[TO TILE EDITOR OP TIM " SPECTAT08."1
Sin,—The tactics suggested to Ulster in the Spectator of December 24th, 1910, though urged by one of the most earnest friends of Irish Unionists, could not possibly be adopted by any body of loyalists in Ireland. North and South, they have all through their history stood together. They will not brook even the semblance of treachery to one another now. If England is so dense that she can only be schooled into the knowledge of what treachery to the loyalists of Ireland, North and South, and to her own Imperial heritage means by showing to her some crude example of what dire results desertion of duty may bring in its train, she must get others than the true men of Ulster to act the drunken helot's part for her edification. The man who would propose in the North of Ireland to betray the Southern Irish loyalists as a matter of tactics would meet the fate of Lundy, and deserve it. As for us Unionists in the South of Ireland, we are no despicable herd even in numbers, and we are kith and kin too of the men of the North. We marry and give in marriage together; fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, pass and repass going from the South to dwell in Ulster and coming from Ulster to dwell in the South. We know that if England goes mad and playa the traitor to us, we loyalists of Ireland will concentrate our loyalty on ourselves and will to ourselves be true; but the English people may rest assured that if they cast us off, then whatever may be the effect of immediate civil commotion in Ireland, the ultimate result
will be inevitable danger to England in the future, for most assuredly her bitterest opponents and her most determined foes will be those.men and their descendants whom she will have so betrayed. For them will remain
"the unconquerable will And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what else is not to be overcome."
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