Whitley, Labour.[15] In so far as we were led by anyone, Mr.Clancy, fulfilling in public what he had privately spoken, was our leader and spokesman.
We were along with the Southern Unionists and our natural allies, Lords Granard and MacDonnell and Sir Bertram Windle.

Archbishop Bernard and Dr.Mahaffy voted with us in that pinch, so that both the late Provost of Trinity and the present one did their part to secure an agreement.
In the other list, the Archbishop of Armagh and the Moderator were grouped with the Archbishop of Cashel and the Bishops of Raphoe and Down and Connor; the Lord Mayor of Cork and Lord Mayor of Belfast were together; Mr.Devlin was with Mr.Barrie.This list represented no unity except a common refusal to agree to any compromise.

Those who voted in it followed one or other of two trains of cogent reasoning; but the reasonings led to opposite conclusions.

These men were beyond doubt as honest in their convictions as those who went the other way; but they took the easier course, whether they were Nationalist or Unionist: they swam with the tide.
The troubles which Nationalists brought on themselves by supporting Lord Midleton were answered by the troubles which his group met for supporting Nationalist demands.

The men who refused to make the compromise possible have the laugh of us.