The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-25

were SuCu WOfGulcSS creatures Clab our LOrQ
came to deliver u.s. think it is great shame
not giving me Zebehr Pasha, for he
would know how to deal with these
people They are the WEAKNESS of my
life From February until now they have
been one continued worry to me, and expect
they worried the Arabs as much. AS for those
wretched Sepoys, they are useless. india to me,
is not an advantage. 1t is the center of all party
intrigue, while if our energy were devoted else
where it would produce ten fold. India sways
all our policy to our detrirent
Il think Colonel Stewart is hard on our men
as to their cowardice. They are not heroes
grant but they are not, to my mind towards.
Il must say am against doctors. If man
IS suffering intense pain, and is in more or less
desperate condition. would give as much NOR
phia as would still the pain.
There is nothing like civil war to show
what skunks mon are. One Of my greatest
worries are the Shaggieh, who continually claim
to be friendly towards me or towards the Mahdi.
expect both sides despise them equally. If in
two days find the news correct that the Mahdi
is still in Kordofan, shall let out all the polit
lcal prisoners, which will shock the towns peO-
pie, but will be true joy and delight to me- for
1T has been work utterly repugnant to me- I
like free will; we left God with our own free
will; we must return with our own free will
hate forced subsection, and feel sure that to
let these people out with free will
to 60 to the Arabs or not, will
be good policy. l must say that feel it great
compliment when my counsellors say to me, DO
what you think right, irrespective of our advice,
when they know am ignorant of all that goes
on-ignorant of the Arab language, ignorant of
the Arab customs etc. You will do better
than we do,' is what they say, and |, poor devil.
do not know what to turn.
''Oh our government! our government! What
has 1t not to answer for! Not to me, but to the
supreme power
"If thought the town wished the Mahdi,
would give it up, so much do respect free will
Mr.. Gladstone has rival up here in shirt
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day with regular wings, rather ragged, his col
lars up to his ears, regular orthodox patterns.
II must say hate our diplomatists. At those
dinner parties we are all in masks saying what
we do not believe, eating and drinking things we
do not want, and then abusing one another. l
would sooner live like dervish with the Mahdi
than go out to dinner every night in London. l
hope II any English gentleman comes to Khar-
toum he will not ask me to dinner Why men
cannot be friends without bringing in their
wretched stomachs is outrageous"
There is certainly one great family of the
Soudan families who can trace their pedigree
for 500 years, who have not accepted Mahomet
Achmet as Mahd to save their property, though
they laugh at the idea afterward. am afraid
to say what numbers have been killed through
this present policy. Certainly some $4,000, and
itis not yet over For my part l hope they-the
Arabs-will all run away.
ENGLAND CANNOT KEEP THE soUDAN.
"We have in mos t effectual way restored
the slave trade and slave-hunting for her
Majestys government cannot keep the Sou
dan, and never will Egypt be able
to govern it. The only thing
to be done is to give it to the Sultan. What an
end of the diplomacy of Her Majesty's govern
ment! And it was so easy, when I left, in
up Kordofan, Darfur and Bahr Gazal, and going
to the equator with decency and quiet | want
to get out of the affair, but with decency. Put
yourself in my position. If you say, Rapid re-
No. would sooner die first and will resign
my commission, for / could not do it. If you
say, Then you are no longer Governor general
then am all right, and all the responsibility
ts. on yOg may be ana tnat that alt
you have other views but it is
as well you know my opinions. I am secure
against any loss By the King of the Belgians. If
leave her Majesty's service, therefore, am,
SO to say free of her Majesty. If you turn me
out Of the Governor generalship, am relieved
from all responsibility as to your action in Soudan
towards the people. l do not think am insubor-
dinate in this matter, nor unreasonable
IF / was Lord Wolseley, l would make her
Majesty's government send the Turks here.
There are q, Ito ardebs in the magazine to day
six weeks consumption-and then the sponge
must be thrown up could write volumes of
pent-up wrath on this subject if did not believe
tnese tn!ngS are oraalleu anu all Worh lor tne
best have done what I can, and no one can
do more than trust now. What has been the
painful position for is, that there is not one
person in whom I can rely; also, that there is
not one person who considers that he ought to
do anything except this routine duty We have
now been months blockaded, and
things are critical, yet not one
of my subordinates, except the chief
clerk and his subordinate, appears today. l
had to send for them and wait till they came
perhaps an hour. Patience is almost exhausted
with this continuous, apparently never ending
trial. There is not one department which have
not to superinrend as closely as if / were its
direct head. Nearly every ORDER except when
it is for their interest, has to be repeated two
and even three times. l may truly say I am
weary of my lfe day and night, night and day,
it is one continual worry"
A Crushing Indictment of Gladstone.
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