The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-12
FRIDAY. JULY II, 1873,
THE BATTLE or ThE BOYNE
That Ii 10 be Fought Over Again
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IL BOYNE

To-day At Montreal.
On July l2, Is9GftWo kings fought a
battle on the river B6yne 10 Ireland.
Neither Of them WIS an Irishman. One was
from Holland, William the Stakeholder.
The other was Sn Eoglishman, james IL,
who bad ANAL French army. Both
these men hated the Irish. They were
rivals for the Euglish throne. James
va, a Catholic; William was a Protestant.
The descendants Of the English colorists
who had became Irish Protestapts, became
fanatics in support of William. The
Irish Catholics became fanatics in sup
port OF James. In the battle Of the
Boyne, james VS. defeated and FED, leAT.
log hls Irish friends to the mercy Of VIII
liam, who speedily destroyed Irish trade,
broke the treaty OF Limerick, and laid
the foundations Of the Penal code-a
code which DR.. johnson declared more
a4ocious In its effects than the ten Pagan
prosecutions Of the Cbrisians; which
Lscky, the Protestant historian OF rs
,Ionsliam, says Il Ia impossible for any
Irish Protestant to look bsck upon with
out shame and indignation, unless his
mind Be wholly perverted by religious
biso,ry, and which, in its bloody detais,
rsm.ins q shastly monument Of the cru
city Of fierce religion.
Tho treaty Of Limerick would have
constituted q bond Of tolerabls union be.
tsee, the English Protestant King and
his Iri.h Catholic subjects. In exchange
for the surrender Of the citadel and the
city, the Catholic Irish were guar 3
modicum Of iiberty-ths rights they had
uuder Charles II. That sovereign de-
MED them, the right 10 be members OF
corporations; they were excluded from
many civil officer; but Catholic peers and
conmouers could sit in parliament the
bar uas open to them, they could buy and
p.Il land and own other property. The
treaty Of Limerick, signed 10 1891, guar.
nuteed the. rights which James elder
brother had not chosen TO take away.
JuEt two months after the treaty was sigu.
ed, il RasI broken BY King William and
the EuRIiSh parliament. They excluded
all Catholics from parliament;from all OF.
6ces, civil, military, and ecclesiastical;
from the professions Of law and medicine.
On the effect Of these laws, Lecky, who
has no Catholic .prejudiees, says: "The
productive energies Of the nation were
fatally diminished. Almost all Catho-
lies oil energy and talent who refused 70
abandon their faith, emigrated to foreign
lands. The relation Of classes was per-
mausntly yltialed; for almost all The pro-
prietary Of the country belonged to one
religion, while the great majority Of their
,eusuts were OF another. Tue Catholics,
excluded from almost every possibility
Of emineuce, deprived Of their natural
leaders, and consigned by the legislature
to utter Ignorance, soon sank into the con.
didon Of broken and despirited helots. A
total absence OF industrial virtues, u
coMering and AFFECT difference to authori.
", a'recklessness about the futures love
Of secret illegal combinations, became
general among them. Above all, they
learned to regard law as merely the ex.
preston of force, and It's moral weight
was utterly destroyed" This was the
Effect in Ireland Of the victory Of the bat.
tie ofthe Boyne. I, Ia this victory which
the OrangemeD OF Montreal propose 10
celebrate on July r. And since ihey do
insisvoni celebrating 1t, why should they
be interfsred witbf
Every man has the civil right TO make q
fool Of him'elf, 60 long NJ his folly does
not interfere with the civil rights Of
other men. Every man has the right &c
be bigot or fanatic, or 10 parade the
streets tattooed or trapped out like a
Sioux savage provided his conduct does
no, violate Law and provided il is not
morally certain TO drive other fools OF
bigo,I or fanatics or Sioux savages into
breaking the Law. Hhy-the Catholics Of
Montreal should care whether The Orange
luen pitede or not, IA incomprehensible
in Chicsgo. II there are any Uraugeuen
in Chicago, whose Indifference TO The
thermometer will enable them to parade
on the 9Th, they will certainly not be in.
ieriered with. The people OF Montreal
~hodo not syuipathize with the feeliOgs
which inspire the Orange parade, ought
10 have rs much common sense as the
heterogeneous population OF free and
lolerAnt western American city, whose
denirens laugh just as willingly st one
kind oil "circus" "a at another, and who
could not possibly be persuaded to "slir
up the anim1lsp with stick or stone.
This.c6mmon-tenss sort Of liberation it
seems cannot be accllmSted In Canals.
Canadian bigotry, like Canada thistles, is
a rank weed. The prospects ot'a street
battle In Montreal on Friday are very
good, upless the orsngemen change their
announced determination 10 parade.