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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 43, 12 August 1892, Page 7

Ulstermen are highly incensed over a recent speech by Henry Labouchere, the brilliant editor of Truth, who ridiculed the threats of resistance to a Home Rule Parliament on the part of the people of Ulster, and dubbed those who indulged in such talk cowards. James M. McCalmont, M.P., for East Antrim, took occasion to-day while laying the corner-stone of a new Orange hall in Antrim to denounce Labouchere. Mr Labouchere writes in the last number of Truth :— A. fiery Ulsterman writes to me a letter on paper of the "Royal Dublin Society," of which, presumably, he is a member. As, in common with other law-abiding citizens, I pay for policemen and soldiers to maintain order, I certainly prefer that these public servants should be employed to put down rebellion in Ulster, than to march myself, with Mr Healy, at the head of a volunteer regiment, with the reasonable prospect of our both being hanged on an apple tree by the rebels. My correspondent's idea of " fair play "is amusing, The London thieves might as well suggest that they are unfairly dealt with by being looked after by policemen.