Excerpt from Papers on the Political Situation in South Africa: 1885-1895
A few words will explain what has led to the publishing of these pages. The papers which go to make up this book, written at different times, are just of the class that disappears entirely unless some care is taken to preserve them. As a proof of this, I may state that I had looked upon the pamphlet entitled 'England in South Africa' as quite lost, until I discovered accidentally that a lady in Scotland, Mrs. Taylor, had preserved a copy, which she was kind enough to lend me. That pamphlet, written from the standpoint of the loyal Cape Colonists, is, in my opinion, worth preserving, as it shows that so far back as 1885, Dutch National aspirations had taken such definite form as to lead to the formation of an English political association - the Empire League - for the maintenance of the English tie. The other papers, too, will, I venture to think, be of use to the student of the future. Of my own work I shall say nothing, except that, being collected, it may, as the evidence of a witness, possibly be of some use to the historian who, weighing testimony from all sides, shall seek to arrive at the truth.
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