[Boer Politics by Yves Guyot]@TWC D-Link bookBoer Politics PREFACE 7/7
If you suggest that the Jameson Raid bears a certain analogy to the expedition of Garibaldi's One Thousand, he gazes at you with amazement. If you proceed to remark that the Jameson Raid took place at the close of the year 1895; that we are now in 1900; that it is _res judicata_; that the British Government left Boer Justice a free hand to deal with the conspirators, he accuses you of having been bought by England.
Not a whisper, of course, is heard about the millions of secret service money placed at the disposal of Dr.Leyds. _The Logical Consequences of the Jameson Raid._ According to the Boers, they are briefly: (1) The Jameson Raid of Dec. 29th, 1895, gives the South African Republic the right in perpetuity to regard the Convention of 1884 as null and void.
(2) The Jameson Raid gives the Government of the South African Republic the right to treat all Uitlanders, especially the British, as Boers treat Kaffirs.
(3) The Jameson Raid gives the Government of the South African Republic an undefined and perpetual right to plunder the Uitlanders. YVES GUYOT..
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