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Title: The Africander land
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Colquhoun, Archibald R. (Archibald Ross), 1848-1914
Subjects: Indigenous peoples Dutch
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ity of London, andbeats strongly. Nevertheless the organic unity of theEmpire can only be accomplished if we fully acknow-ledge the national aspirations of our kinsmen andgradually admit them to an equal voice in Imperialaffairs. But we shall achieve no measure of unity,shall progress no further in our Imperial developmentunless the heart of the Empire remains sound. Inretaining our vigour and developing our patriotism 430 THE SPIRIT OF AFRICANDERI.AND we provide the best guarantees for the willing co-operation of the younger nations in a real Imperialunion. The United Empire cannot be buUt in a day;it must grow link by link, for to rashly reconstruct ourrelations on a new model, or to force developmentin any way, might at the present immature stage ofcolonial nationalism sound the death-kneU of Empire.Africanders who read this book, have patience witha point of view which is not whoUy Africander, forit is as part of a world-empire that your truest andfreest destiny can be worked out.
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William Stanford & Company Ll^ l/Oji-doiL lToKr Miiri-ay APPENDIX When the Great Trek took place, in 1836, theemigrant farmers took with them not only the Bible,but their Church forms, and a sense of allegiance totheir mother Church and the Cape Synod. For twelveyears, however, they were without the ministrationsof any qualified clergyman save those of the Rev.Mr. Lindley, of Natal, who visited the southern portionof the country that was to become the Transvaal.The first attempt of the emigrants towards foundinga settled Government was made in 1844. Althoughthis was only eight years after the Great Trek beganthey had lived through a wonderful amount of historyin that time, had struggled upwards and eastwardsto the coast of Natal, and, finding that even then theycould not secure independence from Britain, the moredetermined spirits had made their way west over themountains and founded Winberg and Potchefstrom,the latter place being the centre of the first attemptat government. The

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