The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-07-29

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assembloin the names and feyere the mem
oryef George Washington, believing him
- b blsAsea h,y A .i=;ssH. ;s1sy God, in rails
Ing ssIa lasting tribute I'd his memory,
the universal freedoms, both civil aud
religious, of:fhis country to The end of
time. Likewise do they reverence the
name Of Abraham Lincoln, as one whom
the people ofthis country should forever
remember as the great libcrator of 8 sec
ton of the human race.
The Orange Institution lays no claims
to exclusive Professionalism of exclusive
loyalty, but it admits no one to member.
ship, whose, creed, is r not Protestant.
Without this requisite the greatest and
wealthiest may seoksadmission in vain.
That the candidate shall be believed
to be incapable Of prosecuting or inju-
ring any person on account of his rcli-
gious opinions issalso necessary for ad-
mission into the Society. q ga -''''- "
The whole Institution is one neigh
borhood, within which every Orangaman
is at home in the furthest part of the
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world, aud which is the mechanism Of
Institution that whilo its operations are
thus extended, its every movement is
alike felt aud answered in every part.
1u short, the Orange Institution, like
a glorious morning luminary, is intended
to pour its refulgenoe not on one part
only of the eircunfers nee Of the globe
but simultaneously on every portion,
equally enlightened.
The Society ignores politics. 1t has
IS Lodges in New York, sveraging
about 100 members each. There are
also besides large Lodge 10 Newbargh
and one in Potsdam, N. Y, four in
Pennsylvania, FIVE In New jersey, three
in Massachusetts,, and one in Illinois.
The Orangemen. were Joined in their
parade in New York on the 18th inst,
by about one thousand fre hundred
members of the American Protestant
Association, and by about one thousand
other sympathizers, so they had alto.
gether about FIVE Thousand men in line.
They expressed calm determination
to parade, regardless of opposition. They
intended to seek no quarrel, though
they we're prepared to repel one. The
Grand Master and other prominent mem-
bers ofthe Society had received many
threatening letters, prior to the day
on which they had decided to parade,
warning them that if they did go it
would be at the peril of thcit lives.
The Roman Catholic Irish Societies,
chiefly the Ancient order of Hiberpiaps
of the City of New York and vicinity,
number about ten thousand men, of
whom all, it was believed, were prcpar-
ing, previous to Wednesday the 18th, to
parade on that day for the purpose of
cverawing, il not of aHailing the
Orangemen. The Roman Catholics We
hemently declared that the Orangcmen's
object vas to insult their creed and their
manhood, and that they desired to wan
tonly revive. memories of cruel wrongs
and persecution suffered at the hands of
the Protestants i'll Ireland years ago.
They Objected above all, to the COM
niemoraddniof the day in which ireland
was finally crushed under the heel of
British despotism.
Now the Orangemcn deemed them
selves free aud independent subjects of
the United States Government, not lack
ing in allegiance and patriotism to Repub-
lican principles and Republican laws,
and felt that thay had right to celebrate
OF commemorate any day that Was dear to
tnclr rosoms or tneir memory. Hence
their cool and settled determination to
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