at a
sacrifice and moved beyond the Orange
river into the Kaf1ir country. Here
they had long and exhausting conflicts
with the nat ves, and a part of them
moved eastw I'd, crossed the Draken-
berg mOunta ns and established the In
dependent republic OF Natal there main
tanning themselves against the pow
erful Zulu nation. But the" time came
when they were almost exhausted In
warfare with the negro hosts, and
England took that time as fit one to
seize Natal and proclaim her sOver-
eighty. This was in 1842, and the next
year the Natal Beers migrated again.
One body went to the Orange Free
State, by that time established, and the
other proceeded farther north, to the
present Transvaal. The Boer republic
of Natal was extinguished and that
country has since remained in British
hands.
Those Doors who had remained In
their FIRST settlement north of the Or
ange river retained their independence
until 18aa. when they came into coils.
ion. with the Griquas. The British
governor OF cape Colony, Sir Harry
Smith, LOOK the side of the negroes
and together tRey defeated the Beers
A. British rah,uent was appointed and
in 1848 rne e,,Oav was annexed by En-.
gland as the urange River British GOV.
ereigntY. r'esorius, o Boer leader
led rsvsiI nnd expelled the British
but theB tsthrned lin force and reestab
lished tho sovereignty. Of the crown
The B0ers we're never pfAcated, and
the state IL INC country was SO menac
ing that ln 1864 England deemed II
wise to uiySiitpw and two years later
recognievu ,Ae independence OF the
Orange grea state.
In 1857 t,etorius, who had crossed
beyond tho Yaal where the Transvaa
republic ~sH forming, induced Eng
land to res0Snlxe the virtual tndepend
ence OF tHe country under the name
OF the NHt6ss African republic. Sis
years aItt,rvs Efu the name was changed
4. to the Soaun african republic. The