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

zeal by the late Daniel O'Conpell and
every other Catholic of note in The House
of Commons. After being foiled in this
attempt the Orange party took opportuni.
ty TO WIZ raw their sympathy completely
from Il Princess Victoria. and to more
openly recommend her uncle, the Duke Of
Cumberland for the crown.
King William the Fourth died in 1887.
During the last two years of his reign the
Duke of Cumberland was actively en.
ployed in communicating with all the
Orange lodges, under his control, and d.
rected his attention to the Canadian LODI
ges in an especial manner. He sent out
warrants to two or three British regiments
serving in that Province, aud had the trea-
sonable intent communicated to the army
by this means. We say reasonable, for
at that period quite number of Orange
lodges openly announced their intent Of
endeav oring to force him on the people as
King in consequence of the alleged Catho.
lie tendencies of the mother of the present
Queen.
Immediately before the death of the
King it was determined to ascertain how
many aimed men the Orange body could
bring into the field on any one particular
day, and commands were issued to the
district Grand Masters to hold regular
musters at certain given points, and then
| report to the Grand Lodge in London.
The muster in Ireland was held at Hills
borough, in the county Down, and the
Masters afterwards reported that they had
forty thousand men capable of taking tie
field on the moment. The Canadian LODI
ges paraded great force, and even in
Scotland and England very large num-
Der of men turned out.
The Catholic and other liberal members
of Parliament called the attention of the
Legislature and country to these very i'm
portant movements Of such formidable
secret society, and denounced them as &C.
tual attempts to forestall revolution ard
alter the royal succession. These precau.
tons produced great anxiety, but King
William having died rather unexpectedly,
the Orange chiefs were thrown off their
guard, and Queen Victoria was permitted
to take peaceable possession of her right.
Soon after her accession a Committee
of Parliament investigated the entire plan
and working of the Orange Society, and
denounced i. as dangerous and inH1ical to
the best interests of the country. The
Houses passed resolutions declaring the
lodges dissolved, and that no person who
was an Orangeman should hereafter be
eligible for office under the Crown. The
resolutions became dead letter very soon,
for Orangeism was still encouraged, al
though large number cf men in high
! places repudiated it.
Had the Duke of Cum beriand been per-
mitted to carry out his designs the Cana
dian Orangemen would have enjoyed n
measure of IMMUNITY for every persecution
of the Catholics, and perhaps have driven
every one of them from the soil. The gall
of their defeat at that time has never been
purified, and for this remembrance, and
this alone, has the Prince of Wales been
driven from Kingston. Orangemen re-
gard him as the son of the Queen WHO
SEPT their leader, the late Duke, both from
throne and from England, and as the
grandson of a woman who was Catholic
in her first love, liberal IN opinion all her
life, and was supported in her position to-
wards her daughter by Catholic Ireland
and the Catholics of England.
The Orange code has no forgiveness for
such SINS and hence the royal parent and
grandparent are stabbed, as it were,
through the heart of the royal son.
Such is Orangeism, and such is our ex-
PLANTATION of the Orange hostility to the
Prince in Canada. As attempts have been
m ede and successfully, to introduce Or
angeism into the United States, we may
be permitted to ask, can such system
inure to the more rational enjoyment of
liberty, the harmony of religious freedom,
or the stability Of our Republicanism In
our opinion it cannot.
1t is system which every good Protes-
tant must condemn as subversive of social
order and good government, with which
they cannot rightly have any sympathy or
association.