. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. edRussia and had then acquiesced in a new and groundless claim of that coun-try to send a mission to Cabul. He charged home upon the Conservativestheir responsibility for the war. You have made this war, said he, inconcealment from Parliament, in reversal of the policy of every Indian andhome government that has existed for
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. edRussia and had then acquiesced in a new and groundless claim of that coun-try to send a mission to Cabul. He charged home upon the Conservativestheir responsibility for the war. You have made this war, said he, inconcealment from Parliament, in reversal of the policy of every Indian andhome government that has existed for the last twenty-five years, in con-tempt of the supplication of the Ameer, and in defiance of the advice ofyour own agent, and all for the sake of obtaining a scientific frontier. Wemade war in error upon Afghanistan in 1838. To err is human and par-donable. But we have erred a second time upon the same ground and 554 LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. with no better justification. This error has been repeated in the face ofevery warning conceivable and imaginable, and in the face of an unequaledmass of authorities. May Heaven avert a repetition of the calamity whichbefell our army in 1841 ! Then, adverting to the Whitbread resolution which was pending, and to. VICTORIA, EMPRESS OF INDIA. the vote about to be taken, Mr. Gladstone continued : I should have hopeof this division if I really believed that many honorable members had madethemselves individually masters of the case which is disclosed in the recessesof these two volumes of parliamentary papers. . The responsibility, whichis now yours alone, will be shared with you l)\- the majority of this House ;but many who will decline to share in it will hope for the ultimate disap-proval and reversal of your course by the nation. Mr. Gladstones appeal,however, was futile, and the pending resolution was rejected. Not only in the far East, but also in the Dark Continent, did En-jland OUT OF OFFICE. 555 have her troubles. We sh
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