ULSTER'S SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENENT
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Being convinced in our consciences that Home Rule would be disastrous
to the material well-being of Ulster as well as of the whole of Ireland,
subversive of our civil and religious freedom, destructive of our
citizenship and perilous to the unity of the Empire, we, whose names are
underwritten, men of Ulster, loyal subjects of his Gracious Majesty King
George V., humbly relying on the God whom our fathers in days of stress
and trial confidently trusted, do hereby pledge ourselves in solemn
Covenant throughout this our time of threatened calamity to stand by one
another in defending for ourselves and our children our cherished position
of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom and in using all means which
may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home
Rule Parliament in Ireland. And in the event of such a parliament being
forced upon us we further solemnly and mutually pledge ourselves to refuse
to recognise its authority. In sure confidence that God will defend the
right we hereto subscribe our names. And further, we individually declare
that we have not already signed this Covenant.
- The above was signed by me at
- 'Ulster Day', Saturday, 28th September, 1912.
