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144 GUBERNATORUL LIBELS.all these witnesses in favour of the Free State rightsare rogues and vagabonds, and have conspired togetherto wrong, cheat, and plunder their suddenly dearlybeloved Waterboer of his diamond-fields! But theyquite fail to perceive, or at least give no sign of conaciousness,that they thereby assert what would beone of the most perfect and stupendous conspiracies,or combinations of governments, peoples, and disinterestedindividuals to perjure themselves, which canpossibly be conceived! Why, the Tichborne case isnothing to it! These two officials, or, rather, theirinstigator and backer, Mr. Southey, the ColonialSecretary, coolly charge two white, Christian, andcivilized governments (that of the Orange Free State,and of the Transvaal Republic), composed, to all appearanceand knowledge, of gentlemen as good andhonourable as themselves; a great number of theburghers of both states; together with nearly allthe surviving relatives and members of the late ComeliusKok's government, and a host of indep~ndentwitnesses, with fraud, conspiracy, and perjury ! Yet,not to this day-and I defy contradiction-have theyrebutted one single statement or declaration made infavour and support of the claims 'of the Orange FreeState!Mr. Comer further adds:"That in the lif'etime of Cornelius Kok, ". ,.,eMlll II ptIW". oj.tt6nug'row "'tit cAUl to "llltmtll in. ",. twritorg 01 CtlmpWl, ,IIAW.". lil/ On the death of Cornelius Kok, Captain A. Kok, of Philippolis,again confirmed this power, on which he IOld a place in theCampbellianda. Some of W &terboer's councillors expressed dissatisfactionat ii to Water boer, tlM TV.Uri",. IIIitl to """', ' TV. Cmt".All • • "gAt to tlo 10. 11', It.PI .'JtAi719 to tlo flJit! it /' "Digitized by Goog Ie