The South-African crisis - pagina 56

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

52

announcing

Steyn

President

to

new convention added

the

Transvaal that

Free

veto

produce

Lord Derby of Febr. will be left free to

ference

and

the

of

18S4

only with regard

official

declaration of

'Tour Government

:

govern the country without

conduct

to

and to shape

15tii

conclusion

on an equality with

State excepting

I

^).

the

that the position of the

would thereafter be

of the

the

to

CRISIS.

its

diplomatic

inter-

intercourse,

foreign policy, subject only to the

its

the fourth article." We must abide by the formula in which, on July 28*^^^ 1884, the deputation communicated the terms of the Con-

requirement in

vention to

Volksraad,

the

a

formula adopted with

knowledge of England and accepted on her part

the

without protest

We

2).

assert that during the

whole

time which elapsed before 1898 England never breathed

word about

a

the

correspondence.

suzerainty

Finally

it

in

her interminable

must be observed that

the right of the Transvaal to declare war, even against

England, has never been contested

^),

and that England

exchanged the exequaturs of the consulat agents in

London and

at Pretoria.

Seeing thus collapse,

all

the fine scaffolding of his argument

Mr. Chamberlain did not dare to put forward

the question of the "Protectorate". fact

with

that the

the

Transvaal

consent

of

since

Yellow book of the Orange Free State Blue Book, c. 950, 7, no. 4 and p. 8.

^)

Stead Are

vte

exercised,

England, the protectorate over

2)

')

The indisputable

1894 had

tn the Right, p. 22.

p. 9.

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