Wider reflection might have warned them that the plain people of this island, though quickly roused against even the shadow of concession when the power or the greatness of their country is openly assailed, seem at the same time ready to turn to moral claims of fair play, of conciliation, of pacific truce.
Morley reflects on the readiness of the public to embrace moral claims for fairness and peace in political discourse.
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