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Excerpt from The Boer War: Open Letter to Dr. Conan Doyle But the worst of it is that your special pleading is irrele vant. The question in hand is not the right of Britain to Cape Colony; and you have raised this merely to prejudice the real issue. You admit that the title-deeds covered only Cape Colony, but you proceed to insinuate that we relate to the voor-trekkers who went up country beyond the colony as the United States would have related to any Dutch New Yorkers who might, after the Revolution, have trekked westward and formed new States fiercely anti-american and extremely anti-progressive. You are indeed a judicial ex positor for the unprejudiced. You are perfectly well aware that (1) the Orange Free State once actually invited Sir George Grey to become its President; (2) that it was one of the best-governed States in the world; and (3) that the Transvaal has made more educational progress in ten years than England ever made in thirty. You are further aware that the two Boer States set up manhood suffrage when England had not enfranchised her agricultural laborers; and that the Transvaal put no restrictions on enfranchisement until there came a flood of foreigners who avowed that if enfranchised they would not accept the first duties of Boer citizenship. You know all this, and, professing to write dispassionate history, you call the Boer Republics by impli cation fiercely anti-british and extremely anti-progressive from start to finish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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