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°312.
The Company certainly tried to persuade the Government
that the overwhelming majority of opinion in the country
was in favour of keeping Uganda. In November Mackenzie
left a pamphlet at the foreign Office coitiining preen
cuttings, and explaining, "that the vast preponderanci of
opinion in favour of retention was not owing to any bins
in the selection% but to the small number of opinions
expressed on the other side. "
(1)
It in true that there
was little actual prone opposition# except from the
Manchester ßu&&rdiriny the D 41Y Down and working clans
papers such as the Reynolds flown. Even the radical Stars
succumbed to the humanitarian preasuro and was prepared
to accord Uganda a special position not to be confused
with other Imperialist excursions.
(2)
It atated that
retention was not a jingoint view but "a view entertained
by many of the strongest peace advocates and supporters
of the policy of non-intervention. "
{3)
It took a very
strong-minded anti-Tnperiaiiat apparently, to refute the
(1) Fro 64L2263, Africa, Slave Trrado, Domestic and Various
lot-17th Jovexnbor 18929
(2) 9tnr, 4th tzovembor 1$92"
(3) lbids 24th Ilovorber 1892.