John Morley: “We shall at least have made not only a beginning, but a marked advance both in order and progress, by resolute patience…”

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.