The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-20
From the Vicksburg Herald. July l3.
The New Work Riots.

For some days past New York has been
in feyerish state OF anxiety. Yesterday
was the anniversary of the battle of the
Boyne, and the Orangemen of New York
and adjacent towns proposed 10 celebrate il.
as is their custom. Serious fears of bloody
riot have oppressed the public mind-fears
which the events of yesterday demonstra-
| ted were not groundless. The preparations
of the authorities seem to have averted the
disastrous results anticipated. but the tele
graph reports good many killed and large
numbers wounded.
The annexed article from the Cincinnati
Enquirer " ill Xplain to some of our young
er readers some of the causes of Bitterness
between OFangemen and Catholics. The
quarre' is more than two hundred years old.
1t commenced on the other side of the At
lantic, but it RACES as hercely to-day in
America as it did then in Ireland. The
lapse OF nearly two centuries has only in
tensified the bitterness OF the p st, and the
blood shed yesterday in New York demon
strates how wide, deep and intense is the
difference between the Orangemen and
Catholics of the nineteenth century
oRANGEMFN AND CATHOLICS.
The 18th of July is the anniversary of the
battle of the BOyne, which was fought near
that river. in Ireland, in 1890. between Will
liam the Third of England (called William
of Orange), at the head of com bined force
of English. German and allied detachments
of almost every Protestant kingdom of Eu-
rope, and ex-King James the Second, with
an invading army of Frenehmen and Irish
men. The battle was decisive one, ending
in the complete overthrow OF James and his
Catholic supporters.
If there was bad blood between the Pro-
testant Irishmen and Catholic Irishnien be-
fore the battle of the Boyne. the result of
that conflict served to Intensity and fix more
firmly than ever the pre-existing hatred of
the parties for one another. About a CEN
fury later, secret societies began TO make
themselves felt on the side of the Catholic
Irishmen, through associations called The
Defenders" or - Rib bonner - Ostensibly
to count@fact the Catholic secret societies.
the Orange organization was founded in the
North of Ireland in 1895. The official desig-
nation of this body is THE Loyal Orange
Institution" 1t is composed exclusively of
Protestants. and its professed objects are to
support and defend the reigning King or
Queen of Great Britain, the Protestant rel-
zion. the legislative union Of Great Britain
and Ireland, and the succession TO the throne
in the present royal family so long as it re-
mains Protestant. They associate also in
honor of King William the Third, Prince OF
Orange, whose name they bear, las support
ers OF his glorious memory
The or ganizatlon has five degrees or or
ders. the highest being called the Scarlet
Degree. They have every element necessa-
ry tc the maintenance of a secret political
organization. Any member marrying a
Catholic must be instantly expelled. Ii has
its grand lodges. After the formation in
1895 of the Orange Association. the two OPP
positeS societies, Orange and Ribbonmen.
were soon involved in fierce hostility with
each other; and as nearly the whole country
belonged to one or the other OF the associa-
tions, all tho inhabi ants were in some dis
tricts arrayed under opposite banners, and
were ALWAYS ready for mutual conflict The
law was powerless for their suppression, be-
cause witnesses were intinlidated. and jury
men sometimes refused to convict culprits
belonging to their own order.
The Ribbonmen became the "Catholic
Association" and they aud the Ofan9emen
in 1898, in the North of Ireland. made yio-
lent demonstrations, and shed each others
blood. In the following year the celebrat-
ion by the Oraugefnen OF the anniversary OF
the Boyne led to bloody conflicts In several
counties, in which many were killed and
wounded on both sides. The interpretation
of the military alone suppressed the distur-
Dances. A Parliamentary investigation
was had in 1895, which led to the detection
OF the fact that there were Orange lodges in
thir ty-fOur regiments OF the army. The fol-
lowing year the Imperial Grand Master. the
Duke of Cumberland, was compelled 20 dis
solve the Institution in Ireland. It was
again revived in l845. and still maintains les
influence In the British Isles 1t was intro
tiuced into British America i'm 1879 and in
1861 it had LIDO lodges and about 10000
members The statistics OF the organiza-
ton In the United States have not been
made public, norsthe particular form Of the
obligation 70 be taken and observed by each
member IL has been, asserted through
public Journals shat the oath eha each mem
Der in the United States takes on admissi0n
Is the s4me as that taken Ia Great Britain.
aud the Organization has on that account
been denounced as Anti-American. In the.
British isles the professions of the associat-
lon are forbidden by law. 1hat y not the
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