John Morley: “I do not believe in short cuts, and I believe that the Government in these difficult circumstances is wise not to be in…”

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

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

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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.