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In your presence I cheerfully accept
it, grave as it is, and I now enter into a compact with you, and
every one of you, and with the help of God you and I joined
together--giving you the best I can, and you giving me all your
strength behind me--we will yet defeat the most nefarious
conspiracy that has ever been hatched against a free people. But I
know full well that this Resolution has a still wider meaning. It
shows me that you realise the gravity of the situation that is
before us, and it shows me that you are here to express your
determination to see this fight out to a finish."
He went on to expose the hollowness of the allegation, then current in
Liberal circles, that Ulster's repugnance to Home Rule was less
uncompromising than it formerly had been. On the contrary, he believed
that "there never was a moment at which men were more resolved than at
the present, with all the force and strength that God has given them,
to maintain the British connection and their rights as citizens of the
United Kingdom.


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