Excerpt from Causes of the War in South Africa: A Paper Read Before the Worcester Society of Antiquity The expediency, however, of Great Britain's paying the full value of the slaves - as of the United States' paying the whole value of the American slaves - is no longer debata ble, in view of the costly and bloody wars that grew out of both emancipations. But though our own emancipation came a generation later than the British, and we might have drawn wisdom from their experience, vet our parties never divided in that interval upon the question of offering compensation for the slaves. Our Northern people would have said, Whv must I pay my neighbor to cease from wrong-doing? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.