 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley, John Philip - 1837 - 380 pages
...at the close of the last year. This justification rests on two distinct grounds. First, The Caffres had to resent, and endeavoured justly though impotently to avenge, a series of encroachments upon them, which had terminated in the assumption by Great Britain, first, of the dominion, and then... | |
 | W. K. Ente - 1843 - 478 pages
...years the Kafirs had an ample justification of the war;" that they " had to resent, and endeavored justly though impotently to avenge a series of encroachments,...extorting by force that redress which they could not otherwise obtain, and that the original justice is on the side of the conquered (Kafirs) and not the... | |
 | 1848 - 570 pages
...imprudence in the close of the last year (1834). This justification rests on two grounds. First, the Kaffirs had to resent, and endeavoured justly, though impotently, to avenge a series of encroachments upon them, which had terminated in the assumption by Great Britain, first, of the dominion, and then... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1851 - 706 pages
...the close of the last year. This justification rests on two distinct grounds : — First, The Kafirs had to resent, and endeavoured justly though impotently to avenge, a series of encroachments upon them, which had terminated in the assumption by Great Britain, first of the dominion, and then... | |
 | Henry Cloete - 1852 - 64 pages
...the war, viz. : — • " Through a long series of years the Kafirs had an ample justification of the war ; they had to resent, and endeavoured justly,...a perfect right to hazard the experiment, however hopelessly, of extorting by force that redress which they could not otherwise obtain ; and that the... | |
 | William Shaw - 1860 - 620 pages
...they had been the victims; and I am compelled to embrace, however reluctantly, the conclusion, that they had a perfect right to hazard the experiment,...which they could not expect otherwise to obtain." Seeing this view of the case prevailed at the Colonial Office, the reader will not be surprised that... | |
 | William Shaw - 1872 - 278 pages
...they had been the victims; and I am compelled to embrace, however reluctantly, the conclusion, that they had a perfect right to hazard the experiment,...which they could not expect otherwise to obtain." Seeing this view of the case prevailed at the .Colonial Office, the reader will not be surprised that... | |
 | John Noble - 1877 - 374 pages
...which they had been the victims, I am compelled to embrace, however reluctantly, the conclusion that they had a perfect right to hazard the experiment,...which they could not expect otherwise to obtain." The despatch concluded by conveying to the Governor peremptory injunctions that the sovereignty of... | |
 | Royal Commonwealth Society - 1882 - 624 pages
...series of years, the Kafirs had ample justification for the late war. They had perfect right to regard the experiment, however hopeless, of extorting by...which they could not expect otherwise to obtain/' adding, " as far as I am at present enabled to judge, the original justice is on the side of the conquered,... | |
 | William Henry Parr Greswell - 1885 - 358 pages
...original justice was on the side of the conquered, not of the victorious party," and that "the Kafirs had a perfect right to hazard the experiment, however hopeless, of extorting by force the redress which they could not expect otherwise to obtain." Since this time the history of Kafir... | |
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Urged to revenge and desperation by the systematic injustice of which they had been the victims, I am compelled to embrace, however reluctantly, the conclusion that they had a perfect right to hazard the experiment, however hopeless, of extorting by force... 
