13 DECEMBER 1913, Page 13

" ABSIT OMEN ! "

[To Tax EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In your article of last week entitled "The Army in Ulster" you point out that the Liberal Party cling to the delusion that there can be no serious bloodshed, and that they argue, It takes two to make a quarrel, and we don't mean to be one of the two." Escape is not always so easy. President Lincoln addressed the South in very similar terms just before the Civil War broke out. "The Government will not assail you," he said. " Yon can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." Absit omen !—I am, Sir, &c.,