The true Democrat., 1856-02-05
For the True Democrat. Federalism Dissected, Or Federalism alias Know Nottingham shown in their true Coiors.


 | NO. XII.
 Having in our list communication proved to the satisfaction of every unprejudced, sincere, and honest enquirer after truth, that no man is bound by the Oaths administered in Know Nothing lodge, with all due difference for the opinions of others we proceed to give some fur ther information on point at which we merely hinted in the tenth article of these communi- cations, viz: that the present Know Nothing ritual, oaths, etc, is nothing less than modf- ed form of the ritual and oaths of the Irish Orange Know Nothing lodges of Ireland, im- ported for the purpose; and that the present bgoted and sectarian spirit was first manifested by and is still fostered here in the United States by such men as Kiraoata, of New York, and other Irish Orange cergymen, who are from training bitter enemies of republicansm, and who have not one feeling in common with the republican citizens of America; for we hold it to be an axiom, that mo man solo IS a,s e,ae1ny to the land of his birth can ever Je C true friend to any other country" This is demonstrated to an iotum in their cases for those Irish Orange men have long been plant tools in the hands of the British government for the purpose of keeping alive those religious dissensions exist ing among their countrymen, and consequently to keep their native country in subjecton- Having succeeded in destoying the last vestige of liberty in the land of their birth, they are now labering assiduously, and have unfortu- nately, through the instrumentality of the bigots and narrow minded of America, succeed ed in sowing the same seeds of dseenson here that have for ages distracted their native coun- try and prostrated it at the feet of the British government
 It is fact which should be known to every American, that precisely such lodges as the pre- sent Know Nothing lodges have existed in Ireland for one hundred and fifty years; and it is owing to the machinations of the secret band of traitors of which they are composed, that that down-trodden and oppressed country has never been able to accomplish her independ- ence.
 The people of Ireland have long been fool ishly agitated and divided on religious subjects Standing as they do in the relation of five Ca tholics to two Protestants, the Protestant inha- bitants (with some honorable exceptions) have ever been in favor of Great Britain, whilst the Catholic portion, Gas is well known) ever have been opposed to England, and have often made unsuccessful efforts to establish their in. dependence.
 | The Protestants of Ireland in 168S-'99 in- vited William, Prince of Orange, who had then become King of England, to come over and take possession of Ireland, promising him all the assistance in their power in conquering and subduing their native country. King Will liam accepting their invitation, went over to Ireland, and being joined by those internal trai- tors, notwiths landing he was opposed by the Catholic portion of the country on many a we'll contested batte-feld he succeeded in finally prostrating the liberties of that devoted country at the famous battle of the Boync, 1890. Not content with having aided in crushing the liberties of their native country, the Pro- tesant portion secretly, and trcacherously, form ed themselves into Orange lodges, unblushingly named in honor of their conqueror, and which had for their ostensble object the hellish de- sign of keeping their Catholic felow-citizens in subjecton. As a Protestant, we regret ex- ceedingl to have to record such conduct on the part of Protestants, but when we see such attempts at carrying out the same perf- dious atrocious, and anti-republican principles here in the United States, by persons who have desecrated the names of American and Protest ant, to remain silent under such circumstances would be criminal in the extreme Fam jttstitia ruat ce1um ever has been our motto, and to its honest and ennobling dictates we at present yield.
 For the purpose of carrying their wicked and traltorous designs more effectualy into execu- ton, they invented the Orange ritual the pro- totype of the American Know Nothing ritual, together with the most horrid oaths, among which, is that one altered and basey ascrbed by the Know Nothing papers to the Catholic, viz: that "Mey ocouM acode Knee deep in Protest ant 6lood." Read, "Cathoic blood.' and you have this truly christian oath ver5atsm et Atera- Jim.
 In addition to their oaths, etc., this band of Orangemen have their signs, their grips, their pass words, and in lieu of red, blue, and yellow paper as their high-minded, intelligent, and re- fined disciples have in the United States, they decorate themselves with Orange ribbauds- Right here We can lmpart piece of informa- tion which many Americans affect to be igno- rant of. Those Irish Orangemen in order to show their utter detestation of republcanism, as well as to tantalize their Catholic country men here in the United States, frequently get up processions, where with music suited to such occasions, and decorated here in free and hap py America with Orange ribbands, base mark of their servility and their country's subjecton, they march through the streets of our cities with all of the pride which their ignobe souls are capable of feeling. Imagine but for mo- ment, had the independence of America been lost through the treachery of the revolutionary tories what would be the feelings of the re- publican portion of America when visiting Lon- don or other English cities, to see those base miscreants and renegades marching through the streets decorated with the badges of slavery, and rejoicing in the downfall of their country? Such feelings as would predomnate in the breast of every true and noble hearted Ameri- can had such an occurrence happened, pervades the soul of every honest and republican Irish man, when viewing the abject, mean, and crouching conduct of those Orangemen, and which accounts for the riot in Philadelphia in 1S44, and not as those Orangemen would fan make the impression or Americans that they were attacked on account of their re ligion.
 So we'll organized is that band of Orangemen in Ireland, that every attempt on the part of the Catholic citizens of Ireland to accomplish the independence of their country has been de-