What is that basis of logic ? Since the popular
demand for self-determination has carried away the majority not only in Ireland but throughout Great Britain the safeguarding of Ulster Unionists and Protestants must be squared with the will of tho nation. When the majority in the South and West of Ireland demanded the right to dispose of their own destiny, the wisest minds in Ulster began to see that they could preserve their own corresponding right only on precisely the same grounds as those on which the South and West were making their claim. If the whole Province of Ulster were included in the area which is to be independent of the Dublin Parliament, there would obviously be a very considerable dilution of the right to self- determination. Logic would begin to depart. The foundation of Northern rights would show cracks and fissures.
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