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tained that the safeguards in the Act and the ultimate 
authority of the Imperial Parliament afforded Ulster 
absolute security. 
Hardly less deplorable was his assumption that the 
Unionists of Ulster form no part of the Irish nation ; 
no one would resent the suggestion more indignantly 
than Sir Edward Carson, who has over and over 
again claimed the name of Irishmen for himself 
and his followers. Lord Charles Beresford as a 
strenuous Unionist, has been in the thick of the fight 
against Home Rule. But even Lord Charles has 
declared in a letter to the Zimes that “all Irishmen 
are proud of being Irishmen, all are proud of the land 
of their birth; no one really wishes to see Ireland 
divided.” It must never be forgotten that if there 
is a division in Ireland to-day it is a division of 
British manufacture. The Orange faction was 
cherished and encouraged as “ England’s garrison 
in Ireland.” In Grattan’s day all Irishmen, North, 
South, East and West were united in the struggle 
for Irish self-government, and of all the Home Rulers 
of that day the men of Ulster were the most vehe- 
ment. 
When the Premier now regrets that the opposition 
of a majority in four counties of Ulster blocks the 
way of Home Rule, he must not forget that such 
opposition was stimulated, and to a large extent 
created by his colleagues, Mr. Bonar Law and Sir 
Edward Carson, and will inevitably cool down when 
that stimulus is withdrawn. 
The instant appeal of the Irish Party from the zon 
possums of the Premier to the over seas dominions, 
and to the American Republic seems to have 
suddenly startled the English people and the Govern- 
ment into a realisation of their position before the 
tribunal of the liberty-loving nations. For their 
treatment of Ireland in the past and at the present 
they are absolutely without defence. The most