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My purpose was to write an impartial worded statement of the various burning questions, some of the developments of which have now fixed on South Africa the eyes of the civilized world - Boer and Uitlander in the Transvaal - Imperial or Republican factor, Dutch or British predominance in all South Africa - black and white - missionary and anti-missionary - Indian and anti-Indian - capitalist and labourer at the diamond fields of Kimberley and on the Gold Reef of the Witwatersrand - Roman-Dutch and British law in all South Africa. The increasing strain of the ever-darkening political scene, fraught with such sequence of blood and tears to all who live in South Africa and to all citizens of the Empire - a situation which, so far as November, 1898, I saw and proclaimed could have no ending but war - has held me as a spectator, and, to some slight degree, a most unwilling actor in the drama, which I had come only to witness. That I have warned, with all the force I could command, The Governments of the two Republics against the fatal course into which they were led by counselors of their own race, I have no reason to regret; although much, that my warning was in vain