12 of the 104 votes cast were in
favor of Hertzog's amendment.

It was evident that many burghers living in districts on the borders
of German Southwest Africa shared Hertzog's opinion, and were opposed
to taking offensive measures against the German colony as long as the
Union was left in peace. From the time that Hertzog had been dropped
from Botha's cabinet he had posed as a martyr. His adherents believed
that he had been "sacrificed to please the English," and that Botha
was merely a tool in the hands of the British Government.

The spirit of rebellion in the Union did not show itself openly for
some time, but the leaders--Beyers, De Wet, Maritz, and Kemp--were
busy conspiring and stirring up disaffection among the burghers who
had never become reconciled to the Union.

De Wet, because of his world-wide fame during the Boer War, has been
given undue prominence for the part he played in the rebellion. He was
not the head and front of the movement, though his name was one to
conjure with among the disaffected Boers, and he proved to be a
valuable recruiting agent. His operations during the rebellion, as
will be subsequently shown, were generally ineffective in the field,
and terminated ingloriously, before he could work any great harm.

General Beyers, the most dangerous foe the Union had in the rebellion,
was a direct contrast to the rude and unlettered De Wet. He was young
and brave, and had shown himself one of the ablest soldiers the
British had to fight against during the Boer War. He looked the
dashing officer that he was--tall, straight, black bearded, and with
his pleasant manners and easy speech he was just the man to inspire
enthusiasm in others.

Colonel Maritz and Colonel Kemp, the other chief leaders in the
rebellion, had never been as prominent in South African affairs as
Beyers and De Wet. Maritz had shown ability as a leader in the Boer
War, had held various military positions since, and at the beginning
of the European War was in command of the South African border between
the Union and German Southwest Africa, to which he had been appointed
by Beyers, who was commandant general of the citizen forces. General
Smuts, the Minister of Defense, may have suspected some sinister
motives in this appointment, for Maritz had many friends in the German
colony, but for the present he had to keep his suspicions to himself
and await some overt act of offense.

Colonel Kemp, the remaining chief leader, had