Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-20
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Correspondence Of the Oincinnsh Commerclul
NEW York, July Is, 1s71.-A host o
writers have rushed into print during th'
past week, defending and announcing ihs
Orange Society, giving its history in diff
ferent styles, and betraying a great dea
OF zeal and greater amount of ignor
ance on the subject. asa "a -.
Orangeism is commonly stated TO have
been founded by the soldiers of William
Prince Of Orange, after the subjugatior
of that portion of the Irish people who
took arms in defence of James III, aftel
bis hasty abdication of the crown OF
England; but 1t is not true. The gallant
defenders of Sltd81ats. d'hoeho, dirty
James, and the brave companions OF
William, never heard of any such organi.
cation while in the flesh. Long after the
decease Of the last OF the Stuarts, and
during the reign of Geogge III, the socie-
ty was founded by an interruptions fac.
ton in the interest of those who favored
the Act of Union between England and
Ireland, which has been vehemently Op.
posed by the great Protestant statesmen
of Ireland, namely, Grattap, CurIan,
Ponsonby and Egan. s
THE ORDER OF oRANGRIsM
Was instituted in the year 1894, by Mr..
Thomas Wilson, of Dyon, County Ty-
rome, ireland, or the estate of Lord Cal
larton, and organized the following year.
1t first consisted of only one degree, viz
Orangeism. Afterwards, in 1896, The
Purple Degree was added, by John Tenn
pleton, of Loughgall. Portadown, County
Armagh, Ireland. Subsequently the Marks.
mans Degree and the Heroine of Jericho
were added, but they were abolished
about forty years ago. The corner. stone
of the organization was opposition to the
emancipation of Catholics, which was SO
strenuously and eloquently advocated by
Grattan and CuTran, after the memorable
restoration of Ireland's Independence, in
1882. The liberal Protestant was in
favor of the religious enfrauchisement of
his fellow countrymen; the illlberal ones
the Orangemen-wefe not. Castlerealgh,
too, fostered and assisted the society with
money and Office when, in conjunction
with Pitt, he was preparing his famous
Act of Union which Byron, when sdYO-
eating the EmancipaiisD Act in the House
of Lords, designated ga union of the
shark with its prey" DR.. johnson, fifty
years before Byron spoke, counseled, at
one of his evening parties or receptions,
a number Of his Irish friends to beware
of union with England IF we urite
with YOU" said the great photographer,
cit viii be t rob you.n
From the pas ;ny of the Act of Union
in 1900, TO tho d mise of George The
Fourth, Orangeism attracted little atien-
ton outside of the province OF Ulster;
but when ''tbe fourth of the fools and
oppressors called George" as Byron calls
him in his well known poem, rTF
THE IRISH AvATAR,
Died, it began to move again for, as loyal
subjects of the British Crown said at the
time, an unlawful purpose. When George
the Glutton died, he was succeeded by
the Duke of Clarence as William The
Fourth. His brother, the Duke of Kent,
would succeed him, but before William
died, the latter had shuffled off his mortal
coil, and left as his heir Tor heiress) the
Princess Victoria. William, like his
brother George, died childless. The
surviving son, Ernest, of George the
Third, and brother to the father of Vic
toria, conceived the idea of succeeding
his brother, to the exclusion of the pres
emf Queen, whose mother, it was
said, indoctrinsted the young Indy
with the teachings and prejudices
of the Popish Church. Holding
a high position IN the army, and being
quite popular, he set to work to corrupt
il; he made it great Orange Association,
but when the time approached for him 10
put his design into shape he failed; the
Tower and the gsllows at Tyburn looraed
up before his minds eye each hour he
imagined that the crown of England was
within reach. Victoria quietly assembled
the throne when her uncle died; Orange
ism was staggered at the applause which
greeted the blushing maiden the day she
was crowned; il cursed and fumed, but
dared not commit any overt act against
the style and dignity of the successor of
William "; it roared like Bottom on the
1st and 18th of July, and shot down
Catholics in honor of its anniversaries,
and went to bed with the blood of de-
fepseless men and boys upon its garments
and consciences, and charged with alco-
holic and fermented draughts which were
SO much incense to the names of William
III, who never heard of such q society
while Prince in Holland or as King of
England.
The Right Hon. Richard Lair Thiel,
Master of the Mint when he died, in a
speech delivered in the English House of
Commons, August IL, 1885, exposes the
doiDgs of this society throughout Ireland,
and the movements of Ernest, Duke of
Here's an extract:
''Sir-There is q consideration of in
finite importance connected with his Royal
Rlghness, and, Independent of his knowl
edge or ignorance, is il BETTING that any
British subject should possess the power
of which he has made himself the mas
teI2 Is it safe that prince of the blood
should be intrusted with this portentous
He is declared by the rules Of
the English Grand Lodge, Git had extend
ed to England to be absolute and uncon.
trollable; he is addressed with species
of prophetic greeting: Hail that shall
be King hereafter an aphorism of the
ology. If that prediction shall be YER
flied, if by some fatality, England shall
be deprived of the Princess, who, if ma
ternal virtues be hereditary, must be wise,
and gentle, and gOod-if, sir, the Im2eri-
al Grand Master be fssed to be the soVe-
reigu of this vast empire, | trust that by
one hundred thousand Irish Janissaries
(OrangemeD) the throne of Ernest the
First viii never be surrounded "
AN ORANGE LODGE
Consists of Master, Secretary, two War
dens, and members. The candidates
MIST be over twenty-five years of age,
born of rProtestant-any kind of parents
except CatholiCs-and must not be
married to q Catholic, nor have any
brothers or sisters married TO the same.
Each member takes the following oath,
kneeling in presence of the officers, after
q probation of two months, and having
been vouched for as fit and worthy
person to assume the obligations and dis
charge the duties of an OraDgeman by
three members in good standing:
81, A B, in the presence of
the eternal, everything, omnpCtent God,
and the members Of this noble Lodge, do
solemrly promise and swear that | will
always hail, forever conceal, and never