And when our glorious fight is won,
They’ll all go home declaring
Earth holds no match for Saunderson,
And scarcely one for Waring!”
“They surely will,” says Ballykill,
“There’s no one worth comparing
With our great gun, brave Saunderson.”
“Well, hardly one,” says Waring.
T. D. Sullivan, M.P. in The Nation, August, 1889.
Colonel Saunderson, M.P., had asserted at a public meeting that, if Parliament should grant Home Rule to Ireland, 50,000 men of Ulster would immediately rise in rebellion against it, and fight to the last ditch. He did not, however, attempt to justify this statement when called upon to do so in the House of Commons.