John Morley: “The vote is a trust for the commonwealth; to permit secrecy makes it look like a right conferred for a man’s own…”

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.