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Reforms that we have publicly announced, adopted, and worked out for more than two years--how is it a concession to violence, to persist in those reforms?
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John Morley
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Morley questions how persisting with announced reforms can be seen as yielding to violence.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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