But within the limits of fair differences of opinion, which will always be found to arise on such occasions, I do affirm that it was their part to take the side of liberty; and I do also affirm that as a matter of fact they took the side of servitude.
Morley asserts that the British representatives chose the side of oppression instead of liberty during negotiations.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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