CHAPTER XXII. 

 NATIVE WARS AND UNREST. 



Ever since the days of Lord Glenelg, when 

 (after the exhausting frontier wars) he reversed the 

 policy of the military commander, and the Colonial 

 authorities, and re-instated the hostile tribes on land 

 within the Cape Colony, South Africa has been 

 subjected to a policy of expediency, to satisfy 

 the so-called negrophile sentiment, represented in 

 England by the Exeter Hall party, and also on the 

 part of the Whigs or so-called Liberals, to capture 

 seats in the British Parliament, rather than to estab- 

 lish a continuous, consistent, practical basis of policy, 

 in dealing with the native tribes, in the several 

 colonies and states. The Exeter Hall would-be 

 philanthropists influenced largely by reports of 

 some missionaries who take an unpractical and one- 

 sided view of the problem and of cranks, who make 

 it their hobby to write harrowing tales of the 

 " dreadful treatment that the innocent native receives 

 under the rule of the barbarous and uncivilised white 

 colonists," are really the natives' worse enemies. 

 They teach them equality before they are in a 

 sufficiently advanced stage to fully appreciate their 

 real position, and the result is trouble and punish- 

 ment ; which could have been avoided, if they had 

 been left to settle their differences without outside 

 influence. 



The Basutos during the sixties were causing 

 unrest on the Free State border, thieving stock from 

 farmers, and spoiling for trouble with the Free State 

 Boers, which culminated in war in 1866. The mount- 



