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Show AMERICAN TRANSVAAL FUND. To Aid HMoiH ui'l Orphan of the A paih.-tic appal of the committe of Alriian.il-!- mid Bond members of prirliami.-nt was Umei at Cape Town, Oct. iv, iwj, Si:;n-l by Messrs. N. F. JteWaal, Ju.wpii N. Hoffman, J. H. Hofmeyr, T1io::,i.j P. Theron and D. J. A. Van Zyl, which says among other thing-;: "What may, what can, wa colonial Africanders do in this sorrowful time? Join in the work of warfare with the weapons? The law and our duty as British subject :j forbid this, even should other circumstances not oppose such a course of action "Hut waat neither the. law nor the duty of the suhjeet forbids, and what, moreover, agrees in every respect with all principles of religion and humanity, human-ity, Is the offering of help to the wounded, to the widows and the orpha ns." In the name of the Africander bond, on behalf of the citizens of the South African republic and their nobie ally, the Orange Krce State, I appeal to all Americans to show their sympathy with the brave people who are now. in the words of John Hancock, literally liter-ally offering all that they have, all that they are, and all that they hope to be, upon the altar of their country, fi.ghling to the death the arrogance and imposition of the great British empire, in order to remain free and Independent, as did our American forefathers in 1T7G and 1812. THERE WILL BE NO BOER WOUNDED ON THE BRITISH-AMERICAN HOSPITAL HOSPI-TAL SHIP. Send to me your subscriptions, small and large, and I will send the amount to Mr. C. C. de Villiers, Cape Town, the honorable treasurer of the committee of the Africander bond, to bo expended under that appeal. I sent $2,0U0 on Feb. 23, 1900. GEORGE W. VAN SICLEN, American Treasurer. No. 141 Broadway, New York City. Feb. 24, 1900. |