Childers occurred to me as an administrator of eminent capacity and conciliatory in his modes of action; his mind would be open on the grave subjects treated by the Commission, which did not appear to me to be even for Lord Cardwell matters of committal, but simply of public policy to be determined by public advantage.
Morley praises Childers for his administrative skills and open-mindedness on critical issues.
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My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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.
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