This mail takes you full reports of the establishment of the Gordon College at Khartoum and the place for the future development of the Soudan. Regarding the whole campaign that is supposed to have had such a triumphant issue there are now som got for all our blood and treasure? The popaler replies are (1) The sssortion of national pi 8 'The avengement of the death' of jordan.
(3). The redemption of " country frown Dervish tyranny.
Regarding the Arst, it is a sorry prestige that must be based on blood and bought with such a price.
Regarding the second, I commend to Jour Attention the ceply of the Right Hon. alin Morley, "The comparatively mild sufferings of our own men turned one's thoughts to the crowded heaps of wounded wretches left behind us on the desert, to the added tortures of that thirst which invariably accompanies gunshot wounds. How many thousands of women and ohildcen would soon be weeping, with all their wild Iamentations of the East, over the brave men who lay in the sleep of death far away in the plain? Sorrow is the same thing all the world over, and the terrific carnage of that day's fighting hal tskon away the breadwinners and the protectors from thou. sands of poor hoines in the Soudan, ud doomed many 8 household to starvation. Yes, do not forget that, gentlemen; and what have you got? That is a point I want you to consider, It la true that some say you have avenged Goxion. The son of thst eminent man, the late Lord Randolph Chucchill, was present on that occasion, and this is what he wrote:—*T am sick of what T hear men talk about avenging Gordon. What would Gordon himself think of it, snd what would any man think who has gone over the field of atelo, as I have, and wen those hundreds and thousands who have fallen and have to be regarded as sacrifices for the avenging of Gordon?" Gentlemen, it is an impious and dishonowring notion' that that heroic mao—as mercial as he was fonrless—was like some implacable Pagai deity, who needed to be appeased by HROATOMSS OF HUMAN sacntrtog Regarding the thied:—That war glorious purpose had it been achieved in a ivilising o saving way, but to leave the desert depleted of ite population, and reeling with the stench of their decompose ing corpses is surely not much for the Soudanese. Oppression may at least be Preferable to devastation and death.
19th January.
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