Compared with the number at the time of the retrocession by the Company, it shows a falling off of a thousand whites.
At the time of the retrocession to the King the white population was estimated at five thousand, and the negroes at over two thousand.
Perhaps this movement has its most typical and picturesque illustration in the extent to which the Northern soldiers opened up the oil-producing regions of western Pennsylvania.
The men who fought the Civil War had demonstrated precisely the adventurous, hardy instincts which were most needed in this great enterprise.
The mere existence of petroleum, it is true, had been a familiar fact for centuries.
Perhaps the greatest effect was the way in which it changed our transportation system.
In most instances, too, our ex-soldiers became leaders in these new communities.
Men are especially astonished at England's retrocession of Martinique without a single stipulation for the colonists there, who are at the mercy of a government as rapacious as it is fickle.
He seems quite calmly to have discussed its retrocession to the Austrians, and that, too, after he had encouraged the Milanese to found a republic, and had declared that every French victory was "a line of the constitutional charter.
Many large stores were erected during the British occupation; but at the retrocession the greater number were deserted, and a general exodus of the English took place, for it was impossible to live under the new state of affairs.
Since, the retrocession nearly every store is closed, and the town is comparatively deserted.
No impartial student of recent South African History can fail, I think, to see that the results of Mr. Gladstone's policy in the retrocession of the Transvaal have been unhappy, however good the impulse which prompted his action.
The Retrocession of the Transvaal (1881) gave a strong impulse to this movement, and encouraged President Kruger in his persistent efforts since that date to foster it.
The retrocessionof the Transvaal in 1881 has been much lauded as an act of magnanimity and justice.
In 1881, the year of the retrocession of the Transvaal, a Royal Commission was appointed from England to enquire into the internal state of affairs in the South African Republic.
The retrocession of the rash takes place in the order of its appearance--viz.
Especially valuable if following on retrocession of rash.
It is true, however, that nobody can accuse the retrocession of having been conducted with judgment or ability--very much the contrary.
In conclusion, there is one point that I must touch on, and that is the effect of the retrocession on the native mind, which I can only describe as most disastrous.
After the peace of 1881, it used to be publicly recognised that the English were entitled thenceforth to a first place in the nation's friendship, and that the retrocession put a term to all recriminations applying to previous dates.
If the parties had meant to confine the retrocession to the limits of the cession, made by France to Spain, of Louisiana west of the Mississippi, including the island of New Orleans, they would have used the same deception.
The retroceding party must claim under and in virtue of the right originally possessed by the party to whom the retrocession takes place.
It was the retrocession of the Transvaal under the direction of Mr. Gladstone in the last-mentioned year that enabled the Bond to assume a very definite shape, and to obtain immense and widespread power.
As every one knew, Mr. Kruger had positively promised equal franchise rights to British subjects at the retrocession of the Transvaal, and this promise was shamefully broken.
Strange as it may appear, South African trade first began to show signs of expansion after the events which followed upon the retrocession of the Transvaal to the Boers in 1881.
The measure of joy at the taking of Louisbourg must also have been the measure of disappointment at its subsequent retrocession by the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
The account was made up, the balance was struck, and the retrocession of Louisbourg was the price of peace.
There was also a demand for the retrocession by Britain of the island of Mauritius, but it was not made officially, nor is it a subject for two such nations to quarrel over.
Clemenceau refused to accept a peace that denied the Saar Valley and a pledge of military assistance to France, and when Japan insisted on the retrocession of Shantung.
The Covenant was certainly transgressed long before this, and much more flagrantly than by President Wilson's indorsement of Japan's demand for the formalretrocession of Shantung.
She maintained, however, that the conditions of retrocession should form the subject of a general settlement between Tokio and Peking.
Scarcely had the law been enacted when John Ross and other Cherokees, living in exile and in affluence, offered to consider proposals for a retrocession to the United States public domain of their Neutral Lands.
They were not appeased by the retrocession of 1881, which they ascribed solely to British fear of a civil war in South Africa.
France ceded Louisiana to the United States "with all its rights and appurtenances," as acquired by the retrocession from Spain under the treaty of San Ildefonso, Oct.
England held Florida for twenty years, when among the disasters brought upon her by our Revolution was its retrocession to Spain in 1783,--a result which was accounted by our forefathers a great gain to the new Republic.
The Chinese in demanding the retrocession of Kuldja labour under the one disadvantage that they come to oust a beneficent rule.
I travelled slowly through the Transvaal by bullock-waggon shortly after the retrocession of the country in 1881, and visited all the farmhouses on my route.
Russel (De Tabe Glandulari), where the retrocession of the shingles was succeeded by a serious dyspnæa.
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