Some partisans of imperial federation took it into their heads that the plan for Ireland would be fatal to a plan for the whole empire, though others more rationally conceived that if there was to be a scheme for the empire, schemes for its several parts must come first.
This quote captures the tension between imperial federation advocates and those concerned about local governance in Ireland.
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