I am the more pained and grieved, because I have for the last five-and-twenty years received from the government and people of America tokens of goodwill which could not fail to arouse my undying gratitude.
Morley expresses his gratitude towards the American people for their goodwill over the years.
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What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
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.
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.
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