New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-03
cOpyrtght 1872. By The Tribune association.


rBr CABLE TO TIE TRIBUNE.'
copvrioht 1872: Bv The Tribune Associatton.
London April 2.-Rebels in posse. not rebels in
esse rebels we were rebels In 1876 1eDels aIsC'
against religious persecution; rebels against Home
Rule, should it come; rebels i'll the cause oil
LOYALTY such are the rebels of Ulster, whom we
have 10 consider to-day If you had talked with an
Irish Unionist, any time these last six years, or
the last sixteen, he would have told you there
we're but two parties in Ireland, loyalsts and
rebels; and now, by the irony of fate, and as the
crowning testimony to the sagacity Of Mr. Glad
stones craftsmanship, the two parties are to
change places, or to change names and policies.
II Home Rule be carried, the loyalist is TO become
the rebel and the rebel is to be the support of
the Ministry which shall attempt TO cement the
union of hearts iii Ireland with the blood Of the
Queens stancbest adherents
Whatever may think of the Ulster
meeting of Thursday i'll London, and of
its protest against Home Rule there can
be no doubt of its seriousness. 1t is
result OF the steadily growing conviction in Ulster
itself that anything would be better than sub
mission to Home Rule Parliament The London
meeting was convened in consequence of private
conferences lately held in Belfast Those con-
ferences resolved that representative, formal and
unequivocal expression should lie given before the
general election 10 the determination of the
Protcstants Of Ulster not to submit to the pro-
posal to hand them to any Irish Parliament
in which their property rights and interests VIII
he at the mercy of Roman Catholic majority
Tney summoned this meeting. The Importance Ol
it is sufficiently denoted by the presence of all the
Unionist members of Parliament from Ulster, en-
cept three detained by illness absence from
London. Sir Edward IIarland WINS among the
slsentees but his partner, Mr. Wolf, was pre- ent.
Lord Ernest Hamilton Is abroad, and Sir Charles
Lewis is ill., Lord Arthur Hill presided, and
Colonel Saunderson, Mr.. T. W. Russell Colonel
warng, Mr. Thomas lea, all the others, were at
the meeting.
There was q statement by delegates from the
Belfast conferences, and general discussion
The meeting then unanimously resolved to declare
their LOYALTY their protest against any inter
ference with their inheritance in the Imperial Leg
stature their utter distrust of any Irish Legis-
lature and their determination to have no part in
its organization CT proceedings, and passvely to
resist it's laws and its taxation. IL strongly
felt SAYS the report, which seems TO have been
furnished by the officers of the meeting, that the
proposals involved far-reaching consequences.
There was nevertheless, no difference Of opinion
as TO their necessity. The hearty support Of the
Ulster Unionist Members promised. They
second week in June, and Colonel Saunderson. Sir
Edward IIarland, and Mr.. T. w. Russell were
appointed committee to cooperate with CON-
mittces TO be formed In User.
Much has been heard before now Of Ulster oppo-
sition to Home Rule. Mr. Gladstone admitted
that some account would have TO be taken of it,
and some safeguard provided for this great Prot
estant community Mr Morley admitted it. Lord
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certain contingencies Ulster would fight, and
Ulster would be right The Irish leaders have
never admitted what Mr.. Gladstone and Mr. Morley
admitted. That is one more point of difference
between the two wings Of the Home Rule party.
Mr. Parnell always said that Ulster was inds-
penSable. He could not deny that the province
was hostile 10 Home Rule, and that the Prot
estants of the north Of Ireland, as in every other
part where there are Protestants. looked with alarm
TO the prospect of being ruled by a Roman Cath
Ole legislature. But his answer was, from his
point Of view decisive You cannot dyi lc Ireland
you cannot give two-thrds of Ireland Home Rule
and keep One-thrd under the wing Of tie Imperial
Parliament. Home Rule Of that sort would he,
he urged, an absurdity. Even if IL were possible
politically, it would be fatal financially. Ulster
has nearly million and thrce-quartcrs inhab-
itants She has onc.third Of the population Of the
whole island, and her wealth, commerce, indus
tries energy, civilization, and intelligence are ont
Of all proportion TO her population We must
have Ulster to tax, said the great Home Ruler, or
Home Rule will be bankrupt.
There is answer 70 Mr.. Parnelrs argument
which is not also decisive answer 10 the whole
case for Home Rule. 1t comes to this there
fore Is Ulster TO be sacrificed? Il the Protes-
tant minority 70 be put under the heel of the
Roman Catholic majority? Are the priests 10
be the arbiters of the fate Of this Protestant
province? Is wealth TO be taxed by poverty !?
Is intelligence TO be held in thraldom by ignO-
rance? These are the questions. they present
themselves 10 the Protestant Unionists Of Ulster.
and their answer TO ali Of them is, No.
They make their negative for the first time clear,
definite, and specific. They will hold aloof from
the Dublin Parliament. They will have part
nor lot in its proceedings, and no responsibility
for its acts. They will not submit 10 be legis-
lated for. administered and governed by their
bitter enemies. They will refuse TO pay taxes.
That it what resistance, by people Of this practical
race, the Scotch Prcstyterians who have reoped
Ulster and made it prosperous usually comes TO-
They take up precisely the ground our ancestors
took up when they refused 10 pay threcpcnce on
the pound Of tea 10 their British taskmastcrs.
We rebelled for what seemed TO the British a
UlVlal mattcr, 10 US question OF Poi'F"i Piii-
ciple Ulster will rebel, if she is driven TO re-
bellion, on what she thinks a question OF life
or death 1t will be- if it comes. the oldest REBEL
ion the world ever heard Of. 1t will DE REBEL
ion in behalf of loyalty, resistance TO Brltsh
authority in the assertion Of the right TO be gov
erned by the Imperial Parliament.
The dilemma for Mr. Gladstone is PAINFUL
one Will he renounce Home Rule? He cannot.
Will he enforce it third of Ireland by the
bayOnet? What is the coercion OF recent years,
either his own that Of the present Govern
ment, compared with the coercion he would then
have to practise Home Rule with au army u
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