ne mind in thinking the Turks must go out of Bulgaria, though
retaining a titular supremacy if they like. Between ourselves,
Granville a little hangs back from this, but he could not persuade
me to hold it back.

5.-- ... Saw Lord Granville, Lord Hartington.... Finished the
correction of revises before one, discussing the text with Lord
Granville and making various alterations of phrase which he
recommended. At seven I received complete copies. We went to the
Haymarket theatre. Arranged my papers after this, and sent off
copies in various directions.

(M177) The pamphlet spread like fire.(340) Within three or four days of
its first appearance forty thousand copies had gone. It was instantly
followed up by a tremendous demonstration among his constituents. "Sept.
9, 1876.--Thought over my subject for Blackheath. Off at two. A very large
meeting. The most enthusiastic far that I ever saw. Spoke over an hour."
This is his very prosaic story of the first of those huge and excited
multitudes of which for months and years to come he was to confront so
many. The pamphlet and the Blackheath speech were his rejoinder to the
light and callous tones of Mr. Disraeli, and the sceptical language of his
foreign secretary, "I have a strong suspicion," he told the Duke of
Argyll, who was a fervent sympathiser, "that Dizzy's crypto-Judaism has
had to do with his policy. The Jews of the east _bitterly_ hate the
Christians; who have not always used them well." This suspicion was
constant. "Disraeli," he said to Mr. Gladstone, "may be willing to risk
his government for his Judaic feeling,--the deepest and truest, now that
his wife has gone, in his whole mind."

The tract beats with a sustained pulse and passion that recall Burke's
letters on the _Regicide Peace_. The exhortation against moral complicity
with "the basest and blackest outrages upon record within the present
century, if not within the memory of man"; the branding of the Turkish
race as "the one great anti-human specimen of humanity"; the talk of "fell
satanic orgies"; the declaration that there was not a criminal in a
European gaol nor a cannibal in the South Sea Islands, whose indignation
would not rise at the recital of that which had been done, which remained
unavenged, which had left behind all the foul and all the fierce passions
that produced it, and might again spring up in another murderous harvest,
from the soil soaked and reeki