Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-19
AMERICAN rRANsvAAL FUND.
TO AID WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
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! In the name of the Africander Bond,
on behalf of the citizens of the South
African Republic and their noble ally,
the Orange Free State, appeal to all
Americans to show their sympathy
with the brave people who are now, in
the words of John Hancock, literally
offering all that the have, all that
they are, and all that they hope to be,
upon the altar OF their country, fight
| ing to the death the arrogance and i'm
position of the great British Empire, in
order to remain free and independent,
as did our American forefathers in 17T6
and 1912. There will be no Boer
wounded on the British American hos
| pital ship.
Send your subscriptions. small and
large, to the newspaper which publishes
this appeal TO forward the same to me,
and I will send the amount to Mr.. C. C.
de Villters, Cape Town, Hon. Treasu-
rer Of the Committee of the Africander
| Bond, to be expended under the fol-
lowing appeal just received by me.
If fuller information about the Boer
| question be desired 1.-THE Outlook
pamphlet upon the War in South At
RIGA" will be mailed upon receipt of
six cents In postage stamps
GEORGE w. VAN SICLEN.
al Broadway, New York City.
December Z, 1899
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
Dear Countrymen:
II is in accordance with "a resolution.
unanimously adopted at 4 meeting of
Africander and Bond Members of par
lament, that We address YOU as fol-
lows:
Notwithstanding the most strenuous
efforts made by our clergymen, our
ministers. our party in Parliament.
our Bond branches, and our women
by means of respectful petitions. pub
lie meetings, and by other means to
preserve the invaluable blessings of
peace for South Africa, the much
dIended war has virtually broken out.
Fer Ma5esty's forces will soon be in
volved in bloody war with the
burghers of the TransvaaI and the Free
State, who are one with us in religion
language and descent.
There are but few Colonial Africand-
eds who are not bound to the inbahi
that's of both Republics by ties OF re-
iatlonship, intimacy or friendship. This
makes war still more painful to you
ana us, and much more calamitous to
south Africa than it would otherwise
be.
1t Is not our object to inquire 10
whom all this misery and calamity
which awaits our country, owing to the
existing circumstances, are due.
Enough acrimony exists without such
INQUIRY. Much more does 1t befit lis to
yield to the overpowering impulse
which nils the heart OF our people with
desire to do something in aid of our
kinsmen and friends beyond the Orange
and Vaal rivers. by giving 1t an on
Pcr'unlty to express Itself in some le-
climate manner in work and deed.
What may, what can. we Colonial
AIrlcanders do in this sorrowfuI time?
JOIN In the work of warfare with the
weapons? The law and our duty as
British subjects forbid this, even should
otner circumstances not oppose such
| a course Of action.
But what neither the law nor the
duty OF the subject forbids. and what.
moreover. agrees in every respect with
all principles of religion and humanity,
is the offering of help to the wounded,
70 the widows and the orphans.
II you are in earnest in your ex-
Dressions of sympathy with your
brothers and sisters in these parts.
| you will make sacrifices in favor of
| those men who will be wounded or
mutilated on the field Of battle, and for
the sake OF those wives and children
who will be robbed OF their only sup
| port of life by sword or bullet.
With that object in view, we entreat
you to subscribe to the appended list,
and to do so with unstinted liberality.
When the war Is concluded there
| will be hundreds. perhaps thousands,
| of widows and orphans left quite I'M
| provided for. II is chiefly on their
| behalf that our party in Parliament
| appeal to you. Large sums OF money
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