As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter......
Lord Iddesleigh is a name that no one knows, as like the subordinate of Gen. William Techumseh Sherman who perished too in spoils, no one remembers the slights a man takes which actually stop the heart.
For all the greatness a general commands in war, in peace he has little, especially when he is not a man with the weight of weighty insider friends. His name might have been General Thomas or something, but in the Tennessee Campaign at the end of the war, he was not stellar as without Sherman he had no drive.
He was though a man of the Union, and when the time came for those spoils, the government and his old General did not have a seat of power for him with the respect he deserved.
That slight caused him to brood and it killed him early in being devalued.
In the destruction of Lord Randolph Churchill, there as a foreign secretary in Lord Iddesleigh who it was said in his end, "Churchill had driven Iddesleigh from the House of Commons in his rise, and driven him from the Cabinet in his fall".
In all of the intrigue in this Conservative government, in trying to make alliances with liberals, the Prime Minister in Lord Salisbury, had never given a thought to his foreign secretary. So much to the point that Lord Iddesleigh read for the first time in a paper that the Prime Minister was taking over his duties.
Yes, it was a horrid thing for the Queen to not be amused in Lord Randolph Churchill publishing he was leaving government, when he thought Lord Salisbury had already notified Queen Victorica, but it was amusing when Lord Salisbury did not notify someone in his own cabinet that he was being replaced.
It was so amusing that when Lord Iddesleigh appeared before the Prime Minister, that having a heart condition, the Foreign Secretary died in the Prime Minister's presence.
To deliberately mistreat people, because they are thought not worthy of the same courtesy of those you fear, is a murderous thing. Not everyone can be pampered, because people are overlooked at times due to hectic situtations, but when one has a General Thomas begging General Sherman for a job or one has a member of Cabinet of Foreign Secretary and you are going to be taking their job, there is not an excuse in any of this, as to destroy a person's validation is to pierce their heart and murder them.
People need reason to live and people need a modicum of respect. Having gone through the above numerous times in my life, by those in power, I am incensed by how cronies are looked after, and others are cast aside.
When those in power, treat people badly, whether it is on the soccer field or in greater halls, and it kills them, that is murder, and there are no excuses nor blames which can pass it off.
Lord Salisbury writes to Lord Churchill:
"It was a very painful scene that I witnessed on Wednesday in Downing Street. I had never happened to see anyone die before— and therefore, even apart from the circumstances, the suddenness of this unexpected death would have been shocking.
But here was, in addition, the thought of our thirty years’ companionship in political life; and the reflection that now, just before this sudden parting, by some strange misunderstanding which it is hopeless to explain, I had, I believe for the first time in my life, seriously wounded his feelings. As I looked upon the dead body stretched out before me I felt that politics was a cursed profession."
Yes, some strange misunderstanding that Lord Salisbury was taking a job of his Foreign Secretary and that it was politics was the cursed profession, as none of this was Lord Salisbury's doing nor fault.
The excuse of the "devil made him do it".......yes the excuse.
nuff said
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