Further Correspondence Relating to Proposed Political Reforms in the South African Republic...Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty...1899H.M. Stationery Office, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 20 - No special privileges or immunities shall ever be granted which may not be altered, revoked or repealed by the Legislature; nor shall any citizen, or class of citizens, be granted privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not be granted to all citizens.
Page 48 - Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope...
Page 65 - Republic have themselves recognized that their previous offer might be with advantage enlarged, and that the independence of the South African Republic would be thereby in no way impaired. Her Majesty's Government are still prepared to accept the offer made in paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of the note of the 19th August taken by themselves, provided that the inquiry which (Her Majesty's Government have proposed, whether joint — as Her...
Page 11 - ... that the interpretation of the Conventions in matters of detail is not free from difficulty. While on the one hand there can be no question of the interpretation of the preamble...
Page 64 - Government have absolutely repudiated the view of the political status of the South African Republic taken by the Government of the South African Republic in their note of the...
Page 45 - Majesty's Government will not and cannot abandon the right which the Preamble to the Convention of 1881 gives them, but that they will have no desire to hurt Boer susceptibilities by publicly reasserting it, so long as no reason to do so is given them by the Government of the South African Republic. As regards arbitration, they are willing that we should have any of our own Judges or lawyers, English or Colonial, to represent us, and that the President or Umpire should be equally English, Colonial,...
Page 59 - Republic is both fair and liberal to the new population, and that the consideration that induces them to go further, as they do in the above proposals, is their strong desire to get the controversies between the two governments settled, and further to put an end to the present strained relations between the two governments, and the incalculable harm and loss it has already occasioned in South Africa, and to prevent a racial war, from the effects of which South Africa may not recover for many generations,...
Page 64 - It is on this ground that her Majesty's Government have been compelled to regard the last proposal of the Government of the South African Republic as unacceptable in the form in which it has been presented.
Page 50 - ... promises made and the just treatment of the Uitlanders in future will render unnecessary any further intervention on their behalf, but Her Majesty's Government cannot of course debar themselves from their rights under the Conventions nor divest themselves of the ordinary obligations of a civilized Power to protect its subjects in a foreign country from injustice.
Page 11 - While on the one hand there can be no question of the interpretation of the preamble of the Convention of 1881 which governs the Articles substituted in the Convention of 1884, on the other...