May the hope which glowed in our hearts during 1880, and which buoyed us up during that struggle, burn on steadily! May it prove a beacon of light in our path, invincibly moving onwards through blood and through tears, until it leads us to a real Union of South Africa.
As in 1880, we now submit our cause with perfect confidence to the whole world. Whether the result be Victory or Death, Liberty will assuredly rise in South Africa like the sun from out the mists of the morning, just as Freedom dawned over the United States of America a little more than a century ago. Then from the Zambesi to Simon's Bay it will be
"AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANDER."
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A.
LORD DERBY'S DISPATCH ON THE CONVENTION OF 1884.
To MESSRS. KRUGER, DU TOIT, AND SMIT.
DOWNING STREET,
15 February, 1884.
GENTLEMEN,