New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-17
TIE ZEAL QUESTION AND rue SgB5H

TIE REIL QUESTION AND TUE SyB5II
TUIED 8HlM
This City has just been the arena of hor-
rble slaughter, whereof part Of the victim,
were innocent even of curiosity. They did
not 90 near the riot even as spectators: the
riot and its bloody suppression suddenly en-
veloped and crushed the lives out of them as
they were ut peace in their homes or walking
the streets in pursuance of the requirements OF
business. These, with the butchered guardians
of Law and Order who fell in the discharge OF
an imperative public duty, have been ruth
lessly saclifccd-tO whati To the assailed
ri,ht Of Orangemen to parade Our streets
So say tirc Democratic journals, led by Tie
World. Hear It
"THE TRIBUNE stTenu1usly maintain, whether cor.
recty not is beside present purpose 10 inquire
that the Orangemen have perfect legal right to make
their eXasperatng parades, although reprobates the
exercise OF that right unwise inprOIsr iadyised
unnecessary, and fOollsly nnammatory abuse Of the
privilege OF American cllizens The testimony Of THE
TRIBUNE the point OF morals and proprlcy ia all the
impressive and weighty "a coming from journal
which defends the cause iof the Orengemen. To the
question whether these reyycrs OF old hates and ieal
ouses have legal right to march through the streets
in defiant professions with provoking ausic and ban
ners. there are two sides; but among thoughtful and
considerable men, there Is only side TO 1.-THE question
whether the exercise OF this assumed right is expedent
and proper. The Orangemen, therefore, deserve and
ought to receive the moral rcprObation OF the whole
community. It necessarily follows that their irritating
paradcs should not be supported but dscOuntcnancei
by public opinion. Instead Of aid and comfort. they
should receive general censure and dlscoura mcat"
Comments By The 1ribupe
That this journal does not sympathizo with
the Orangemen, so far as we understand their
objects and characteristics, is very certain.
We have an instructive dislike to anything
claiming to be religion which is mainly war
upon the religion of somebody else. The Or
angemen have some good principles and char
acteristics but, on the whole, we can't real
lie that this country has any use for Orange
lodges or Orange professions.
But then we are not the judge Of other mems
creeds, nor of the means whereby they seek
to commend those creeds TO public favor. Ii
we were, twO-thirds of the sects and religious
organizations which now distract our country
might be swept ont of existence. We protest
against the Iall-Kelso programme, not in be-
half of OrangeiSm, but in behalf of Relig-
lous Liberty. We deny the right of any
''"i"' w nay 'hdb duOiHtl i'iElous bttI OF
organization may parade the streets, but that
ours shall not And the rights we claim for
our own handful of people We claim also for
every sect, however feeble or otherwise. Capt
Daniel r. Lyddy QrshD is quoted by Tie
Times as maintaining that
THE orangemcn claim the right OF public parade
equally with the German sangerbund and Irish st.
Patrleks Day. A few thousand Orangemcn claim equal
rights with the millions OF Germans and Irish! !"
That is the very doctrine which we stand
up for. The 0Iangemen are few and unpopu-
lar; but the rights Of all men are bound up in
theirs If Mayor Hall may deny them the use
OF the streets to-day, he may Tomorrow forbid
the meeting in our City of the Evangelical AL
lance on the assumption that it's speakers
would be morally certain to say something Of
fensive to the dominant Roman Catholicism of
our people. Indeed, lac now contends that the
City authorities ought TO have shut up the AS