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Excerpt from The Truth About the Transvaal
Mr. Chamberlain's speech, recently delivered at Birmingham, and containing a dalenco of the Transvaal policy of the present Govern ment, has been printed for general circulation. A defence of the same policy, by Mr. Craig Sellar, has already been circulated in Scot land, so that what may be called the Boer side of the question is fully before the British public. This being the case, it has been thought desirable that the British side should be also stated clearly and imp: utially, so that the public may be able to judge for itself who her the Government are really entitled to the praise which they cl tiin for moral courage' 'in their abandonment of the Tiansvaal, and whether justice really required that the ?ag of England should be lowered before insurgent enemies, that British soldiers should be massacred not only unavenged, but with out even a word of protest on the part of the British Government, that the plighted word of that Government to loyal colonists should be broken, and the confidence hitherto placed, both by men of white and black descent, in the power and good faith of Great Britain, rudely shaken, if not entirely destroyed. Mr. Sellar, after stating With perfect truth that the Transvaal is an enormous territory, about the size of England, Scotland, and Ireland in a ring fence, goes on to say that the Boers, trekking from Cape Colony and Natal to escape from British dominion.
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