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...London in 1884 the word "suzerainty" was omitted and thus it became a known fact that the Transvaal was independent. The drafter of the constitution admitted that he had purposely left the word out. In January Lord Chamberlain himself declared the Transvaal a foreign state and said that it would be immoral to interfere in internal affairs in South Africa. He asserted that the Boers were independent except for the articles which had been stipulated in the London convention of 1884. However, in 1897, Secretary Chamberlain revived the claim of suzerainty. The Volksraad then met and acquiesced...
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...
...moderate self-government, and after that year the Boers became 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...
...conclusion, Morse pointed out that a continuation of the subtle hatred among the peoples of the Transvaal would threaten English interests in all South Africa; and that the only way to secure the desired harmony between the Dutch and the English was to grant to the Uitlanders full rights in the South African republic...
...affirmative to be, has not endangered the interests of the English in South Africa. Mr. Bryce states that the Dutch of the Cape Colony were not disloyal to the English. He also states that if the people of the Transvaal acceded to the claims of the English, the country would sink to the level of a regular English colony. In conclusion, Jones said that if the Transvaal yielded to the demands of their oppressors, in future no limit would be placed on the demands of the English...