You admit that you govern that island, not as you govern England and Scotland, but as you govern your new conquests in Scinde; not by means of the respect which the people feel for the laws, but by means of bayonets, of artillery, or entrenched camps.
Blaine highlights the oppressive nature of British governance in Ireland compared to their rule in England and Scotland.
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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
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