The principal Resolution, adopted unanimously by the Convention,
formulated the grounds on which the people of the Province based their
hostility to the separatist policy of Home Rule; and as frequent
reference was made to it in after-years as an authoritative definition
of Ulster policy, it may be worth while to recall its terms:

"That this Convention, consisting of 11,879 delegates representing
the Unionists of every creed, class, and party throughout Ulster,
appointed at public meetings held in every electoral division of
the Province, hereby solemnly resolves and declares: 'That we
express the devoted loyalty of Ulster Unionists to the Crown and
Constitution of the United Kingdom; that we avow our fixed resolve
to retain unchanged our present position as an integral portion of
the United Kingdom, and protest in the most unequivocal manner
against the passage of any measure that would rob us of our
inheritance in the Imperial Parliament, under the protection of
which our capital has been invested and our homes and rights
safeguarded; that we record our determination to have nothing to do
with a Parliament certain to be controlled by men responsible for
the crime and outrages of the Land League, the dishonesty of the
Plan of Campaign, and the cruelties of boycotting, many of whom
have shown themselves the ready instruments of clerical domination;
that we declare to the people of Great Britain our conviction that
the attempt to set up such a Parliament in Ireland will inevitably
result in disorder, violence, and bloodshed, such as have not been
experienced in this century, and announce our resolve to take no
part in the election or proceedings of such a Parliament, the
authority of which, should it ever be constituted, we shall be
forced to repudiate; that we protest against this great question,
which involves our lives, property, and civil rights, being treated