We are trying an experiment never yet tried in the world--maintaining a foreign dominion by means of a native army; and teaching that army, through a free Press, that they ought to expel us, and deliver their country.
Morley reflects on the unprecedented nature of maintaining foreign rule through a native army and a free press.
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Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
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