for their faith, and is pursuing us since.  It is he and his army that rage the most at our unexampled blessings.  It is he who wants us to forfeit them all and the Lord’s favour as well.  It emanates from the evil one that so many among us are seduced into wicked political plans to subvert authority installed by God, to incite our brethren to sedition in the Colonies, wanting to dispossess the English.  For the Queen’s Government there is as much from God as are the authorities over us here and in the Orange Free State.

“God saith by Solomon (Prov. xxiv. 21-22):  ’My son, fear thou the Lord and the king; and meddle not with them that are given to change:  for their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the destruction of them both?’” and he finally warned them of the risk they incurred, after having been advanced and blessed in an unexampled way, of being flung back to their previous ignoble position upon the ash heap.  There are plenty of respectable Boers in whose ears those expressions still tingle.

The man, who is no speaker, was, nevertheless, apt to grow warm and impressive, drawn out probably by interruptions and opposing views.  The speeches terminated on one occasion by one of the party saying in violent Bond fashion:  “The English hired the Zulus to massacre our people.  They robbed us of Natal, and drove us from the Colonies.  There can be no peace with them until we have our own.  God helps them who help themselves.  Whoever takes their part is against us and against every true Afrikaner.”

MODUS VIVENDI SUGGESTED BY OLD FREE STATER

As is known, the conference between Sir Alfred Milner and President Krueger, assisted by President Steyn, took place at Bloemfontein during the first days of June last (1899), and resulted in the refusal to a demand of a five years’ franchise made on behalf of the Transvaal Uitlanders, which refusal was some time later modified by enacting a law admitting them to full burgher rights after a probation of seven years, but coupled with restrictive forms and conditions which made that measure unacceptable.  Some time before that conference the old Free Stater already mentioned obtained several prolonged interviews with the hon.  State Secretary Reitz, at Pretoria, with the object of dissuading the Transvaal Government from conferring with Sir Alfred Milner while as yet no sufficient friendly rapprochement had been reached and no advance had been made as to mutually approved bases upon which to confer.  He strongly deprecated the idea of granting “full” burgher rights to Uitlanders, but held that their needs and wishes could be met by allowing their interests to be amply represented without impinging upon the special privileges which should be reserved for the burgher status proper.  He was finally invited by Mr. Reitz to submit his scheme in writing, with the promise that it should receive careful consideration.  That old Free Stater complied, and supplied President Krueger with a duplicate separately as well.  The scheme ran in substance as follows: