It needs valour and integrity to stand forth against a wrong to which our best friends are most ardently committed.

It warms our hearts to think of the noble courage with which Burke faced the blind and vile selfishness of his own supporters.

He reminded them that England only consented to leave to the Irish in two or three instances the use of the natural faculties which God had given them.

He asked them whether Ireland was united to Great Britain for no other purpose than that we should counteract the bounty of Providence in her favour; and whether, in proportion as that bounty had been liberal, we were to regard it as an evil to be met with every possible corrective?
In our day there is nobody of any school who doubts that Burke's view of our trade policy towards Ireland was accurately, absolutely, and magnificently right.
I need not repeat the arguments.

They made no mark on the Bristol merchants.