There was no people in the world who had more qualities which we might admire, and not the least of them was that love of independence which it is our proudest boast that we have encouraged in others as well as exercised ourselves.

And yet we had come to this pass, that there was no room in all vast South Africa for both of us.

We cannot hold ourselves blameless in the matter.

'The evil that men do lives after them,' and it has been told in this small superficial sketch where we have erred in the past in South Africa.

On our hands, too, is the Jameson raid, carried out by Englishmen and led by officers who held the Queen's Commission; to us, also, the blame of the shuffling, half-hearted inquiry into that most unjustifiable business.
These are matches which helped to set the great blaze alight, and it is we who held them.