We ask for no special rights, but we claim the same rights from the same Government as every other part of the United Kingdom.

We ask for nothing more; we will take nothing less.

It is our inalienable right as citizens of the British Empire, and Heaven help the men who try to take it from us." It was all no doubt a mere restatement--though an admirably lucid and forcible restatement--of doctrine with which his hearers had long been familiar.

The great question still awaited an answer--how was effect to be given to this resolve, now that there was no longer hope of salvation through the sympathy and support of public opinion in Great Britain?
This was what the eager listeners at Craigavon hoped in hushed expectancy to hear from their new leader.

He did not disappoint them: "Mr.Asquith, the Prime Minister, says that we are not to be allowed to put our case before the British electorate.