Excerpt from Speeches: On Various Occasions Connected With the Public Affairs of New South Wales, 1848-1874

The substance of the speeches here collected has been gathered from various sources, but chiefly from printed reports in the local newspapers, the earlier ones from the Empire, and most of the later ones from the Sydney Morning Herald. In two instances special reports were taken. All the reports have undergone more or less of verbal revision.

It is to be added that the introduction was written without any co-operation with Mr. Parkes. It is an entirely independent composition. As the volume was being printed in Melbourne, Mr. Parkes requested me, as a friend, to see the sheets through the Press, and to write an introduction. On the ground of having had some personal acquaintance with that gentleman five-and-twenty years ago, I complied with this request, but of Mr. Parkes personally, or of New South Wales politics, during all that time, I knew nothing directly. The introduction is based wholly on the speeches.

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