...declaring that Home Rule would be disastrous to Ulster as well as to the rest of Ireland bound themselves to " stand by one another in defending for ourselves...citizenship in the United Kingdom, and in using all means to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule parliament in Ireland." They further declared...

...the God whom our fathers in days of strife 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 ourselves and our children, and our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom,...

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...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...to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Bule Parliament in Ireland. And in the event of such a Parliament being forced upon us, we further...

...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...which may be found necessary to defeat the present '•<>rnpir»cy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland. And in the event of such a Parliament...

...the (Bod whom our fathers In oays of stress and trial confidently trusted, do hereby pledge ourselves In solemn Covenant throughout this our time of threatened...ourselves and our children our cherished position of equal clttrenshlp In the l£nlted "Jiingdom and In using all means which may be found necessary to defeat...

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...Orange enthusiasm. The signatories to that document swore to "rely on God" and at the same time to use "all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy." By September, 1913, Sir Edward Carson had been permitted to defy the law by raising in Ulster an army...

...itch to remain in power. The Ulstermen retaliated in 1912 with their Covenant, which pledged them " to stand by one another in defending, for ourselves...of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom " and, should a Home Rule Government be set up in Dublin, to "refuse to recognise its authority." The first...

...good Protestants to resist in every way any effort to enforce it. "We stand by one another," it read, "in defending for ourselves and our children our cherished...citizenship in the United Kingdom and in using all means that may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule plan in Ireland."...