He mistook an agitation against the exclusive policy of the State for one against the existence of the State itself.

A wide franchise would have made his republic firm-based and permanent.

It was a small minority of the Uitlanders who had any desire to come into the British system.

They were a cosmopolitan crowd, only united by the bond of a common injustice.

But when every other method had failed, and their petition for the rights of freemen had been flung back at them, it was natural that their eyes should turn to that flag which waved to the north, the west, and the south of them--the flag which means purity of government with equal rights and equal duties for all men.