The bloodiest struggle of our generation was between English-speaking men of the North and English-speaking men of the South, because economic difficulties had brought up a problem of government which the two parties to the strife looked at with different eyes from difference of habit and of interest.
Morley reflects on the Civil War as a struggle influenced by differing economic interests.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
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