The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-10-05
Orangeism and its Aims.

site remarks upon the oEgin, aims and
tendencies of Orangeian in Ireland and in
the New World =
Orangeism is the same both in tone and
character at home and abroad, dangerous
to liberty and citizen security. perhaps
We are wrong in saying that the reply
would be SO in both instances, for Queen
Victoria knows the truth of it by bitter
experience, while the freemen of America
know nothing of the dangers to which
they are exposed at the hands of Orange
men, disguised under the title of the
American Protestant Association We
will endeavor to inform them by reference
to the history of Ireland, where the plague
spot was first introduced by the Governor
of England at time when it little dream
ed of the just retribution sent upon it in
Canada through the person of the Prince
of Wales. The Orange Association was
organized in Ireland by the English Gov
ernment IN order to extinguish citizen
unity IN that country by throwing reli,
gious doubt and division into the ranks of
the "1rish Volunteers" and thus effect
The dissolution of the body of gallant citi-
zen soldiery who wrung from her the in
dependence of their country in 1852, to
uphold landlord oppression. and in the
end overturn the Irish Constitution, which
eventually was accomplished by the Act OF
Union. For such services England desig
mated the Orangemen the Loyal Men y
Of Ireland, and permitted them to execute
their murderouS mission both on the lives
and liberties of the Catholics of the sol
so long as the penal laws existed.
1t has been stated that the Irish-Or.
angemcn can trace their origin, as a party
to the time of the siege of Derry and
King William. the Third This is not
correct. The men who fought at Derry,
were really Irish patriots, who disliked
the Stuart rulers and the Catholic Church
but whose descendants afterwards fused
with the people, met in council at Dun
cannon for IIish independence, and stood
side by side with their Catholic brethren
in the anks of the Volunteers. So it was
with the sons of the men who fought a,
the Boyne. Like the GeraIdines, and
Gratans, and Plunkets, and Bushes, they
were Protestants, but soon stood forth as
patriots. They lived on the best terms
with the Catholics, and during the period
of the penal laws frequently held their
property in trust for them-the Legisla
ture not permitting our fellow worshippers
to do so. The fright which England re.
celved by the union of the Catholics and
such Protestants, to the number of eighty
two thousand in the ranks of the Volun
teers, suggested to her mind the idea OF
the Orangemen proper, as exhibited in
Canada, tool to be used for the purpose
of breaking up the fraternal alliance,
which she hated and feared.
The first Orangenen in Ireland was
sworn into the body and duly initiated in
the then Irish House of Commons i'll Col
lege Green with the sanction of Lord Cas-
tlereagh, who permitted tie very temple
of legislation to be thus polluted for the
purpose, and the Bible to be desecrated in
founding the organization which gave such
fearful evidences of its parentage at Kings
ton and Newark, n. J.
The Orange leaders in Irelanl fomented
and urged on the uprisng of 9S by secret
tactics, in order to effect the Act of Union
During that year they appeared openly in
arms and were permitted to perpetrate the
most horrible excuses on the Catholics
numbering them in cold blood frequently
burning their churches almost weekly
dragging their priests from their home
steads almost nightly, torturing some o
their best members by ioggings on trian
giles erected on the spot now known as
Beresford Square, Dublin, cropping the
hair from the heads of others, and then
pouring hot pitch and tar over the surface
SO that the streaming liquid ran into their
eyes. 1t was amid such orgies as these
that the poet of tie Orange Association
composed the song Of "Croppies Lie
Down" which has been set to the music
played lately so vigorously in the streets
of Kingston and Newark.
BY such means was the Union between
Ireland and England mainly brought
about, and the Irish Orangemen shown te
be the most unpatIiotic, unprincipled and
bigoted body in the world. England
however, permitted the organization to be
extended through tie influence of parties
standing round the throne. Orangeisn
had proved itself bloodthirstv at home
and, it may be wanted for serious work re-
quiring to be executed by bloodthirsty
men.
Under King William the Fourth the
question of a succession being vested il
the person of the Princess Victoria, now
Queen Victoria and mother of the Prime,
of Wales, was very disagreeable to The
wishes of the Orange leaders, amongs
whom and before all, unnatural as it may
appear, stood her own uncle, the ther
DIXIE of Cumberland-the late King O
Hanover. The Duke was Grand Master
of the Orangemen, which was then very
numerous body. Arms had been placed
in their hands for the ostensible purpose
of prosecuting the Irish Catholics and the
organization was extended to Canada anC
other British provinces. Their system o
secret signs and passwords was perfected
so that our American readers will under
stand that even then, The Orange body was
9 formidable instrument if used by base
and designing men against popular liberty
or even the throne itself.
The Duchess of Kent, mother Of Queer