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Excerpt from Blood and Gold in South Africa: An Answer to Dr. Conan Doyle; Being an Examination of His Account of the Cause and Conduct of the South African War The only flaw which Dr. Doyle detects in these precious title-deeds is that they did not convey the hinterland along with the southern coast. Were the discontented Dutch at liberty to pass onwards and found fresh nations to bar the path of the anglo-celtic Colonists? No one at the time thought of asking a question of such pre posterons arrogance; and if Dr. Doyle had any political imagination he would never hav e put it before his Continental and American readers. The Americans he thinks to placate by supposing a body of trekkers from New York setting up in California under an independent flag. The sup position is impossible, because the American Union grew out of the overthrow of a foreign conqueror, and grew, not by conquest but, as a federation based on liberty, equality, and fraternity, and could not have grown otherwise. If a distant parallel in the Western world be desired, it might be found by supposing that the Loyalists who refused to join the Union. And went north into Canada, had been followed up and pressed back and back on the ground that nothing must bar the pat of the advancing Republicans. Dr. Doyle's hypothetical instance serves, however, to remind us of the only respectable kind of expansion. The United States grew by true colonisation - that is their great title-deed. But Dr. Doyle himself reminds us that it was not for fourteen years after the conquest that any current of British emigration to South Africa began. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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