The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-25
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Extract. FROM The Diary Of Gen.


eral Gordon.
BosroY, MASS, June 2i.-' The journals
Of Gen. Gordon at Kha.tonm," extracts
from which follow, will make a crown
svo volume Of oyer 500 pages, and will
published by Houghton, Alitfla & Co.,
Of Boston, on Tuesday, June 80.
The book viii contain an etched por-
trait Of Gen. Gordon, two maps and thirty
illustrations reproduced in fac sinile from
sketches by Gen. Gordon himself.
Following are extracts from the diary:
IL i is right to send up an expedition
now why was ii not right 10 send up an
expedition before? It is all very well to
say We ought 10 consider tho difficulties Of
the Government, but ii Is not easy to get
over q feeling that a hope existed OF
no expedition baing necessary,
owing to our own having iailed.'
AS for myself, personally, j feel no
particular Iancor on the subject; but |
own / do not care 10 show that Ike men,
whoever they may be, who act in such a
calculating way, and 1 do pot think one
is bound TO act the hypoetite's part and
pretend to be friendly towards them. |
do not judge the question Of abandoning
the garrisons or not What l Judge Is the
indecision Of the government.
lHDEctsIos or THE GOVERNMENT.
They did not dare to say abandon the
garrison SO they prevent me leaving for
the equator, with the determination not
to relieve me and the hope-twell / will
not say what their hope wss) 'tAIsrch,
April, August: why he ought to have
surrendered, he said. six months. There
is my point Of complaint. A heavy lum-
bering column. however strong. Is mo-
where in this land. Parties OF forty or
sixty men moving swiftly about will do
more than any column. II you lose two.
or three what OF it2 1tis the chance OF
war. Native allies above all things, at
whatever cost. 1t Is the country Of the
irregular, not OF the regular. lean say
owe the defeats in this country
to having artillery with me which
delayed NO much, and It. was
the artillery with Hicks which, in my
opinion, did 1t for him. | decline the
imputation that the projected expedition
has come TO relieve me. II has come to
save our national honor in extSicating the
gaIFisons, etc, from s position in which
our action in Egypt has placed these gar
fisons, was ieiiet expedition 10. i /:
they are relief expedition No. 2.
roR THE HONOR or ENGLAND.
We, the first and second expeditions, are
equally engaged for the honor OF England.
This Is fair logic. came up to exttieate
the gassiaons and filled. Eule comes up
to extsiease the gasriscns and Il hopeJ
succeeds. Earle does not come to
eztricats me. The exttication Of
the garrisons was supposed to affect
our national honor. II Earle sucfe,ls thu
national honor thanks him aud ] h0pe re.
wards him; but 1t Is altogether ihdsptnd-
ent OF me who for failing tncuIs its blame.
l am not the relcued lamb Snd I
will not be. AZ for Her Majesty's
government keeping the Soudan itself,
lie is out Of the question. for YOU
lcopld not get men u serve hero EXCEPT
under great salaries and supported with
large i9rccS. And as for giving II back 10
| Egypi, in couple Of years NE would have
lAnother Mahdi. Therefore our ehofcfl
lies between zubatr and the Turks There. Mere
iora give the country TO the Turks.
When once you have come %
Khartoum With cne or tgo millions ster.
Hing, which you VIII spend in three
months occupation up here Il you delay,
make Arrangements At once with the
Porte for itl Soudan cessiOn. Let G,GO0
Turks land Al Suakjm and march up the
Berber, thencs 70 KhaEtonm. You can
then retire q once before the hot weather
comes on.