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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
to the South African soil, they have voluntarily 
relinquished years ago ; and they have now no 
grounds for reclaiming it. 
All internal evidences shew the Kaffir nation, 
as not indigenous to these districts, but as having 
worked down from North to South, meeting on 
their way with various located tribes, which 
they either exterminated, subdued, or expelled 
— being always victorious when brought into 
collision with them. 
Amongst these were the Hottentots, whom 
they dispersed to the Western part of the 
continent. And, in so doing, the Kaffirs gained 
but a victor's right to their present districts. 
Hence this question, so often argued and con- 
tended for, respecting the injustice of our pos- 
session of the soil in Southern Africa, is but 
an assumed one. That land having first been 
voluntarily ceded hj the aborigines, to the Dutch, 
and taken from these by the British in war, 
'brings it but to the right of tenure of all the 
national possessions. And further, when the 
Kaffirs, having wrested the country from the 
Hottentots, crossed the colonial boundary, and 
there met with those whom they could not expel 
or conquer : the land taken from them, by our 
force of arms, was a conquest of that which ori- 
ginally did not belong to them. 
When thus conquered by the Kaffirs, and 
