text: " After giving the most daring outline of what he termed the evils of the local sovereignty of Ireland he surprised me into sudden acquiescence and involuntary admiration by a panegyric on the principles of British government in the more favoured island--on "the majestic supremacy of the law extending over all things sustaining all things administering life and health and purity to all; a moral atmosphere and though invisible like the physical yet irresistible in its strength penetrating through the whole national existence and carrying on undisturbed and perpetual in the day and night of empire all the great processes of national animation and prosperity