Name: A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields
Author: Francis William Reitz

Quotes from A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields (Francis William Reitz)

Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields (1900)

“ The impression is everywhere that British protection is invoked not for British interests, nor for the interests of Britons working on the fields here, but for the sake of two gentlemen who hold the reins with far more power than ought to be given to anyone who is entrusted with the administration of this country.
Who has ever heard of a Government which binds itself to give the surveyorship of a new country to one man only? ”

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Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields (1900)

“ Day after day, and night after night, the one or other part of the camp is entertained by the edifying spectacle of natives being thrashed, tents being burnt, and white people surrounded by ferocious crowds who can scarcely be kept back from carrying out their desire for vengeance by a small truncheon and a thick thong. ”

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Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields (1900)

“ Authority cannot maintain its claim to be respected as long as persons suffering under the sense of having been injured take the law into their own hands, solely because of the proved incapability of those in authority to protect them where their interests mostly need protection. ”

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Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields (1900)

“ The copious news in our columns, and the reports of meetings, as well as the scenes which take place every night at mass meetings in this time of excitement, uproar and confusion, take up nearly all our principal columns. We heartily wish that the fire may be speedily got under, or else it is very much to be feared that the end will be dreadfully injurious to the safety and welfare of the innocent. ”

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Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields (1900)

“ The British Government, so highly prized, which would put everything to rights and would do so much for the diggers, has brought the camps back to their original position of having to protect themselves. ”

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Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — Appendix B. The Annexation of the Diamond Fields (1900)

“ No magistrate, however exceptional, counts against the absence of such laws, discipline, and police as our circumstances demand, and through want of which there is no other prospect than that terrorism which arises out of a blind struggle against anarchy. ”

Francis William Reitz

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