The White Man Has Taken The Country From The Black Fellow, And With It
His Right To Travel Where He
Will for pleasure or food, and until he is
willing to make recompense by granting fair liberty of travel, and
A fair
percentage of cattle or their equivalent in fair payment - openly and
fairly giving them, and seeing that no man is unjustly treated or hungry
within his borders - cattle killing, and at times even man killing by
blacks, will not be an offence against the white folk.
A black fellow kills cattle because he is hungry and must be fed with
food, having been trained in a school that for generations has
acknowledged "catch who catch can" among its commandments; and until the
long arm of the law interfered, white men killed the black fellow because
they were hungry with a hunger that must be fed with gold, having been
trained in a school that for generations has acknowledged "Thou shalt not
kill" among its commandments; and yet men speak of the "superiority" of
the white race, and, speaking, forget to ask who of us would go hungry if
the situation were reversed, but condemn the black fellow as a vile
thief, piously quoting - now it suits them - from those same commandments,
that men "must not steal," in the same breath referring to the white
man's crime (when it finds them out) as "getting into trouble over some
shooting affair with blacks." Truly we British-born have reason to brag
of our "inborn sense of justice."
The Maluka being more than willing to give his fair percentage, a
judicious hint from him was generally taken quietly and for the time
discreetly obeyed, and it was a foregone conclusion that our "nigger
hunt" would only involve the captured with general discomfiture; but the
Red Lilies being a stronghold of the tribe, and a favourite hiding-place
for "outsiders," emergencies were apt to occur "down the river," and we
rode out of camp with rifles unslung and revolvers at hand.
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