The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-06 00:00:00

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his words there might have served as a prologue
to all his other addresses ; for he must have had a
strange callousness to kindness, if our town's
enthusiasm had not filled him " with no ordinary
feelings of gratification." He was presented with
a printed description of the qualifications for an
Orangeman. This we admit was formally done;
for our much-maligned and honest-hearted brethren
were anxious to stand right with one whom they
desired to meet in his character of a candidate for
their Parliamentary suffrages. He read the quali-
fications, which we transcribe from the same paper
that contained an account of the whole interview :
"An Orangeman should have a sincere love and vener-
ation for his Almighty Maker—a firm, steadfast faith in the
Saviour of the World, convinced that He is the only
mediator between a sinful creature and an offended God.
He should cultivate truth and justice, brotherly kindness
and charity, devotion and piety, concord and unity,
loyalty and obedience to the laws. His disposition should
be gentle and compassionate ; his behaviour kind and
courteous ; he should love the society of the good, and
avoid the company of the evil ; he should honour and
diligently read the holy scriptures, and make them the
rule of his faith and practice. He should love, uphold,
and defend the Protestant religion, and sincerely desire
to propagate its doctrines and precepts. He should
strenuously oppose and protest against the errors and
dangerous doctrines of the Church of Rome. He should
by all lawful means resist the ascendancy of that church,
its encroachments, and the extension of its power ; but he
should abstain from all uncharitable words, actions, or
feelings towards his' Roman Catholic brethren. He
should remember to keep holy the sabbath day, and
attend the public worship of God ; he should never take
the name of God in vain, but abstain from all cursing and
profaneness of language, and use all opportunities of dis-
couraging this shameful practice in others. His conduct
should be marked by prudence, wisdom and honesty,
temperance and sobriety • the glory of God and the love
of man, the honour of the sovereign and the good of his
country, should be the motives of an Orangeman."

And his response to this most beautiful epitome
of Protestant principles, Christian faith, and
brotherly love, was, "I could lay my hand on my
heart, and say with all sincerity, I cordially sym-
pathise with every one of them."
And yet it is conduct such as this—conduct
which we believe none but the basest of mankind
would dare to blame, in the face of society, and in
the open light of Heaven--it is this candid approval
of Bible teaching which makes the Morning Chro-
nicle thus howl its lament :—" Mourn ! hapless
Hibernia ! mourn 1 The hour of trial is at hand.
Bigotry has unsheathed her sword, and thrown
away the scabbard."
And this rant from some Whiteboy's wake is capped
with an untruth so monstrous that it stands single
and solitary without an equal—the unmatched untruth
of the Morning Chronicle. We transcribe it :
"The qualifications for an Orangeman are—undying
hostility to five or six millions of one's fellow-
subjects, and the coarse profession of an eager
desire to insult, persecute, degrade, and trample on
them. The orthodox Orange prayer, we believe,
still is, that all who will not accept the shibboleth
of the faction may be "damned, rammed, and
crammed into the great gun of Athlone, and be
shot, in a somewhat damaged condition, into the
most uncomfortable part of the infernal regions."
With what potent spell of devilry did the Morning
Chronicle raise this distempered fancy of the brain,
which,

" As a charm of powerful trouble,
Doth like hell-broth boil and bubble ?"

Is it his own, or answers it to a joint ownership
of those Anti-Orangemen, Drs. CAHILL, NEW.,
MAN, and WISEMAN ? Is it not a proof direct,
most palpable to the meanest understanding, that
this traducer of Protestantism, this warm advocate
of Mr. CARDWELL'S, is edited by Papists and
Jesuits ? Our contemporary has endeavoured
to fix upon Mr. MACKENZIE'S answer to the
question respecting public processions a most
strained meaning; but as a reference to our report,
given hurriedly, may seem somewhat to justify it,
we are now ready to explain that in our outline of
the proceedings some words were misplaced. We
ask our readers, therefore, to read instead of " pro-
cessions of so good an order as theirs could not
cause breaches of the peace," " processions con-
ducted in such good order, as not to cause breaches
of the peace, would not require to be put down."
And we the more anxiously make this amende,
because Orangemen have pointed out the mistake
to us, and because, so far from believing that party
processions "could not cause breaches of the peace,"
we are aware that Mr. MACKENZIE has frequently
expressed his fears about any procession on the 12th
of July. . .

The Orangemen of Liverpool have given up their
intention of walking on the 12th of July, as a testi-
mony of respect and gratitude to the Protestant
Government of Lord DERBY.

THE DUTY OF PROTESTANT ELECTORS

THE Stockport riots afford a sign of the times which
it would be madness to overlook. At the present
critical moment, indeed, these unfortunate occur-
rences ought to convey to the public mind much
instruction and warning. It is unnecessary to stop
to inquire, whether, on balancing the evidence as
to the circumstances of the transactions, the blame
be all on one side, or more on the one side than on
the other. The chief lesson to be learned from the
narration of the facts, and which ought to produce
practical effects upon every individual possessing
the electoral franchise, is, that the established
Protestant religion of England is much more

exposed at the present moment than it has for a
long time been, to the open and covert attacks of
its virulent and unscrupulous enemies; and that
there is a leaven of bigotted hatred to the Church,
and bitter disaffection to the laws, spreading rapidly
throughout the length and breadth of the country,
which it will need the most energetic vigilance to
prevent producing disastrous consequences on the
religious, social, and political interests of the nation.
No man, believing in the Protestant Faith, appre-
ciating the blessings which the Protestant Church
has power to confer upon the people, understanding
the vast advantages derivable from the connexion
between Church and State, can be indifferent, at

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