The Dutch Republics of South Africa: Three Letters to R. N. Fowler, and Charles BuxtonW. Tweedie, 1871 - 63 Seiten |
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The Dutch Republics of South Africa: Three Letters to R. N. Fowler, and ... F. W. Chesson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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abandon addressed alleged ammunition Andries Pretorius apprenticeship authority Basutos black ivory British colonies British Government British subjects called Cape Colony carried cattle chief civilization colonists commandos Confederation Delagoa Bay despatch destitute Dutch Republics emigrant farmers English enslave evil F. W. CHESSON fact field-cornet gold gold-fields Governor hands High Commissioner honour Imperial Government independence inhabitants interior Kaffirs kidnapping kraal land Landdrost Langa large number letter Limpopo lived Lord Stanley Macheng Macheng's Town Majesty's Government master ment missionary Moselekatse Natal native races native tribes neighbours official Ophir opinion Orange Free Orange River Sovereignty orphan party peace possession Potchefstroom practice of slavery Pratt President Pretorius REPUBLICS OF SOUTH says shot Sir George Grey Sir Harry Sir Philip Wodehouse slave-trade slavery slaves Sofala sold South Africa Steyn taken territory tion told trade traffic Trans-Vaal Boers Trans-Vaal Republic treaty truth Vaal River Volksraad waggons Waterboer women and children Zoutpansberg Zulu
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Seite 9 - 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...
Seite 9 - Government ; and that no encroachment shall be made by the said Government on the territory beyond to the North of the Vaal River ; with the further assurance that the warmest wish of the British Government is to promote peace, free trade, and friendly intercourse with the Emigrant Farmers now inhabiting, or who hereafter may inhabit, that country ; it being understood that this system of non-interference is binding upon both parties. (2.) Should any misunderstanding hereafter arise as to the true...
Seite 10 - It is agreed that no objection shall be made by any British authority against the emigrant Boers purchasing their supplies of ammunition in any of the British Colonies and possessions of South Africa, it being mutually understood that all trade in ammunition with the native tribes is prohibited both by the British Government and the emigrant farmers on both sides of the Vaal River.
Seite 55 - Who sows the. serpent's teeth, let him not hope To reap a joyous harvest. Every crime Has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel — dark Misgiving, An ominous Sinking at the inmost heart.
Seite 33 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Seite 12 - They smashed all the bottles containing medicines, and tore all the books of my library, scattering the leaves to the winds ; and besides my personal property, they carried off or destroyed a large amount of property belonging to English gentlemen and traders. Of the women and children captured, many of the former will escape, but the latter are reduced to a state of helpless slavery.
Seite 9 - ... 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...
Seite 33 - If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Seite 12 - I can declare, most positively, that except in the matter of refusing to throw obstacles in the way of English traders, Sechele never offended the Boers by either word or deed.
Seite 62 - The defects of the system thus described appear to be that the country must be always at war in some direction, as some one of the several states, in pursuit of its supposed interests, will be involved in difficulties, either with some European or native state. Every such war forces all the other states into a position of an armed neutrality or of interference. For, if the state is successful in the war it is waging, a native race will be broken up, and none can tell what territories its dispersed...