Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — The Conventions of 1881 and 1884 (1900)
“ The South African Republic falls undoubtedly under this category of States, the sovereignty of which is limited in one or other defined direction. But the fact of its sovereignty is nevertheless irrefutable. ”
Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — The Conventions of 1881 and 1884 (1900)
“ The right of the British Government to exercise control over all our foreign relations, and to conduct all our diplomatic negotiations through its own Agent, was thus replaced by the far more slender right of approving or disapproving of our treaties and conventions after they were completed, and then only when it affected the interests of Great Britain or Her Majesty's possessions in South Africa. ”
Francis William Reitz, A Century of Wrong — The Conventions of 1881 and 1884 (1900)
“ The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or Nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any Native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by Her Majesty the Queen. ”
