text:  But the war of England was a war of the nation--a war of wrath and indignation--a war of the dangers of civilized society entrusted to a single championship--a great effort of human nature to discharge in the shape of blood a disease which was sapping the vitals of Europe; or in a still higher and therefore a more faithful view the gathering of a tempest which after sweeping France in its fury was to restore the exhausted soil and blasted vegetation of monarchy throughout the Continent; and in whose highest England serene and undismayed was to "Ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm