THE FOUNDING OF NATAL 13

THE ORANGE FREE STATE 17

THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC 23

THE CONVENTIONS OF 1881 AND 1884 33

CAPITALISTIC JINGOISM--FIRST PERIOD 37

CAPITALISTIC JINGOISM--SECOND PERIOD 49

CONCLUSION 89

APPENDIX A.--Lord Derby's Dispatch on Convention of 1884 101
B.--The Annexation of the Diamond Fields 105
C.--The Reply to Mr. Chamberlain's Dispatch on Grievances 109
D.--The Final Dispatch of Mr. State Secretary Reitz 127
E.--The Text of the Conventions, 1852, 1881, and 1884 128

INDEX 149




PREFACE.


"In this awful turning point of the history of South Africa, on the eve
of the conflict which threatens to exterminate our people, it behoves us