The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-13

] .a'u cne PoinGs OF uc0ate within their
strictly guarded sanctuary in Dawson
street." The same writer observes:
$50 much undeniable truth has lately
been brought before the public concerning
| the Orange Institution, SO glaringly has the
illegality and mischief Of the system been
exposed, such weighty and fatal objections
urged against 1t, that it has become fashion
able with many Orangemen, of education
ana fortune, to affect to disclaim every thing
| objectionable in the system and to throw
IL exclusively on the jncorrigible ignO.
rance and bigotry of the rabble, who
are alike In every country and of every
Persuasion. This was base article to dis
guIse or conceal the c0untenance and sup
port which the Orange societies have uni
formfy and increasingly received from
Government. If the obligations and oaths
OF Orangep,en were of virtuous and
beneficial tendency, why not proclaim them
aloud If illegal and dangerous, why
Orange aristocracy thus affected to disdain
their own institute in detail, their activity
In keeping the evil on foot is superemi-
nently criminal. Nor can they redeem
their guilt without revealing in detail the
whole mischief of the system, by enabling
selves Gas far as they possess power) to exss
pose and effectually extinguish it,"
Upon the subject of the new and alarm
ing development of the Orange system
which took place at this date, we may
further cite the language of O'Connel, at
said:
From most respectable authority, 1
have it that Orange Lodges are increasing
IN different parts of the country, with the
knowledge Of those whose duty it is
to suppress them. If / have been misin-
formed, would wish that what now say
may be replied to by any one able to show
that am wrong. 1 hold in my hand the
certificate of an Orange purple man (which
he produced) who was advanced to that
degree as lately as the Gath of April, 1911,
in Lodge in Dublin. have addaced this
fact to show you that this dreadful and
abominable conspiracy is still in existence;
and am we'll informed, and believe it to
be the fact, that the Kings ministry are we'll
acquainted with the circumstances. have
been also assured that the associations of the
North are reorganized, and that a committee
OF their delegates, in Belfast, have printed
and distributed q We hundred copies Of their
new constitution. This have heard from
excellent authority; and should not be
surprised if the Attorney General knows
it. Yet there has been no attempt to dis
turb these conspiratore; no attempt to visit
them with magisterial authority no at
tempt to rout this infamous banditti-"
In truth, the "banditti" were 80 usefn!
and indispensable an agency Of British
domination in Ireland, that they were per-
fectly safe from the law and the Attorney
General and that functionary was not in
the least obliged to O'Connell for his infor-
nation. 1t was against Catholics only that
penal statutes were made. Thus, although
the Convention Act made no distinctions
between Catholic and Protestant, the
Orange Lodges were never at all embar-
rassed about sending delegates to meetings
in Dublin. And, although the acts against
administering secret oaths especially apply
RI ha fhn nf Oron r5ay,
were ever prosecuted by the Crown under
those laws. The oath which Government
punished was not an oath to extirpate ones
neighbors, but an oath to promote the
union of Irishmen.
1t would be easy to accumulate examples
OF Orange outrages at this time in many
parts of the country but these incidents
have a wearisome sameness. On the 10Th
OF August, 1908, fifty unarmed men of the |
Kings County militia, who had volunteered
into the line, marched from Strabane into |
Omagh, in Tyrone County, where fifty of
they came into town, it happened that
three hundred Orange yeomen had assem-
bied, and were celebrating the battle of |
Aughrim. A yeomen began operations by |
knocking off and trampling upon the cap
Of one of the militiamen, because it was
al, was not considered 'loyal" enough for
that occasion. The militiaman resented
the outrage by a blow. A generally assault
was made by the whole body of yeomanry
upon the fifty unarmed men they retreat
ID in good order to the barracks, where
hey were attacked again but as they
we're now supplied with arms, they defend
I'd themselves to some purpose, and killed
our of their assaiants. Thomas Hogan,
! corporal of the Kings County militia,
vas tried for the murder of those four men,
md was actually found guilty of man
laughter.
Again, at Mountrath, the annual return
# the Orange festival, in July, 1908, had
,een disgraced by the most atrocious MUIR
Ter of the Rev. Mr.. Duane, the Catholic
PRIEST of that parish; and it was followed
Up in the succeeding year by the no less
,arbarous murder Of Catholic of the name
If Kavanagh, into whose house the armed
'eomen rushed, and barbarously fractured
lis skull, in the presence of his wife and
our infant children. On the first day of
his same July,I at Baiiieborough, in the
county Cavan, the Orangetarmed yeomen
vent in a body to the house of the parish
'riest, at whom they fired several shots,
md left him for dead. They then wrecked
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