I hoped that the ministers would recognise the moral obligations to the subject races of the east, which we had in honour contracted as parties to the Crimean war and to the peace of Paris in 1856.
Morley expresses his hope that the British government would acknowledge its moral responsibilities towards oppressed Eastern populations.
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