text:  But it was intolerable that the plans of conquest which they had fondly cherished and tried to press upon the country should be virtually denounced amid the universal approbation of all good men at home and abroad; that the solitary achievement of their administration in military affairs should be recorded in the page of history only to be condemned as an act of injustice inexcusably undertaken and incompetently executed: and relinquished by their successors in the very hour of triumph with a wise self-denial which no one will suspect that a Whig could have ever practised