The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-20

cts and mingling with the crowd quietly dis
banners
At brooklyn there is so much excitement in
regard to the terrible riots in this city that it
was deemed advisable by the Police Commis-
sioners and Chief Campbell to have force at
heaaenarsersh 50 during the night Al & the court
serve till one a. The Fourteenth regiment
was dismissed carly in the evening =
All the regiments turned out in full numbers.
The Ninth had eleven hundred men in line The
locality of the house to which Colonel Fisk was
take the LIE of any member of the Ninth, and
especially that of Fisk The Hibernians swear
they will have vengence for the men of their Or
der Killed to-day.
~. p. m.-The city is quiet. Heavy bodies of
police are patrolling the city. The troops In the
armories are ready to move at a moments notice
An Orangeman's house was stormed tonight,
but.the mob fed before the police. Several false
alarms of fights have been made. FcE
f1ttHlu e@--
The Order of Orangemen, its Origin and
Objects,
The following brief history of the origin of
the order of Orangemen. We copy from the
New York World:
That great Irish feud. Orange against Green,
dates, though not under its present name, from
far beyond the Battle of the Boyne The VI
ster Plantation as it is called in history. was
North No V Of ireland and the colonization of the
country in their stead with English and Scotch,
and from the time Of the plantation the fierce
internecine strife of men born on Irish soil be-
gan. AS of a distinct race and a different re-
Hgion from the sons of Brian the Brave the
North of Ireland men were hateful to the rest
of the island; and by some three hundred years
of persecution on one side. insurrection on the
other and bloodshed and insult from BOTH the
flame has been blown to fine heat which annu-
ally manifests itself upon the 18th of July:
So The hate, in fact, seems mex
tinguishable and, while dating in substance
from EliZabethan times mentioned, assumes
its present manifestation from the battle of the
On the 1st, old style, or, as we compute it now,
upon the 18th of July, 1880. was fought the
a1o hat nf
described that strange soldiery with which
William of Orange marched from Torbay upon
landish Walloons and Frieslanders, Swedes and
Holland Dutch, this same William sought,
certain summers day one hundred and eighty
one years ago, to force the passage of the Boyne
against James the Second and his Irish and
French: Under King William was Schomberg
thy lleutenants and mighty men of war. Fred
erick Hermann, Count Schomberg and Duke of
Leinster, was born at Heidelberg in 1916 of
German father and English mother, and came
of blue blood on either side, the paternal Count
tracing his ancestry back to the days of Charlie
magne, when the Schombergs, or men of the
shining mountains, were great in the Rhine
Ensiish mn house Of of Dudley. Like % pneal Dalgeiy.
the young count was man OF war from his
yoIt bm o5 of tbe and a0T & Pr
testant religion until the thirty years war end
cd. Then he entered the French service and
Turenne; then served in Portugal, and beat the
Spanish monarchy into acknowledging the in
QepcHutnCS VI = anu tie IOy III C1dtmS VI
French service; then fighting in Flanders; then
germ at that day Of what we now see as the re-
sp1endent military establishing ment of Kaiser Will
helm; and finally; when past his threescore and
ten, the old cavalier. becomes second in COM
mand to William of Orange. AS such he was
sent to Ireland and there met about the first
tfSS at bay til til King william brought over renforce
ments, and at the Boyne turned defeat into vie
tory, though with the loss of the veteran schom-
berg. who fell leading Chdrge-Ht Termination
at Is of a soldier life. Patrick Sarsfeld, Earl
OF Lucan, the opposing lieutenant, and real
action, and was afterwards killed at the head
of his brigade of Irish refugees, his old soldiers
who had followed him to the continent, at the
battle of Landen, the same ever noteworthy en-
gagement where, as will be remembered, Cor
Such then. were the opposing leaders at the
battle of the Boyne, and here it may be re-
count says the Irish were in red uniforms and
King Williams men in green. However this
may be-. schomberg decided the day at last in
favor of William of Orange and Professionalism,
and for something like two centuries the mem
oiy of the victory has been exulted in by one
and resented by another portion of the Irish
people a0s.,8 ai.i- -
For over one hundred years, however, the
m,e In VIZ I whs he may oy ae rne
Institution . was formed. 1t is composed ex-
clusively of Protestants, has for its prime OBJ
ject what we may delicately put in one of its ia
vorite cries as Ito h with the Pope,''
and is regularly formed of subordinate, district
over al. No Suspicion of Catholicity is tolera-
ted marriage with in some cases even de-
scent from. Catholic disquaiifying from mem
bership. There are five degrees, the lowest be-
ing the orange and the highest the scarlet, and
| at the head of the imperial grand lodge is q
grand master Of the empire: whose offce is
permanent and uncontrolled, being confded
wholly to the loyalty and integrity of that
Orangeman who shall be worthy of so high II
trust. High men in England have held this
office, the Duke of Cumberland being the last
Subsidiary to h with the Pope - the Orange
Society has some expressed objects, as TO keep
up the union between England and ireland, to
maintain the Protestant succession, &c, but the
great business is to parade in orange scarfs on
the 18th of July, fight with all Catholic Irish
men, and drink two set toasts, one benedictive.
of the 1great and galfantKing William IIi,' and
one imprecatory, hoping every papist and trail
tor to the Orange Society be damned, cram