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clean, honest, tactless, and inconsistent. On the whole, it might
them. But to change the habits of the most conservative of Teutonic
series of complications, making up the troubled history of South
philanthropic view of the rights of the native and the claim which
British justice, if not blind, should at least be colour-blind. The
it is apt to be irritating when urged by a Boston moralist or a
upon the assumption that the black is the inferior race. Such a
it imposed upon them by those who live under entirely different
form of virtue which, from the serenity of a well-ordered household
shall be between a white employer and his half-savage,
have grappled with the question, and in each it has led to trouble.
The British Government in South Africa has always played the
It was upon this very point that the first friction appeared
bloodshed followed the arrest of a Dutch farmer who had maltreated
hanged. This punishment was unduly severe and exceedingly
battle, but never those of the scaffold. The making of political
the man who arrested and the judge who condemned the prisoners were
mercy; but all this was forgotten afterwards in the desire to make
resentment which was left behind that when, after the Jameson raid,
hanged, the beam was actually brought from a farmhouse at Cookhouse
had died in 1816. Slagter's Nek marked the dividing of the ways
tamperings with the local government and the local ways, with.
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