The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-07
sTEYN's PROCLAMATION.
Calling Upon the Free State Rurghers to
-5' support the Transvanl.
" Heavy T,usS


. New York, Nov. 6.-The consul gen.
era1 of the Orange Free State in this
city gave out to-day the full text of
President Steyn's proclamation calling
on the Orange Free State Beers to sup
port the Transvaal. The proclamation
reads as follows:
"Burghers of the Orange Free State:
The time which we had so much desired
TO avoid: the moment when we, as
nation, are compelled with arms to OPP
pose injustice and shameless violence is
at hand. Our sister republic north Of
the Vaal river is about to be attacked
by an INSCRIPTIONS enemy who, for
many years, has prepared himself and
sought pretexts for the violence Of
which he is now guilty, whose purpose
1t is to destroy the existence of the At
rikander race. With our sister repub-
lice, we are not only bound by ties Of
blood, of sympathy and of common in
terests, but also by formal treaty which
has been necessitated by circum-
stances. This treaty demands of US
that we assist her if she should be
nnjustly attacked which we unfortu-
nately for long time have had too
much reason to expect. We therefore
cannot passively look on while injustice
Is done her and while also our own
dearly bought freedom is endangered,
but are called as men to resist, trusting
the Almighty, firmly believing that He
will never permit injustice and UPRIGHT
eousness to triumph.
Now that we thus resist powerful
enemy with whom it has always been
out highest desire to live in friendship
Notwithstanding injustice, we solemny
declare in the presence of Almighty
God that we are compelled thereto by
the injustice done to our kinsmen and
BY the consciousness that the end Of
their independence will make our exis-
tence as an Independent state of no
y significance and that their fate, should
they be obliged to bend under an over
Whelming power, will also soon after
be our fate.
Solemn treaties have not protected
bur sister republic against annexation,
against conspiracy, against the claims
Of an abolished suzerainty, against a
renewed attack which aims only at her
DOWNFALL q
Our own unfortunate experiences in
the past have also made ii sufficiently
clear to us that we cannot rely on the
most solemn promises and agreements
Of Great Britain, when she has at her
helm government prepared to tram
PIE on treaties. to look for feigned pre-
texts for every violation of good faith
by her committed. This is proved,
among other things, by the unjust and
unlawful British Intervention, after we
had overcome an armed and barbarous
pIack tribe on our eastern frontier as
also by the forcible appropriation of
the dominion over part of our territory
where the discovery of diamonds had
caused the desire for this appropria-
ton, although contrary to existing
treaties.
With regard to the South African
republic, Great Britain has moreover
refused until the present to allow her
to regain her original position in re-
spect to foreign affairs, a position
which she had lost in no sense by her
own faults. The original intention Of
me conventions to which the republic
had consented under pressure and cir
rumstance has been perverted and con-
nnuously been used by the present
British administration as means for
the practice of tyranny and of injus-
tice and among other things for The
support of revolutionary propaganda
With the republic for Great Britain
And while no redress has been offered,
as justice demands. for injustice done
the South African republic on the part