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practical philosopher will, uiiquestionablj, give the preference 
to the plan of the Moravians, which unites with precepts of 
religion and morality a spirit of useful labor; and whose 
grand aim is to make their disciples comfortable in this 
world, as a token or earnest of that happiness which they are 
taught to expect in the world to come. But after all the toil 
and anxiety which the worthy character above mentioned 
cheerfully underwent in the cause of suffering humanity, 
•what must his feelings be, if he still be living, and happens 
to peruse the following letter, to find that his only reward is 
that of being considered b}" the vile people of the- Cape as 
the abettor of murder, and that he has been with others the 
innocent cause of fifteen of his inoffensive disciples being in^ 
humanly butchered in cold blood by those remorseless co- 
lonists who dare to call themselves by the sacred name of 
Christians. This letter, which just reached me as the present 
work, was going to press, will serve to shew, among other facts 
I shall have occasion to state, of what deliberate and blood- 
thirsty ruffians the peasantry of the Cape are composed. 
It states that, " on the 6th of December 1802, about the 
" evening, three Bosjesmans came to the house of the Burger 
" Cornelis Jansen, having with them three pack-oxen {draag- 
*' ossen) ; the said Jansen immediately reported it to the com- 
" mandant {Veld-Cornet), who instantly sent an armed party 
" (commando) to his house. On the following day, being the 
" 7th, there came twelve more to them, having three guns 
" and three pack-oxen ; all the rest were well armed with 
" bows, arrows,- and hassagays. The commandant Berger 
" went himself to Jansen & in the morning to ask the rcasoa 
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