It is useless to argue that they are mistaken.

They have reasons, never answered yet, for believing that they are not mistaken....

Their temper is an ultimate fact which British statesmen and British citizens have to face.

These men cannot be persuaded to submit to Home Rule.

Are Englishmen and Scotchmen prepared to fasten it upon them by military force?
That is the real Ulster question." Other great English newspapers wrote in similar strain, and the support thus given was of the greatest possible encouragement to the Ulster people, who were thereby assured that their standpoint was not misunderstood and that the justice of their "loyalist" claims was appreciated across the Channel.
Among the numberless popular demonstrations which marked the history of Ulster's stand against Home Rule, four stand out pre-eminent in the impressiveness of their size and character.