Gladstone vs. the Czar: A Call for Justice in the Mitchellstown Massacre

Mineral Point, WI – May 29, 1890. The grand old man of politics, William Ewart Gladstone, has ignited a firestorm with his bold statement. ‘Wipe out the stain of the Mitchellstown massacre before you talk of Siberia,’ he thundered, taking aim at his own government’s handling of the 1848 atrocity. The Mitchellstown massacre, a brutal suppression of a peasant uprising in Ireland, has left a dark stain on British history.