AFTER THE WAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR, —Those who talk about the disastrous results of a success- ful war, and of the necessity of keeping large garrisons in the country, forget that about one hundred and twenty thousand British subjects in the Transvaal would, as Mr. Garrett points out, acquire the right of bearing arms. It is not a war against
the inhabitants of the Transvaal we shall be waging, but a war against a fighting minority who claim the right to keep down the other part (who are greatly superior in numbers, wealth, and intelligence) by force. To remedy this superior force is required.; moral pressure is useless because it is not felt.— [We have been obliged, for reasons of space, to leave oat the rest of our correspondent's interesting letter.—ED. Spectator.]
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