John Morley: “I do not think our political annals record such a removal of a generation of statesmen before its time as we have…”

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.