Further, the right of Irish members to take part in purely English as well as imperial business would be seized upon by English politicians, whenever it should answer their purpose, as a pretext for interfering in Irish affairs.
Here, Morley articulates concerns about the implications of Irish members participating in English parliamentary business.
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But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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