e Afrikander flag."
"After a time the English will realize that the advice given them by
Froude was the best--they must just have Simon's Bay as a naval and
military station on the way to India, and give over all the rest of
South Africa to the Afrikanders." ... "Our principal weapon in the
social war must be the destruction of English trade by our
establishing trading companies for ourselves." ... "It is the duty of
each true Afrikander not to spend anything with the English that he
can avoid."

_De Patriot_ afterwards became imperialist, but _Ons Land_, another Bond
organ, continued in much the same strain.

In addition to having its press organs, the Bond from time to time
published official utterances less frank in their tone than the
statements of its press. Some of the Articles of the Bond's original
manifesto are entirely praiseworthy, e.g. those referring to the
administration of justice, the honour of the people, &c.; such clauses as
these, however, were meaningless in view of the enlightened government
which obtained in Cape Colony, and for the true "inwardness" of this
document it is necessary to note Article 3, which distinctly speaks of
the promotion of South Africa's independence (_Zelfstandigheid_). If the
Bond aroused disloyalty and mistaken aspirations in one section of the
Cape inhabitants, it is equally certain that it caused a great wave of
loyal and patriotic enthusiasm to pass through another and more
enlightened section. A pamphlet written in 1885 for an association called
the Empire League by Mr Charles Leonard, who afterwards consistently
championed the cause of civil equality and impartial justice in South
Africa, maintained as follows:--

"(1) That the establishment of the English government here was
beneficial to all classes; and (2) that the withdrawal of that
government would be disastrous to every one having vested interests in
the colony.... England never can, never will, give up this colony, and
we colonists will never give up England.... Let us, the inhabitants of
the Cape Colony, be swift to recognize that we are one people, cast
together under a glorious flag of liberty, with heads clear enough to
appreciate the freedom we enjoy, and hearts resolute to maintain our
true privileges; let us desist from reproaching and insulting one
another, and, rejoicing that we have this goodly land as a common
heritage, remember that by united action only can