The South African Republics, Vs
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Excerpt from The South African Republics, Vs: Great Britain Of its would-be destroyer, whether the latter acquiesce or not and further, the rights of a Republic, however unprogressive its government may be, however contracted its policy may appear, above a monarchy which although professing constitutionality, is nevertheless in its insular and colonial rule, an oligarchy of a certain pronounced and undeniable type. Consider this well! Is it to be a precedent that any Government hereafter assuming to believe the administration of another corrupt, or non-progressive, or a religious oligarchy (?), may step in and annexing the territories by force of arms, - take the reins of authority into their own hands? And all other powers remain quiescent? If so, farewell all liberty! farewell all those long recognized rights hitherto interposing as a barrier between the feeble and the strong. Talk no more of Justice; no more of progress; no more of universal disarmament and peace amongst all the civilized (?) nations; but revert at once to the brusque methods of the olden age, when the most dexterously wielded club was decisive argument in every dispute, and the largest and ablest army the most convincing title to dominion. Away with your Hague Conferences, mockeries of your real intent, - with your Codes of War, you dare not enforce when they are willfully violated by the strong, - with your International Rights, which you fear to uphold, lest forsooth, pet projects abort or commerce suffers! All are outraged in this shameful war of Might on Right, this buccaneering raid for gold, this Conquistador inroad for dominion. Throw off the mask! let the weaker fall before the stronger in society as with nations, for the principle is the same whether the burly ruffian garrotes or bludgeons his struggling yet helpless victim for his coveted purse or the over-powering armies of a robber-country shoot and shell into non-resistance the unaided forces of a relatively feeble State. Altiloquence! ephuism! cry those mean souls, content to grovel under any indignity and oppression to preserve their worldly prosperity; those who read what I have written with sneering and ridicule, thinking thereby to repress enthusiasm and bury sentiment. With such, it is indeed ever, - "repress enthusiasm, bury sentiment, allow nothing to interfere with the welfare of trade." Is this to be? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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