Imitate in Ireland your own wisdom in dealing with the Colonies, and the same policy will bear the same harvest.

For justice given the Colonies gave you friendship, as for injustice stubbornly upheld they had given you hatred.

The analogy with Ireland is complete so far as the cards have been played.

The same human elements are there, the same pride, the same anger, the same willingness to forget anger.

Why should the augury fail?
I can hear in imagination the sniff of the unimaginative reader; I can figure to myself his instant dismissal of all these considerations as "sentiment." Let the word stand, coloured though it is with associations that degrade it.