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...Afrikander Bund, proves that war with England was then contemplated and being prepared for. The recent statement, publicly made, by Dr. Levds, the Hollander agent of the Transvaal, that large quantities of ammunition had been accumulated for years, is another proof of the bellicose intentions of the Boer government. The idea that it was the Jameson raid which impelled the Transvaal to arm is frivolous. The arming had been going on for years. A final proof of Boer premeditation is found in the fact that the Orange Free State, which had absolutely no quarrel with Britain, threw...
...question under discussion is a political, not a sentimental one. It is an acknowledged fact that the Transvaal is the weaker state, but weakness of itself has never argued righteousness. Is the Briton or the Boer right? To decide it we must dismiss our sentiment and fall back upon our judgment...
Bruce opened his speech by refuting Weston's three main arguments. To his first statement that England should have accepted the Boer proposals of the nineteenth and twenty-first of August, Bruce replied by saying that the acceptance of these proposals would have meant the giving up of all future international rights. In the convention at Pretoria suzerainty and independent local government were granted together. The Transvaal was not entirely independent, because England had power to make treaties and England was justified in interfering, because the articles stipulated in the convention of 1884 had been broken...
...adequate franchise to the Uitlanders. Such a franchise meant security, strength and prosperity for the South African Republic itself. The grievances of the Uitlanders might well be summed up in the phrase "in equality of rights." Examples of this subversion of all interests in favor of the Boers were that only Boer children were allowed in the schools and that all trials were controlled solely by Boers. The claims of the British were, not to take away the independence of the Transvaal, but to secure justice for all people. Let the Uitlander have rights as well as the Boer...
...Africa had been a Dutch colony. In the early part of the nineteenth century, there was a good deal of trouble between England and the Dutch for the possession of the Cape. With the emancipation of the slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they...