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confounds these with considerations of vilitary prestige or
even measures of revenge. "
(1) Liberals emphasised that at
Midlothian, Gladstone ".., appealed'to the conscience of the
country and the response was a moral one. "
(2) The editorial
in a Nonconformist periodical asked "is it just that the
Boers should be conquered and slaughtered to preserve in
South Africa what we call British prestige ? If co where is it
all
to end ?"
(3)
It was obvious that Gladstone was continuing
the foreign policy of the Conservativon, a speaker at a London
Radical Club "could not understand how Mr, Gladstone's policy
now he was in office, could be reconciled with his Midlothian
speeches (cheers). Mr. Gladstone out of office condemned the
annexation of the Transvaal. Now he was an much a jingo as
Randolph Churchill and a bloodthirsty an the Daily Tolep h, "
The issue wan whether the African Empire should be extended or
not, - as memorialists to the Government wrote, "Our love of
justice is not blinded by the glamour of extended Empire. "
(1) V ISS. of ieicontcr Liberal Association, Leicester local history
Library, Minutes of annual meeting of General 21st March 1881, resolution movod by Bev. J.
Coru ittee,
.
Page Hoppe*
(2) Ecchoo, 24th January 1881.
(3) Nonconformist & Indeýnendet, 6th January 1881,
(4) Radical, 15th January 1881,
(5) tNonconforr, int i Independent, 24th February 1881.
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