It is, we know, a popular delusion that Ulster is a braggart whose words are empty bluff.

We are convinced that Ulster means what she says, and that she will make good every one of her warnings." _The Star_ went on to implore Liberals not to be driven "into an attitude of bitter hostility to the Ulster Protestants," with whom it declared they had much in common.
After Balmoral there was certainly more disposition than before on the part of Liberal Home Rulers to acknowledge the sincerity of Ulster and the gravity of the position created by her opposition, and this disposition showed itself in the debates on the Bill; but, speaking generally, the warning of _The Star_ was disregarded by its political adherents, and its neglect contributed not a little to the embitterment of the controversy.
FOOTNOTES: [22] _Annual Register_, 1912, p.

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[23] _The Times_, February 3rd, 1912.
[24] Ibid.
[25] _Annual Register_, 1912, p.

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[26] Ibid., p.

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