All our experience has been to the effect that the champion of liberty should take his ground, not upon any remote or abstract proposition, but upon the right of man, under every law divine and human, first to good government, and next to the institutions which are the necessary guarantees of it....
Morley emphasizes the importance of good government and its guarantees as the foundation of liberty.
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How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
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