The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-20


but whether it Is worth pett;ro That once
settled the HERALD's special news columns
will satisfactorily tell the rest. y
The Twelfth OF JuIy-Is Thers ~, NJ
an Orange Processionr
A rumor has been circulated to the efy.cs
that the Orange societies of this citv bava
resolved to parade on the 18th of July next
to the number of several thousands
and that it is their intention to arm
themselves with revolvers for the oc-
casion. We do not credit the latter part Of
TINS report believing it to be of sensational
character. set afoat without regard to truth.
Al the same time it is calculated to do mis-
cniei II not contradicted, and hence it may bo
wen ior Inc Orange societies, if they have really
oe'ermined on procession, to promptly and
anthorltatively deny that they have any inten-
ton to go armed, and at the same time To cau-
ton all persons who may belong to the socie-
ties to avoid carrying any weapons of anv de-
scription on the day of the parade. But why
should the Orangemen parade at all? Bywhat
right or reason do they transplant their secret
political society from the soil of the British
empire to the free land of the repub-
Lie of the United States, and give
US the trouble and scandal of its en-
Filtered fruit2 Do they need now, a.
American citizens, to defend the reigning
monarch of Great Britain from the intriguea
and plots of the wicked Papists-to protect
the Protestant religion the laws of England,
the legislative union of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the succession to the throne
in Protestant royal family2 Do they
suppose that American citizens care any
more for William of Orange and tho
Battle Of the Boyne than for Daniel O'Con-
nell and Donnybrook Fair? Do they imagine
that the people of New York desire to witness
the scenes Of Clare, Armagh and Fermanagh re-
enacted In the metropolis2 What good can
they derive from the display Of their banners
and the playing of 'Croppies Lie Down in
the streets of the city they have adopted as
their homer
Every citizen of the United States is free
agent, and is entitled to be the keeper Of
his own conscience and the controller of his
own acts, so long as they are decent and law
full. But we believe that the spirited and en-
terprising mon who have abandoned tho
old country and voluntarily become citizens
of our republic commit grave error when
enmities and hatreds that grew out Of the sys-
tenn of government they have repudiated and
disowned. Catholics can reverence the Pope
to their hearts content; Orangemen can pray
to be protected against Papistry as fervently a.
they may desire; every person may worship
any divinity he pleases on American soil, and
follow any faith his conscience may dictate.
But it would be better if naturalized citizens
would cast off with their allegiance all those
prejudices and passions to which, had they
been born under republican institu-
tons, they would have always been
strangers. Last year the Orange procession
nearly produced bloody riot in our streets.
although on matter of principle the Orange
men were protected in their right to parade.
The triumph was not the triumph Of the
Orangemen, but Of the free institu-
tons of the country. The threatened
riot was not averted through the bravery of
the processionists, but through the frmness Of
the press and the steady courage and admira-
BILE conduct Of the police. This year, if the
parade should take place, it will be regulated
by the law of the last Legislature, which prohib-
it's the interruption of traffic on any railroad
track; requires due notice of the time, object
and route of the procession to be given to the
police authorities; authorizes the said authori-
ties to designate how much in width
Of the streets 1t can occupy, and re-
quires them to furnish sufficient
property and the preservation Of peace and
order. AS the law still authorizes such process
sions as the Orangemen propose, under these
they, of course, have right to
parade if they think proper. If they do we do
not believe they will be interfered with
by the Catholic portion of the Irish
American population. The latter will have
sense enough to mind their own business.
But we believe the procession, and every
of the kind, to be in bad taste
and in bad spirit, unworthy of our free insti-
buttons and unbecoming adopted citizens; and
we hope to see the time when Orange
parades, st. Patrck's parades and every other
imported parade will be voluntarily abandoned.
The Fourth of July and Washington's Birth
day ought to be celebrations good enough for
every American, whether of native or foreign
birth.
Tho Seizures or City Property.
The necessity to levy on the property Of tho
city in satisfaction Of judgments obtained
against the city treasury furnishes strange