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278 WilE Jo':!L"!!E t~VIDENCE.makes the following defamatory accusation D.o0'8.inst theformer President of the Orange Free State, who mad('the purchase:-" It appears to me to be notat all unreasonable to conclude,from the evidence of Harvey,that he added' the lands of thelate Cornelius Kok' to the sale;in order to relieve himself of theresponsibilityt.iu whioh he wasinvolved by his undertaking toobtain £4000 (a), anti tTult tMPrlllitllmt oj eM Fr" Stat. allowedUJOrtU to 6. i,.,lrurl IN THBDBJID, with fJ I:MflJk4U' fAat tMy.... flOe iflltiji6rJ by tAl JHlfDertUNlw wMeA HarD~!I acurl • • •calcaIating upon the abaity ofhis Government to eject thenatives whenever it should feelaiI.Poeed to do so."~a) Perhaps General Haynever heard the old legal axiom."O"tn;fI FtUU'lUIntur Me. u#act.," au~ does not know (8'1President Brand well observedat a fatun period of the oontroveray)that, as sound and "leargeneral principles of jurisprudence,,/nItRlanrJ forg"., M'~ ,",VirprHUtIUId, bllt m." II cltJllrl!lprooei. Perhaps those who haveread Ohaptera 5, 7, and 9 of thiswork may have a difl'ereut opinionto General Hay of the deedof sale and other documentaryevidence, not one iota of whichhas ever yet been refated or disprovedby Waterboer and Co !From what we have seen of General Hay's despatchesto Earl Kimberley, and the lamentable ignorancedisplayed as to the history and geography ofthe country, as wellaa of the merits of the imbrogliofostered by him between Waterboer a.ntl the Fret'State, there is but little doubt that }Ir. Southey, thl'Colonial Secretary, whose ill-will to the Free State iswell-known, was the actual manager and concocter ofthe controversy. This view is confinned by thl'.following little a.necdote, related to me by PresidentBrand himself. . .In order to try and arrange the difficulty a.nd explain"the rights of the Free State, the Government andParliament authorized President Brand and )lr.Digitized by Goog Ie