VIGILANCE PAPERS

First Editions: Papers 1 - 9: Each issued in paper or light card wrappers which have been strengthened at the spines. A very good set.

1. South African Churches : The Voice of the Churches in Support of Imperial Policy. 28 pages.
2. Speech by the Honourable J. Rose-Innes, Municipal Hall, Claremont, 30th March, 1900. 11 pages.
3. Paul Kruger and the Transvaal Judiciary. His Violation of the Constitution and His Destruction of the Independence of the High Court of the Transvaal. 15 pages.
4. Brydone (R.R.) "Liberty" versus Liberty. Some Remarks on a South African Petition. 6 pages.
5. "Never Again." Sir Alfred Milner's Reply to Ministers' Address. 8 pages.
6. Naville (Edouard) The Transvaal Question from a Swiss point. 27 pages.
7. The Anti-British Crusade in South Africa. By an Ex-Official of the Transvaal. 20 pages.
8. Moffat (Rev. J.S.) The Black Man and the War. 11 pages.
9. President Kruger's Retrogressive Policy. 8 pages.

Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, pages 567/8: These pamphlets, together with some other productions of minor importance, were published by the "South African Vigilance Committee," mainly during the period between the fall of Bloemfontein and the declaration of peace (South African War, 1899-1902). The raison d^etre of the association is explained as follows :

South African Vigilance Committee. The Committee seeks to achieve the following objects:

1. To collect and focus the views of all sections of South African citizens who are convinced of the essential justice of Sir Alfred Milner's policy.
2. To set forth to the British Public the necessity for the prosecution of the present war to a thoroughly successful termination.
3. To make it clear to the citizens of the Empire in the United Kingdom and in the colonies that the continuance of the independence of the Republican States in any form must endanger the permanent settlement and peaceful progress in South Africa, and would lead to greater trouble than any we have hitherto experienced.
4. To counteract misleading statements made by the anti-British press or by the emissaries or supporters of the Republics in favour of any settlement short of annexation.
5. To organise public demonstrations, at suitable times and in suitable places, in support of the policy for the incorporation of the Republics in the British Empire.
6. To supply literature to the various political organisations in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, and to disseminate information among our Dutch fellow-colonists as to the aim and scope of British policy.
7. To raise a fund to be called the South African Imperial Defence fund, to be used solely for the promotion of the above object. No portion of the fund shall be available for contested elections or for any political party purposes in South Africa.

Among the members of the Executive Council were Sir Gordon Sprigg, Sir Pieter Faure, Sir H. Juta, Sir David Gill, Hon. T. Graham, Theo. Schreiner, &c.

Mendelssohn lists twelve papers in the series.

Also see: A South African Bibliography, volume 4, pages 344/5.