Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman addressed his constituents at Dunfermline on Tuesday.
In the course of his speech he cordially endorsed the resolution of the National Liberal Federation, and declared in favour of reopening negotiations with the Boers, of amnesty, and of the removal of Lord Milner, on the ground that he had placed himself to a great extent, if not entirely, in the hands of the strongly anti-Dutch party in South African politics. Sir Henry professed great indignation against Lord George Hamilton for charging him with defaming our troops and vilifying their conduct in the field, and challenged him to make good his words. The fact remains that Sir Henry, in spite of his profuse eulogies of the gallantry of our soldiers, has said that the war was conducted with the methods of barbarism. The wantonness of this accusation, which has done so much to fortify Continental calumny, is sufficiently exposed by Mr. Robson, K.C., in his able letter to Thursday's Times. For ourselves, we absolutely deny the existence of the barbarism, and entirely fail to see how the chaige can be made without defaming our Army.
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