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قراءة كتاب A Century of Wrong
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A CENTURY OF WRONG
ISSUED BY
F.W. REITZ
State Secretary of the South African Republic
WITH PREFACE BY
W.T. STEAD
"Audi Alteram Partem"
LONDON:
"REVIEW OF REVIEWS" OFFICE, MOWBRAY HOUSE, NORFOLK STREET, W.C.
CONTENTS
| Page | |
|---|---|
| PREFACE. By W.T. Stead. | vii. |
| INTRODUCTION | 1 |
| THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE | 4 |
| THE FOUNDING OF NATAL | 13 |
| THE ORANGE FREE STATE | 17 |
| THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC | 23 |
| THE CONVENTIONS OF 1881 AND 1884 | 33 |
| CAPITALISTIC JINGOISM—FIRST PERIOD | 37 |
| CAPITALISTIC JINGOISM—SECOND PERIOD | 49 |
| CONCLUSION | 89 |
| APPENDIX A.—Lord Derby's Dispatch on Convention of 1884 | 101 |
| APPENDIX B.—The Annexation of the Diamond Fields | 105 |
| APPENDIX C.—The Reply to Mr. Chamberlain's Dispatch on Grievances | 109 |
| APPENDIX D.—The Final Dispatch of Mr. State Secretary Reitz | 127 |
| APPENDIX E.—The Text of the Conventions, 1852, 1881, and 1884 | 128 |
| INDEX | 149 |
PREFACE.
"In this awful turning point of the history of South Africa, on the eve of the conflict which threatens to exterminate our people, it behoves us to speak the truth in what may be, perchance, our last message to the world."
Such is the raison d'être of this book. It is issued by State Secretary Reitz as the official exposition of the case of the Boer against the Briton. I regard it as not merely a duty but an honour to be permitted to bring it before the attention of my countrymen.
Rightly or wrongly the British Government has sat in judgment upon the South African Republic, rightly or wrongly it has condemned it to death. And now, before the executioner can carry out the sentence, the accused is entitled to claim the right to speak freely—it may be for the last time—to say why, in his opinion, the sentence should not be executed. A liberty which the English law accords as an unquestioned right to the foulest murderer cannot be denied to the South African Republic. It is on that ground that I have felt bound to afford the spokesman of our Dutch brethren in South Africa the opportunity of stating their case in his own way in the hearing of the