Agitators, Past and Present, by William Henry Boucher (1837-1906). Full caption: Bright to Gladstone I don't care about fighting now, especially against my own country. Judy, (6 June 1877): 77-78. Courtesy of the Hathi Trust and Harvard University. Click on image to enlarge it.

John Bright (1811-1889), the Quaker reformer who fought the corn laws, the Crimean War as unchristian, authoritarian rule in India, and supported the North during the American Civil War, rejects an hysterical Gladstone’s changed attitude toward the Russo-Turkish war.

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