CHAPTER II.
ENGLISH AND BOERS.[5] 1 .-- _The Ideal of the Boers._ No French Pro-Boer has reproduced the portrait I have published, as given by Dr.Kuyper.It disturbs the conception presented to their readers by journalists, whose dishonesty is only equalled by their ignorance.

Quoting his own statements, I have shown Boer relations with the natives; I will now proceed to show their relations with the English.
In addition to Dr.Kuyper's evidence, I will avail myself of a document from Boer sources: The Petition of Rights, addressed to the President of the Orange Free State, February 17th, 1881, and bearing Krueger's name at the head of the list of signatures.

This document clearly shows not only the manner in which Boers write history, but also that, five years before the discovery of the Gold Mines, they cherished as their ideal, not only the preservation of their independence, but the driving out of the English from all South Africa: "From the Zambesi to Simon's Bay, _Africa for the Afrikanders!_" This is the rallying cry with which the document ends, and we find it repeated by Dr.Reitz, as the concluding words of his pamphlet, "A Century of Injustice." [Footnote 5: _Le Siecle_, March 23rd, 1900.] 2 .-- _The English in South Africa._ Dr.Kuyper cannot forgive the English their occupation of the Cape.

Yet, they had only followed the example of the Dutch who, during their war with Spain, 1568-1648, had seized the greater portion of the Portuguese colonies, because Portugal had been an ally of Spain.

Holland had been forced into an alliance with France, and in exactly the same way, in 1794 and 1806, England seized the Cape.