The following is the summary telegraphed to the American papers of Lord Salisbury's speech on the Address in the House of Lords on the opening night of the recent Session:—
Boer Government. was pleased to dispense with any negotiations on our part respecting the causes or justification of the war. They have done what no provocation on our part could have justified. They have done what the strongest nation has never in its strength done to any opponent it had challenged. They issued x defiance so audacious that I could scarcely depict it without using words unsuited for this assembly, and by so doing they liberated this country from the necessity of explaining to the people of England why we are at! war. But for this no one could have predicted that we would ever beat war. There have been very grave questions between us, but up to the time of the ultimatum the modes we suggested settling them were successful, and the spirit in which we were met was encouraging. We lately lisd hoped that the future lisd in reserve a better fate. It is a satisfactory feature of our policy during these later days that, on questions involving the vital terests and honour of the country, there are no distinctions of party." His Lordship sid he believed that a desire to get rid of the word "suzerainty" and the reality which it expressed lad been the controlling desire—the dream of President Keiiyer's life. It was for that the Prosident of the Transvaal had set up the los of 1884, and in anier to get that hateful word out of the Convention he had made considerable sacrifices. Mr.
tier had used oppression of the Outlanders as a screw to obtain a concession the subject of suzerainty. "I quite agree," went on Lord Salisbury, "that the word' suzerainty is not necessary for Great Britain's present purpose. Situate! as Great. Britain is in South Afview toward the Transvaal and Onthmders, she has a duty to fulfil which has nothing to do any Convention or any question of Suzerainty. This word, however, being put into the treaty, obtained an artificial value and meaning which has prevented Great Britain entirely abandoning it. If Great Britain dropped it she would be intimating that she also repudiated and abandoned the ideas attached to it. Tt_was largely due to the character of Mr. Kriiger and to the ideas pursued by him that we have been led, step by step, to the present moment, when we are compelled to decide whether the future of South Africa will be a groweatnblished "supremacy. of the "Buglish ing Dutch supremacy, or 1 safe, perfect!
people." (Cheers.) The Premier concluded by dealing briefly with the Gover ment's future policy in South frien, declaring that, while there must he no doubt as to the paramountcy of the Save-reign power of Great Britain, there must also be no doubt that the white races in South Africa would be put upon an equality, and due precautions taken for the *"philimthropic, friendly and improving treatment of those countless indigenous races of whose destiny I fear we have hitherto been too forgetful. Those things must be insisted upon in the future, By what means they are to be obtained I do not know. T hope they may be consistent with a very large amount of autonomy on the part of a race which values its dividual share in goveroment as much as the Dutch people do. But with that question we are not concerned now, We have only to make it clear that the great objects essential to the power of England in South Africa, ta the good government of South Afti ud to the rights of all the races concerned, are the ubjects of the British Government; objects which, with the full support of the nation and without di-tinction of purty the Government are now pursuing, and which they will pursue and persevere in to the end." - (Cheers.)
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