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What answer from the North?
One Law, One Land, One Throne.
If England drive us forth
We shall not fall alone!"
The preparations for the Unionist leader's coming visit to Belfast had
excited the keenest interest throughout England and Scotland. Coinciding
as it did with the introduction of the Government's Bill, it was
recognised to be the formal countersigning by the whole Unionist Party
of Great Britain of Ulster's proclamation of her determination to resist
her forcible degradation in constitutional status. The same note of
mingled reproach and defiance which sounded in Kipling's verses was
heard in the grave warning addressed by _The Times_ to the country in a
leading article on the morning of the meeting:
"Nobody of common judgment and common knowledge of political
movements can honestly doubt the exceptional gravity of the
occasion, and least of all can any such doubt be felt by any who
know the men of Ulster. To make light of the deep-rooted
convictions which fill the minds of those who will listen to Mr.


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