Chapter XXVII: Appendix: B

UNIONIST LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON

CITY HALL, BELFAST, _August 1st_, 1918.

To THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SIR,

A manifesto signed by the leader of the Irish Nationalist Party and certain other Irish gentlemen has been widely circulated in the United Kingdom, in the form of a letter purporting to have been addressed to your Excellency.[110]

Its purpose appears to be to offer an explanation of, and an excuse for, the conduct of the Nationalist Party in obstructing the extension to Ireland of compulsory military service, which the rest of the United Kingdom has felt compelled to adopt as the necessary means of defeating the German design to dominate the world. At a time when all the free democracies of the world have, with whatever reluctance, accepted the burden of conscription as the only alternative to the destruction of free institutions and of international justice, it is easily intelligible that those who maintain Ireland's right to solitary and privileged exemption from the same obligation should betray their consciousness that an apologia is required to enable them to escape condemnation at the bar of civilised, and especially of American, opinion. But, inasmuch as the document referred to would give to anyone not intimately familiar with British domestic affairs the impression that it represents the unanimous opinion of Irishmen, it is important that your Excellency and the American people should be assured that this is very far from being the case.

There is in Ireland a minority, whom we claim to represent, comprising one-fourth to one-third of the total population of the island, located mainly, but not exclusively, in the province of Ulster, who dissent emphatically from the views of Mr. Dillon and his associates. This minority, through their representatives in Parliament, have maintained throughout the present war that the same obligations should in all respects be borne by Ireland as by Great Britain, and it has caused them as Irishmen a keen sense of shame that their country has not submitted to this equality of sacrifice.

Your Excellency does not need to be informed that this question has become entangled in the ancient controversy concerning the constitutional status of Ireland in the United Kingdom. This is, indeed, sufficiently clear from the terms of the Nationalist manifesto addressed to you, every paragraph of which is coloured by allusion to bygone history and threadbare political disputes.

It is not our intention to traverse the same ground. There is in the manifesto almost no assertion with regard to past events which is not either a distortion or a misinterpretation of historical fact. But we consider that this is not the moment for discussing the faults and follies of the past, still less for rehearsing ancient grievances, whether well or ill founded, in language of extravagant rhetoric. At a time when the very existence of civilisation hangs in the balance, all smaller issues, whatever their merits or however they may affect our internal political problems, should in our judgment have remained in abeyance, while the parties interested in their solution should have joined in whole-hearted co-operation against the common enemy.

There is, however, one matter to which reference must be made, in order to make clear the position of the Irish minority whom we represent. The Nationalist Party have based their claim to American sympathy on the historic appeal addressed to Irishmen by the British colonists who fought for independence in America a hundred and fifty years ago. By no Irishmen was that appeal received with a more lively sympathy than by the Protestants of Ulster, the ancestors of those for whom we speak to-day--a fact that was not surprising in view of the circumstance that more than one-sixth part of the entire colonial population in America at the time of the Declaration of Independence consisted of emigrants from Ulster.

The Ulstermen of to-day, forming as they do the chief industrial community in Ireland, are as devoted adherents to the cause of democratic freedom as were their forefathers in the eighteenth century. But the experience of a century of social and economic progress under the legislative Union with Great Britain has convinced them that under no other system of government could more complete liberty be enjoyed by the Irish people. This, however, is not the occasion for a reasoned defence of "Unionist" policy. Our sole purpose in referring to the matter is to show, whatever be the merits of the dispute, that a very substantial volume of Irish opinion is warmly attached to the existing Constitution of the United Kingdom, and regards as wholly unwarranted the theory that our political status affords any sort of parallel to that of the "small nations" oppressed by alien rule, for whose emancipation the Allied democracies are fighting in this war.

The Irish representation in the Imperial Parliament throws a significant sidelight on this prevalent fiction. Whereas England is only represented by one member for every 75,000 of population, and Scotland by one for every 65,000, Ireland has a member for every 42,000 of her people. With a population below that of Scotland, Ireland has 31 more members in the House of Commons, and 89 more than she could claim on a basis of representation strictly proportionate to population in the United Kingdom.

Speaking in Dublin on the 1st of July, 1915, the late Mr. John Redmond gave the following description of the present condition of Ireland, which offers a striking contrast to the extravagant declamation that represents that country as downtrodden by a harsh and unsympathetic system of government:

"To-day," he said, "the people, broadly speaking, own the soil.
To-day the labourers live in decent habitations. To-day there is
absolute freedom in local government and local taxation of the
country. To-day we have the widest parliamentary and municipal
franchise. The congested districts, the scene of some of the most
awful horrors of the old famine days, have been transformed. The
farms have been enlarged, decent dwellings have been provided, and
a new spirit of hope and independence is to-day among the people.
In towns legislation has been passed facilitating the housing of
the working classes--a piece of legislation far in advance of
anything obtained for the town tenants of England. We have a system
of old-age pensions in Ireland whereby every old man and woman over
seventy is safe from the workhouse and free to spend their last
days in comparative comfort."

Such are the conditions which, in the eyes of Nationalist politicians, constitute a tyranny so intolerable as to justify Ireland in repudiating her fair share in the burden of war against the enemies of civilisation.

The appeal which the Nationalists make to the principle of "self-determination" strikes Ulster Protestants as singularly inappropriate. Mr. Dillon and his co-signatories have been careful not to inform your Excellency that it was their own opposition that prevented the question of Irish Government being settled in accordance with that principle in 1916. The British Government were prepared at that time to bring the Home Rule Act of 1914 into immediate operation, if the Nationalists had consented to exclude from its scope the distinctively Protestant population of the North, who desired to adhere to the Union. This compromise was rejected by the Nationalist leaders, whose policy was thus shown to be one of "self-determination" for themselves, combined with coercive domination over us.

It is because the British Government, while prepared to concede the principle of self-determination impartially to both divisions in Ireland, has declined to drive us forcibly into such subjection that the Nationalist Party conceive themselves entitled to resist the law of conscription. And the method by which this resistance has been made effective is, in our view, not less deplorable than the spirit that dictated it. The most active opponents of conscription in Ireland are men who have been twice detected during the war in treasonable traffic with the enemy, and their most powerful support has been that of ecclesiastics, who have not scrupled to employ weapons of spiritual terrorism which have elsewhere in the civilised world fallen out of political use since the Middle Ages.

The claim of these men, in league with Germany on the one hand, and with the forces of clericalism on the other, to resist a law passed by Parliament as necessary for national defence is, moreover, inconsistent with any political status short of independent sovereignty--status which could only be attained by Ireland by an act of secession from the United Kingdom, such as the American Union averted only by resort to civil war. In every Federal or other Constitution embracing subordinate legislatures the raising and control of military forces are matters reserved for the supreme legislative authority alone, and they are so reserved for the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Home Rule Act of 1914, the "withholding" of which during the war is complained of by the Nationalists who have addressed your Excellency. The contention of these gentlemen that until the internal government of Ireland is changed in accordance with their demands, Ireland is justified in resisting the law of Conscription, is one that finds support in no intelligible theory of political science.

To us as Irishmen--convinced as we are of the righteousness of the cause for which we are fighting, and resolved that no sacrifice can be too great to "make the world safe for democracy"--it is a matter of poignant regret that the conduct of the Nationalist leaders in refusing to lay aside matters of domestic dispute, in order to put forth the whole strength of the country against Germany should have cast a stain on the good name of Ireland. We have done everything in our power to dissociate ourselves from their action, and we disclaim responsibility for it at the bar of posterity and history.

EDWARD CARSON.
JAMES JOHNSTON, Lord Mayor of Belfast.
H.M. POLLOCK, President Belfast Chamber of Commerce.
R.N. ANDERSON, Mayor of Londonderry, and
President Londonderry Chamber of Commerce.
JOHN M. ANDREWS, Chairman Ulster Unionist Labour Association.
JAMES A. TURKINGTON, Vice-Chairman Ulster
Unionist Labour Association, and Secretary
Power-loom and Allied Trades Friendly
Society, and ex-Secretary Power-loom
Tenters' Trade Union of Ireland.
THOMPSON DONALD, Hon. Secretary Ulster
Unionist Labour Association, and ex-District
Secretary Shipwrights' Association.
HENRY FLEMING, Hon. Secretary Ulster Unionist
Labour Association, Member of Boilermakers'
Iron and Steel Shipbuilders' Society.

FOOTNOTES:

[110] See Appendix A.

INDEX

Abercorn, James, 2nd Duke of,
at the Belfast Convention, 33;
President of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35;
illness, 47, 85, 108;
signs the Covenant, 122;
death, 144
Abercorn, James, 3rd Duke of, 257, 282
Abercorn, Mary, Duchess of,
President of the Women's Unionist Council, 37
Adair, Gen. Sir Wm., at Larne, 217
Afghan Campaign, 161
Africa, South, War, 18
Agar-Robartes, Hon. Thomas,
amendment on the Home Rule Bill, 92, 94-97, 132
Agnew, Capt. Andrew, viii, 193, 202, 210, 213, 214, 220
Albert Hall, meetings at, 14, 21, 34, 71
Alexander, Dr., Bishop of Derry, at the Albert Hall, 14
Allen, C.E., 156
Allen, W.J., 35
Althorp, Lord, 138
Altrincham, election, 155
Amending Bill, 221, 223, 227;
postponed, 228, 230;
_see_ Home Rule
America, War of Independence, 273
Amery, L.C.S.,
at Belfast, 81;
on the Curragh Incident, 182
Amiens, threatened capture of, 266
Anderson, R.N., Mayor of Londonderry,
letter to President Wilson, 273, 296-299
Andrews, John M., letter to President Wilson, 296-299
Andrews, Thomas, 33, 35, 48
Anglo-German relations, 167, 201
_Annual Register_, viii, 18 note, 21, 54 note, 76, 78 note, 138,
154 note, 155 note, 157 note, 166 note, 167 note, 169 note,
170 note, 201 note, 222 note, 223 note, 238, 271 note, 272 note
Archdale, E.M., 35;
Chairman of the Standing Committee, 35;
Minister for Agriculture, 282
Armagh, military depot, 175, 176
Armaghdale, Lord, 263;
signs the Covenant, 122:
_see_ Lonsdale
Armistice, the, 275
Army, British, sympathy with Ulster Loyalists, 187-189
Arran, Isle of, 175
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H.H.,
on the opposition of Ulster to Home Rule, 1, 2;
at the Albert Hall, 21;
Hull, 24;
Reading, 24;
Bury St. Edmunds, 25;
opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 133;
at Ladybank, 154;
Manchester, 166;
policy on the Ulster Question, 167-170;
on the Curragh Incident, 180, 182;
Secretary of State for War, 184;
promises an Amending Bill, 221;
on the landing of arms, 221;
at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227;
on the postponement of the Amending Bill, 228, 230;
defence of Home Rule Bill, 235;
in Dublin, 244;
on the settlement of the Irish question, 245;
on the national danger, 266
_Attentive_, H.M.S., 178
Austrian rifles, 198

Baird, J.D., at Belfast, 81 Balfour, Rt. Hon. A.J., at Belfast, 13, 81; on election tactics, 25; on exclusion of Ulster, 95; resigns leadership of the Unionist Party, 60; how regarded in Ulster, 61; message from, 115; the "peccant paragraphs," 181 Balfour, Lord, of Burleigh, signs the British Covenant, 170 Ballycastle, 193 Ballykinler, training camp, 237 Ballymacarret, 225 Ballymena, meeting at, 108 Ballymoney, meeting at, 158 Ballyroney, meeting at, 108 _Balmerino_, s.s., 208, 209 Balmoral, Belfast, meeting at, 79-86, 101 Bangor, 214, 219 Barrie, H.T., 257 Bates, Richard Dawson, Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35, 121; organises demonstration, 111; on board a tender, 214; Minister for Home Affairs, 282; knighthood, 284 Bedford, Duke of, Chairman of the British League for the support of Ulster, 147 Belfast, 46; Convention of 1892, 32-34, 109; meetings at, 52, 78, 157; services on Ulster Day, 117; City Hall, 119, 283; Covenant signed, 119-122; drill hall, opened, 148; riots, 151; review of the Ulster Volunteer Force at, 163; Customs Authorities, stratagem against, 217; reception of the King and Queen, 283 Belfast Lough, 46, 175, 211, 212 _Belfast Newsletter_, 102 note, 111 Benn, Sir John, 53 Beresford, Lord Charles, at Belfast, 81, 109; at the Ulster Club, 125; Liverpool, 127; member of a Committee of the Provisional Government, 145 Berwick, 149, 154 Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine, Chief Secretary for Ireland, on the character of Sinn Feinism, 4; at Ilfracombe, 54; on the Home Rule Bill, 96; the right to fight, 138; member of a sub-committee on Ulster, 175; conduct in the Irish rebellion, 243; character of his administration, 245 Blenheim, meeting at, 97 Boyne, the, 2; battle of, 115; celebration, 224 Bradford, 172, 174, 175 Bristol, 150, 166; Channel, 208 _Britannic_, H.M.S., 224 British Covenant, signing the, 170 British League for the support of Ulster and the Union, formation, 147 Browne, Robert, Managing Director of the Antrim Iron Ore Company, 193 Brunner, Sir John, President of the National Liberal Federation, 167 Buckingham Palace Conference, 227 Budden, Captain, 196 Budget, 19; "The People's," 20 "Budget League," formed, 20 Bull, Sir William, 195 Bury St. Edmunds, 25 Butcher, Sir J.G., at Belfast, 81

Cambridge, H.R.H. Duke of, 187
Cambridgeshire, election, 155
Campbell, James, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 57, 95, 109
Canterbury, Dean of, signs the British Covenant, 170
Carlyle, Thomas, 137
Carrickfergus, military depot, 175, 176
Carson, Lady, at Belfast, 236, 284
Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward, viii;
accepts leadership, 39-41;
political views, 41;
at the Ulster Hall, 42, 108;
at the Ulster Unionist Council meetings, 42, 246-248;
relations with Lord Londonderry, 44, 53;
on the Parliament Bill, 44;
at the Craigavon meeting, 48-51, 210;
character of his speaking, 48;
at the Conference at Belfast, 52;
at Dublin, 54;
Portrush, 55;
refuses leadership of Unionist Party, 60;
meetings in Lancashire, 65;
popularity, 66, 110, 148;
at Belfast, 73, 157, 224-226, 257, 278;
criticism of W. Churchill's speech, 74;
on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 77;
at the Balmoral meeting, 81, 84;
ovation, 85;
attacks on, 87;
on the Home Rule Bill, 90, 96;
at the Londonderry House Conference, 94;
on the resistance of Ulster, 98, 100;
character of his leadership, 102;
reads the Ulster Covenant, 105;
tour of the Province, 110, 114;
opinion of the Covenant, 111;
presentation to, 115;
speech on the Covenant, 116;
at the service in the Ulster Hall, 118;
at the City Hall, 120-124;
signs the Covenant, 121;
at Liverpool, 127;
on the exclusion of Ulster, 133, 168;
death of his wife, 148;
at opening of drill hall, 148;
in Scotland and England, 149;
at Durham, 153;
Chairman of the Central Authority, 156;
Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156;
inspection of the Ulster Volunteer Force, 162, 164, 167, 223, 226;
on the time limit for exclusion, 171;
leaves the House of Commons, 173;
on the plot against Ulster, 176;
signs statement on the Curragh Incident, 186;
interview with Major F.H. Crawford, 199, 210;
congratulations from Lord Roberts, 220;
at Ipswich, 222;
at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227;
on the patriotism of Ulster, 231-233;
tribute to B. Law, 236;
second marriage, 236;
tribute to Lord Londonderry, 241;
appointed Attorney-General, 242;
resignation, 242;
on the Irish rebellion, 246;
appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, 252;
resignation, 263;
re-elected leader of the Ulster Party, 263;
member of the Irish Unionist Alliance, 265;
on the Military Service Bill, 270;
letter to President Wilson, 273, 296-299;
M.P. for Duncairn, 275;
declines office, 275;
on the Government of Ireland Act, 279;
conclusion of his leadership, 280;
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 284;
unable to be present at the opening of the Ulster Parliament, 284
Casement, Sir Roger, 7, 158;
in league with Germany, 243
Cassel, Felix, at Belfast, 81
Castlereagh, Viscount, 109, 230;
at Belfast, 81;
signs the Covenant, 121
Cavan, 248, 279
Cave, Rt. Hon. George, 188;
at Belfast, 81;
letter to _The Times_, 152
Cecil, Lord Hugh, at Belfast, 81, 109;
at the Balmoral meeting, 86;
on the resistance of Ulster, 96
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Austen,
candidate for the leadership of the Unionist Party, 60;
message from, 115;
at Skipton, 167;
on the policy of the Government, 168
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, at Belfast, 13;
views on Home Rule, 16, 128;
tariff policy, 18;
his advice to Sir E. Carson, 167
Chambers, James, signs the Covenant, 121
Chichester, Capt. the Hon. A.C.,
Commander in the Ulster Volunteer Force, 163
Childers, Mr. Erskine, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76
China Expeditionary Force, 161
Chubb, Sir George Hayter, signs the British Covenant, 170
Churchill, Mrs., at Belfast, 73
Churchill, Lord Randolph, at Belfast, 13, 81;
at the Ulster Hall meeting, 30, 40, 62;
saying of, 31, 42;
reception at Larne, 74;
views on Home Rule, 128;
_Life of,_ 138
Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S., at Manchester, 19;
_Life of Lord Randolph Churchill_, 30, 138;
at Dundee, 54, 154;
views on Home Rule, 62;
projected visit to Belfast, 62-69;
letter to Lord Londonderry, 69;
change of plan, 69;
reception at Belfast, 73;
departure from, 74;
on Home Rule, 95;
letters on the Ulster menace, 99;
on the resistance of Ulster, 138, 141;
the policy of exclusion, 152;
at Bradford, 172, 174, 175
City Hall, Belfast, 119, 283
Clark, Sir George, 156
Clogher, Bishop of, signs the Covenant, 122
_Clydevalley, s.s.,_ 211-213, 220;
renamed, 214
Coleraine, meeting at, 108, 114
Comber, 82
Copeland Island, 212, 214, 220
_Correspondence relating to Recent Events in the Irish Command_, 185
Covenant, British, signing the, 170
Covenant, Ulster, draft, 104;
terms, 105-107;
series of demonstrations, 108-110;
meeting in the Ulster Hall, 114;
signing the, 120-124;
anniversary, 158, 165, 236
Cowser, Richard, 210, 214
Craig, Charles, 96, 147;
serves in the war, 234;
taken prisoner, 234
Craig, James, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35;
meeting at Craigavon, 46;
gift for organisation, 46;
member of the Commission of Five, 53;
on the resistance of Ulster, 96;
draft of the Covenant, 103;
organises the demonstration, 111;
presentation of a silver key and pen to Sir E. Carson, 115;
Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156;
at the reviews of the U.V.F., 162, 164, 223;
at Bangor, 217;
at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 228;
appointed Q.M.G. of the Ulster Division, 234;
Treasurer of the Household, 253;
resignation, 263;
baronetcy, 275;
Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, 275;
Secretary to the Admiralty, 281;
resignation, 281;
Prime Minister of the Northern Parliament, 281
Craig, John, 103
Craig, Mrs., presents colours to the U.V.F., 223
Craigavon, meeting at, 45-51, 80, 105, 149, 210
Crawford, Colonel F.H., viii; signs the Covenant, 123, 191;
Commander in the U.V.F., 163;
characteristics, 190; career, 191;
Secretary of the Reform Club, 191;
advertises for rifles, 191;
Director of Ordnance, 192;
method of procuring arms, 192-200;
schooner, 192;
agreement with B.S., 197-200;
interview with Sir E. Carson, 199, 210;
voyage in s.s. _Fanny_, 202-210;
conveys arms from Hamburg, 203-213;
attack of malaria, 207;
declines to obey unsigned orders, 209;
at Belfast, 210;
purchases s.s. _Clydevalley_, 211, 212;
lands the arms, 214;
at Rosslare, 220;
awarded the O.B.E., 284
Crewe, election, 98, 99
Crewe, Marq. of, 18, 23, 175;
on the Amending Bill, 223
Cromwell, Oliver, 136
Crozier, Dr., Archbp. of Armagh, member of Provisional Government, 145
Crumlin, meeting at, 108
Curragh Incident, 174-189, 221
Curzon, Marq., on the Parliament Bill, 44;
the Home Rule Bill, 134;
the loyalty of Ulster, 141

_Daily Express, The_, 225 _Daily Mail, The_, 225 _Daily News, The_, 114, 166 _Daily Telegraph, The_, 111, 225 D'Arcy, Dr., Primate of All Ireland, 118; signs the Covenant, 121 Darlington, 149 Davis, Jefferson, 137 Democracy, axiom of, 15 Derbyshire, election, 222 Derry, relief of, 13, 85; meeting at, 108; election, 144; riots, 151 Desborough, Lord, signs the British Covenant, 170 Devlin, Joseph, 6, 127, 172, 174, 275; with Mr. W. Churchill in Belfast, 63, 68; the Irish Convention, 261; on the Military Service Bill, 269; letter to President Wilson, 273, 287-295; demands self-determination, 277 Devonshire, 8th Duke of, views on Home Rule, 128, 134; on the resistance of Ulster, 136, 138; _Life of_, 136 note, 139 note Dicey, Prof., signs the British Covenant, 170 Dickson, Scott, at Belfast, 81; at the Balmoral meeting, 86 "Die Hards" party, 44 Dillon, John, 6, 174; at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227; on the Irish Rebellion, 244; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-293 Donaghadee, 214, 219 Donald, Thompson, letter to Pres. Wilson, 296-299 Donegal, 248, 279 _Doreen_, s.s., 207, 210; at Lundy, 208 Dorset Regiment, transferred to Holywood, 177, 178 Dromore, meeting at, 108 Dublin, insurrection, 4, 243; Unionist demonstration at, 54; Nationalist Convention, meeting, 92; Congress in, 276 Dufferin and Ava, Dow. Marchioness of, 113 Duke, Rt. Hon. H.E., Chief Secretary for Ireland, 253 Duncairn, election, 275 Dundalk, 178 Dundee, 54, 154 Dunleath, Lord, 156 Durham, Sir E. Carson at, 153

East Fife, 25 Edinburgh, 24, 101; Ulstermen sign the Covenant, 123; meeting at, 149; Philosophical Institution, lecture at the, 274 Edward VII, King, death, 23 Election, General, of 1886, 16; of 1895, 34; of Jan. 1910, 21, 22, 42; of Dec. 1910, 26; of 1918, 4 Elections, result of, 99, 155, 222 Emmet, Robert, 7, 46, 142 Enniskillen, meeting at, 108, 114; military depot, 175, 176 Erne, Earl of, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; at the Craigavon meeting, 47; signs the Covenant, 122 Ewart, G.H., President of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, 157 Ewart, Sir William, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; signs the Covenant, 121 _Fanny_, s.s., voyage, viii, 202-213; alterations in her appearance, 206; rechristened, 207; transference of the cargo, 213 Farnham, Lord, at the Ulster Unionist Council meeting, 248, 279; Irish Unionist Alliance, 265 Ferguson, John, & Co., 196 Fiennes, Mr., at Belfast, 73 Finance Bill, rejected, 19 Finlay, Sir Robert, at Belfast, 81; at the Balmoral meeting, 86 Fishguard, 213 Flavin, Mr., on the Military Service Bill, 269 Fleming, Henry, letter to Pres. Wilson, 296-299 Flood, Henry, patriotism, 7 Foyle, the, 87, 214 _Freemason's Journal, The_, 72, 287 French, F.M., Viscount, member of the Army Council, 176; resignation, 184; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 272; attempt on his life, 277 Frewen, Miss, marriage, 236; _see_ Carson Friend, General, 177

Gambetta, Léon, 9
George V, King, Conference at Buckingham Palace, 228;
opens the Ulster Parliament, 282, 286;
reception in Belfast, 283
George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Budget, 19;
at Edinburgh, 24;
on the exclusion of Ulster, 152;
Anglo-German relations, 167, 201;
opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 168;
plot against Ulster, 174;
at Ipswich, 222;
the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227;
Secretary of State for War, 245;
negotiations for the settlement of the Irish question, 245, 247, 250;
Prime Minister, 252;
on Home Rule, 254;
alternative proposals, 255;
statement on the war, 266, 268;
Military Service Bill, 268;
letter to B. Law, 276 note;
basic facts on the Irish Question, 277;
Government of Ireland Act, 278
German rifles, 198
Gibson, T.H., Sec. of Ulster Unionist Council, 35;
resignation, 35
Gilmour, Captain, at Belfast, 81
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W.E., 138;
on the character of the Nationalists, 5;
conversion to Home Rule, 7, 12, 30;
Home Rule Bills, 13, 16, 17;
personality, 17
Glasgow, 22, 78;
meeting at, 149
Goschen, Viscount, views on Home Rule, 16, 128
Goudy, Prof., signs the British Covenant, 170
Gough, General Sir Hugh, commanding the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, 180;
at the War Office, 181;
return to the Curragh, 181;
driven back by the Germans, 270
Government of Ireland Act, 51, 278
Graham, John Washington, 194
Grattan, Henry, patriotism, 7
Greenwood, Sir Hamar, at Belfast, 73;
Chief Secretary for Ireland, 285
Grey, Earl, on the Home Rule Bill, 134
Grey, Sir Edward, on the Home Rule Bill, 95;
at Berwick, 154
Griffith, Arthur, arrested, 271;
deported, 295
Griffith-Boscawen, Sir Arthur, at Belfast, 81
Grimsby, election, 222
Guest, Capt. Frederick, at Belfast, 72
Guinness, Walter, supports exclusion of Ulster, 95
Gun-barrel Proof Act, 196

Haldane, Viscount, 130, 185 Halifax, Lord, 136, 141 Hall, Frank, 121 Halsbury, Earl of, 151 Hamburg, Col. Crawford at, 198 Hamilton, Lord Claud, at Belfast, 81; Provisional Government, 145 Hamilton, George C., M.P. for Altrincham, 155 Hamilton, Gustavus, Governor of Enniskillen, 48 Hamilton, Marq. of, interest in the Ulster Movement, 109; signs the Covenant, 122 Hammersmith Armoury, 195; seizure of arms at, 196 Hanna, J., 257 Harding, Canon, 158 Harland and Wolff, Messrs., 191 Harrison, Frederic, on the Ulster Question, 169 Hartington, Marq. of, views on Home Rule, 16 Health Insurance Act, 222 Healy, T.M., 18, 22; on the Military Service Bill, 270; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295 Henry, Denis, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35 Hickman, Colonel Thomas, member of Provisional Government, 145; career, 160; letter from Lord Roberts, 161, 195 Hills, J.W., at Belfast, 81 Holland, Bernard, _Life of the Eighth Duke of Devonshire_, 136 note, 139 note Holywood, 46, 177, 178 Home Rule, 23-29; a separatist movement, 7; memorial against, 155 Home Rule Bill, 13, 16, 17, 90-97, 131, 133, 149; political meetings, 97; under the "guillotine," 131; in the House of Lords, 134; rejected, 135; time limit for exclusion, 171; passed, 222, 224; receives the Royal Assent, 235 Home Rule Bill, Amending Bill, 221, 223, 227, 228, 230 Hull, Mr. Asquith at, 24

Ilfracombe, 54
Indemnity Guarantee Fund, subscriptions, 156, 163
Ipswich, election, 222
Ireland, two nations, 2, 84;
rebellions, 6;
animosity of rival creeds, 9;
condition, 17, 19, 298;
insurrection, 27;
fiscal autonomy, 76-78;
financial clauses of the Home Rule Bill, 91;
prohibition of the importation of arms, 166;
Easter Rebellion, 243;
exemption from conscription, 268;
German plot in, 271;
agitation against conscription, 272;
anarchy, 279
Ireland, Council of, 278
Ireland, Government of, Act, 2, 278-280
Ireland, Northern, Parliament, 280-282
Irish Convention, 255-262;
members, 255, 257;
Report, 264, 266
_Irish News, The_, 114
Irish Republican Army, system of terrorism, 277
Irish Republican Brotherhood, 243
Irish Unionist Alliance, 30, 265;
co-operation with the Ulster Unionist Council, 37
Islandmagee, 218
Italian Vetteli rifles, 197, 198, 201

James II, King, 139, 141 Johnston, James, Lord Mayor of Belfast, letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 296-299

Kelly, Sam, 209 Kelly, Thomas, letter to Pres. Wilson, 287-295 Kennedy, Sir Robert, member of Provisional Government, 143 Kettle, Prof. T.M., on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76 Kiel, 204 Kingstown, cruisers at, 178 Kipling, Rudyard, "Ulster 1912," 79, 129; signs the British Covenant, 170 Kitchener, F.M. Earl, 230, 238 Kossuth, 136

Labour Party, 22, 26
Ladybank, Mr. Asquith at, 154
Lamlash, battleships at, 175
Lane-Fox, George, at Belfast, 81
Langeland, 204
Lansdowne, Marq. of, scheme of reform for the House of Lords, 24;
on the Parliament Bill, 44;
message from, 115;
on the Ulster Question, 169;
the Amending Bill, 223;
at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227
Larne, 74, 81, 212, 214
Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar, leader of Unionist Party, 28, 60;
on Home Rule, 28, 131;
at the Albert Hall, 71;
on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 78;
at the Balmoral meeting, 80-86;
reception at Larne, 81;
his speech, 84;
indictment against the Government, 90, 172, 174, 235;
on the resistance of Ulster, 91, 95, 98;
messages from, 115, 149;
at Wallsend, 154;
Bristol, 166;
on the exclusion of Ulster, 169, 171;
demands inquiry into the Curragh Incident, 185;
on the Amending Bill, 222;
at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227;
at Belfast, 236;
tribute to, 236;
at the Ulster Hall, 237;
warning to the Nationalists, 255;
on the Military Service Bill, 269, 271
Lecky, W.E.H., _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_, 274 note
Leeds, meeting at, 149
Leo XIII, Pope, 8
Leslie, Shane, _Henry Edward Manning_, 8 note
Liberal Party, policy, 16;
victory in 1906, 18;
majority, 19, 22;
tactics, 20;
number of votes, 22, 26;
defeated in 1895, 34
Liddell, R.M., 156
Lincoln, Abraham, 40;
saying of, 15
Linlithgow, election, 155
Lisburn, meeting at, 108, 114
Liverpool, 127
_Liverpool Daily Courier, The_, extract from, 165
_Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury,_ 159 note
Llandudno, 212
Lloyd, Mr. George, at Belfast, 81
Logue, Cardinal, 10
London School of Economics, conference at, 76
Londonderry House, conference at, 92, 94, 147
Londonderry, Marchioness of,
member of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 37;
on the Covenant, 112;
presents colours to the U.V.F., 223;
work in the war, 240
Londonderry, 6th Marq. of, viii;
on Home Rule, 28;
Ulster Unionist Council, 35;
popularity, 43;
character, 44;
relations with Sir E. Carson, 44, 53;
on the Parliament Bill, 44;
Conference at Belfast, 52;
at the Ulster Hall meeting, 62, 106, 108;
the Ulster Unionist Council meetings, 65, 67;
reply to W. Churchill, 69;
at Belfast, 73;
at the Balmoral meeting, 84;
signs the Covenant, 121;
at the Ulster Club, 125;
Liverpool, 127;
on the House of Lords, 134;
President of the Ulster Unionist Council, 145;
Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156;
at the reviews of the U.V.F., 164, 223;
on the Curragh Incident, 186;
on the Amending Bill, 223;
at Enniskillen, 227;
despondency, 240; death, 241;
tribute to, 241
Londonderry, 7th Marq. of, viii;
member of the Irish Convention, 257, 263;
Under-Secretary of State in the Air Ministry, 275;
resignation, 281;
Minister of Education, 281
Long, Rt. Hon. Walter, 147;
founder of the Union Defence League, 37;
leader of the Irish Unionists, 38;
at the Ulster Hall, 42;
candidate for the leadership of the Unionist Party, 60;
at Belfast, 81, 224;
at the Balmoral meeting, 84, 86;
the Londonderry House conference, 92;
message from, 115;
on the policy of the Government, 170;
signs the British Covenant, 170;
chairman of a Cabinet Committee on the Irish Question, 277
Lonsdale, Sir John B., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35;
Hon. Sec. of the Irish Unionist Party, 39;
signs Covenant, 122;
Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156;
leader of the Ulster Party, 254;
at Belfast, 257;
raised to the peerage, 263;
_see_ Armaghdale
Lords, House of,
rejection of the Home Rule Bill, 17, 135;
of the Finance Bill, 19, 21;
forced to accept the Parliament Bill, 27;
position under the Parliament Act, 134;
debates on the Home Rule Bill, 134
Loreburn, Lord, letters to _The Times_, 152, 165
Lough Laxford, 203, 206, 207
Lough, Thomas, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76
Lovat, Lord, signs the British Covenant, 170
Lowther, Rt. Hon. James, at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227
Loyal Orange Institution, 31
Lundy, 208
Lyons, W.H.H., 35

Macdonnell, Lord, on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76 Mackinder, H.J., at Belfast, 81 Macnaghten, Sir Charles, member Provisional Government, 145 Macnaghten, Lord, Lord of Appeal, 140, 145; signs the Covenant, 122 MacNeill, John, letter to Pres. Wilson, 287-295 Mahan, Admiral, 130 Maine, Sir H., _Popular Government_, extract from, 14 Malcolm, Sir Ian, at Belfast, 81 Manchester, 77, 166; election, 99 _Manchester Guardian, The_, 166 Manning, Cardinal, on Home Rule, 8 Mary, H.M., Queen, at the opening of the Ulster Parliament, 282; reception in Belfast, 283 Massereene, Lady, presents colours to the Ulster Volunteer Force, 223 Massingham, Mr., 166 Masterman, Rt. Hon. C.F.G., 170, 222 Mazzini, 136 McCalmont, Col. James, Ulster Unionist Council, 35; Commander of a U.V.F regiment, 163 McCammon, Mr., 121 McDowell, Sir Alexander, criticism of the Ulster Covenant, 104 McMordie, Mr., Lord Mayor of Belfast, at the service in the Ulster Hall, 118; receives Sir E. Carson, 120; at the Ulster Club, 125 Meath election petition in 1892, 10 Melbourne, Lord, 136 Mersey, the, 127 Midleton, Earl of, at the Irish Convention, 260; supports Home Rule, 262; secedes from the Irish Unionist Alliance, 265 Midlothian, election, 99 Military Service Act, ii., 268-272 Milner, Viscount, signs the British Covenant, 170; on the Amending Bill, 223 Moles, Thomas, viii; Chairman of Committee in the Northern Parliament, 282 Molyneux, patriotism, 7 Monaghan, 248, 279 Montgomery, B.W.D., Secretary of the Ulster Club, 103 Montgomery, Dr., 118 Montgomery, Major-Gen., member of Provisional Government, 145 Moore, William, Ulster Unionist Council, 35; on the amendment to the Home Rule Bill, 96; exclusion of Ulster, 168 Morley, Viscount, _Life of Gladstone_, 17; on the resistance of Ulster, 154; helps Colonel Seely to draft the "peccant paragraphs," 181, 183 _Morning Post, The_, 79, 225, 229, 283 note _Motu Proprio_, Vatican decree, 11 Mount Stewart, 82, 225 _Mountjoy_, the, 87, 214 _Mountjoy II_, s.s., cargo landed at Larne, 214, 218 Moyle, the, 193 Musgrave Channel, 211, 217 Musgrave, Henry, 156

_Nation, The_, 158 National Insurance Bill, 53 Nationalist Party, in the House of Commons, 22, 26; attitude on the war, 267; opposition to conscription, 269-273 Nationalists, the, compared with the Ulster Unionists, 2; disloyalty, 4-6; policy, 6, 78, 141, 142; ancestry, 8; demand dissolution of the Union, 14; attitude on the war, 231, 233, 252; members of the Irish Convention, 256-262; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295; demand "self-determination," 291, 298 Nationality, root of, 2; plea of 14, 15 Navy, reduction of, 167, 201 _Nec Temere_, Vatican decree, 11 Neild, Herbert, at Belfast, 81 Newcastle, 149, 153; training camp, 237 Newman, Cardinal, 5 Newry, 177 Newtownards, 225; meeting at, 108, 114 _Nineteenth Century, The_, 183 note, 239 note Nonconformists, 9; opposition to Home Rule, 155 Northcliffe, Viscount, 225 Norwich, Ulster members at, 150

O'Brien, William, 22; on the Military Service Bill, 270; letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295 _Observer, The_, 84, 115 note, 225 O'Connell, Daniel, 7 O'Connor, T.P., 127, 174, 275; on Home Rule, 253 Omagh, military depot, 175, 176 Omash, Miss, viii O'Neill, Capt. Hon. Arthur, 230; killed in the war, 241, 253 O'Neill, Major Hugh, serves in the war, 242; Speaker of the Northern Parliament, 282 O'Neill, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, 7 O'Neill, Laurence, Lord Mayor of Dublin, letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 287-295 O'Neill, Hon. R.T., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35 Ormsby-Gore, Capt. the Hon. W.G.A., at Belfast, 81 O'Shea, divorce, 17

Paget, Sir Arthur, Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, letter from Colonel Seely, 175; in London, 176; interviews with Ministers, 177; instructions from the War Office, 178, 180; conference with his officers, 179, 185; on the employment of troops in Ulster, 186 Parliament, assembled, 23, 131, 167; dissolved, 23, 275; adjourned, 99 Parliament Act, 23, 27, 43-45, 53, 91 _Parliamentary Debates_, viii, 29 _note,_ 142, 179 note, 181 note, 185 note Parnell, Charles, saying of, 6; leader of the Nationalist Party, 6; downfall, 17 _Pathfinder_, H.M.S., 178 _Patriotic_, R.M.S., 128 Peel, Sir Robert, 138 Peel, W., at Belfast, 81 "People's Budget," 20; rejection, 42 Percival-Maxwell, Col., Privy Councillor, 284 Phoenix Park murders, 243 Pirrie, Lord, unpopularity in Belfast, 63; peerage conferred, 284 Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, 15 Plunkett, Sir Horace, Chairman of the Irish Convention, 257, 261; letter to Lloyd George, 264 Pollock, Sir Ernest, at Belfast, 81 Pollock, H.M., member of the Irish Convention, 257, 262 Portadown, meeting at, 108, 114 Portland, Duke of, signs the British Covenant, 170 Portrush, 55, 193 Presbyterian Church, General Assembly of the, 155 Presbyterians, political views, 12 Preston, George, subscription to the Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156 Prisoners, release of, 256 Protestants, Irish, distrust of Roman Catholics, 9; dislike of clerical influence, 10

Ramsay, Sir W., signs the British Covenant, 170
Ranfurly, Earl of, organises the Ulster Loyalist Union, 30, 37;
member of the Unionist Council, 35
Raphoe, Bishop of, member of the Irish Convention, 258, 260-262
Rawlinson, J.F.P., at Belfast, 81
Reade, R.H., 35
Reading, Mr. Asquith at, 24;
election, 155
Redistribution Act, 275
Redmond, Capt., 275
Redmond, John, 174;
on the national movement, 7;
policy, 22;
on Home Rule, 27, 54;
with Mr. W. Churchill in Belfast, 63, 68;
opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 133;
protests against Amending Bill, 222;
at Buckingham Palace Conference, 227;
conditional offer of help in the war, 231, 233;
tribute to, 239;
patriotism, 239;
refuses office, 242;
at Dublin, 249;
on the exclusion of Ulster, 250;
manifesto, 254;
at the Irish Convention, 260-262;
death, 262;
on the condition of Ireland, 298
Redmond, Major W., his speech in the House, 253;
killed in the war, 253
Reform Club, Belfast, 122, 124, 191
Reid, Whitelaw, 274
Renan, E., on the root of nationality, 2
_Reynolds's Newspaper_, 89
Richardson, Gen. Sir George, Commander-in-Chief of the U.V.F., 161, 197;
career, 161;
characteristics, 162;
at Belfast, 162, 217;
reviews the U.V.F., 163-165
Rifles, seized by Government, 161, 195;
purchase of, 198;
packing, 201;
landed in Ulster, 219
Roberts, F.M. Earl, 130, 188;
letter to Col. Hickman, 161, 195;
signs British Covenant, 170;
congratulations to Sir E. Carson, 220;
on the result of coercing Ulster, 224
Robertson, Rt. Hon. J.M., Secretary to the Board of Trade,
on fiscal autonomy for Ireland, 76;
at Newcastle, 153
Rochdale, Unionist Association at, 99
Roe, Owen, 7
Roman Catholics, Irish, disloyalty 9;
character of the priest, 10;
methods of enforcing obedience, 10-12
Rosebery, Earl of, 15, 18;
at Glasgow, 22;
on the characteristics
of the Ulster race, 101
Rosslare, 220
Royal Irish Rifles, the 5th, 57
Russia, collapse of, 268
Russian rifles, 198

S.B., the Hebrew dealer in firearms, 197; agreement with Major F.H. Crawford, 197-200; honesty, 204 St. Aldwyn, Viscount, on the King's Prerogative, 151 Salisbury, Marq. of, at Belfast, 13, 81; message from, 109; views on Home Rule, 128 Salvidge, Mr., Alderman of Liverpool, 127, 128; signs the British Covenant, 170 Samuel, Mr. Herbert, at Belfast, 54 Sanderson, Colonel, Chairman of the Ulster Parliamentary Party, 35, 38 _Saturday Review, The_, extract from, 70 Sclater, Edward, Secretary of the Unionist Clubs, 53 Scotland, the Covenant, 103 _Scotsman, The_, 101, 225, 274 note Seely, Col. Sec. of State for War, letter to Sir A. Paget, 175; statement to Gen. Gough, 181; adds paragraphs, 181, 183; on the Curragh Incident, 182; resignation, 183, 184 Seymour, Adm. Sir E., signs British Covenant, 170 Sharman-Crawford, Col., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; of the Commission of Five, 53 Shaw, Lord, _Letters to Isabel_, 18 note Shiel Park, meeting at, 128 Shipyards, observance of Ulster Day, 117 Shortt, Rt. Hon. E., Chief Secretary for Ireland, 272 Simon, Sir John, 175 Sinclair, Rt. Hon. Thomas, at the Ulster Convention, 33; member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35, 67; on Home Rule, 38; member of a Commission, 63; on the Covenant, 104, 109; signs it, 121 Sinn Fein party, refuse to join the Convention, 255; in league with Germany, 271, 276; arrests, 271; members of Parliament, 276, 276; treason of, 276; congress in Dublin, 276; outrages, 277 Sinn Feinism, spirit of, 4 Skipton, 167 Smiley, Kerr, 156 Smith, Rt. Hon. F.E. (Lord Birkenhead), on the policy of Ulster, 97, 98; on the Covenant, 109; at the Ulster Club, 125; at Liverpool, 127; at the inspection of the U.V.F., 162; "galloper" to Gen. Sir G. Richardson, 163 Smith, Mr. Harold, 109 Solemn League and Covenant, 104; _see_ Ulster Somme, battle of the, 234 _Spectator, The_, 225 Spender, Col. W. Bliss, U.V.F., 197, 203, 207, 215; awarded the O.B.E., 284 _Standard, The_, 70, 118, 225 _Star, The_, extract from, 89 Stronge, Sir James, member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35 Stuart-Wortley, Mr., at Belfast, 81 Submarine warfare, 253 Suffragists' campaign, 167 Swift, patriotism, 7

Tariff Reform policy, 18, 19; controversy, 59, 155, 167 Templetown, Lord, founds the Unionist Clubs, 30, 31 Thiepval, battle at, 234 _Times, The_, 32, 64, 69, 71, 77, 79, 82, 84, 99, 110, 115, 124, 126, 139, 140, 153, 172, 182, 187, 225; letters in, 152, 165 Tirah Expedition, 161 Tone, Wolfe, 7, 46, 142 Tramp steamer, diverts suspicion, 217 Turkington, James A., letter to Pres. Wilson, 296-299 Tuskar Light, 210, 211 Tyrone, contingent of Orangemen, 57

Ulster, use of the term, vii;
opposition to Home Rule, 1, 2, 30;
loyalty, 2-4, 33, 63, 139-143, 251;
ancestry, 8;
political views, 12;
landlords and tenants, 12;
mottoes, 13, 33;
reluctant acceptance of a separate constitution, 14;
organisations, 30-38;
policy, 33, 51, 75, 77, 92, 93-100, 133, 136-143;
military drilling, 57;
characteristics of the people, 101;
time limit for exclusion, 171;
plot against, 174;
emigrants in America, 274, 297;
result of the Government of Ireland Act, 280
Ulster, British League for the support of, formed, 147
Ulster Club, Belfast, 125
Ulster, Convention of 1892, 80, 109
Ulster Covenant, draft, 104;
terms, 105-107;
series of demonstrations, 108-110;
meeting in the Ulster Hall, 114;
signing the, 120-124;
anniversary, 158, 165, 236
Ulster Day, 165, 236; religious observance, 107, 117
Ulster Division, 1st Brigade, training, 237;
recruiting, 238
Ulster Hall, 283;
meetings, 30, 38, 40, 42, 62, 106, 108, 114, 237;
service, 118, 158
Ulster Loyalist Anti-Repeal Union, 37
Ulster Loyalist and Patriotic Union, 30
Ulster Movement, vii, 1
Ulster Parliament, appointment of Ministers, 281-2;
opened, 282-6
Ulster Provisional Government, 53, 145, 156, 163;
judiciary, 146;
constitution, 226
Ulster Unionist Clubs, founded, 30-1
Ulster Unionist Council, vii, 35;
meetings, 27, 42, 52, 62, 65-67, 106, 145,
156, 210, 226, 236, 246-249, 279;
members, 35, 36;
co-operation with the Irish Unionist Alliance, 37;
resolution adopted, 68-71;
character, 75;
scheme for the Provisional Government, 145;
statement on the Curragh Incident, 186
Ulster Unionist Members of Parliament, 38;
tour in Scotland and England, 149
Ulster Unionists, letter to Pres. Wilson, 273, 296-299
Ulster Volunteer Force, 58, 113, 137, 160;
Indemnity Guarantee Fund, 156, 163;
growth, 158, 160;
parades, 162, 163-165, 167, 223, 226;
strength, 168;
arming the, 192-200, 223;
organisation, 215;
despatch-riders' corps, 215;
trial mobilisation, 216;
presentation of colours, 223;
volunteer for service in the war, 229;
organisation and training of the Division, 234
Ulster Women's Unionist Association, work of the, 166
Ulster Women's Unionist Council, formed, 37;
meeting, 113
"Ulster 1912," Rudyard Kipling's, 79, 129
"Ulster's Reward," William Watson's, 129
Union Defence League, in London, 37
Unionist Associations of Ireland, joint committee, 37
Unionist Party, administration, 18, 20;
defeated, 18;
number of votes, 22, 26, 99;
dissensions on Tariff Reform, 69;
members at Belfast, 81
Unionists, Southern manifesto, 265;
Committee formed, 265;
result of the Government Act, 282

Valera, E. De, M.P. for East Clare, 256; arrested, 277; deported, 295 Vatican decrees, 11 Vickers & Co., Messrs., 194 Victoria, Queen, 136

Wallace, Col. R.H., member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35; member of a Commission, 53; Grand Master of the Belfast Lodges, 57; popularity, 57; career, 57; applies for leave to drill, 58; at the Ulster Unionist Council meeting, 67, 72; presentation of a banner to Sir E. Carson, 115; Command in the U.V.F., 163, 164; Privy Councillor, 284 Wallsend, 154 Walter, Mr. John, 225 War, the Great, 27, 228, 266 War Office, treatment of Gen. Gough, 181 Ward, Lieut.-Col. John, on the Curragh Incident, 182; "The Army and Ireland," 183 note, 238 Warden, F.W., 72 note Washington, George, 273, 291 Watson, Sir William, "Ulster's Reward," 129 Waziri Expedition, 161 _Westminster Gazette_, 114; cartoon, 87 Whig Revolution of 1688, 31 White Paper, 175 note, 176 note, 177 note, 178 note, 179 note, 180 note, 181 note, 185, 187 note, 188 William III, King, banner, 115 Willoughby de Broke, Lord, 109 Wilson, President, letter from the Nationalists, 273, 287-295; from the Unionists, 273, 296-299; phrase of "self-determination," 277 Wimborne, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, resignation, 272 Wolff, G., 35 Wolseley, Viscount, 187 Women's Unionist Council, Ulster, formed, 37; meeting, 113 Workman and Clark, Messrs., 214 Workman, Frank, 157 Wynyard, Lord Londonderry's death at, 241

Yarmouth, 207
York, 149
York, Archbp. of, on the Home Rule Bill, 134
_Yorkshire Post, The_, 149, 163
Young, Rt. Hon. John,
member of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35;
at the meeting, 67;
takes part in the campaign, 109;
signs the Covenant, 122
Young, W.R.,
organises the Ulster Loyalist and Patriotic Union, 30, 37;
signs the Covenant, 122;
Privy Councillor, 284

Zhob Valley Field Force, expedition, 161