John Morley: “My grief is sincere and deep, but it is at the whole thing, so ruinous in its consequences as they concern faith.”

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.