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We complain of the severe losses which we have been forced to sustain by the emancipation of our slaves, and the vexatious laws which have been enacted respecting them.

— Piet Retief

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We quit this colony under the full assurance that the English Government has nothing more to require of us, and will allow us to govern ourselves without its interference in future.

We are now leaving the fruitful land of our birth, in which we have suffered enormous losses and continual vexation, and are about to enter a wild and dangerous territory; but we go with a firm reliance on the all-seeing, just, and merciful God, whom we shall always fear and humbly endeavour to obey.

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