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30THE SOUTHAFRICANCRISIS.and the Vaal go back to its source, before the would be given back to the Boers. ') Badvens,Transvaalcame ofluckthehis braggadocia.withtri- colour,Heidelberg;atappointed ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICANCRISIS.31,This time they had the good fortuneof the Treaty.to be received in the capital in a spirit of concihation,and although Lord Derby, goaded by the opposition, especiall}^ inthe House of Lords, was obliged to save ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN33CRISIS.be SO far intimidated as to accepttodemands, peace would have been preferableberlain'sBut the end he pursued was as clear as day.to him.ByMr. Cham-allthe threat of a military occupation h ...
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32THE SOUTH-AFRICANwould be purefolly.CRISIS.Already Dr. Jameson was pre-paring his raid at Mafeking under the protection of the Minister of the Cape, and in 1895 he carried outMr. Chamberlain has never been ablehis operations.clear ...
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THEexempt fromSOUTH-AFRICANmilitary service, and thatallserious for the Boers tooflivestheir37CRISIS.sons,pay with theirthanitmoreit islivesand thefor the millionai ...
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36THE SOUTH-AFRICANCRISIS.be preferred because the chief justice of the superiorwas deposed ? But in the United States in 1839 President Johnson got over the difficulty by reducing to nine the members of the supreme court and procured a complacent majority of a sort ^) ...
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;THE SOUTH-AFRICAN34until the aggressorpatientlyCRISIS,had finished sharpeningweapons would have been tantamount to committing suicide, and when we saw the English soldiers enter hisPretoriaof thehearthad appealed ...
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THE SOUTH- AFRICAN35CRISIS.London not more than fifteen years passed away before peace was disturbed. Though numbering less than a 100,000 the Boers were scattSince the convention ofan area as wide as that of the whole ofovereredThey were burdened ...
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!;THE SOUTH-AFRICAN38ClilSIS.Americans (615) i) nor the subjects of any other nation have laid any complaint. The dis2862), nor thecontentedfactionreigned only amongst the Englishand when war was declared, as we havemenof every ...
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THE SOUTH-AFRICANhismethods.A39CRISIS.series of charges of all sorts of outragesagainstmen and women waschargeswhichMr,lodgedChamberlainhasagainsthim,had carefully But when ...