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" Every man and woman
who heard these words was filled with an exalted sense of the solemnity
of the occasion. The mental atmosphere was not that of a political
meeting, but of a religious service--and, in fact, the proceedings had
been opened by prayer, as had become the invariable custom on such
occasions in Ulster. It was felt to be a time of individual preparation
for the _Sacramentum_ of the following day, which Protestant Ulster had
set apart as a day of self-dedication to a cause for which they were
willing to make any sacrifice.
FOOTNOTES:
[28] _The Scotsman_, November 2nd, 1911.
[29] See Sir B. Carson's speech in _Belfast Newsletter_, September 24th,
1912.
[30] See _ante_, p. 53.
[31] See p. 106.
[32] See p. 248.
[33] _The Times_, September 23rd, 1912.
[34] _The Daily Telegraph_, September 25th, 1912.
[35] _Belfast Newsletter_, September 24th, 1912.
[36] The article which appeared on the following Sunday in _The
Observer_, showed how profoundly a distinguished London editor and
writer had been moved by what he saw in Belfast.


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