The Loyalists of Ulster were successful in holding this second line, when the first was no longer tenable; but they only retired from the first line—the maintenance of the legislative union—after a long and obstinate defence which it is the purpose of the following pages to relate.

FOOTNOTES:

[1]

Henry Edward Manning, by Shane Leslie, p. 406.

[2]

Sir S.H. Maine, Popular Government, p. 28.