The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-07-29
THE RIOT I'm NEW YORK.

|SE Bi9 Ca SsS1SeN%s-s s41 Sh--s ~ 'isS 80 ~ :
'assz tsarNosiea Stinle has the CITY of New
Tes"f York been id sasb a fever. of excitement
So, s-1. az y was on the l2th of this month.
Indeed, this whole continent was exer-
cised and excited on that day. Aud for
1yhst -2Tbceapse eu q. organization, harm
fess in its purpose, aud as faithful as any
under the sun in its allegiance to the
s1a'sa dosern,hedt in which it exists, desired
to parade the streets of that Metropolis.
The readers of the ORANGEBuRG News
will very naturally ask, how could this
cause SO much oxciteapt Well, we will
tell them in as few words as the thing
ta can be put.
-, There is Society in this country
vtd known as the Orangemen's organization.
ssar ;Itexistsialso in Europe, and dates from
zszss ssl7a5 ? though it is stated that more than
F 40 "a'hundred years before that time they
/. 80 -, had actively aided tho British Govern.
| "a ment in Ireland. with the view of main
/. rsAstaining the Protestant asceudancy. They
zreq yderited their name from William of
~ Orange, whose portrait they placed on
|SA 70 their banners. In the Irish Rebellion
- Of 1923, they served the British Gov
ernment against their Roman Catholic
tsxa aeountrymen with all the fervor of re-
60 s;EiligiousEeal They were bound together
|ss ,s'"sby secret organization, with signs and
f7a' passwords, and branches of the Society
were established in England, aud uti-
-, "a matoly in Canada and the United States
,E,a 1Aeir rallyins songs were numerous and
suias1 extremely offensive to the Roman Catho-
nispd kcs, who were sore from, defeat Crop
pies lie down" is the air which the Ro-
snan Catholics insist must not be played
on "Wednesday. The Irish PEASANTS had
n 10 their hair cut sehort duying the Rebel
sasejEa ioeT hencc the.namc "Croppies" The
|sI kj0raagemen commemorate by their pa
so Ss'gsssas, shs battle Of .Aulg,hrim, in which
. the Catholics suffered a disastrous defeat
-, on the. 18th Of July, 1890 Tllc battle
-gais of The, Beyae, in which the Roman
sasszsasa.holics serc also defeated, was on the
sses S6sh Of .Jdly preceding Tho English
nsP' PaSliansea at, many years ago, in order to
f P1erent, # possible, the frequent blood
g { shed, incident to such demonstrations,
prohibited the Orangcmsn from holdiug
EA4a their parades on the anniversary of the
sa&sg battle of 'Aagtrim They were so
@''S Tenacious upon the point, however, that
they often violated the las, though their
&C. leaders we're arrested aud punished and
ssSs4 they seemed sidctormineditc reaew here
.SseSzsbe eancien obseryancc % S'F'9R F'ss
"ss - The Orange Society Of the United
- States, according TO the. .e.ste,pents of
sI,, The Grapd Masser. john, j Bond, has
%xa been as7distinct Organization for two
S. 4 years. The Supreme Lodge, as it is
80 scalled, is in England, and under char
71atsr granted ~ it, the Society has been
80 go established here for about four years IL
al was thought. hos ,vevcr, that the Aneri
10 scaa branch SHOULD be an independent
ys'+'nneranization- to avoid accusations of
@&A want Of allegiance to. the Government
ss~ The general declaration Of the princi-.
-, pies of the Society is that the Loyal
81 Orange institution Of the United States
.zos1ete America isl formed by persons desirous
seksofSsupposting, to the utmost Of their
g@s rover ths principles aud preoepts Of the
- Protestant religion. 70 maintain the laws
ar and Copstisution pf this seeantry, afford
assistance 10 distressed members of The
So Grdsfs aud otherwise to promote such
81 aaudablo and benevolent purposes as may
y tend 60 the due ordering Of religious and
Christian charity, and tho supremacy of
law, order and the Constitution.
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