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Show ANOTHER IRELAND. It has well been said, no matter what the result of England's war on the i Boers may be, she is making another Ireland for herself. This is undoubtedly undoubted-ly true, but there is a decided difference between Ireland! and the Transvaal. The former country, owing to geographical geo-graphical and other considerations, could never hope to be the effective opponent of England which the South African republic will ever be. It is not unlikely that England will ultimately succeed in destroying the government in the Transvaal, but she can never succeed in destroying or eradicating the deep-rooted antipathy which these sturdy and formidable Dutchmen, will ever bear towards the rapacious plunderers of their home and country. England may overcome the Boers in the present struggle; she can never subdue them, no T.crethan she has subdued sub-dued Ireland. But what a tremendous advantage the Dutch in South Africa, will have beyond that which the Irish in Ireland have had, to ue againsc their oppressor. Th" English reserves, one hundred I and forty thousand strong, are their 1 way to South Africa, and if Lngland Is J to maintain her paramountcy in that i country, those reserves must be kept there, yet indeed their numoer mus. be added to. . f Great, effective and formidable be- . yond compare, is- the other I re lam 1 which i3 arising in South Africa. May . God's bleeeing b? with it! |