Meantime, while I inwardly rejoice, I am against all outward signs, beyond such as are purely local, of exultation, for they are not chivalrous, and they would tend to barbarise political warfare.
Morley advocates for restraint in expressing joy over political victories, suggesting that modesty is more honorable.
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I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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