THE ULSTER PLEDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15141, 4 November 1912, Page 9

TH E ULSTER PLEDGE.

' ' HIST OBIC BELFAST MEETING. fa IA KPINO AS ONE MAN. "fio MAKE GOOD THE COVENANT J ' ..[. I.,sMS. September 27. '■■' : .i.. rlstrr Unionist Council of Bight < W Sinclair. Mr. K. Plater '■ ' * on ' „ • the Unionist. Clubs). Colonel 1 (fh3 irman th, l of tho Belfast IS! 6 o ran,o lodges'. Captain James •i?7 M P. and Colonel Sharman ( raw.Slto draft, the constitution of a new M" SSer. The report of these, gentlemen was lately dm ' d by lh ° ('aunct '" BeliStoD Monday, and at the end of the ' • Letinc it « announced that the follow- '■■■&■ resolution had been unanimously ° ' —anasmiu!: as we. the duly elected delegates and members of the Ulster Unionist ' ,! Council, representing all parts of-Ulster, . .-.'. 4t e firmly persuaded that - v no law can I !' j|j,-.-i<»ht"trt govern those whom wo reproI' .'".jjntfco bartend away without their con- [%•' • K nt, that although the- present Govern--1 v'moot, the services and sacrifice of generaI ' tion of our race having been forgcaten, '• • mar drive us forth from the Constitution ' ■which wo have ever loyally upheld, they £■''•&■ oar" not driver us bound into the hands ' - of "our enemies, and tl at it is incompetent - for an y authority, party, or people, to ."•'■':'• appoint as our rulers, a Government domi- ' • rated by men disloyal to the Empire, and '.'•■ to whom oar faith and traditions are hate- ' "And inasmuch as we reverently believe ■ that as in times past it was given our i fathers to ***« themselves from - like calamity, so now it may bo ordered that ; our deliverance shall be 'in our own hands, ; ■ 'to which end it is needful that wo bo knit 1 '. /'together a«. one man, and none holding < ' • back or counting tho cost. ( i' . Therefore, we loyalists of Ulster ratify and confirm the steps so far taken by the i \"< special Commission to-day submitted and ( ?V'! explained. to us, and we re-appoint •, < • Commission to carry on it* work on our * i > . , behalf as in tho past. t ■'We enter into tho solemn covenant, £

j' ' and, ' knowing the greatness of the issues , ; ' depending on our faithfulness, wo promise : '< eick to the other that to the uttermost of tile strength and means given us, and not " girding any selfish or private interest, j - our euhftance, or oar lives, we will make ; 'v ' good tfco said solemn covenant. ; : "And we now bind ourselves in stead- ■ fart deiasrmination that, whatever may %■: befall, no such domination shall be thrust ' upon us, and in the hope that by the ",■•: blessing of God our union with. Groat Bri- - tain, upon which aro fixed our affections r' and truet. may yet be maintained, and ?.i that for ourselves and our children for this X province and for the whole of Ireland, peace, prosperity, and civil and religions ,-, liberty may be "secured under the Parlia:ment of the. United Kingdom, and of tie : /King, whose faithful subjects we are and /will continue all our days." :>; {Then follows the text of the covenant ■which we have already published.] Anything but Partition. %i The ; reply of Mr. William O'Brien,, M.P. for Cork, to the request of the ; Toronto Star for a message* suggesting that [w.h political parties in Canada should ''.be invited to arbitrate as to the guaranj tees to Ulster under Home Rule was as follows:—" The troubles in Ulster are of i( the same character as the racial conflicts Vfiiich onoj divided Canada and South' i ,; Africa They can bo cured only by the ('fume methods of mutual concession and :; ; concfl-'stion. We of the All far Ireland

P League, representing a national, peace m imovement composed of- Home Rulers of P|i v .all shades and classes, would gladly as- ||' sent to"any. arrangement of a temporary P and experimental character that would |-| givo Ulster a guarantee of the most watchful Imperial control against any pos- ■!: nihility of injustice. :v/ ! "The partition of Ireland is almost the V/i only compromise which wo should not be ready to discuss if it were the means of ll| Hcnring a settlement by consent. The m separation of Ulster fran Ireland would 1 1,]!»for Irish Protestants as well as Cathoi. lies unthinkable, as the separation of On!f.; tario and Quebec would be for Canadians. py "The two Canadian parties—Liberal arid Ibnservative— be doing a noble service to the Empire if they consented to arbitrate as to the guarantees which ought I to satisfy every rational man in. Ulster." 'I "We will Shrink from Nothing." p| Sir Edward Carson and the Unionist m ;- leaders, who are now touring Ulster, have | v raado many speches, the following points iaj in which may be quoted :— ?,■ Sir Edward Carson at Coleraine : |'p "Some of the Radical press consider p /that the Covenant means nothing; .another p tfup-ks it means treason. I will tell my K Judical critics what it does mean—that, •"wthe event of this proposed Parliament being thrust upon us, we solemnly and jnutually pledge ourselves not to recognise gat* authority. Where is the ambiguity £.ra that? Ido not care twopence whether

vjlitia treason or not. It is what we are $ Pang to do. Wo will consider each conSfeWjwqr as it arises. Wo will shrink from pWung. We will do nothing foolish, but |~w«i will, under Heaven, relv on ourselves. «; Sir Edward Carson, at' Belfast: •;:". I am dubbed a rebel and a traitor, «w, at all events, I shall never be a rebel ji or» traitor to you. Names"cannot alter ift What is ri « ht is ri hfc , a » d no I ™*. of Parliament can make it wrong. If I' a» lrea son to love your King, to try and |jS!!7 Constitution, to preserve vour , .omflnght and your civil and religious | il0 «y then I glory in being a traitor.". . ; | Wiles Will Go Off of Themselves. '- J[. F. E. Smith at Belfast: I'-- ttn'l-i 51is k' oi "3 to be any coercion by F ""revolutionary committee which to-day 1 mWT I? England, resistance is not 3 rfWto bb l^' in its scope to the 1 £fn S T° f LJsUil - « yo« SO and tell 1 SSifrtT 01 thafc the * have no contend mi theqnarre1 ' and that they must SeeS n 7 While your libcrtic « are fe(SS* r f Cnllenien the lifle » Will go Off MP? • 7"* ma * t3il " Bi rthv Jr..v Proper thafc this is trea «o. I P jadtei 7♦" '"".y 01 "" masters aid good •*of U vi ri° h n! Jhe party M the 8 ri «rriedVKfp** aocher y »* ''lass hatred, th *tedtwS rllam Art into lav/ and ■■ 'to " °°y ere 'l? , '» whom it was their •Wto Pct ~ is the **** au- ! rppiy t?thl »t bl ,tIM that wo irit »'- We ! '4-S%SJSf l thai our dutv •'" not to this todi ans ..- v ° ulcl IIJ,VR he«-» the ens M?' E Sf R tl, Ca, 1 icOC!! «»'« Sl'o.uings: NVSd, sfi agl^r 1 - ■- mit ' ( «»<« Warner , !„«,,» rust . pioof . S^CXad.' 1 "" "" 1 S " '- f ''. Ws>'** decide w|loll fiockjrs fllc . M y c!o »' fc w '" i » Mw subject i< %a"' : - lfc lS "Martell" "very time. ■'2*? •* the i n ' , v "l Standard" To- • ; *l»«U©d! fa ° lowc ' ;t Pnce. Quality JjJ. R^^^TSdfis " B' fl chenurt ' and .stores. Kf™*f4£° w |?r Warner's corals lilgwfeX Court a,l(i Sons - *£ Perfect!" |lf»'iid.fK ftr / ts *~ or ? 0 Court l|B^fefdemkr^? S; ia "P 6 materially i n -