They belong no longer to the land of their birth; if wronged, or
maltreated they have no claim upon it for redress.

They are not burghers: they have no political rights; they are, in fact,
minors who have lost their guardian.

This condition was to last for seven years in a country where changes
are made by the week.

The art of importing confusion into the simplest matters, has been most
successfully practised by Mr. Krüger and Dr. Leyds. They have even
succeeded in persuading thinking men that the Uitlanders should have
accepted with enthusiasm the law of July 19th, and that they should have
been deeply grateful to Mr. Krüger who had "reduced from nine to seven
years the term first proposed by him at Bloemfontein."


3.--_Pretended Concessions._

The changes referring to the "redistribution" of seats in the Volksraad
were numerous. Mr. Krüger posed as making a huge concession to mining
districts in raising the number of seats to twelve; but six of these
were for the second Volksraad. Now the second Volksraad must always have
the same number of members as the First; thus the apparent concession
was merely a valueless automatic arrangement, for it is well understood
that the second Volksraad is simply a show institution, devised in 1890.
The various schemes for redistribution lead one to the conclusion that
the number of members in the First Volksraad were to be in inverse ratio
to the population.