THE AFTERMATH OF THE RAID Toward the close of the last chapter I referred to the Raid passing from the forefront of public memory.

But though, as a fact, it became blurred in the mind of the people, as a factor in South African history its influence by no means diminished.

Indeed, the aftermath of the Raid assumed far greater proportions as time went on.

It influenced so entirely the further destinies of South Africa, and brought about such enmities and such bitterness along with it, that nothing short of a war could have washed away its impressions.

Up to that fatal adventure the Jingo English elements, always viewed with distrust and dislike in the Transvaal as well as at the Cape, had been more or less held back in their desire to gain an ascendancy over the Dutch population, whilst the latter had accepted the Jingo as a necessary evil devoid of real importance, and only annoying from time to time.
After the Raid all the Jingoes who had hoped that its results would be to give them greater facilities of enrichment considered themselves personally aggrieved by its failure.