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Bleek suggests how the Cape Colony should contain the Free State-Basuto dispute by preventing Cape burghers from supporting the Free Staters. Material support from the Cape could intensify the situation over which Governor Wodehouse arbitrates. Surveillance reporting the assembling of Basuto chiefs at "Thaba Bossiou" transgresses some (armistice?) agreement. He voices the need for a Supreme Federal Court with jurisdiction over all "South African States" as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism couched within a federal union. Any hostile mobilisation might cause Moshesh to abandon peace and commit to greater violence, resulting in something intractable that may jeopardise the Cape's peace and the joint fiscal well-being of the South African States. He particularly finds the needless loss of life upsetting. Unification would deter native infractions through combined strength alone. He feels that kafir wars will increase as natives become more proficient in modern warfare and armaments, but a general war seems unlikely. Settler unification will convince natives to accept the colonists' superior authority peacefully.

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01/06/1865

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