D1.8.30: [Untitled]

D1.8.30: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek writes that Governor Wodehouse's unpopularity with legislators creates a unified front in parliament against some of his measures and that legislators should avoid disagreeing solely to spite Wodehouse. Saul Solomon's many resolutions include votes of censure on the Imperial Parliament (for overreach) and Governor Wodehouse, whose standing he misrepresents. Bleek argues that scrutinising the Home Government's mandate is a weak approach, as they've proven their 'right' and power to legislate for colonies. Requesting constitutional review is more practical, as the Imperial Parliament is the sole authority authorised to clarify the roles of colonies and local legislatures. Solomon's sixth resolution conceals a personal grievance about the representational balance (of power) between the two parties amid structural change. Solomon exaggerates the scope of domestic suffrage, but Bleek doubts Solomon would tolerate any race-based class legislation that might revoke the coloured population's right to suffrage. Inversely, criticising a governor answerable to the British Parliament interferes with the Imperial Parliament's prerogatives.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

18 May 1865

Two cut-out columns of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

Saul Solomon (his resolutions), vote of censure (Solomon's), supreme control (Imperial Parliament's), resolutions (Solomon's sixth and seventh), balance of power, suffrage (literacy levels and), coloured population, Sir Philip Wodehouse (there remains confidence in), Justice Bell (Member of the Legislative Council), Responsible Government

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Thursday, May 18th, 1865. Many otherwise eligible adult males are excluded (disqualified) from the present scope of Cape suffrage. Bleek believes that Solomon would not wish to exclude the coloured population from the right of suffrage by imposing literacy as a qualifier. The impotency of the Cape in colonial affairs is the central issue. Eastern party members are likely to object to Solomon's censure of Wodehouse, as (wrongly) lacking the confidence of the House.

Van de Sandt de Villiers & Co.