Excerpt from The American Revolution and the Boer War: An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams, on His Pamphlet "the Confederacy and the Transvaal"

You argue that the Boers, when their regular armies were defeated some considerable time ago, should have sur rendered, given. Up the struggle, and not have resorted to a prolongation of the contest by guerilla methods. In sup port of this you cite the action of General Lee at the close of our civil war, when, his regularly organized army being completely defeated, he surrendered it, went quietly to his home and set an example, followed by the other southern leaders, of not prolonging the strife by those irregular meth ods which, as is well known, can be so very effective for a long period in a mountainous country like Switzerland or in a country of vast distances like the United States or South Africa.

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