No effort will be spared to reawaken it.
The motto of militant Unionism has always been: When in doubt throw mud.
Such a programme naturally begets a predilection for ditches, and when certain orators speak of the "last ditch" they must be taken to mean that which has most mud in it.

The old methods are already once more in operation.

The wicked lying of previous campaigns no doubt cannot be repeated: bigotry will make no further experiments in Pigottry.

But a resolute attempt, lavishly financed and directed by masters of the art of defamation, will be made to blacken Ireland.

Every newspaper in every remotest country-town in England will be deluged with syndicated venom.
The shop-keeper will wrap up his parcels in Orange posters, and the working-man will, I hope, light his pipe for years to come with pamphlets of the same clamant colour.