The New York herald., 1872-07-11
The Orange Parade.

The Orange Parade.
The advent of the 18th of July is looked
forward to with feelings of apprehension by
the order-loving portion of the community, be-
cause q foreign faction wishes to transplant
its idiotic quarrels to the free soil Of America
With the cause and origin of the Orange Society
in Ireland we have nothing to do. II may be
the bulwark of civil and religious liberty,
which its friends claim it to be, or the baneful
curse of ON unhappy land as its enemies pro-
nounce it; all we are certain of is that here in
free America it seems resolved to make itself q
nuisance by transferring the hatred and
strife of another hemisphere to our
shores. The scenes enacted in the
streets of our city on the last 18th of
July will not soon be forgotten, and con-
siderable apprehension has been felt lest these
scenes should be renewed on the coming
anniversary. The vigorous action of the
authorities last year has not however,
been without it's beneficial results, and the
demagogues who urged q thoughtless and
passionate people to acts of violence have been
reduced to silence. Whatever may be thought
of the good taste or judgment of the members
of the Orange Society in unfurling in this
country banner which has always been the
signal of strife in their own, SO long as they
keep within the law they shall receive the full
protection which is the right Of every citizen.
In the vindication of the liberty of individual
opinion too many were shot down in our
streets on the last 18th Of July and in sup
port of the same principle the same sharp and
decisive action would be resorted to again if
necessity called for it. Fortunately it seems
! if no danger of riot or breach of the peace
existed All intention Of interfering with the
parade has, we believe, been abandoned by the
opponents Of the Orangemen but the precau-
ton of the authorities will be in no wise relaxed
We are glad to be able to allay the natural
apprehension which has existed on this sub
ject, and if the press of the city will only
refrain from inhammatory remarks on the
subject of the parade we may hope to see the
18th of July pass off without any serious
breach of the peace. The noisy agitators who
were so prominent last year in urging the
poorest and most ignorant class Of the Irish
population to acts of violence have not appeared
upon the scene, and if they should we hope the
police will take instant charge of them as in
stigators Of violence and riot
1t is to be hoped that the defenders of the
GLORIOUS, pious and immortal memory of King
William will be satisfied with the assertion of
their right to parade, and that when they lay
aside their orange regalia on the evening
of the coming 18th they will come to the
resolution to trouble the peace of this
city no more. II their enthusiasm for
the memory of the great William is such
that they must honor his memory they can do
so with eminent propriety in their lodges, free
from danger of interference from their enemies
of the green. 1t cannot be that there is any
clause in their secret code which compels them
to trouble other people by an offensive and un-
necessary dragging of their coats through the
streets.of foreign city for their opponents to
tread on. This kind of amusement be-
longs to time in the history of Ireland that
every decent Irishman tries to forget, and we
can scarcely be expected to permit the estab-
ishment of Donnybrook Fair in the United
States at a time when the fair with its coat
trailing has been suppressed in its native
land. We are patient and long-suffering
people, but there is limit even to our good
nature and if this practice of foreign factions
renewing their animosities and combats in
our midst be continued we shall at last be
compelled to suppress all foreign celebrations
whatever. Hitherto we have borne them with
exemplary patience, but the prospect of having
our streets turned into battle fields for hos
tile factions, to the danger of the peaceable
inhabitants, is something which we shall not
endure. There is no reason why American
citizens should be subjected to a yearly pen
ance far worse than the traditional wooden
shoes and peas in the brogue'' punishment,
which the Orange fraternity so much dread;
and rather than submit to it we should resign
ourselves to seeing the fanatics depart from our
shores for the land of bogs that they love so
WELL but, strangely enough, are so anxious to
quit. By all means let these rivals of the
Orange and Green who desire to settle up the
old score return to their native bogs, or to the
banks of the classic Boyne where they may
fight that famous battle over again to
their hearts content. We shall wish
them godspced in their pilgrimage
to the shrine of their favorite saints, and
only hope that the associations may prove
too strong to permit their return to a
soil so uncongenial as ours to that hearty and
enduring hate upon which the Orange and
Green factions feed and flourish. We make
this suggestion to the rival factions in all sober
earnestness. If they cannot make up their
minds to abandon the advantages in this coun-
try which draw them from that of their love
let them arrange yearly excursions to the bog
side at Derry or to the banks of the Boyne, where
they can drink the pious and immortal memory