The Rise of South Africa: A History of the Origin of South African Colonisation and of Its Development Towards the East from the Earliest Times to 1857, Volume 3Longmans, Green, 1919 - Africa |
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afterwards arrived assegais assistance attack Bathurst Beaufort Boers British burghers bush camp Cape Colony Cape Town Captain captured cattle CHAP chief Chumie Civil Commissioner Colonel Smith Colonel Somerset colonists command commenced Committee despatch distance district driven Eastern Province enemy England evidence farmers Field Cornet Fingoes fire Fish River force Fort Beaufort Fort Cox frontier further Gaika Gcalekas Government Governor Graaff Reinet Grahamstown guns hills Hintza horses hostile Hottentots inhabitants Kaffirland Kaffirs Kat River Settlement Keiskamma killed King William's Town kraal Kreli land large number Lieutenant Lieutenant-Governor Lord Charles Somerset Lord Glenelg Lovedale Majesty's Major Cox Maqomo March matters ment miles military mission station missionaries mountains moved murder natives party patrol peace Philip Retief Return of Caffre sent settlers Sir Benjamin Durban slavery Southey Stockenstrom stolen tion took tribes Trompetter's Drift troops Tyali Tzatzoe Uitenhage Umhala waggon Willshire wounded
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Page 284 - t appointed to consider what Measures ought to be adopted with regard to the NATIVE INHABITANTS of Countries where BRITISH SETTLEMENTS are made, and to the neighbouring Tribes, in order to secure to them the due observance of Justice and the protection of their Rights ; to promote the spread of Civilization among them, and to lead them to the peaceful and voluntary reception of the Christian Religion...
Page 397 - We quit this colony under the full assurance that the English Government has nothing more to require of us, and will allow us to govern ourselves without its interference in future.
Page 27 - ... 2. That through a determined and persevering, but, at the same time, judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his majesty's subjects.
Page 397 - We will not molest' any people, nor deprive them of the smallest property; but, if attacked, we shall consider ourselves fully justified in defending our persons and effects, to the utmost of our ability, against every enemy.
Page 396 - We are resolved, wherever we go, that we will uphold the just principles of liberty; but whilst we will take care that no one shall be held in a state of slavery, it is our determination to maintain such regulations as many suppress crime and preserve the proper relations between master and servant.
Page 396 - We despair of saving the Colony from those evils which threaten it by the turbulent and dishonest conduct of vagrants, who are allowed to infest the country in every part...
Page 396 - We complain of the continual system of plunder which we have for years endured from the Kaffirs and other coloured classes, and particularly by the last invasion of the Colony, which has desolated the frontier districts and ruined most of the inhabitants.
Page 27 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution, and of the Christian Religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Page 396 - We complain of the unjustifiable odium which has been cast upon us by interested and dishonest persons, under the name of religion, whose testimony is believed in England to the exclusion of all evidence in our favour; and we can foresee, as the result of this prejudice, nothing but the total ruin of the country.
Page 150 - You voluntarily placed yourself in our hands as a hostage ; you are, however, to look upon me as having full power over you, and if you attempt to escape, you will assuredly be shot. I consider my nation at peace with yours, and I shall not molest your subjects; provided they are peaceable. When they bring in the cattle according to your commands, I shall select the bullocks, and return the cows and calves to them.