The Rise and Fall of Krugerism: A Personal Record of Forty Years in South AfricaFrederick A. Stokes Company, 1900 - 318 sidor |
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The Rise and Fall of Krugerism: A Personal Record of Forty Years in South Africa John Scoble,Hugh Romilly Abercrombie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1900 |
The Rise and Fall of Krugerism: A Personal Record of Forty Years in South Africa John Scoble,Hugh Romilly Abercrombie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1900 |
The Rise and Fall of Krugerism: A Personal Record of Forty Years in South Africa John Scoble,Hugh Romilly Abercrombie Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1900 |
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Sida 259 - ... render it certain that the Transvaal will be the first to suffer from the consequences of a pressure that has already reduced its political life to so feeble a condition. And whereas the ravaging of an adjoining friendly State by warlike savage tribes cannot for a moment be contemplated by Her Majesty's Government without the most earnest and painful solicitude, both on account of the miseries which such an event must inflict upon the inhabitants of the Transvaal, and because of the peril and...
Sida 258 - ... of periodical payments to those chiefs, notwithstanding the acknowledgment which such payments involve: That this decay of power and ebb of authority in the north is being followed by similar processes in the south under yet more dangerous circumstances; people of this State residing in that direction have been compelled within the last three months, at the bidding of native chiefs, and at a moment's notice, to leave their farms and homes, their standing crops, some of which were ready for reaping,...
Sida 257 - The Assistant Commissioners guarantee in the fullest manner, on the part of the British Government, to the emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River, the right to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves according to their own laws, without any interference on the part of the British Government ; and that no encroachment shall be made by the said Government on the territory beyond, to the north of the Vaal River...
Sida 256 - ... in order to secure the peace and safety of our said Colonies, and of our subjects elsewhere, that the said territories, or any portion or portions of the same should provisionally, and pending the announcement of our pleasure, be administered in our name and on our behalf, then, and in such case only, we do further...
Sida 259 - ... describe them, the urgency and imminence of the circumstances by which they are surrounded, the ruined condition of the country, and the absence within it of any element capable of rescuing it from its depressed and afflicted state, and therefore earnestly desire the establishment within and over it of Her Majesty's authority and rule ; and whereas the Government has been unable to point out or devise any means by which the country can save itself, and as a consequence relieve the other white...
Sida 256 - ... should be made into the origin, nature, and circumstances of the said disturbances, and with respect to the measures to be adopted for preventing the recurrence of the like disturbances in the future; and whereas it may become requisite to this end that the said territories or portions of them should be administered in our name and on our behalf. Now know you that we, reposing especial trust and confidence in the loyalty and fidelity of you, the said Sir Theophilus Shepstone, have appointed you...
Sida 257 - WHEREAS at a meeting held on the sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at the Sand River, between Her Majesty's Assistant Commissioners, Major Hogge and CM Owen...
Sida 258 - ... natives ; but that the Government is more powerless than ever to vindicate its assumed rights, or to resist the declension that is threatening its existence. That all confidence in its stability, once felt by surrounding and distant European communities, has been withdrawn. That commerce is well-nigh destroyed. That the country is in a state of bankruptcy. That the white inhabitants, discontented with their condition, are divided into factions. That the Government has fallen into helpless paralysis...
Sida 258 - Basutu tribe, unwarlike, and of no account in Zulu estimation, successfully withstood the strength of the State, and disclosed for the first time to the native powers outside the Republic, from the Zambesi to the Cape, the great change that had taken place in the relative strength of the white and the black races ; that this disclosure at once shook the prestige of the white man in South Africa, and placed every European community in peril...
Sida 261 - It is also further resolved to send, without delay, a Commission of Delegates to Europe and America, with full power and instruction to add to their number a third person, if required, in order to endeavour in the first place to lay before Her Majesty's Government the desire and wishes of the people, and in case this might not have the desired effect, which this Government would deeply regret and cannot as yet believe, then to appeal to the friendly assistance and intercession of other Powers, particularly...