Ulster's opportunity

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Identifikator:: 1878634100

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-276030

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ulster's opportunity

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Unwin

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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[ 35 1] on Home Rule, demanded by the overwhelming majority of the Irish people at home and abroad, and by the voice of the civilised world. It would be wasting argument on unresisting imbecility to expose the utter absurdity of such a claim. Courage, patriotism, honour and self-interest demands the Ulster veto should be withdrawn. A settlement by universal consent is much to be pre- ferred, but a settlement there must be on the only possible lines, Home Rule for a united Ireland. The coercion of the four counties is *“ unthinkable,” because the necessity for coercion can never arise. Armed resistance in Ulster against the law of the land and the forces of the Empire is “unthinkable.” Does any sane man believe that the great protagonists of conditional rebellion, Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of the Navy; Sir James Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland; Mr. Chambers, the Irish Solicitor-General; Mr. Bonar Law, the leader of the House of Commons; and Sir Frederick Smith, the English Attorney- General, would resign their places to lead the armed manhood of four Ulster counties against the forces of the Crown. Let the Act be put in operation and the Ulster Unionists will either freely accept or peaceably submit, and turn Home Rule, as they turned the much denounced Land Act of 1881, to the best possible advantage. The German hope that the declaration of war would create a centrifugal force for the disruption of the British Empire has been completely dis- appointed. The self-governed colonies beyond the seas have rallied to its defence with a whole- hearted devotion. Ireland alone stands aloof demanding self-government as the price of her allegiance, and her demand must be granted before the Empire can preseut a united front to the enemy, or champion the cause of small nationalities in the oreat Peace Congress at the close of the war.

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