John Morley: “For thirty years I have preached justice to Ireland.”

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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.

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.