The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-06
THE MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY


despOtio power in the name Of liberty
those insurgents had organized their rebel
| lion, and formed themselves into q commit
tee, who sat and tried the Catholic weavers
and Inhabitants, when apprehended falsely
and Illegally as deserters. That rebellioue
com n,ittee they called the Committee of
Elders, who, when the unfortunate Catho-
| lie was torn from his family aud his loom
| and brought before them, in Judgment upon
his case, if he gave them liquor or money
they sometimes discharged him-other-
wise they sent him to recruiting office as
a deserter: They had very generally given
dwellings, which notice was plastered on
the house, and conceived in these short but
plain words: $50 to hell; Connaught
won't receive you-fire and faggot. Will
Tresham and John Thrustoat." They
followed these notices by faithful and
punctual execution of the horrid threat
soon after visited the house, robbed the
family, and destroyed what they did not
take, and finally completed the atrocions
persecution by forcing the unfortunate in
habitants to leave their land, their dwell
ings and their trade, aud to travel with
their miserable family and with what
ever they could save from the wreck
of their houses and tenements, and
take refuge in villages, as Notifications
against invaders, where they described
themselves, as he had seen in their affida-
Wits, in the following manner: "We
mentioning their names), formerly of Ar
magh, weavers, now of no fixed place of
instances, this banditti of persecution
threw down the houses of the tenantry, or
what they called racked the house, so that
the family must fly or be buried in the
grave of their own cabin
This hateful persecution soon extended
hnu Arm nh, ~
Orangeism was found a potent instrument
in first provoking the general Insurrection,
and then in helping to suppress it, or ra-
Their in looking on while English troops
and Hessians suppressed it. Ever since
those dreadful times the same system of
atrocity has prevailed though it took the
form rather of triumphal professions with
arms and these PROFESSIONS have proved
almost as destructive as the nightly on
slaughts, and also much more Insulting.
For this day we close with single other
extract exhibiting the type Orange process
and town from Enniskillen to Carrickfer-
gus, and from Derry to Newry, any time
these fifty years. The writer of the de-
scription is the author of the work we are
citing from.
In some districts of that country Protest
ants are the majority of the people. The
old policy of the Government has been to
arm the Protestants and disarm the Catho-
lies. The magistrates at all sessions are
Orangemen or high British loyalisss. In
these districts, therefore, Catholics lead the
lives of dogs-lie down in fear and rise
up with foreboding; their worship is in
suited, and their very funerals are made
versaries comes round-the days of Augh-
rim and the Boyne. The pious Evangelists
must celebrate those disastrous but hard
fought battles, where William of Nassau,
with his army of French Huguenots, Danes
and nuto a5 oV YER tne pHWer OF
hewers of wood and drawers of water even
unto this day. Lodges assemble at some
central point with drums and fifes playing
the =" Protestant Boys" At the rendezvous
are the grand masters, with their sashes
and aprons--a beautiful show. Procession
formed, they walk in lodges, each with it's
banner of orange or purple, and garland of
orange lilies borne high on poles. Most
have arms-yoemanry, muskets or pistols,
or ancient swords whetted for the occasion.
They arrive at some other town or village,
dine in the public houses, drink the "Glori-
GUS, pious end immortal memory of King
William" and ITO hell with the Pope"
reform their procession after dinner, and
then comes the time for Protestant action.
They march through a Papist townland; at
every house they stop and play "Croppies
Lie Down" and the "Boyne Water"
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the same time. The doors are shut
the family in terror-the father stand
ing On the floor with knitted brows
and teeth clenched through the neither lip,
grasping pitchfork (for the police long
since found out and took away his gum.
Bitter memories of the feuds of ages dark
en- his soul. Outside, with haunting music
and brutal jests and laughter, stand in
their ranks the Protestant community. The
old grand mother can endure no longer;
she PUSHES out with gray hair streaming,
and kneels on the road before them she
clasps her old thin hands and curses them
in the name of God and His Holy Mother.
Loud laughs are the answer, and shot or
two over the house OF in through the win
dow. The old crone, in frantic exaspera-
ton, takes up stone and hurles it with
feeble hands against the insulting crew.
There the first assault is committed;
erythpg is lawful now; smash go the
ungazed windows and their frames zeal
GUS Professionals rush into the house raging;
the man is shot down at his own threshold,
the cabin is wrecked, and the procession,
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