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THE SHANNON LIMITED., Rope . ~ ! aker (Close to Moorgate Street Station), F w Sc" ..' "· MAHA"'"o o .... c ,o.. LONDON, E .r THE TRANSVAAL. BAILEY'S ANNUAL INDEX TO THE TIMES 1 Sgg, cloth, g ilt lettered, 1 ss., and MONTHLY ISSUES, 1900, Js. each, to the Events leading up to the War, and the History of the War Itself. • EYRE A~D S I'OTTISWOODE, EAST H ARDIN(; ST REET , E.C. CHARING CROSS TURKISH BATHS ( N E Y I L L . 5 1 . Gmtk mm's En/rana-HQRTHUMBERLAHD AVENUf. S E PARAT E BATH FOR LADIES. En11·a,a-HORTHUMBERLAHO PASSAGE ~""'" ... ,. ~TD.J~· ' PRONOI JN rJ:;,..., And at THE TRANSVAAL. FROM \VI T HI N . A PRTVATE·RECORD OF ·I'UDLTC AFFAIRS ·r P~'· FITZPATRICK Wrilttn AuJ:UII, 18/)6. J'rit·atd,, cirtttlnlrd Jll>tt, 1t9?, Swfflmr.•nltli find jm/tliJ/ud (101. rut) Srp/(m/;o·, 1899> Rtfdnltd {l(/rJbtr 10, t!:l9?: oa•. tn·~ t6, •ik.o9; 0Cf(J6n· :tJ, t&99; 1\'"cr.•t,ul>u- t, 1S~): N.rpm,bu 16, 189<1, Dcr,ntl>tr 7, 18w; l.huml•tr 19, 1fl99. J>vNil..A.N Eon'w..t (u. 6d. nd) :1f'''"'h a"J, ti)OO Rrjrintt:d Apr/12, 11}00- StXI'V.N~\' l!:otTION1 Srttrmbtr271 1900. CONTENTS·· PART I.-A l'RIVATE RECORD I. IN EAULllm DAYS tr, AF'l'ER THE WAR 36 IJI, THE ORIGIN OF' THE MOVEliE~T U3 IV, THE REFORl! COlDllTTEE 108 V, TUE CO~lilll1''l'Ets'S ))!LEMMA 119 VI, 'fHE INVASION - J:l6 VJI. AFTER DOORNKOP 1->8 VUI, AUREST AND TRIAl. OF l'HJ~ RBFOR:'IIEUS 175 IX. LIFE IN GAOL • 108 PART Jl.~A POSTSCRIPT X. THREE i'E.\RS1 GltACE ~ 222 XI. TilE BEGINSING OF TJ,IE END ~. 260 APPENDICES A,-PRETORIA CONVENTION • 290 B.--LONDON CONVENTION • 297 c.~PRESIDENT I<RUGim'~ AFFAIRS IN Ttm R.UDS w 304 D.-VOL!(SRAAD DEBATES . • 305 E.-MALAROCI! Bll F.-THE GRE.\T FUANCHISE DEBATE 312 G.··-TERliS OF DH. JA'I£SON'S SURRENDER· 319 H.-SIR JOHN WILLOUGHBY'S RE!'OR'r TO TI1B WAR OFFICE 326 I.-MANIFESTO :mu 1\.-THE CASE OF THE CJJIF:FTAINESS TOERE)JE'l'SJ.\XI 345 L.-IU~l'OH.T ON 'fHF. ·LETTF.R WntTTEN OS" A TORN TJ<.:l,EGHA~l FOR~I ·.""~ Sl<HmD 'F. R.,' llY lin. T. ll, OUTIHJN 1 EXPF.RT IN liAS'D· WJtiTIXG • If you wish to read a history of the i1ztemal economy of the. Trmzsvaal, I would simply stzggesl that you should procure a book called " The Trans­ vaal from Witl:i11,'' by Mr. FitzPatrick, who was a dwizm of the Transvaal, and much interested in its progress-a book which seems to me to bear on every page, and in every sentr:uce, tile mark of tmtlz, mzd which gives yot< wholesale, m;d in detail, a11 extraorditzary, aud, I think I may say, an appalliug record of tlze way izt which lite Govem­ mmt of the Tmusvaal was carried 011, attd the subjcctio11 to which it reduced our fellow-cowztly­ mcn there.' EXTRACT FROM LORD ROSEBERY'S GREAT SPEECH AT BATH. INTRODUCTION TO THE POPULAR EDITION Stl!CB the publication of this volume war has broken out under circum­ stances which go far to justify the view so often expressed by British South Africans-that the policy and aspirations of the Transvaal were aggressive and not defensive, and which even semn to warrant the belief that the Imperial Government were deliberately manreuvred into a position which the governing clique at Pretoria, and their accomplice, President Steyn, were able to represent to the burghers of both republics as threatening their independence. It was essential to the Transvaal that the defensive alliance with the Orange Free State should become an offensive one as well, a change which Mr. Steyn ha.d un­ ceasingly urged, but which the people of the Free State had steadily resisted. It Mil be remembered that at a critical stage in the negotia­ tions President Steyn publicly charged Mr. Conyngham Greene with bad faith in having drawn from the Transvaal Government a proposal which the Imperial Government had no intention of accepting. The memoranda and letters which passed between Mr. Conyngham Greene an.d Mr. Smuts (the Transvaal State Attorney) totally disprove the Q~:cusation. Mr. Steyn had, or could have had, access to these records, Nevertheless the charge was made, and the visible result was that the Orange Free State unreservedly threw in its lot with the Transvae.l. Before any demands, requests or suggestions-such as might have been based upon treaty rights or fiduciary responsibilities-had been made by the Imperial Government, the amazing ultimatum was delivered by the Transvaal to Great Britain; war was declared within forty-eight , hours; Natal, Cape Colony and Bechuanaland were invaded; and a condition of preparedness and extent of equipment were reveo.led which plainly indicated a long, secret, and ·determined preparation for a struggle with the paramount power. The Boers themselves, whilst protesting that 1heir aim was defence only, do not deny that their preparations were directed against England; but even apart from this, after the revelations of the past four months, the suggestion that they had merely prepared. against a repetition of the Jameson Raid is not worth discussing. The publication of this volume bas elicited. many comments and vi INTRODUO'I!ON TO TilE POPULAR ElllTION suggestions which show that the necessity for compression, and the Msumption that matters which are of common knowledge in South Africa would also be known elsewhere, are responsible for the omission of much evidence which was available, and perhaps ought to have been produced. No one knows this better or feels it more keenly than the writer, but it is impossible, without exceeding reasonable limits, to deal with everything, and the present addition to the volume is therefore confined to a brief elucidation of one very important and much-debated question-Why did the Transvaol arm against England 7 For a special reason that question had better be considered under two sub-heads in the following order: · 1. When did the Transvaal determine upon the policy of arming? 2. What were the aspirations of the Transvaal ? Tho special reason for this subdivision is that friends and agents of the Transvaol Government. aspiring to instruct public opinion prefer to avoid detailed examination of the facts and the dates, their object being that the one answer to everything ruay be 'The Jameson Raid.' Had there been no raid, the question of when arming was determined upon would have been of no importance; obviously, therefore, if it can be shown that tho arming was not caused by the Raid, that incident has no longer any bearing upon the main question. All that needs to be shown is that, prior to and apart from the Raid, the Transvaal Govern­ ment ha4 the intention to arm upon a scale not warranted by their necessities. · The whole question might be disposed of by quoting one paragraph from the m.anifesto issued by the Chairman of the N ationSJ Union as the justification of the Reform movement (see Appendix I). It was published on December 27, 1895, and Dr. Jameson started two days later. The paragraph is as follows: TnE PoLtOY 011 FoRCE. 'Wc no~ have openly the policy of force revealed to us £250,000 is to be spent upon the completing of a fort! at Pretoria, £100,000 is to be spent upon a fort to terrorize the inhabitants of. Johannesburg, large orders are sent to Krupp's for big gtms, ~!axims havo been ordered, and we are even told that German officers are corning out to ~rill the burgh~rs. Are these things necessary, or aro they calcnhted to mrtate tho feehng to brenking·point I What necessity is there for forts in peaceful inland towns 1 Why should the Government ondcavour to keep us in subjection tO unjust laws by the power of tho sword instead of making thom<elves live in the heart of the people by a broad policy of justice!' When the apologists for the Transvaal were confronted with this evidence they changed their ground ; they adopted the very effective tactics of their proteges, and retreated to another defensive position. Now they no longer claim that arming commenced after the Raid, but 1 This is not the barrack rcfcncd to on p.
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