Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . te: If wo have not an P^gyptiauarmy to employ, and if we must not sendan English force, what are we to do?There is only one thing that we can cannot send a regiment to Khar-toum, but we can send a man who, onmore than one occasion, has
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . te: If wo have not an P^gyptiauarmy to employ, and if we must not sendan English force, what are we to do?There is only one thing that we can cannot send a regiment to Khar-toum, but we can send a man who, onmore than one occasion, has proved him-self more valuable in similar circum-stances than an entire army. Why notsend Chinese Gordon to Khartoum, toassume absolute control over the terri-tory, to treat with the Mahdi, to relievethe garrisons, and do what can be done,to save what can be saved, from thewreck in the Soudan? His engagementon the Congo could surely be man can deny the urgent need in themidst of that hideous welter of confusion for the presence of such a man, with aborn genius for command, an unex-ampled capacity in organizing Ever Vic-torious armies, and a perfect knowledgeof the Soudan and its people. Why notsend him out with carte blanche? The British government knew all thiswell; they knew Gordons genius andgifts and the great things he had done in. GEN. C. G. (JORDON. China, and what former service as Gov-ernor-General of the Soudan, the mostpopular one that ever ruled, and the onlyone that had ever done any good thereexcept Sir Samuel Baker. But Gordonwas a man of greater resources and morestriking character than the excellentBaker. He had shown one of his eccen-tricities by refusing a salary of £10,000a year, when the Khedive api)ointod himgovernor of the tribes in ui)per Egypt in1877, and would take but £2,000, sayingthat the money was wrung from the pov-erty of a wretched people whom he was made a pasha, and, in February, 826 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 1877, he w
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