Two things at any rate were clear—one, that Gordon should faithfully adhere to the policy of evacuation and abandonment which he had formally accepted; the other, that the British government should leave him a free hand.
Morley outlines two clear expectations regarding Gordon's mission and the government's role.
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Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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