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

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

Responsible Government (the legislature must ask for it), Saul Solomon (does not mention frontier affairs), British Kaffraria (transfering management of)

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Thursday, May 18th, 1865. The Colonial Secretary at this time was Richard Southey (who succeeded Sir Rawson William Rawson [1854 -1864]).

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