Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...entirely unaccustomed to independent government. The Jameson raid was the real cause of the present disturbance, which was greatly increased by the pressure of England's claims to suzerainty. If Great Britain had thrown aside these claims she would have come to peaceable conclusions. Gold was discovered and the land formerly belonging to the government was acquired by the Uitlanders on the understanding that the government was to receive royalties on it. The continual flow of capital into the Transvaal gives proof that the mining interests were not injured by the government. A counterpetition, signed by more men than...
Mayer, the next on rebuttal for Harvard, called attention to the fact that during the whole debate the negative had not even defined suzerainty. As for this suzerainty, England has claimed no more than any other nation, that of protection to her subjects in a foreign land. The negative has not attempted to deny the presence of a civilizing power in the Transvaal, resulting from the presence of the English; and what is more, they admit that the grievances against the English are many. The people of the Transvaal, though they recognized the value of the English and invited them...
...James Stillman, of New York, who gave the $50,000 for the new infirmary and the land on which it is to be built, has offered to contribute annually for four years the sum of $2500 towards he support of the institution...
...should be corrected, for when we retired for the so-called "breakfast" there was only one officer on our ship who felt certain that the Spaniards were whipped. After the battle was won a blockade of the city was made, and as the insurgents soon surrounded it on the land, the Spaniards were effectually hemmed in. Later, when it was seen that a long stay would be made, a thousand natives were hired at the arsenal, and work began with great energy. The natives, who are a turbulent set of half breeds, of some education, but totally unfitted to govern...