There isn't any war, and there isn't any veto in his hands.

And so there is really little or nothing doing in his line.

The country governs itself, and prefers to do it; and is so strenuous about it and so jealous of its independence that it grows restive if even the Imperial Government at home proposes to help; and so the Imperial veto, while a fact, is yet mainly a name.
Thus the Governor's functions are much more limited than are a Governor's functions with us.

And therefore more fatiguing.

He is the apparent head of the State, he is the real head of Society.