The champions of exclusiveness and racial hatred won the day.

The memorial was rejected by sixteen votes to eight, and the franchise law was, on the initiative of the President, actually made more stringent than ever, being framed in such a way that during the fourteen years of probation the applicant should give up his previous nationality, so that for that period he would really belong to no country at all.

No hopes were held out that any possible attitude upon the part of the Uitlanders would soften the determination of the President and his burghers.

One who remonstrated was led outside the State buildings by the President, who pointed up at the national flag.

'You see that flag ?' said he.