49/50 When this shadow in the north which has overhung us so long, is removed, the differences will grow the greater, and each side will assert itself. The English are a free people and freedom brings diversities, differing opinions and a strenuous expression of them. I see already great issues between the colonies and the mother country, and I pray that temperate men may have the handling of them. The wrong will not be all on one side, nor the right either. |