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He was regarded as the incarnation of Hollanderism the 'head and front' of that detested influence. It was not credited to him in the Transvaal, as it has been elsewhere, that he designed or prompted the policy against the Uitlanders. There it is fully appreciated that there is but one man in it, and that man President Kruger. Dr. Leyds and others may be and are clever and willing tools.
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick - The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs

As a Hollander no doubt he felt deeply in a matter in which Hollanderism was the casus belli; as public prosecutor it was his duty to prosecute, not to judge; and one prefers to think that in peculiar and trying circumstances he forgot the pledge he had given and remembered only the cause of his party.
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick - The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs
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