The morning call., 1892-04-04
ULSTER WILL RESIST.
4 Convention Of Irish ProteStantS in Lon.
don Protest Against Home Rule.

NEW YORK, April 3.-In Smalley's letter
to the Tribune, speaking of the crisis in
Ireland, he says: Rebus in posse, not rebels
in posse; rebels as we were rebels in
1776; rebels. also, against religious perseeu-
tion; rebels against home rule. should it
come; rebels in the cause of loyalty. Such
are the rebels of Ulster whom we have to
consider to-day. If you had talked with an
Irish Unonist for the last six years. or the
last sixteen years. he would have told you
there were but two parties in Ireland. 10y
alists and rebels, and now by the irony If
fate, and as a crowniDg testimony TO the
sagacty OF Gladstone, the craftsmanship of
the two Iartes are TO change places, or,
rather. 10 change names and policies. If
the home-rule measures be carried the 10y
alists is become rebel and the rebel is to
be the support of the ministry which shall
attempt TO cement tie union Of hearts in
Ireland with the blood OF the Queens
stanehest adherents. Whatever we may
think of the Ulster meeting of Thursday i'm
London. and of Its protest against home
rule, there can be no doubt Of lis serious
ness. II is the result Of a steadily growing
conyi ction in Ulster itself that anything
would be better than submission to a home
rule parliament.
Belfasts Decided stand.
The London meeting was convened in
C consequence of private conferences lately
held in Belfast. These conferences resolved
that representative, formal and unequyOcal
EXPRESSION should be given before the gen.
eral election to the determination of Il e
Protestants of Ulster not to submit to the
proposal to hand them over TO any Irish
parliament in which their property rights
and interests will be at the mercy Of a
m ffaf fGOi IN hnN StItn Il
this meeting, the importance OF which is
sufficiently denoted by the presence of all
UniOnist members Of Parliament from
Ulster except three, who were detained by
illness or absence from London.
There VAS a statement made by the dele
gates from the Belfast conferences and gen.
eral discussion. The meeting then uDani-
mously resolved 10 declare their loyalty and
their protest against any interference with
their inheritance On the part of the imperial
legislature, their utter distTust of any Irish
| legislature and their determination to have
no part in its organization or proceedings
and 10 paSsiVely resist Its laws and lis tax
alton. 1t was strongly felt, says the report,
which seems to have been furnished by OFF,
GERS of the meeting. that the PROPOSALS iu-
volyed were of far-reaching consequence.
There was. nevertheless, a difference Of
opinion as to their necessity. The hearty
support Of Ulster UDioaist members was
promised, and they we're advised 10 sum-
| mon convention for the second week in
June, and, on consideration, Sir Edward
| Harland and Sir w. Russell were appointed
| committee 10 cooperate with the commit
| tees already formed in Ulster
Gladstone's Dire Dilemma.
The dilemma for Gladstone is a painful
one. viii he renounce homo rule? He
| cannot. Wll he enforce it over third oil
| Ireland by the bayonet? What Is the Co
ercion OF recent years OF either his own
| or that Of the present government COM
| pared with the coercion he would then have
| to practice? Home rule with an army to
| enforce 1t J What sort OF home rule is that ?
| A Parliament in Dublin and state siege in
| Ulster. Is that the picture which appeals
to the lovers of a free government? What
| becomes of that union of hearts which
| Gladstone has sung so often in his most
| lyrical eloQuence? How will he meet this
Ulster protest? He must meet IL, and
must be sure that lie Will net meet il as his
| organ docs-Nith an angry shrek about uu-
patriotic nonsense or with threat that
there will be bloodshed IN Belfast If the
| proposed convention be held. or with a
| sneer at Ulster. Permanently skulkiug,
| it may be question whether the U ster
| Unionists are wise in threatening resistance.
There can be no question at all about the
| unwisdom of the language addressed TO
| them by the Gladstonlan organ.