THE SOLEMN COVENANT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXV, Issue 11786, 24 September 1913, Page 5

THE SOLEMN COVENANT.

Tho Ulster Covenant was signed by Ulstermen in Belfast-and in all parts of Ireland on Ulster Day, September 28th, 1912. It reads as follows:-—

"Being convinced in our consciences that Home Kule ( would be disastrous to the material wellbeing of Ulster as well as of the whole of Irelr.nd, subversive of our civil and religious freedom, destructive of our citizenship and perilous to the unity of the Empire, we, whose names are underwritten, men of Ulster, loyal subjects of his gracious Majesty King George V., humbly relying on the God Whom our fathers in days of stress and trial confidently trusted, hereby pledge ourselves in Solemn Covenant throughout this our time of threatened calamity, to stand by one another in defending, for ourselves and our children, our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom, and in using all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Eule Parliament in Ireland; and, in the event of such a Parliament being forced upon us, we further solemnly and mutually pledge ourselves to refuse to recognise its authority. In sure confidence' that God will defend the right, we hereby subscribe our names, and, further, we individually declare that we have not already signed this Covenant. "