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The resolution also dealt with other results of Home Rule

which would be unfavourable to the Protestant minority, and called first upon the Government and then upon the Presby- terians of Great Britain to save the Presbyterians of Ireland from an overwhelming disaster. It next declared that those who passed it were not actuated by any spirit of sectarian exclusiveness and that they sought for no ascendancy, religious or otherwise. We note with special satisfaction the final demand, "as a matter of elementary right and justice," for "the undisturbed continuance of our present place in the Constitution under which our Church and our country have eo signally prospered." In other words, the Protestants and loyalists of Ulster demand that they shall not be driven out of the United Kingdom.