Causes of the War in South Africa from the American Lawyer's Standpoint: A Paper Read Before the Worcester Society of Antiquity1900 - 28 strán (strany) |
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Causes of the War in South Africa: From the American Lawyer's Standpoint James Green Úplné zobrazenie - 1900 |
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aborigines American annexation blacks Bloemfontein Boer is defending Boer's Britain British army British High Commissioner British rule Briton called Cape Colony cause century city of Johannesburg claimed colonists constitution convention of 1881 declared demand Dutch descent Dutch East India emancipation England equal rights ethnical development European fighting foreign freedom French Revolution George III gold granted GREEN A MEMBER grievances home-rule hope ideal immigrants intellectual liberty internal independence introducing the English JAMES GREEN Jameson raid Kaffirs language left to develop lived London Mafeking MASSACHUSETTS BAR ment military mines Natal National Union new-comers Orange Free population preamble President Kruger Pretoria protection Raad race reform religious liberty river Vaal schools secret-service fund seemed self-government sent slave-holders slavery slaves South Africa South African Republic strangers suffrage suzerainty taxation taxes things tion Transvaal territory treat the Outlanders Trek troops trouble Volksraad war-material wealth Witwatersrand WORCESTER wrongs
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Strana 10 - The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by her Majesty the Queen.
Strana 12 - Union to agitate for reform — as we should do under like circumstances — "to obtain by all constitutional means equal rights for all citizens of the republic and the redress of all grievances ;" and among the aims of the Union they included "the maintenance of the independence of the republic.
Strana 25 - ... Britain seemed to be demanding a revision of the franchise from a state which she had made independent of her in such internal affairs. The Boers, on the other hand, talked passionately of liberty, while liberty in their mouths was not our American model any more than their enemies of the present war resemble George III. Great Britain was really seeking for protection and equal rights for her subjects in a foreign land in vital matters of health, education, civilized life and equality of burdens,...
Strana 15 - ... parties ; and failing agreement upon this point, the two Governments shall together name a president ; the decision in every case to take place by a majority of votes. 3. The Act of submission shall in every case be drawn up jointly by the two Governments, so that each shall have the right to reserve and exclude points which appear to it to be too important to be submitted to arbitration, provided that thereby the principle itself of arbitration be not frustrated.
Strana 5 - Perhaps their zeal carried them too far and made them report things they would better have overlooked. The Boers, however, found the doctrines and protests of the missionaries an unjustifiable intrusion. They were in no mood to endure any restraint which was not of their own creation, and of that they wanted as little as possible. But the great wrong which stirred the Dutch to the depths was the abolition of slavery by Great Britain, in all her possessions, in 1834. This act was accompanied by payment...
Strana 15 - ... needed to make great outlays for machinery to work the mines at lower levels, but were afraid to do it before the political troubles were settled. Children were growing up untaught, except as they were sent to private schools. Impatient of trusting their deliverance to the slow progress of time, 21,600 British subjects in the Transvaal petitioned the Queen of England to secure reform of their grievances and a recognition of their rights as British subjects. Sir Alfred Milner, the British High...
Strana 15 - ... that whatever Mr. Kruger seemed to grant, he surrounded with such conditions as to make it practically inoperative. Suddenly, in October, 1899, President Kruger sent an ultimatum to Great Britain to withdraw her troops from the frontiers within forty-eight hours ; and immediately thereafter the army of the Boers invaded British Natal. It would appear to have been the hope of the Boers to sweep swiftly over the British provinces down to the coast before the British army could be raised and transported...
Strana 22 - Great Trek" of the dissatisfied Dutch into the wilderness. They have occupied their land as a great pasture-land. They have accumulated great flocks and herds. But they have made only moderate progress in agriculture, and none in manufactures and commerce. Their largest city, Pretoria, has a population of 12,000 people. The city of Johannesburg, built and inhabited by foreigners, with a population of...
Strana 16 - ... Mafeking, and hold back the Boers until Lord Roberts arrived with his army from England. We are told that the Boer is defending liberty against the Briton. Liberty for whom and for what? It is not claimed that the Boer is interested in the liberty of the native Africans whom he found in occupation of the land when he entered and conquered it, and whom he has raided, plundered and carried into forced labor during all the time of his occupancy. The Kaffirs and other natives within the Transvaal...
Strana 26 - ... pretended equal taxation was a fraud ; taxation only touched the things that concerned the strangers. They wanted the ordinary things of modern, urban life, and were paying for them enormously. But they saw their taxes spent in European intrigue, and in powder and guns — all in hate of themselves and their mother-country. ' British diplomacy demanded a more liberal suffrage for the strangers and a minority representation in the Volksraad, not exceeding one in four. Speaking technically, it...