The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-07

New York, Nov 6.-The consul gen.
eral of the Orange Free State in thi.
city gave out today 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 de-
sired to avoid. the moment when we
as a nation are compelled with arms
TO oppose injustice and shameless
violence is at hand. Our sister re-
public to the north of the vaal river
IS about to be attacked by an I'M
scrupulous enemy who, for many years,
has prepared himself and sought pre-
texts for the violence of which he is
now guilty. whose purpose it is to
destroy the existence of the Afrikander
race. With our sister republic we are
not only bound by ties of blood and
sympathy and of common interests but
also by formal treaty which has been
necessitated by circumstances. This
| treaty demands of us that We assist
her if she should be unjustly attacked.
which we unfortunately for a long
! time have had too much reason to ex-
pect.
I'VE therefore cannot passivelv look
on while injustice is done her and
while also our own dearly bought free
dom is endangered, but are called as
men to resist, trusting the Almighty
and firmly believing that he will NEVER
permit injustice and unrighteousness
to triumph.
Wrongs By Great Britain.
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enemy with whom it has always been
our highest desire to live in friendship
Notwithstanding injustice and wrong
done by him to US in the past, we
Solemnly 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 existence as an independent |
state of no significance and that their !
fate. should they be obliged to bend |
under an overwhelming power, will also I
soon after be our own fate.
Solemn treaties have not protected |
our sister republic against annexation,
against conspiracy, against the claim
of an abolished suzerainty, against a
renewed attack which aims only at her
downfall.
Our Own unfortunate experiences in
the past have also made it sufficiently
clear to us that We cannot rely on the
most solemn promises and agreements
of Great Britain, when she has at her
helm a government prepared TO trample
on treaties, to look for feigned pre-
texts for every violation of good faith
by her committed.
No Regard For Treaties.
This is proved among other things
by the unjust and unlawful British
after we had overcome an
armed and barbarous black 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 !
1eSire for this appropriation although |
contrary to existing treaties.
The desire and intention to trample I
IN our rights as an independent and
sovereign nation, Notwithstanding a
solemn convention existing between
his state and Great Britain, have also ,
been more than once and are now
lgain shown by the present govern G
nent. by giving expressions in public c
documents to an unfounded claim of c
over the whole of South /
Africa and therefore over this state.
with regard to the South African {
epublic, Great Britain has moreover
efused until the present, to allow her l
o regain her original position in res l
'ect to foreign affairs, position which q
lad lost in no sense by her own faults.
he original intention of the conven-
ion to which the republic had consent
d under pressure and circumstances, a
as been perverted and continually a
sed by the present British administra- "
ion as means for the practice of e
tyranny and of injustice and among b
Their things for the support of revclu- n
onary propaganda within the repub- n
C for Great Britain.
No Feeling of Shame.
And while no redress has been Of =
sred, as justice demands for injustice =
one the South African republic on the +
art of the British government, while =
0 gratitude is exhibited for the mag :
shown at the request of the
ritish government to British subjects
no had forfeited under the laws of
lie republic their lives and property
ct no feeling of shame has prevented
lie British government now that the
Did mines of immense value have been
scovered in the country. to make
aims of the republic the consequence
which, if allowed, will be that those
no or whose forefathers have saved
lie country from barbarism and have -
on 1t for civilization with their blood =
Id their tears will lose their control 4
yer the interests of the country to IL
hich they are justly entitled according "
divine and human laws. 81
THE consequence of these claims B.
ould be, moreover. that the greater H
Irt of the power Will be placed in the s.
lnds of those who. foreigners by birth. a
Joy the privilege of depriving the Is
untry of its chief treasure while they n
i've never shown any loyalty to a for y
On government. 81
Besides the result of these claims "a
suld be that the independence of the n
untry as self governing. indepen- 81
mt sovereign republic would be ire ~
rably lost. For years past British 81
pops in great numbers have been 81
aced on the frontiers of our sister re-
bile in order to compel her by fear to "a
cede to the demands which will be 81
essed upon her and in order to en- 81
urage revolutionary disturbances and al
e cunning plans of those whose greed a
: gold is the cause of their shameless "a
dertakings "a
Deeds of Robbery. ia
These plans have not reached their 81
max in the open violence to which u
present British government now re- -
It's. While we readily acknowledge e
, honorable character of thousands of n
glishmen who foath such deeds of 81
,bery and wrong we cannot but alb Is
: the shameless breaking of treaties. "a
feigned pretexts for the transgres- "a
n of law, the violation of internation- "a
law and of injustice and the numer- -
right-rending deeds of the British -
tesmen who will now force a war
IN the South African republic. on =
ir heads be the guilt of blood and
y a just Providence reward all as m
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