I cannot consent to a measure which is so offensive to the whole protestant population of Ireland, and to the whole sentiment of the province of Ulster so far as its loyal and protestant people are concerned.
Morley opposes a measure that he believes would alienate the Protestant population in Ireland.
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But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
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