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Bleek prefers a federal system of government which decentralises power and accommodates the pluralism of a heterogenous population spread across a vast territorial expanse. He posits how federalisation and constitutionalism achieve the limitation and separation of powers. He believes the experiences of America, where centralisation destabilised, the German Confederation, and the earlier Swiss Confederation of Cantons (before the 1848 revolutions) support his stance. Bleek extols the merits of the (re-)unification, looking at the project for a united Germany under hegemonic Prussia, of individually ineffectual units into one consolidated whole accommodating idiosyncrasies. Such adverse times beget pragmatic men like Lincoln, "fitted for the iron rule", with the ideal hardness of character. He abruptly turns to complaints against the Stercus Company's disruptive operations near Fort Knokke, Salt River. Northerly winds carry the effluvia over to Observatory and as far as Mowbray. Perhaps to convey the intensity of local winds, he remarks that Easterns cite it as one of Table Valley's acute discomforts.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

23/02/1865

Two cut out columns of newsprint text, positioned vertically parallel, pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping. No title was subsequently handwritten onto the mount/paper backing.