Ebook The Africanders

In writing these pages I have not felt con scious of being in controversy with any one. If I had been susceptible to in?uences that create prejudice, nearly three centuries of American descent from purely Anglo — Saxon progenitors with no admixture of any other blood would have predisposed me to magnify everything in this long feud that exemplified the prowess and the honor of that race, and to minify in the telling whatever faults it had committed. It will be for such readers of my work as are conversant with the ultimate authorities on the subject treated of to judge how far I have succeeded or failed in presenting a plain, unvarnished tale.