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CHURCHILL, Randolph (1849-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Randolph S. Churchill"), to William Young London, 7 May 1886. 17 pages, 8vo, 2 Connaught Place stationery, with autograph envelope signed ("Randolph S. Churchill").
CHURCHILL, Randolph (1849-1895). Autograph letter signed ("Randolph S. Churchill"), to William Young London, 7 May 1886. 17 pages, 8vo, 2 Connaught Place stationery, with autograph envelope signed ("Randolph S. Churchill"). "ULSTER WILL FIGHT, AND ULSTER WILL BE RIGHT": ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC LETTERS IN MODERN BRITISH HISTORY The historic letter in which Churchill's father coined the combative rallying cry against William Gladstone's Home Rule bill: "Ulster will fight. Ulster will be right." Young, a Liberal-Unionist from Glasgow, wrote Churchill on 4 May to demand that he pledge never to support Home Rule for Ireland. Parliament voted down the proposal on its first reading in April 1886. A second vote would come in June. Here, Churchill answers with this lengthy statement, excerpts of which were published in The Times of London the next day and electrified the nation with its threat of violence. He tells Young that if Home Rule managed to become law, "the action of the Northern States of America from 1861 to 1865 would have to be the model for the action of the Tory Party... Ulster will not be a consenting party. Ulster at the proper moment will resort to the supreme arbitrament of force. Ulster will fight. Ulster will be right..." "The jingling phrase..." wrote Winston Churchill in his biography of his father, "was everywhere caught up. It became one of the war-cries of the time and spread with spirit-speed all over the country..." ( Lord Randolph Churchill , 2:65, which quotes from this letter). Parnell and the Irish Nationalists denounced Churchill for inciting violence and fanning sectarian hatred, but Churchill's words helped sweep the Tories to victory in the 1886 general election.