Archbishop Bernard, speaking as a Unionist, said that the proposal was a venture beset with risks, but the greatest danger of all was to do nothing.

It would be a grave responsibility for Ulster to wreck the chance of a settlement.

Lord Oranmore dwelt on the composition of the proposed Legislature Power was to be entrusted to a very different Parliament from that which they had feared.

He and his like were to get what they desired--an opportunity of taking part in the government of the country.

It looked to him as if the only possible Irish Government under this scheme must be Unionist in its complexion.
Perhaps there was an echo of this in Redmond's speech, by far the greatest he made in the Convention, when at last he intervened on January 4th--the Friday which ended that session.
He dealt at once with Mr.Barrie's often repeated view that the proper object of our endeavours was to find a compromise between the Act of 1914 and the proposal for partition put forward by Ulster.