Gladstone’s language, to say to the Boers, “Although we might have treated with you before these military miscarriages, we cannot do so now, until we offer up a certain number of victims in expiation of the blood that has been shed.
Morley quotes Gladstone's view on the need for accountability before negotiating with the Boers.
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