THE FUTURE OF THE TRANSVAAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2258, 24 May 1881, Page 3

THE FUTURE OF THE TRANSVAAL.

Concerning the future of the Transvaal, a correspondent in a London paper writes as follows:—"Do the British public realise that that the handing back of the Transvaal to Boer rule means the giving over of one and a-half million natives to practical slavery ? From the day in 1878 when the British flag was hoisted at Pretoria the natives of the Transvaal have been free—free to go whore they liked, work for whom they liked, and 'ask what wages they liked. Their lives wore also safe. All this will be at an end if we hand the country back to the_ tender mercies of the Boers. I am quite euro that the Boers will never agree to any terms which guarantoe the lives, the liberties, and the rights of the Natives. Are we prepared to take the responsibility of leaving the Nativea of the Transvaal unprotected ? This is a question which must be considered and answered we talk of giving back the Transvaal to the Boers. lam surprised, and rather indignant, that the Aborigines' Protection Society and the Anti-Slavery Society have not justified their existence and their subscription list by coming forward at this crisis and enlightening public opinion. And again, where is Dr. Colenso ? Where is Lord Shaftesbury ? And where are all the other philanthropists who were always standing up for the Zulus ?"