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old hostility between the English and the Dutch, 

 which at the time of the Transvaal War had at- 

 tained a dangerous height, seems to have entirely 

 passed away. The two sections regard each other 

 with feelings of resj^ect, friendship, mutual trust. 

 The o-enius of the Prime ]\Iimster, Mr. Cecil Rhodes, 

 has mainly contriljuted to this auspicious state of 

 things. He has known how to acquire and retain 

 the conhdence of the English and of the Dutch 

 colonist, he has shown them in the daily practice 

 of his Government that their interests are entirely 

 and absolutely common, and so homogeneous is 

 now this Cape coinmimity that the President of 

 the South xlfrican Republic and the Transxaal 

 Boers have been plainly and eff'ecti\el\' Avarned by 

 many Dutchmen of authorit}^ and position in Cape 

 Colony that unfriendl}' action on their part against 

 the British position in Zambesia, and hostile action 

 by Boer " trekkers," against the British Chartered 

 South African Company, will neither receive the 

 support nor enjoy the sympathy of any appre- 

 ciable section of the Dutch subjects of the C^ueen. 

 The Cape Colony Dutch sympathized profoundly 

 with their countrymen, who, in 1881, Avere light- 

 ing for their freedom ; but that freedom having 

 been restored and guaranteed, they are equally 

 ready to disapprove of, and e\en to resist, their 

 Transvaal kinsmen impelled by land hunger or by 

 sheer animosity to attack British possessions and 

 British subjects Avithout reason or proAOcation. 

 Moreover, the Cape Colony Dutch argue Avith 

 much force : '^ AYe supported you Boers in your 

 struggle for liberty, our sui)port saved you from 



