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Title: South Africa and its future
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914 Creswicke, Louis
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Publisher: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack
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opportunity for carrying through ameasure comparable in importance with the Act which broughtabout the legislative union of Upper and Lower Canada. For many years after the failure of Sir George Greys attempt,unification was a little-regarded counsel of perfection. It is truethat the Duke of Buckingham, Secretary of State for the Coloniesin the Disraeli Ministry of 1868, admitted that it would be politic toconsider seriously any further overtures for a federal alliance fromthe Boers, but the Free State was no longer in the mood to makethem, our annexation of Basutoland being resented, and the dis-covery of diamonds on its western border in 1S67 having createdfresh causes of irritation. When the second Disraeli Ministry cameinto power, and Lord Carnarvon, who had collaborated with theCanadian Fathers of Federation (he himself may be described as theGodfather of the Dominion), undertook the charge of colonial affairs,the plan proposed bv Sir Henry Barklv for a confederation of South 16
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rhciti.: Elliutt & Fry, Lund HON. SIR W. F. HELY HUTCHINSON,Governor of Cape Colony. South African Federation Africa, which should be the logical consequence of the grant ofautonomy to Cape Colony, was cordially received. Unfortunatelythe Free State held aloof, the Cape Ministry remembered only toowell the object lessons in anti-Imperialism received from LordCarnarvons predecessors, and a grain de sable—the tactlessness ofMr. Froude—caused a vast amount of friction. Even then, but forthe revival at home of the belief that political quietism and a policyof non-interference with Colonial affairs would enable Great Britainto retain the commercial hegemony of the world, Lord Carnarvonshopes might have been realised ; for he had grasped the all-importantfact that South Africa was, and must always remain, a single-mindedcommunity, whenever the native question was discussed, and thatthis unity of opinion was a stronger motive for unification than any orall of those political or comme

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