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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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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