D1.8.28: [Untitled]

D1.8.28: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek reflects on whether the superordinate Imperial Parliament has the legitimate right to legislate on matters involving colonies with a local parliament and chosen representatives and which matters materially concern the constitutional rights of these subordinate parliaments to the exclusion of the Home Government. He seeks clarity on the purview of local parliaments and the circumstances under which the metropole's interference is constitutionally valid. Bleek hastens to say that his line of questioning only seeks legislative clarity and to what extent the Cape may self-govern. He cautiously disclaims that his op-ed does not mean to dispute the British Government's authority despite how Canada or the Australian settlements may reply. The Cape Colony is too loyal and weak to oppose its parent state benefactor. Where does the intention of the Imperial Parliament lead with the Constitution given to the Cape Colony and its aim to have it self-govern? Bleek thinks that this non-committal decoupling stems from the belief that the metropole's influence negates a deluge of violence by settlers against native tribes, climaxing in their extermination and the theft of their land, which Bleek calls an exaggeration.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

04 May 1865

One cut-out column of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

New Zealand (natives not fully represented in), elections (New Zealand natives excluded), English Secretary for the Colonies (criticised Imperial Parliament), Self-Government (the Cape must ask for it)

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Thursday, May 4th, 1865. Edward Cardwell is possibly the English Secretary spoken about.

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