And we would presume to urge that more important than
a correct estimate of any one transaction of the past, or even of any
one measure to influence the future, is the habit of putting a candid,
and therefore a favorable, construction on the characters and intentions
of those to whom from time to time the conduct of the affairs of the
nation is intrusted.
Notes:
[Footnote 276: "Life of Palmerston," vol. i., c. vii.]
[Footnote 277: "Life of the Prince Consort," ii, 303.]
[Footnote 278: _Ibid_., p. 412.]
[Footnote 279: Amos, "Fifty Years of the English Constitution," p. 289.]
[Footnote 280: "Past Gleanings," i., 242.]
[Footnote 281: "Life of the Prince Consort," iv., 458.]
[Footnote 282: 219 to 210.]
[Footnote 283: "Life of the Prince Consort," v., 100.]
[Footnote 284: _Ibid_., p. 148.]
[Footnote 285: "Life of Pitt," by Earl Stanhope, iii., 210.]
[Footnote 286: "Life of the Prince Consort," iv., 329.]
[Footnote 287: _Ibid._, p. 366.]
[Footnote 288: "Constitutional History," iii., 319, 3d edition.]
[Footnote 289: It should be added that, on a subsequent occasion, Mr.
Roundell Palmer, member for Plymouth (now Lord Chancellor Selborne, and
even then in the enjoyment of the highest professional reputation),
declared his opinion to be in favor of the legality and constitutional
propriety of the proceeding.
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