text:  This feeling may tend to elevate the standard of military character but it must at the same time preclude the probability of calm or impartial examination so far as the great body of the nation is concerned; and it is therefore the more obviously incumbent on those who from a more intimate knowledge of the facts or from habits of more deliberate investigation are not carried away by the tide of popular indignation and invective to weigh the circumstances with conscientious caution and to await the result of judicial enquiry before they venture to apportion the blame or even to estimate its amount