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TEXT OF THE ULSTER COVENANT
The terms of the Solemn Covenant against
Home Rule, signed by the Unionists of
Lister on Ulster Day, are as follow:
"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 Gra-
cious Majesty King George V., humbly re-
lying on the God Whom our fathers in days
of stress and trial confidently trusted,
hereby pledge ourselves in Solemn Coven-
ant throughout this our time of threatened
calamity to stand by one another in de-
fending, 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 Cove
nant."
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