The Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (New Albuquerque, N.M.) 1882-1884, 1882-11-09
What Arabi Pasha Has to Say of Own and
Egypt's Troubles.

GSypIb AEOuDloB.
From The London Telegraph.
"None of you," said Arab, "can un-
derstand Egypt or Egyptian politicts.
We in many ways resemble Mex
leo. You call yourselves the cham
pions of liberty, and would send US
back into the most abject serfdom.
You are great and powerful, but 1
cannot respect you. This Tewfix, in
whose cause you have made so grand a
display. is utterly contemptible-well-
meaning possibly, like Louis XVI, but
prey to the worst advisers. He is
not so bad as his father. 1 admit, nor
so silly and useless as his brother. but
the wickedness of his counsellors
makes up for such deficiencies.
Tewfik, in spite of the unanimous
desire of the country to the contrary,
on your head be our misery, then, l do
not like you, but am obliged to re-
spect your power; knowing that now
know, sec how vain were my hopes,
and can only be proud to think that
miserable Egypt could stand against
your strength for nearly sixty days.
If you great European powers chose
to dictate, we have no option but to
obey. Then Egyptian liberty is but
dream? Yes, alas! since the so-called
champions of liberty side against the
oppressed. Two days before the bonn
bardment Tewfik loaded me with hon.
ors and called me friend. l have not.
nor ever had, any personal
hate against the Khedive. The
Khedive Is nothing in himself, but al
ways the servant of another. If you
like to give him tutor who will
whisper to him all may 60 well, but if
not the Turkish and Circassian regime
will be rs-established, and the basti-
nado be rampant as of yore, and it will
be your doing. What would you wish
to do? l would wish to be banished
from Egypt forever. Ny heart is sick
of Egypt. 1 would live quietly in
Europe with my family. and trouble
no one any more, for my dream
is past, and was deceived. Quietly?
Ha, hal How could 1 live other.
wise? Liars say that 1 filled my
purse when in Office. am a very poor
man, have only one little house near
Zagazig, where l was born. Ny palace
at Cairo is not mine-waS only let to
me as Minister. I am very poor, in
deed, and if you set me free shall have
to work for my living and my family
But you will give us up to our enc
mics; feel a presentiment of that" :"
he concluded quietly, "and it will soon
be all overall over"
"When we declared war did you think
we were in earnest ?" 1 asked idly.
mo !" replied Arab. with emphasis,
sand that was one of the most dreadful
moments in my life. Your Seymour
sent me message that he would bonn
bard the city at the next morning. 1
laughed, for 1 thought, Half the
wealth of Alexandria is English,
and they surely will not
wreck their own property 1
lay awake ali night thinking, growing
surer and more sure, and dawn came,
and 8 o'clock struck, and there was no
unusual noise, and l breathed freely
and turned to sleep. At $50 1 heard
the first gun, and it set me to shiver-
ing, for l heard in it the knell of es-
tablished hopes, and wondered who
would win the victory. you are a
great nation" he repeated. you can
afford to be generous and great to Ce-
tewayo, a savage, and surely should to
be. Treat me as you treated Cete-
mayo, and I will be satisfied"