The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-14
TRAITORS! THE IRISH BRI-
GADE SERVING WITH
THE BOERSI


Then came the following highly inter-
esting reading matter:
1.-The men of the Observation-Disclosures
mainly-brigade, who left Johannesburg
On the outbreak of the war to fight the
British are described as some Of the
worst sweepings of Johannesburg and as
all loafers.' They were about 12O strong
and led by an American adventurer call
ed Col Blake. Their avowed object was
loot and probably that Is all they would
be good for The Beers themselves have
a poor opinion of them and were very
anxious to keep them out of the way, to
prevent their doing anything disgraceful.
When they left Johannesburg no rifles or
cartridge belts had been served out to
them. The Irish flag bears the motto,
Remember Michaelstown.'
1t was not long before the English cor
respondent heard Of BLAKE, the Amerf-
can adventurer," againe This time the
adventurer had Joined Gen. Cronje the
great Boer officer, and was a member of
his staff. Cronje, in the opinion of all
experts, is a great man. He is a Phil
Sheridan, Jeb Stuart and Mosby COM
blned in one. To him Blake went direct.
presented his papers and offered his
sword in the Boer cause.
Cronje talked with him about his serv-
ices in the American army, saw that he
had grit no less than ability to plan. and
he accepted him promptly. Several times
he was sent for by Gen. Joubert, who act
ed on the Americans advice.
That foreign military experts have
guessed the truth from-the African cam
paign is shown by the following. written
by the military expert of the London
Mail The expert is not on the scene.
but in London. He says:
'"rhe man who has made the most COM
plete study of the American Civil war.
travelling all over the battlefields, studying
all the ground of the campaigns. convers-
ing with all the survivors on both sides
Of the great contest, studying all the in
Vulnerable memoirs written by those who
took part in it, comparing the different
maps and plans-the man, in fact, who
knows all the details as we'll as all LIE
principles Of that war au fond, is Lieut.
Col Henderson, up to the moment of his
appointment professor of military history
at the staff college. He is also the au-
thor of the volume from which I quoted
the other day, those principles Of Stone
wall Jack5on's, which seemed to me to
have been In practice so admirably ap-
piled on the Boer side. SO strongly lacking
on ours.
THAT fact has acquired q fresh signil-
canoe from an incident in the life of Jou-
which l was unaware at the time that 1
wrote. 1t has been stated. and Is 1 be-
lieve, tive. though I cannot myself vouch
Tor the fact, that in his younger days
Joubert served under Stonewall Jackson
as a volunteer throughout his great cam
paigns. If so, that would account for the
fact that thought 1 detected hand
that had been trained in some such school
in the management of the Boer forces.
Not knowing Of Joubert's antecedents
was inclined to put this down to some
French or German hand. If Joubert, In
fact, served in the Shenandoah valley
and other campaigns under Jackson, 1t IS
quite certain that he would from that
time on have been close student of the
methods Of that great commander. No
man of SO much intelligence who had had
that experience could be other.
~ should say that, under those circum-
stances, he would be, knowing his own
people and his own country as he does, a
much more effective commander-in-chies