I did not think the adjustment of personal relations, or the ordinary exigencies of party, constituted a call upon me to continue my long life in a course of constant pressure and constant contention with half my fellow-countrymen, until nothing remained but to step into the grave.
Morley expresses his reluctance to continue in politics under constant pressure and contention, reflecting on the toll it takes.
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My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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