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England's connection in South Africa began in 1875; up to that time South Africa had been a Dutch colony. In the early part of the nineteenth century, there was a good deal of trouble between England and the Dutch for the possession of the Cape. With the emancipation of the slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England...
...these despised Outlanders caused them to complain to the Queen, as British subjects, on the grounds that they had no share in the municipal government, no chance for naturalization, no rights for their school children, and were oppressed in every way. In the original establishment of the government, the Dutch had promised that the Boers and Outlanders should have equal rights and priviliges. This promise of course has been utterly disregarded...
...name, his near kinsman, that loved the Lord Mayor's daughter; to prevent and cross which love, the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent as colonel of a company into France; he resigned his place to another gentleman, his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower street, who served the mayor and his household with shoes; the merriment which passed in Eyre's house; his coming to be mayor of London, Lacy's getting his love and other accidents, with two merry three-men's songs conclude the play...
Principal Disputants.- Affirmative: C. F. Dutch and J. Burroughs.- Negative: A. D. Wyman and A. P. Young...
Principal Disputants.- Affirmative: C. F. Dutch and J. Burroughs.- Negative: A. D. Wyman and A. P. Young...