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Bonar Law, who assured them that "whatever steps they might feel compelled to take, whether they were constitutional, or whether in the long run they were unconstitutional, they had the whole of the Unionist Party under his leadership behind them." The leader of the Unionist Party had good reason to know that his message to Ulster was endorsed by his followers.
When Bonar Law declined to reestablish the Government the oft-repeated cry for action that had invariably found its answer in the intrepid little Welshman, again rose up. Upon him devolved the task of constructing a new Cabinet which he headed as Prime Minister.
Moreover, it was perfectly understood that Ulster was resolved in any case not to enter a legislature in College Green, and there would, therefore, be no more "desertion" of Unionists outside the excluded area if the exclusion were effected by an amendment to the Bill, than if it were the result of what Mr. Bonar Law had called "trusting to themselves."
Andrew Bonar, Rutherford's expert editor, gives this glossary upon these passages: 'Charges, self- upbraidings, self-accusations. Challenges of conscience came to Rutherford like these: 'Why art thou writing letters of counsel to other men? Counsel thyself first.
Bonar Law gave them "on behalf of the Unionist Party this message though the brunt of the battle will be yours, there will not be wanting help from 'across the Channel." At Comber, where a stop was made on the way to Mount Stewart, he asked himself how Radical Scotsmen would like to be treated as the Government were treating Protestant Ulster.
Redmond could not have seen either of these letters, but those two trains of thought were blended in his speech which was less a speech than a supreme action. It was the utterance of a man who has a vision and who, acting in the light of it, seeks to embody the vision in a living reality. Mr. Bonar Law followed Sir Edward Grey with a few brief sentences of whole-hearted support.
In his last Vote of Credit speech, on November 12, 1918, Mr Bonar Law gave the chief items of the loans to Allies, and a very interesting list it was. The totals up to October 19, 1918, were £1465 millions to Allies and £218-1/2 millions to Dominions. The Allies were indebted to us as follows: Russia, £568 millions; France, £425 millions; Italy, £345 millions; smaller States, £127 millions.
A few days later a still more valuable token of sympathy and support from across the Channel gave fresh encouragement to Ulster. On the 26th of January Mr. Bonar Law made his first public speech as leader of the Unionist Party, when he addressed an audience of ten thousand people in the Albert Hall in London.
Bonar Law replied to the allegation that Ulster was crying out before she was hurt, by saying that the American colonies had done the same thing they had revolted on a question of principle while suffering was still distant, and for a cause that in itself was trivial in comparison with that of Ulster. Most of the leaders on both sides were speaking on various platforms in January.
Bonar, it was a runaway match. Never was I so much astonished. He prevailed on her to meet him at church with only the two necessary witnesses. They went to Paris. There they stayed a week. Happening to meet with Mrs.
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