Yet if it were to be done again we should doubtless do it.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
But the details of the measure were less honourable than the principle.
It was carried out suddenly, so that the country had no time to adjust itself to the new conditions.

Three million pounds were ear-marked for South Africa, which gives a price per slave of from sixty to seventy pounds, a sum considerably below the current local rates.

Finally, the compensation was made payable in London, so that the farmers sold their claims at reduced prices to middlemen.

Indignation meetings were held in every little townlet and cattle camp on the Karoo.