No liberal, whatever his particular shade, thought that it would be either honourable or practical to throw the Irish policy overboard, and if there (M162) were any who thought such a course honourable, they knew it would not be safe.
Morley emphasizes the commitment of liberals to the Irish policy, asserting its importance despite differing opinions.
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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.
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.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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