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Title: The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal"

Author: Sydney G. Fisher

Release Date: November 21, 2006 [EBook #19895]

Language: English

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The American Revolution

and

The Boer War

An Open Letter to
Mr. Charles Francis Adams
on his Pamphlet
"The Confederacy and the Transvaal"

By

SYDNEY G. FISHER

Author of "Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times"
"The Evolution of the Constitution"
"The True Benjamin Franklin," etc.

(Reprinted from the _Philadelphia Sunday Times_
of January 19, 1902)

PHILADELPHIA, January 14, 1902.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ESQ.,
Boston, Massachusetts.

_Dear Sir:_

I have been handed a pamphlet written by you entitled "The Confederacy
and the Transvaal," the burden of which is, that the Boers ought not to
continue their irregular guerilla struggle against England, because it
is destructive of themselves and wasteful of England's resources; or to
use your own words "the contest drags wearily along, to the probable
destruction of one of the combatants, to the great loss of the other,
and, so far as can be seen, in utter disregard of the best interests of
both."

You argue that the Boers, when their regular armies were defeated some
considerable time ago, should have surrendered, given up the struggle,
and not have resorted to a prolongation of the contest by guerilla
methods. In support of this you cite the action of General Lee at the
close of our civil war, when, his regularly organized army being
completely defeated, he