John Morley: “Whoever they might be, depend upon it that the maintenance of order is the foundation of anything like future progress.”

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?