The South-African crisis - pagina 35

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

CRISIS.

31

,

This time they had the good fortune

of the Treaty.

to be received in the capital in a spirit of concihation,

and although Lord Derby, goaded by the opposition, especiall}^ in

the House of Lords, was obliged to save

he signed on Feb.

appearances,

Convention

1884 the famous

London by which the Suzerainty was

of

abolished

virtually

27^^^

and the South African Republic

recognised as an entirely free and independent State, the interference

of England being restricted solely to

one point, namely, that treaties with foreign powers, excepting the Free State, after being drawn up, should

be

subject

the

to

who,

Gladstone

veto

of England

was Mr. confession, and

i).

himself of Calvinistic

It

therefore able to understand the Boers, poured the oil of his idealism over the troubled waters of the prejudged colonies,

and once more, as

in

1852

— 1854,

the sun of

peace smiled over South Africa.

But Jiugoism was not disarmed and presently met with a trusty ally in the capitalism of the Rhodes, the Beits

and the Barnatos. The discovery of gold mines was announced.

A

band of adventurers squat tered on the Rand

and Johannesburg became the centre of opposition to the government of Pretoria.

They formed themselves

in 1892 into a revolutionary

committee under the name

"The National Union.,,

of

title

of

poor State

a

they assumed the

Later

the ''South African League". !

Tha.t

was

possible

;

To

^)

X

Recued d. 184.

ijtineral

from

but to leave to

the Boers the unheard of treasures of the

t.

retire

Hand

!

That

des Iraites, de MAP,TE^'^:;, continue par Hopf, 2e serie

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