Now consider the case of the Uitlanders. They are not a min… - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Now consider the case of the Uitlanders. They are not a minority. They are a majority, but those who differ from them in traditions and race and feeling have the government and have the rifles (cheers), and the result is that the Uitlanders get no votes and bitterly complain that they get no justice. (Cheers.) I have not investigated their grievances; I do not know whether they are correct; but I know it tells what would have been the complaint and sorrow of our Ulster people if we had handed them over to the tender mercies of Home Rule.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), styled Lord Robert Cecil before the death of his elder brother in 1865, and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until his father died in April 1868, was a three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, during 1885–1886, 1886–1892 and 1895–1902.

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Native Name: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3. Marquess of Salisbury

Alternative Names: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury

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