'If I grant the franchise, I may as well pull it down.' His animosity against the immigrants was bitter.

'Burghers, friends, thieves, murderers, newcomers, and others,' is the conciliatory opening of one of his public addresses.

Though Johannesburg is only thirty-two miles from Pretoria, and though the State of which he was the head depended for its revenue upon the gold fields, he paid it only three visits in nine years.
This settled animosity was deplorable, but not unnatural.

A man imbued with the idea of a chosen people, and unread in any book save the one which cultivates this very idea, could not be expected to have learned the historical lessons of the advantages which a State reaps from a liberal policy.

To him it was as if the Ammonites and Moabites had demanded admission into the twelve tribes.