All my desire and thought was how to render it less grave, for next to the demands of a question far higher than all or any party interests, is my duty to labour for the consolidation of the party....
Morley expresses his commitment to mitigating a grave political situation while prioritizing party consolidation.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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.
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