And if it should happen that Irish loyalists should suffer from extension of equal civil rights to Irishmen, what sort of reason was that why the principle of exclusion and ascendency which had worked such mischief in the past, should be persisted in for a long and indefinite future?
Morley reflects on the implications of extending civil rights to Irishmen and the historical context of exclusion in Ireland.
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