John Morley: “Protests against despatch of Indian contingent to Malta.”

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

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

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.