Affairs look ill at the Cape of Good Hope. The
Kara have not been effectually repulsed ; but on the contrary, they are in -possession of a large tract of the country, which is given up to all the horrors of war. The military force to cope with the -savages is quite inadequate, and the colonists have been called -out, to a man, as a " burgher guard" or militia. Colonel Sir Andries Stockenstrom, by a remarkable chain of events, is ap- pointed to head the colonists against the invaders whom his mis- taken humanity had encouraged in rebellion. He seems to have set about the work of reparation with active vigour; and will probably write a new commentary on Kafir treaties with his sword in the blood of the Kafirs. The military force proves in- adequate, because the savages, who might easily have been kept under in detail, have universally become impressed with an inso. lent sense of impunity, begotten by the indulgence of the Govern- xaent ; that uniformity of feeling serving them instead of organi- zation. It will take severe measures to rid the colony of their presence, and guard it from future danger. The most effectual, and therefore the most humane, would still be to abolish the treaty system, and absorb Kafirland into the territory subject to British authority.
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