John Morley: “They could not look at Ireland,” he told them, “and say that the state…”

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They could not look at Ireland,” he told them, “and say that the state of feeling there was for the honour and the advantage of the united kingdom.

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John Morley

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Morley conveys the sentiment that the state of Ireland was not beneficial for the United Kingdom.

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