South Africa: History to 1895. 1913Clarendon Press, 1913 |
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annexation Basuto Bechuana Bechuanaland Boers border boundary Britain British Government British sovereignty burghers Cape Colony Capetown carried ceded century chief claimed clans colonists command Correspondence relative Council despatch district Durban Dutch Dutchmen East India Company eastern emigrants England English European farmers fighting Fish River force French frontier Gaika Galekas garrison given Governor Graaf Reinet Griquas hand High Commissioner Hope Hottentots Indies island Kaffir tribes Kaffir war Kei River Keiskamma Kosas Kreli land living Lord Matabele ment military missionaries mountains Natal nation native Netherlands officers Orange Free Orange River Territory peace population Port Portuguese Pretoria proclamation province race recognised Republic self-government sent settlement settlers ships Sir Bartle Frere Sir Benjamin Sir George Sir Harry Smith slaves soldiers South Africa South African Republic Table Bay taken tion took town trade Transvaal treaty troops Tugela Vaal voyage West Zulu Zululand
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Page 98 - ... you do them to your own injury, but in so far as you are their masters; they have no love of you, but they are held down by force. Besides, what can be more detestable than to be perpetually changing our minds? We forget that a state in which the laws, though imperfect, are unalterable, is better off than one in which the laws are good but powerless.
Page 186 - Great Britain engages not to make any objection to the extension of the sphere of influence of Portugal, south of Delagoa Bay, as far as a line following the parallel of the confluence of the River Pongola with the River Maputa to the sea-coast.
Page 22 - their hand was against every man, and every man's hand was against them.
Page 82 - We complain of the unjustifiable odium which has been cast upon us by interested and dishonest persons, under the name of religion, whose testimony is believed in England to the exclusion of all evidence in our favour ; and we can foresee, as the result of this prejudice, nothing but the total ruin of the country.
Page 17 - America, some for conscience' sake, others for political reasons and the like. They went out, meaning not to come back again ; purposing to found new Englands in the wilderness. When Dutchmen, on the contrary, sailed from Amsterdam or Flushing, they fully intended to come back, and to come back richer than they went. Their object was to trade— by force if necessary, to carry from place to place, to be always coming and going, but they knew one home only, their old home by the North Sea. So they...
Page 66 - ... otherwise. Foreign rule, however just, must for a while be distasteful; and in the case in point the incoming rulers had to deal with a people backward when tried by an English standard, and from past experience with good reason suspicious of all who were set over them. There was a change of policy too in these few years, and constant changes in the personnel of the Government. At first it was understood that the English were holding the Cape as trustees, not as absolute owners; and the oath...
Page 147 - 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...
Page 143 - It is agreed that no slavery is or shall be permitted or practised in the country to the north of the Vaal River by the Emigrant Farmers.
Page 78 - ... THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.' " SHEWETH — That your petitioners are the Officers of a Society, established in 1795, including clergymen and members of the Established Church, and ministers and laymen of different denominations among Protestant Dissenters. " That ' the sole object of that Society is to spread the knowledge of Christ among heathen and other unenlightened nations.
Page 163 - I ask her Majesty to defend me, as she defends all her people. There are three things which distress me very much — war, selling people, and drink. All these I shall find in the Boers, and it is these things which destroy people to make an end of them in the country. The custom of the Boers has always been to cause people to be sold, and to-day they are still selling people. Last year I saw them pass with two waggons full of people whom they had bought at the river at Tanane (Lake Ngate).