Smyrna times., 1883-11-28
For the Smyrna Time,
Orangemen and Professionals.

an Orangeman. While thinking it ne
disgrace, Mr.. Record, to be an Orange
man, yet, sir, | must say | never had
my foot inside an Orange Lodge
neither have | ever been intimately nc.
qualnted with an Orangeman. Per
haPs the editor of the Record thinks
that all the PrOtestants of Ireland are
Orangemen. Ifso, Mr.. Record. let me
set you right on that point too, for
WhlIe all Orangemen must of necessity
De PrOtestants, yet it does not follow
Dy any art OF reasoning or logic. that
all Protestants must be Orangemen
And While those Orangemen hold y
very prominent position in the affairs
OF ireland and keep in check those ma
rauders that have devastated Ulster
demolished and burned her churches
and murdered her men, women and
children in the most cruel manner
ever recorded in history, yet, sir, there
Is a greater power behind those ORANGE
men-the Protestant yeOmanry of old
Ulster. Men who have come to the
help OF England in the past, and will
do it again if needed.
These are the men l have been allu-
ding to-not to Orangemen-but the
Professionals of Ireland. Go among
them to-day, Mr.. Record. and inyesti7
gate. Not to South of Ireland as all
your investigators do, clinging to the
skirts OF the agitatOrs, believing it all
gospel which they preach and looking
Tor nothing but misery and suffering.
II they come to six respectable looking
houses they pass these by, until they
come to miserable looking hut. then
they investigate, and the consequence
is, we hear Of the hut, but nothing of
the SIN which had a show of comfort.
| could enlarge upon this subject if
there was need, and bring up as proof
some investigations made in YOUR own
country and l could tell you too of the
! thousands OF starving men and women
! VINO filled the cities of this country a
few years ago and on which YOU will be
preaching yourself, in less than a wear.
as the result of misrule. But | pass
! on.
Now for some plain facts-so plain
that he who runs, NAV read and under
stand. In Ireland there are over one
million OF Protestants-fully one-quar-
ter OF the population-a minority. as
the Record says, but a strong minority,
yea a majority, if "brains" and
character are counted. These
Protestants are nearly all in the
North of Ireland or Ulster. Go and in
Vestigate these million and more and if
you can get five hundred who saw thew
are dissatisfied with English rule, / will
| take back all have said in regard TO
ireland. l have lived there until the
days ofmanhood. Ihave been amongst
every class and condition of men. es-
peclally that class who are designated as
slaves, | mean the farmers; l was born
and raised on the farm where nv
father, grandfather and great-grand
father have lived and worked and died
and which my brother is occupving to-
day, and | can solemnly afTirm if
needs be, that in all nv associations
ana travels, which extended over sew
eral counties, l have never yet heard
one murmur against the English Gov
eminent from a Protestant. Nav, they
are proud of their Government and
their Queen. And | will saw. more
over, that L have travelled over good
part of these United States, | have
been III nearly all the first-class cities
OF the country and l have associated
with my cOuntrymen in them all. and
l never yet have known or heard of a
Protestant Irishman being member of
the Fenlan organization except one.
Here too, is room for investigation.
Ferhaps the editor of the Record knows
now what | have been alluding to.
certalhl would have loved to have
heard those Orangemen speak at that
Fenlan meeting in Philadelphia. The
millennium must surely be near at hand
Tor the " lion and the lamb have lain
down together" Would the Record
please inform me if their speeches have
been published or reported if SO. T
will try and obtain o cow. 7 would
like to stop here, Mr.. Editor, but there
Is one item in that Orange editorial
winch cannot pass by unnoticed.
Hesaysthese 'Orangemen, or prot
estants" are the men who want to eniov
their own religious views but don't ac-
cord others the same privilege What
a libel on the Protestant religion. bv a
Protestant editor, before the reyerbera-
tions of Luther's anniversary have
ceased to sound over the Christian
world =" don't accord others the same
Prar1tege lin great keeping with Mr..
Riggs, sermon as reported in the TIMES.
Who is it, Mr.. Record, to whom Won
are most indebted for the RELIGIONS
freedom which you enjoy tosdayp
Who has fought and bled and died for
that freedom? Who were the chief
participatOrs in that closing drama be-
side the BOyne's dark water " which
established Protestant on the throne
OF england and was the means of Sc
curing the Protestant succession to
that throne for all time to come
which smouldered the fires of per
secution and let them die out in
the ashes of the past? And who
We're those 100, 900 men about one hum
dred years later that petitioned Parlia-
ment to remove certain disabilities
under which the Roman Catholics of
Ireland labored on account of their re-
belliOn? And yet those Professionals
and Orangemen of Ireland don't ac-
cord to others the same privilege IF
another Mary sat on the throne of
England to-day, ! wonder WhO would
De accorded the same privilege? If
ODonovan Rosa, the recognized head
ot.the Fenian organization sat in the
1ACSiuChtldl CldlT vi un lrlSn Republic
| wonder 1UhO would be accorded the
same privilegeP The caves and dens
of the mountains of Ulster would again
become place of refuge for those long
prosecuted Protestants of Ireland (who
have suffered so much fer that Faith
once delivered, to the saints ~: thew
would again have to worship the God
of their fathers on the lonely mountain
tops, with no covering save the azure
dome of Heaven, no carpet but the
green sod of their native heath and there
again they would commune where
their fathers oft communed before
and
Where hoary-headed elders passed
The hallowed bread and wine"
Sheer at the Orangemen of Ireland if
you will, Mr.. Record, but tell me not
that the Protestants of Ireland again
want to put themselves into the hands
of those men, who, for more than a
hundred years hunted them like par.
tridges on the mountains, often ming
ling their blood with their sacrifices