Word: british
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...British colored citizens were maltreated, and in the law British subjects received unfair treatment. These two facts gave England the right to interfere. Even setting aside the special justification of England's claim, there still remains the broader, the firmer, the higher ground of the supreme law of mankind, the inalienable right of any international state to protect its citizens from injustice in a foreign land...
...failure to keep the conditions of the grants, the Transvaal has sacrificed the protection of these grants. Great Britain is released from the obligations imposed by her conditional promise not to interfere. Then passing to the second justification he pointed out that since British subjects have been maltreated by the administrative agents of the Transvaal, and the means of obtaining legal redress have been exhausted in vain, since British subjects have suffered from the unfair administration of the laws, and since the laws themselves have constituted grievous oppression, the general principles of international law sanctioned England's claim...
...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 and let both know that the protection of the South African Republic is for their welfare equally...
...Bibliography of British Municipal History. By C. Gross, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at Harvard...
...race contempt of the Boers for the English is very rife. The unendurable condition of these despised Outlanders caused them to complain to the Queen, as British subjects, on the grounds that they had no share in the municipal government, no chance for naturalization, no rights for their school children, and were oppressed in every way. In the original establishment of the government, the Dutch had promised that the Boers and Outlanders should have equal rights and priviliges. This promise of course has been utterly disregarded...