The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-04
APPEALS FOR BOERS
GEN. PEARSON PRESENTS THEIR
CASE.
THE NEW ORLEANS MATTER.
THE PORT A BASE OF WARLIKE
OPERATIONS.

He Appeals to the American Sense OF
Right and Their Love of Liberty to
Deal Fairly With the Beers in
Their Death Struggle With Great
Britain-The Horses and Mules OBJ
tanned at New Orleans Absolutely
Necessary to the Continuance of
the War by Gfeat Britain.
New Orleans. July Seen. Pearsons,
special agent of the Boer government
who conducted legal proceedings here to
prevent the shipping of mules to South
Africa, has issued the following address
to the American people. the title being
"A Statement of Facts; a Question and
an Appeal"
The burghers of South Africa who
have maintained the war with Great Brit
ain these two years past, have in their
struggle history striklngly parallel with
your own.
Driven by English oppression they
went into the wilderness and redeemed
from the wild beasts and the savage a
country for themselves and there planted
civilization and established a free gov
eminent. in the course of time, English
cupidity threatened them. They with
stood the demand. Raids were made upon
their territory Troops and munitions of
war massed upon their border and insult
ing demands made of them. The appeal
10 arms followed. hundreds of thousands
of British soldiers from all parts of the
world were massed on the soil of these
two little republics containing fewer in
habitants than any state of your union
and yet they remain unconquered and
will so remain if the American people
Will compel their government To keep
faith.
Enforce Our Treaty.
by the law of your land,-a treaty
solemnly entered into and to which you
compelled the assent Of the British gov
ernment,it is declared that the ports of
the United States shall not be made, the
base OF warhke operations against a ma
ton with whom the United States are
| at peace. The attention of your courts and
your president has been formally called
10 the operations of a body of English
army officials with headquarters at New
| Orleans. From many parts of the United
| States These. army officers gather horses
/ and mules for their armies and at New
| Orleans load them on ships and take them
to their armies in South Africa Without
/ these munitions of war the war on the
South African republics would almost in
stantly end. When these republics went
to war with their oppresscr, they did not
believe that they went to war with you;
they had faith in your promise of fair
| play, and can hold and establish their
freedom and keep their country If You
keep faith.
To-day the army supplies that you
| permit TO leave your ports are used chief
| ly TO continue torturing and Staying wom-
en- and children. The revelations forced
| to be made in the English parliament
within the past few weeks have not only
shocked and staggered humanity bu:
have shamed it as we'll.
How much of the sin and shame shall
become your own and what will you do
about it?
''On this natal day of your great re-
public Will you not turn your thoughts
from purely selfish patriotism and in
emulation OF your Washington let your
hearts go out to the people who. as your
ancestors did. seek to unfurl and to up
hold the flag of liberty and to do so just
as your forefathers did when engaged in
the struggle with the same enemy.
The People Not Hostile.
"The appeal is made to the liberty-lov-
ing people of America When l came
here l came fearing that the people were
hostile as their government has been
unfriendly to the Beers. find. indeed,
that the contrary is true. The hearts OF
the American people go out to these
South Africans so grandly struggling
with the enormous power of England, 10
maintain their right 10 keep and to rule
the land they redemmed-but you have
not impressed the federal administration
with your will. The President does not
enforce the treaties and his subordinates
| despise them.
"The English government is at the end
of its resources. The Beers have won
as against them. If the American people
will stop the shipment of supplies from
American ports to British armeis. the
war will end and the Weyler-like atroci-
ties at Bloemfontein and Pretoria-the
murder Of women and children--will end.
80 in behalf of those sturdy Burghers
in arms. who will part with life rather
than liberty; in behalf of those women
and little ones who. dying OF starvation
and in prison. yet cheer their brave ones
in the field: in the name OF your own his
tory and traditions and principles, and
for your own sake, at this season. ] make
bold 70 prey YOU 10 keep the faith and
the law made by yourselves and compel
your government TO be American in the
traditional and glorious sense"