" This will no doubt cause great political confusion, because
in all probability two Ulster counties—namely, Donegal and Cavan—will elect to go under the Dublin Parliament, and so will be cut off by a strip of country which will belong to the Belfast Parliament. But these awkward results will be better than the injustice and consequent bloodshed that may come from forcing the whole of Ulster under Dublin. At any rate, the political inconveniences will not be due to us, but solely to those who refuse to leave the status quo alone,—a state of things which on the whole provides the essentials of good government. What you compel us to ask for when all other requests have failed may be a reductio ad absurdum of your mad scheme, but at any rate it is better than civil war. If you refuse our request because it will lead to all sorts of complications and difficulties, why do you not refuse the request of the South for the same reason, and let the Union alone P "
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