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THE LArE CAPE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. 319"sent" or formal acceptation of and agreement toannexation"by law," by the Cape Parliament, heproceeded to put his threat to President Brand inexecution.Being afraid, from the bare majority of only one vote,by which even the fair, impartial, and hypothetical" resolutions" had been but just dragged through theHouses, that any such Bill as that embracing their" objects" would be certainly rejected, the Governmentcunningly obtained a further" resolution" from bothHouses of Parliament, by acting upon and far beyondthe terms of which (even proceeding so far as to annexthe whole of Waterboer's country, together with allterritory his unsupported ipas dixit claimed from theFree State) Sir H. Barkly and his colleagues tried toso far commit Parliament to their policy, "objects,"and· action, as to ensure an approval and endorsementof the annexation-an unlawful postliminious legalizationof the originally unauthorized and illegal actas the unavoidable consequence of an accomplishedfact. We shall see that the members of the ExecutiveCouncil very much deceived themselves as tothe docility of Parliament, and the result they anticipated.The last and most fatal of the "resolutions" was veryquietly moved, in a scantily attended House, upon the-5th of August, 1871, by:Ur. Southey, the ColonialSecretary, Water boer's principal advocate, and, as iswell known, from certain private motiveR, a bitterenemy of the Orange Free State; indeed, aprop.a tothe insinuation, it is also equally notorious that Sir H.Barkly is alleged to have an even greater personalcause for his ruthless and apparently insensateDigitized by Goog Ie