The British Case Against the Boer Republics

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Vacher & sons, printers, 1900 - 36 strán (strany)

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Strana 17 - State; (b) they will be entitled to hire or possess houses, manufactories, warehouses, shops, and premises ; (c) they may carry on their commerce either in person or by any agents...
Strana 26 - State may enter with foreign Powers. Whatever suzerainty meant in the Convention of Pretoria, the condition of things which it implied still remains ; although the word is not actually employed, we have kept the substance. We have abstained from using the word because it was not capable of legal definition, and because it seemed to be a word which was likely to lead to misconception and misunderstanding.
Strana 24 - 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 tribes to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by Her Majesty the Queen.
Strana 12 - I shall never give them anything: I shall never change my policy, and now let the storm burst.
Strana 24 - Article 1, shall be considered invalid and of no effect, except in so far as any such grant or title relates to land that falls within the boundary of the...
Strana 14 - Republic have, contrary to the policy adopted in most civilised countries where immigration has played an important part in building up the population, been denied all effective voice in the affairs of the State ; and all political power and the right to levy taxation is the monopoly of a minority composed almost entirely of men engaged in pastoral and agricultural pursuits, whose knowledge of the conditions and necessities of the...
Strana 34 - As in 1880, we now submit our cause with perfect confidence to the whole world. Whether the result be Victory or Death, Liberty will assuredly rise in South Africa like the sun from out the mists of the morning, just as Freedom dawned over the United States of America a little more than a century ago. Then from the Zambesi to Simon's Bay it will be "AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANDER.
Strana 15 - Outlander community, and which place them in a condition of political, educational and social inferiority to the Boer inhabitants of the Transvaal, and even endanger the security of their lives and property.

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