It seems to me that the South has two objects in view: firstly the liberation of its trade and people from the law of tribute to the North; secondly and perhaps mainly, the maintenance of the slave system without fear or risk of Northern interference.
Morley analyzes the South's objectives during the Civil War, particularly regarding trade and the preservation of slavery.
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I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
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.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
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