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Excerpt from Peace With Dishonour: A Speech Delivered in the House of Lords, March 31st, 1881, by the Right Hon. Earl Cairns, on the Arrangements Made by Her Majesty's Government With the Boers in the Transvaal
A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon me the duty of taking military measures with a view to the prompt vindication of my authority, and 'has of necessity set aside for the time any plan for securing to the European settlers that full control over their own local affairs, without prejudice to the interests of the natives, which I have been desirous to confer.
In the Address presented by your lordships in answer to that most gracious speech you thanked Her Majesty for the information we had received that the authority of the Crown would be promptly vindicated, and that not until that was done could the time arrive for conferring the boon upon the European settlers that was indicated in the latter part of the sentence which I have just read Rising in the Transvaal, of course, means a rebellion or insurrection: and I now wish to ask the Secretary of State whether the authority of the Crown has been promptly vindicated in the Transvaal '2 (cheers) Has the action at Lang's Nek promptly vindicated the authority Of the Crown?
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