General Gough was urged by Sir Arthur Paget to withdraw the resignation.

Sir Arthur Paget told them that the operations against Ulster were to be of a purely defensive nature.

Unfortunately, Sir Arthur Paget based his appeal on expediency and private interest, and not sufficiently on the call of public duty.

This failed to influence the officers.

They persisted in their resignations, and only finally withdrew them on receiving a written undertaking from the War Office that they would not be again presented with the alternative of resigning or attacking Ulster.' The Irish Party had no guess at the inner aspect of the occurrence.
Naturally, but regrettably, we were the section of the House which had least touch with what was thought and felt in barrack-rooms and regimental messes.