The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20
" THE IRISHRIOTS."

Editor Telegraph The press all over the
country is teeming with the fercest abuse OF
the misguided men who attacked the Orange
Procession in New York on the 18th inst,
and letters have appeared in the city Dali
lies calling on all American Protestants to
unite against the Catholics, SC. Now this, it
strikes me, arises from a hasty and ignorant
view of the matter. I do not deny the crime,
the unjustifable attempt at mob law, but
can find some excuse for it, which it seems 9TH
ers cannot, and denounce most strenuously
the attempt that is being made implicitly to
make the Orangemen the opponents of toll
erance and liberty, and the Hibernians the ex-
ponents of attempted intolerance. $3.50
AS am an Irishman, and know whereof
speak, and am not either Catholic. Fenian,
Orangeman or bigot, i cannot be accused of
prejudice, when say that there is something
far beyond or above religious differences of
opinion in the opposition of the Hibernians
to the Orangemen. And further that for the
most brutal instances of intolerance and tyr
amy, the American may successfully search
the records of the Orange party. sffs.
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No /! 1t is not religion that breeds the dis
cord. for the Hibernians are by no means all
Catholics, butIit is the ranking hate all Irish
men worthy of the name must feel for those
bitter, bigoted traitors who, since 1895, have
annually gloried in the conquest of their
country and the thraldom of her sons. Orange
ism means tyranny, insult and conservatism.
AM n ST m
republicanism. And Americans if they only
stopped to think, ought to see little to COM
mend in the attempt of the Orange bigots of
New York to renew their demonstrations of
annual insult and haunting, hell-born glee
dashed in the faces OF the lovers of our unhap-
py Isle. f.,.a ..f4a.a aA n9.s18.
Let the Hibernians then be condemned for
their mistaken display of patriotism, but pity
whilst you condemn-and recollect that the
spirit which invoked such bitter hostility to
the Orangemen on the 18th is the same spirit
which caused the battle-felds of the late war
to reek with the blood of American Irish
recollect that the same spirit knit the hearts
of my noble countrymen with yours in the
fierce struggle just gone by, and when the
sunshine of success at last shone forth on the
morrow of your day of gloom, remember that
the welcome ray fell cherries and unseen up
on bleeding pyramids Of our commingled
slain -. Iss3A 81 - 8s
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aea d Y KENosHA, July 18th, 1871.
Mr.. EDITOR AS there are large number
Of our American citizens in Kenosha that are
unacquainted with the organization called
as it is something of recent
origin in this country, I would for their in
formation throw outa suggestion with regard
to them.
Orangemen are secret political organiza-
ton that are bound together by the most
exacting oaths, swearing allegiance to the
British Government, and to oppose all efforts
OF the patriotic Irish, both Catholic and Prot
estant in gaining their Independence. AS II
said before, there are a large number of our
Americans and also Irish Americans that had
an idea that all Irish Protestants were Orsnge.
men. but it is not So Lhaye known Irish
Professionals that were just as much opposed
to the Orange organization as any Catholic.
They stand in the same relation to Orange
men as the great body of Irish Catholics do
to Fenians and Ribbonmen. think the.
Catholic Church has shown great wisdom in.
condemning all secret olitical organizations,
as the late affairs of Paris and New York will
AMERICAN CITIZEN.