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We ask for no privileges, but we
are determined that no one shall have privileges over us. We ask
for no special rights, but we claim the same rights from the same
Government as every other part of the United Kingdom. We ask for
nothing more; we will take nothing less. It is our inalienable
right as citizens of the British Empire, and Heaven help the men
who try to take it from us."
It was all no doubt a mere restatement--though an admirably lucid and
forcible restatement--of doctrine with which his hearers had long been
familiar. The great question still awaited an answer--how was effect to
be given to this resolve, now that there was no longer hope of
salvation through the sympathy and support of public opinion in Great
Britain? This was what the eager listeners at Craigavon hoped in hushed
expectancy to hear from their new leader. He did not disappoint them:
"Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, says that we are not to be
allowed to put our case before the British electorate.


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