As it happened, intimidation had been for a considerable time upon the increase—from which it might be inferred either, on the one side, that coercion failed in its object, or, on the other, that more coercion was still indispensable.
Morley comments on the increasing intimidation in Ireland, suggesting that coercion may not be effective or that more is needed.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
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