The charge confided to my Government concerns the destinies of countless multitudes of men now and for ages to come; and it is a paramount duty to repress with a stern arm guilty conspiracies that have no just cause and no serious aim.
Morley emphasizes the responsibility of the government to maintain order and suppress unjust conspiracies.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
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.
With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
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