Nothing could show Dr. Kuyper's manner of stating and interpreting facts
better than the following sentence:--

"It was simply a matter of the careful protection of British
subjects, or rather of the worthy apostles of Johannesburg, who had
begun by saying to the magistrates of the Transvaal 'keep away your
police!' and who, later, crawling back from this meeting, after
being well thrashed, complained bitterly that the police had not
protected them."

Dr. Kuyper seems to think it highly amusing that the "worthy apostles of
Johannesburg had been well thrashed."

When we find a European Dutchman, a man of letters, showing such animus
in the examination of facts, one may judge of what the Boers are
capable, ignorant and rough as they are, and inflated with the
conviction that they are the elect people.

[Footnote 11: _Le Siècle_, March 31st, 1900.]


2.--_Different modes of estimating bail._

We have seen that one of the objects of the meeting had been to protest
against the arrests of Messrs. Dodd and Webb. These two gentlemen had
been arrested as the organisers of an illegal meeting in the public
market square, a public place, where no speeches had been made, but
where the petition to the Queen had been openly read, before they had
taken it to the British Vice-Consul. To obtain their release they had
each to find sureties of £1,000, while Jones, Edgar's murderer, had been