Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-27
CAPE DUTCH HAVE RISEN.
The London Mail Says the North
ern Portion Is IN Revolt.

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Information through a most trust
worthy channel has reached here to
the effect that the Boer commanders
in Cape Colony are being joined by
many rebels, and that the north of
| the colonies is rising.
Private and reliable advices re-
ceived in London by cable state that
| the whole northern Cape Colony is in
open revolt. The Dutch have again
risen, as they rose when the invasion
force crossed the range in the early
days Of the war. The new bands
which have just burst into the colony
| are receiving both moral and material
support from the colonial Dutch.''
Commandant w. d. Snyman spent
one year with the Boer forces and
| fought in seventeen big battles and in
innumerable skirmishes. For six
months he was on General De Vets
staff and was with that general when
he came within hairs breadth of
capturing Lord Kitchener. In Sep
TENDER he learned that the Cape Col
ony had offered a big reward for him
and President Steyn urged him to
leave the country. SEQ to America -
he said. eff they catch me they can
only send me to ST. Helena, but if you
are caught you will be Shot"
Commandant Snyman came to New
York with his 16-year-old son, who
was with him through the whole of
the war, but the other members of
his family, his wife and his other chill
dren, he knows nothing of. He left
them at his home, but his farm of
5000 acres has been confiscated and
his wife and children may have died
since he last heard from them, year
ago. Like thousands of other Beers
who were once wealthy, Mr.. Snyman
is now without means as a result of
the war.
Mr.. Snyman has written the follow
ing statement regarding the South
African war:
The Beers will win the war against
Great Britain. the two feptsb Hcs will
yet be free and independent, and Gen
eral Christian H. De Wet is the man
who is bringing about this result.
The great ambition of the Beers may
not be realized within the next year,
nor perhaps the following year, but
they will continue to fight for liberty
even as General Washington and his
countrymen kept on, year after wear,
through defeats and diScouragements
until their righteous cause triumphs,
whether it will require eight years, as
it did Washington, or even longer.
Your American fOrefathers fought
for several years without gaining any
important victories, and in Europe
their cause was considered Just as
hopeless as many Americans and Eu-
rOpeanS now regard ours, but the time
came, thanks to the brave men who
knew no surrender, when they aston
iShed the world by the victories which
led to the founding of the great re-
public which now is my refuge.
A great cause does not hinge upon
one mans life, any more than one
man can win a war. De Wet, say,
is the Washington of South Africa: if
misfortune should overtake him there
are Judge Herzog, Froneman and
HaSSenbFoek, as capable generals as
he, ready to take his place.
When l say that the Beers will win
this war [ mean that they will win it
without any foreign assistance. Med
iation or interference. we never ex-
pected to receive, though the former
would have been welcomed, naturally.
In order to win we must fight, fight,
fight. We must fight until our pres
ent enemy grants us independence or
until not one of us is left alive to de-
mand it. These are not only my own
sentiments; they are shared by every
burgher who is among the $4,000 or
10000 Beers now in the field.
When / babe goodby to General De
Wet in the Free State in September
he said to me: eff you hear that I
have surrendered, deny it. 1 will new
er surrender; will fight as long as
one man stands by me. y
President Steyn-that noble patriot
said to me on Sept. Is, as I left him
near Komati Poort: s'You may tell
the American friends of our cause
that as long as live I shall defend
that cause. We will continue this
fight until we vim
That is the spirit which animates
the entire army, from the youngest
boy in the ranks to the Oldest grand
father who carries a rife.
For three months Kitchner, with an
army of almost 10000 men, tried to
capture Us, and De Wet laughed at his
efforts ana incidentally CAPTURED from