The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893)

Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda (volume 2, of 2 vols)

Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781134707218
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

First published in 1968. This is the second volume of the rise of the East African Empire as recounted by the author. This volume looks at Uganda and includes chapters on the past and future administration.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX II.

LETTER FROM MGR. HIRTH TO CAPTAIN WILLIAMS, DATED 14TH JULY 1891 (REPRINTED FROM ‘NOTES ON UGANDA,’ BY R. C. UNION).

SIR,—In accordance with your desire, I now add some explanations upon the ideas which I had the honour of giving you yesterday evening. I do so all the more willingly, as I have always found in you that spirit of justice and impartiality that alone can put an end to the divisions which rend this country in two.

From the first arrival of the Company in this country, I promised Captain Lugard my most active concurrence, and that of all the missionaries, to obtain the pacification of Uganda, and its entire submission to the British power.

We shall never depart from this line of conduct, and we shall be faithful here, as everywhere else, to the traditions of Catholic missionaries, whose duty it is, before all things, to labour for the interests of the country they evangelise, and of the power they find legitimately established there.

As to the particular point which we were considering, with respect to the liberty of conscience to be established in Uganda, you agreed with me on the absolute necessity of introducing this liberty; and you confessed willingly that toleration can hardly be said to be practised by those who arrogate to themselves the right of driving from their possessions, with impunity, all who follow one religion rather than another.

You had, I think, only two difficulties—viz., (1.) Ought not two political parties-to be preserved in Uganda, and in the tributary countries, where religion and political questions are so intimately mixed up; and to do this, ought not all persons to be deprived of their offices who go from one party to the other, so that the force of neither party should be diminished? and (2.) Has the time come to give Catholics that full liberty to which they have a right, and which they enjoy so largely in Europe and in the Colonies?

I will try to answer these two questions briefly.

Taking entirely a political view of the matter, is it allowable to drive those from their property, and to deprive them of all their personal goods and of their public offices, who leave one party to join the opposite party? I answer that it would be good policy to do so, if the Company's influence were to be established by maintaining several parties in the country. But your experience in affairs must show you clearly that to maintain two or three parties is to maintain divisions and quarrels, and to lead sooner or later to war. This is a historical truth.

Is the Company obliged, in order to establis...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
• XXII. SKETCH OF EARLY HISTORY OF UGANDA, AND POSITION OF AFFAIRS ON ARRIVAL THERE
• XXIII. PRELIMINARY WORK IN UGANDA
• XXIV. DIFFICULTIES IN UGANDA
• XXV. DIFFICULTIES IN UGANDA
• XXVI. WAR AGAINST MOHAMMEDANS, AND TOUR IN BUDDU
• XXVII. BUDDU TO SALT LAKE
• XXVIII. SALT LAKE TO KAVALLI’S
• XXIX. KAVALLI’S TO FORT LORNE
• XXX. FORT LORNE TO FORT GRANT
• XXXI. FORT GRANT TO KAMPALA
• XXXII. UGANDA UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAMS—SITUATION AT END OF 1891, AND UP TO EVE OF THE WAR
• XXXIII. THE FIGHTING IN UGANDA
• XXXIV. SITUATION IN UGANDA DURING THE WAR
• XXXV. EVENTS SUBSEQUENT TO THE WAR
• XXXVI. PEACE CONCLUDED WITH THE WA-FRANSA
• XXXVII. SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY
• XXXVIII. MOHAMMEDANS REPATRIATED — PEACE THROUGHOUT UGANDA
• XXXIX. CLOSE OF MY ADMINISTRATION IN UGANDA—MARCH TO KIKUYU
• XL. KIKUYU TO ENGLAND—THE “UGANDA QUESTION,”
• XLI. RETENTION OF UGANDA
• XLII. ORIGIN OF THE “BRITISH SPHERE,” AND METHODS OF DEALING WITH IT
• XLIII. ADMINISTRATION PAST AND FUTURE
• APPENDIX.