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55.
Cor nittee wrote, ".. how erroneous were the reports transmitted
to England as to the native feeling against the ßoern, and
no loam how unjust were the accusations brought against them of
boing a slave holding community, "
)
The other view was
that while the Boors might behave badly to the ftativee"; the
British record in the Basuto and Zulu Were was no bettor.
The Workmen's Peace Association thought, "The conduct of the
Boers towards the native tribes may be unjustifiable, but in
this a plea to be urged by us whose hands are red with the
blood of Afghans and Zulue? " (3)
(2)
There was uneasiness about
Boor native policy, but a feeling that commitments; to the Boors
were more important than prooction of the nutivon, - "our
obligation to the3oorow viz, to give then back their country
unjotly taken from them, is surely for grerater*"
The anti""Imporieliotn by»pascod questions of paramountcy
and Imperial security and rejected the Transvaal annexation on
moral grounds - they stressed "consideration of justice rather
than the micleuding view of national honour and dignity which
1f_ oneonfornist
sand Indet ndcnt1 10th March 1881.
(2) C. ©. 291/44, op cit,, extract from Tho Timen 13th January 1881,
re peace deputation to C. ß.
(3) ! onconfo rii, t nnci Ind , rmnrlentt 24th ]February 18810
(4) Charrlnn F. Davison, The cone of the floern ln the Trnnnvna1,
London-1881, p. 1?.
(4)