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of, the. C. r1. S. Ci)
265.
A memorial, wt. n cent from this meeting
to the Government against the ing®nding abandonment of
Uganda,
(2)
, In February 1892 the A. S. 5* forwarded a oiroular
letter to Liberal HH.?. z urging thus to vote for the railway
survey grant The firot parngrpph net the scheme in' ito
anti-slavery context# the-second atreS30d the commercial
aapects$ and the third commented on the strategic importance
of Uganda at the head waters of the Vale and of "the
Imperial interonto cif this country. " With the circular
went a printed copy of the 1891 memorial to faliobury.
Baroness Burdott*Coutts uns helping to send out this
ninsivo
(k)
,, Allen was trying a little moral blackmail
on Liberal H«i'a, by implying that a vote against the
railway was a vote in favour of elavory. The anti-alovery
argument hid "a , good deal of potential as a good many Liberals
were also humanitariann. The enclocod letter in Gladotone'n
copy of the circular read "I arg persuaded that the Society
(i) F2 11, i4inuteu of meeting held 2nd October 1891k
() Letter 13ooo : =j Allen to Salisbury 2nd October 1891"
(3) bid
* undated draft letter to HH. P. ne and E2 ll 1ninutaa
of meeting hold 4th March 1892.
(4) Letter book EZ/83 Allen to A. J. Hundelln.