some reassurances - some concessions - of course they may keep their land grants , and those appointments not made too ill may remain - `` he made a few more general remarks of this sort , with no better course of action envisioned on bligh 's part , so far as laurence could see , than to levy a series of new but only cosmetic restrictions , which should certainly only inflame men irritated by the overthrow , by an outsider and an enemy , of their tolerated if not necessarily chosen leadership .