Let us all keep quiet,” said one important unionist, “we may now have to revise our positions.” Either way, the serpent of faction would raise its head in Ireland, and the strong life of organised and concentrated nationalism would perish in its coils.
This quote captures the tension within the unionist perspective on the potential shifts in political alliances in Ireland.
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