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Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the "loyal" North was left at the mercy of its domestic enemies and a prey to parasites by Chase's policy of loans instead of taxes and of voluntary support instead of enforced support. The consequence of this financial policy was an immense opportunity for the "disloyally" and the parasites to make huge war profits out of the "loyals" and the Government.
Of course, it must not be supposed that everyone who seized the chance to feather his nest was so careless or so impolitic as to let himself be classed as a "disloyal." An incident of the autumn of 1861 shows the temper of those professed "loyals" who were really parasites.
At the time of the rising of the Boers against the British Protectorate, which culminated in the battle of Majuba Hill and the retrocession of the Transvaal, a number of native chiefs in districts outside the Transvaal boundary, sent to the British Commissioner for native affairs to offer their aid to the British Government, and many of them took the "loyals" of the Transvaal under their protection.
Gladstone to power His letters to the Boer leaders and the loyals His refusal to rescind the annexation The Boers encouraged by prominent members of the Radical party The Bezuidenhout incident Despatch of troops to Potchefstroom Mass meeting of the 8th December 1880 Appointment of the Triumvirate and declaration of the republic Despatch of Boer proclamation to Sir O. Lanyon His reply Outbreak of hostilities at Potchefstroom Defence of the court-house by Major Clarke The massacre of the detachment of the 94th under Colonel Anstruther Dr.
Some of the people spoke of the "hidden treasury"; some spoke of the People's Tribunal; some insisted upon a wholesale killing, for the loyals and the Czechs are rapidly approaching, and from everywhere come rumors about uprisings. Finally it was decided to try the Family immediately.
Therefore I recommend that the sum of £30,000 should be at once applied to satisfy the minor claims of the Loyals; that this should be done at once, at same time as the meeting of the National Pitso. "The effect of this measure in connection with the meeting of the National Pitso would be very great, for it would be a positive proof of the good disposition of the Colonial Government.
"I urge that this measure of satisfying the Loyals is one that presses and cannot well wait months to be settled. "In conclusion, I recommend that a National Pitso be held; that the Loyals should at once be paid off.
On the 10th January Sir George Colley left Maritzburg to join the force at Newcastle, but at this time nobody dreamt that he meant to attack the Nek with such an insignificant column. It was known that the loyals and troops who were shut up in the various towns in the Transvaal had sufficient provisions to last for some months, and that there was therefore nothing to necessitate a forlorn hope.
Three times it happened on ration days that Red Dog and Kills Asleep, swaggering about the corral, told their followers to pick out and drive away such cattle as were passably fat and presumably tender, leaving to the silent loyals only a miserable batch of beeves which Lieutenant Boynton described as "dried on the hoof."
There are plenty more of the same nature if anybody cares to read them. As soon as the news of the rising reached them, every chief of any importance sent in to offer aid to Government, and many of them, especially Montsoia, our old ally in the Keate Award district, took the loyals of the neighbourhood under their protection.
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