with, especially to those who are within their power, as the natives
have found out sufficiently, and as the British have found out ever
since Majuba, and the retrocession of the Transvaal. The wrongs of the
Uitlanders were only one symptom of a disease which originated at
Pretoria in 1881, and was steadily spreading itself all over South
Africa.

"5. With regard to the equal rights question, it is quite true that all
is not as it ought to be in the Cape Colony. But the condition of the
native in the Transvaal is 100 years behind that of our natives in the
Cape Colony, and you may take it as a broad fact that in proportion as
Boer domination prevails the gravitation of the native towards slavery
will be accelerated."

In conclusion, Mr. Moffat has this to say of the "Boer dream of
Afrikander predominance": "We, who have been living out here, have been
hearing about this thing for years, but we have tried not to believe it.
We felt, many of us, that the struggle had to come, but we held our
peace because we did not want to be charged with fomenting race hatred."
He refers to Ben Viljoen's manifesto of September 29th, and to President
Steyn's manifesto, and State Secretary Reitz's proclamation of October
11th, and says, "When I read these in conjunction with the history of
South Africa for the last 18 years, I see that the cause of peace was
hopeless in such hands."

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Almost contemporaneously with the expression of opinion of Dr. Moffat
(in 1877), the following report was written by M. Dieterlen, to the
Committee of the _Missions Evangéliques de Paris_:--