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Show Lord Churchill at Belfast. Belfast, February 23. The enthusiasm witnessed in Belfast to-day has not been equalled here in many years. In the numerous nu-merous processions which paraded the streets were many women, who all "displayed Orange colors. So densa was the crowd that filled the principal thoroughfares that traffic was detained for several hours. No sooner had Lord Randolph Churchill seated himself in the carriage that was awaiting him, than the crowd made A BUSH FOB THE CABRIAGE, Unharnessed the horses and proceeded to drag the vehicle from the station to the hotel. The enthusiasm displayed along the line of march was prodigious. This evening Lord Randolph addressed the meeting, when the enthusiasm displayed on his arrival was repeated. Lord' Randolph said it lay with i Ulster to say whether Ireland should remain part of the Empire. He denied that the Parnellites were true representatives of the will of the Irish people; as for Parnell himself, him-self, his only title. to be continued as leader in the party lay in actions of which no one could be justly proud. By playing upon the terrors of the peasantry and by means of BBUTAL OUTBAGES UPON HUMAN BEINGS He had secured five-sixths of the Irish Members Mem-bers of Parliament. Lord Randolph appealed to all, regardless of creed, to declare in favor of a freer and closer union; if tho appeal failed, he said he would not mind leaving the issue to the people of Ulster. He believed the storm would blow over, however, and that THE UNION WOULD EMEBGE STBONGEB Than it ever had been. Lord Churchill ex- Eressed the hope that the struggle would be ept within the constitutional limits, but added they must bo prepared for the worst. The meeting adopted a resolution to oppose Nationalism and to call upon the people of England and Scotland for help. |