![]() Personally: he deserves all that he will receive. It is long since any English general has met with such unqualified success or executed so thoroughly the task which was entrusted to him. He deserves all the congratulations and honors which are the appropriate reward of great skill, thoroughly sound judgment and that sort of good fortune which seldom, if ever, befalls those who do not deserve it. Something, moreover, may properly be given, not only to Sir Robert Napier personally but to the nation at large. There can be no doubt that, taken as a whole, the Abyssinian expedition has been creditable to England. It has given a clear demonstration of several facts which it is highly important for all persons whom they may concern to bear in mind. ![]() It has read a lesson to barbarous Powers as to the far-reaching and irresistible powers of civilization which they are not likely to forget, and it has shown that the English nation, in particular, is prepared, in case of need, to make great efforts for the punishment of an insult, or the protection of persons entitled to its protection.
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