'The next is a difference harder to define. It is generally described as "Loyalism" and "Love of Em-but certain Englishmen have ately asked me how it is that Ulstermen, while professing their loyalty to' the "British connexion can find it consistent, every now and again when things do not turn as they would like them, to stir rebellion against the Imperial Par-
Such astonishment is natural; but it forgets the historical elreumstances, that placed the Ulster Orungcman where he is. At the beginning of the 17th century, after the last of Trish resistance had been overcome, the original holders of the soil were driven out from the plain-lands to bogs and mount-Jains, and folk from the south of Scotlands and the northwest England "were brought over and planted in their place as guard-and sentinels of Empire. It was a post of danger; and the men, and the descendants of the men, placed at that post expected that Great Britain would support them fat all times and in all cireumstances. Note that. It was not they who were to support Great Britain, but Great Britain that was to sup: ort them.
Times changed, however; civilization advanced; but the Orangeman neither changed nor advanced. He was still the sentinel of Empire. He still called for support, and threat-joned rebellion when he did not get And now that the Free State by law, a "ea-equal member of the Commonwealth of Nations", he finds, like Othello, that his océups tion is gone, though his traditions and instincts are as strong as ever. He will not identity himself with the country in which he was lately the ascendant power. He prefers to live a separated, disassociated life.
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