The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-10-25
TRANSY AAL WAR.
In Which the English and Beers
Fight Again.
WHAT THE WAR is ABOUT
England Is Clearly In the Wrong,
and Should Admit 1t by
Wi.hdrawing Her
Troops.

Withdrawing Her
Troops.
Several days ago we reviewed the his
toric relations of the English and the
Dutch in South Africa, showing how
long and pcr.istently the Beers had
cherished the ideal of independence,
what sacrifices of home and property
they had made to get out of the way OF
Great Britain and how they had been
pursued by the claims of alien author
ity. \ nearer view Of the case, cover
ing the immediate issues which have
resulted in war, is furnished by the
New York World. and to promote an
understanding CT the Involved and
much obscured question Of British
rights in the Trapsvaal we here repro
duce it. The Worlds chronology is as
| follows:
lS52-A treaty known as the Sand
River convention was signed by Great
Britain ard the Transysal Boers in
which the absolute independence Of the
Transvaal Beers was recognized.
lS75-DuriDg the general war be-
tween the whites and the blacks Great
Britain broke the Sand River conven-
tion and annexed the Transvaal.
lSSG-l-The Transvasl Beers revolt
| ed raised the standard of the republic
and defeated the British ia several
small engagements.
lSSl-Great Britain signed treaty
know2 as the Pretoria convention, IN
which self government was granted to
the Beers, Great Britain remaining the
suzersin power.
lSSl-A new treaty, known as the
convention of London. In this there
was no mention of suzerainty; the
Transvaal republic was granted com.
plete freedom, in fact became, as MIR.
Chamberlain said in one Of his dis.
patches last summer, "a foreign state. .
Lord Derby, who negotiated the con-
ventioa Of 1854 fer the British, thus
described (on Feb. II, 1884 the powers
retained by Great Britain:
by the omission of those articles OF
the convention of Pretoria which as
signed to her majesty and to the British
resident certain specific powers and
functions connected with the internal
government and the foreign relations
of the Transvaal state, your govern
ment will be left free to govern the
country without interference, and to
con1uct it's diplomatic intercourse and
shape its foreign policy, subject only to
tie requirement that any treaty with
any foreign state shall not have effect
without the approval Of the queen:
lSS6-Gold discovered in the Trans
walls territories.
lSS7-Total output of gold from the
Rand (Witwatersrapd) mines 43, 100
ounces.
lsSS-Output of gold increases to
2lS, l2l ounces. Great excitement in
England. Foreigners, chiefly British
pouring into the Rand district and
building up Johannesburg at rate of
1000 week. Discoveries of gold IN
other parts of the Transvaal.
lSS9-The British South African
com pany organized by Cecil Rhodes
and several emirent Englishmen, in
cludine the Prince Of Wales son-ln-
law, the Duke Of Fife. The produc,
ton of gold in The Rand rises to 3ol, 5o7
ounces.
1S90-The production Of gold rises
to 49l 81 ounces.
ls9l-By the invention of a new
process the production of gold IS In
creased to 729, 23S ounces.
Scientists fud that the Rand, instead
of being exhausted within few years
as was thought, will produce gold in in
creasing quantities for at least 70 years.
lS92-rhe Oatlanders, who have
hitherto cared nothing about the fran
chise, began to agitate. At Johannes
burg denuncistions Of the Beers are
open and plans for subvertiog the re-
public and bringing about annexation
to Great Britain are openly discussed;
lS92-Thc Beers, who in 1881 had
been admitting any one to the franchise
on two years residence, now raise the
time to fourteen years.
lS92-The production Of gold rises
to l,2l0, o62 ounces.
lS93-The productien Of gold is
1,47S 473 ounces or double what 1t was
in 1891.
lS94-Gold production, 2.O24, l64
ounces $3.50, 900, 00W. The agitation
against the republic at johannesburg
increases, and is aggravated by the in
creasing Boer hatred of the British.
The British South Africa company
Cecil Rhodes suspected with good
reason of plotting the overthrow OF the
republic.
lS95-96-The Jameson raid. DR..
jameson and his followers British
army officers and servants Of the Brit,
ish South Africa company captured
and delivered over to British authorl'
ties for trial. They receive an ovation
il London and are let off with nominal
punishments.
lS96-Mr. Chamberlain, speaking for
the government, which is trying to et-
face the impression made in South Al,
rica and throughout the civilized world
by the jameson raid. says IN the house
o. commonson May 5:
''To 80 to war with President Kruger
to enforce upon him reforms in the IN
ternal affairs Of his state, in which
secretaries of state, standing in their
places, have repudiated all right OF m.
terference-that would be course OF
action which would be immoral.
lS97-The rroductiod of gold IN the
Rand is 2.5l1 ,344 ounces, making 1t the
richest gold field in the world, and
making the Transvaal the greatest GOLD
IL