With such enlightened legislation their motives for seeking the franchise would have been less pressing.

But the President and his Raad would have none of the recommendations of the commission.
The rugged old autocrat declared that Schalk Burger was a traitor to his country for having signed such a document, and a new reactionary committee was chosen to report upon the report.

Words and papers were the only outcome of the affair.

No amelioration came to the newcomers.
But at least they had again put their case publicly upon record, and it had been endorsed by the most respected of the burghers.

Gradually in the press of the English-speaking countries the raid was ceasing to obscure the issue.