The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-18
WHAT B0ER ENYOYS WANT
WISH LIMERICK TO TELL ENGLAND
 TO "STOP" THE VAR.

Think That 1T Ihts country S"au s"O
 Word HosttIities Would Cease-Rc-
 eeption of the Delegates by Mayor V"n wyck at the City Hail-Mayor Wishes Them Success in Their NIisDion. New York, May 1.-The principal event in connection with the visit to this city of the Boer delegates Messrs
 Vessels, Wolmarans and Fischer, occur
 red this afternoon. when they were re- ceived at the city hall by Mayor Van
 Wyck, and, in accordance with the res olutions passed by the-nunicipal assem- bly. officially welcomed to the city Ac- companied by the reception committee and a delegation from the South Afri- can club. the delegates drove from the
 Manhattan hotel to the city hall, where the municipal assembly and the mayor were awaiting them. As the delegates reached the city hall a large crowd pressed around the carriages and cheer ed and the delegation raised their hats in acknowledgment.
 When the delegates entered the may or's office Kilian Van Rensselaer,, chair man of the reception committee, intro duced each of the delegates to the may or, who said: 'I am delighted to wei come you to the city of New York and to assure you that in America you will al from the 1ih- erty-loving people of this country. New CT since I have been in the mayors of fee has more pleasant duty been dis charged by me than this one to welcome you to a free people l want to assure you that wherever you go you will lind welcome from the people, and we hope that when your mission is ended and you are returning to your own country, you will again call on us so that we may have the pleasure of giving you another welcome"
 Delegate Fischer said: This is to us an occasion of pleasure and of pride. We believe that no people can under stand what it is to struggle for freedom except a people which has gained its freedom by such a struggle. The re-
  from all classes of people. We cannot think that the mission to seek peace for our country-peace with honor-will be successful. We hope we shall obtain the objects of our mission and we are en- couraged in our hope by the splendid reception we are given everywhere. This reception by you. MT Mayor, is an hon. or which we will remember. The small liberty-loving people will think the bet ter of their big brother We think we will come well out of the struggle, We have been told that 90 per cent. of the people of America sympathize with us. We want to convert the other 10 per cent. by simply telling the truth We hope that a free people will not have appealed to a free people in vain" Alderman Kennedy then read an ad
 dress prepared by the municipal assem- bly welcoming the delegates.
 Then Delegate Vessels said: We have come to tell the free people of America that we mean to win and to retain our freedom; if not to-day, to- morrow; if not tomorrow we will keep on fighting for 1t for the next hundred years. We did not want to fight, but we had to. We do not ask you to fight for us, but we ask you to say to Eng land Stop and we think that if Amer iea said the word the war would be stopped We are doing our own fight ing, but you can hardly call it a war.
 It is like little boy trying to defend himself when attacked"
 Delegate Wolmarans, who spoke in Dutch, gave history of the Transvaal trouble from the beginning. He said:
 We never sought the war. It was thrust upon us We have tried to have all our disputes arbitrated This has been refused by MT Chamberlain and Sir Alfred Milner. We are gratitied at the way America has subscribed for the widows and orphans of the Boers We want to prevent the making of more widows and orphans by dunn dunn bull lets or otherwise.
 Before you leave" said Mayor Van Wyck, T want to express to you my sincere sorrow at the death of General Joubert. l knew him when he visited this country and he told me all about the previous trouble. 1 hope you will convey to his widow my deep sorrow. Again I wish you God speed. May you be successful in your mission"
 The members of the municipal assem- bly who were present were each intro duced to the delegates. Then a group of women were introduced and MT. Fischer said he relied on the women of America to help along that sympathy for the struggling Boers which was now so sorely needed. As the envoys left the city hall they were shaken by the hands by persons on all sides. The crowd set up a cheer and MT. Fischer standing on the steps of the city hall delivered a brief address, in which he said the people of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State were struggling for their liberty, and wanted the sym pathy of the people of America. The delegates then were escorted to their carriages. It took several minutes to extricate the carriages from the crowd. which pressed around and shook hands with the delegates.
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