GLANCE AT PAST HISTORY, 51 
strained convicts : all these matters haye tended 
to make " the Cape" no favourite dependency 
of late. But, it may be asked, why has this dis- 
satisfaction arisen ? We fear it must be honestly 
allowed, by every impartial observer of the past 
history of this colony, that it owes its origin, too 
much, to mis-management, and vacillation in 
the policy adopted there from time to time. 
For instance, let us only glance at the sketch 
of the past history of the last twenty years. 
During this period, we find three Kaffir wars 
rapidly succeeding each other ; seven Gover- 
nors, each trying different " theories of admi- 
nistration;" whose various experiments at con- 
cession and extermination, respectively ended 
in the adoption, and re-establishment, of the 
policy for which, in 1837, the wise and good 
Sir Benjamin D'Urban was recalled. Scarcely 
has this been effected, by the late lamented 
Sir George Cathcart, when another, duly autho- 
rized, arrives in the Sovereignty, to nullify once 
more the advantages gained. Not, this time, by 
concession to the natives, but by abandoning Bri- 
tish subjects, and denying them their rights as 
such — thus sowing in their minds the bitter 
feelings of distrust and republicanism. 
These colonists have been hitherto most un- 
justly charged with disloyalty to England. We 
say unjustly, because we have lived long amongst 
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