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them, 'know them, and their feelings, intimately, 
and we can most conscientiously and impartially 
assert, that they are not disloyal to their native 
land, its sovereign, or its laws. But if, even- 
tually, they were to become so, (which God for- 
bid) how could we blame them without taking 
equal blame to ourselves ; if, after being per- 
mitted to locate in the Colony under British 
protection, and having scarcely parted with, 
and sunk their capital there, they are abandoned 
to the ruthless mercy of the barbarians. Surely 
this must tend to cramp enterprise ; to stay im- 
provement ; and to weaken every effort for so- 
cial advancement within the Colony. It must 
retard commerce, and lessen thereby its exports ; 
nay more, it may tend to unhinge the loyal affec- 
tions of Englishmen in Southern Africa ; and it 
now does give renewed energy, not only to the 
disaffected and rebellious colonists, but to the 
native tribes also, and stimulates and encourages 
them to a fresh outbreak, and renewed warfare. 
The least false step in the government of 
the Colony, and its dependencies, at the present 
time, will be of the most material injury. Never, 
in its history, was there a better opening for 
amending the errors of the past, and permanently 
securing its welfare, than that now presented. 
The boundaries for the Kaffir tribes are fixed 
at the Eastern bank of the Great Kei Eiver, 
