William H. Wharton Quotes
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
Wharton, William H. Texas: A Brief Account of the Origin, Progress and Present State of the Colonial Settlements of Texas, Together with an Exposition of the Causes Which Have Induced the Existing War with Mexico. S. Nye and Co., 1836.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
Dutch colonial administration was the responsibility of the Dutch East India Company.
The speech was never actually delivered, but instead the Bishop published it. It received wide distribution including in America where it was published by the Maryland Gazette on September 29, 1774.
The speech was never actually delivered, but instead the Bishop published it. It received wide distribution including in America where it was published by the Maryland Gazette on September 29, 1774.
The “We” to which he was referring were the British officials and civil servants who governed all of India as a colony of the British Empire.
The Sudan was then under the control of the Egyptian government.
He was a great believer in moving large numbers of Dutch settlers to the Dutch colonies in the East Indies.
The Punjab, like Afghanistan and some other areas had no real tradition of government. The Sikhs of the Punjab had initiated a war with the British Colonial Empire—The 1st Anglo-Sikh War—which ended with a decisive British victory and a peace treaty where the rulers of the Punjab agreed to keep the peace. However, they really could not control the population and some Sikhs again attacked British and Muslim interests. The Governor-General reported that treaties and commitments with the Punjab leaders really meant little. The British also won the 2nd Anglo-Sikh War-. The Governor-General was determined that there would not be a 3rd war with the Sikhs of the Punjab.
One of the reasons that Jefferson and others were so anxious to expand the territory of the United States was that Britain had operated with the policy that curtailed and limited the population growth of the American colonies and the resentment of this policy led to growth of America and the Westward expansion.
“Transported” meant they were convicted criminals in England who were sold into indentured servitude for a number of years. When their sentence was up, they became free but had no assets or land, so they went to the frontier and settled on land there which sometimes was Indian occupied land, but was more often Indian hunting land. This often caused friction between the new Americans and the Indians. The original criminal origin of these Americans was constantly views in a negative light by the upper class English (See {605546}.). He was the de facto Governor of the colony as there was no one senior to him on the American side of the Atlantic.
The Irish Earls of Ulster, after a failed rebellion against English rule, fled to the European continent. As Chichester realized, this created an opportunity for the King to name new Earls and grant them the lands and possessions of the Earls who had fled. And since the Irish people were loyal to their traditional Earls. He suggested that English and Scots colonists be recruited to settle the lands. The King agreed and referred to the project as the “Ulster Plantation”. This was the reason that Northern Ireland had a much larger Protestant population percentage than the rest of Ireland and wanted to remain part of England when Ireland obtained its independence.
Taft was making his first appearance as the newly appointed Governor General of the Philippines. Prior, the country had been administered by General Arthur MacArthur, father of General Douglas MacArthur, and some military officers and a few civilians, and the results had been quite poor—not unlike the administration of Iraq after the Iraq War at the beginning of the 21st century. However, unlike the Iraq situation, Taft admitted our failings and explained them, as shown in this quotation. He learned fast and had good instincts and developed a cadre of excellent administrators who got along very well with the people and did a good job.
William Harris Wharton was an American colonist, diplomat, senator and statesman in early Texas.
