ULSTER AND HOME RULE.
A recent statement by the London Times that the whole Protestant population of Ulster, without distinction of class, of political antecedents, or denominational distinctions, stand behind it (i.e., the Covenant) as one man, has evoked the following reply from "Presbyter":—■ "I am a Presbyterian minister. I am not a politician, but I represent a very considerable portion of the Protestant population of Ulster, lay and clerical, who do not want Home Rule, who do not like it", but who think it is inevitable, and are determined to make the best of it I when, it comes. As Christian men and law-abiding citizens, we cannot submit to the leadership .of one to whose utterances and methods we strongly object. While most of us do not like Home Rule, we do not distrust our Roman Catholic countrymen, and we deeply deplore the sectarian 'bitterness and strife that are being engendered by Sir Ed- . ward Carson and his followers. Wo not only deplore, but are ashamed of the things said and done in the name of religion, as we feel that tho religion thus exhibited is not the religion that has made the men of Ulster what they have stood Tor throughout the civilised world in the past,"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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209ULSTER AND HOME RULE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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