The Irish standard., 1886-07-03
The SAME OLD ORANGEMEN.
The Disgracefsl Disturbances CAUSED by the
Bigoted ulsteritea at the; F uneral of
the Author Of 'The Saxon Shilling
HOW LONG 0 LORD, HOW LONG
A National Parliament viii Make Skor
Work Of the Vile Orange 0onspiracies
Against Their Catholic Oountrymen.


''1796. In this year upwards of 1000
Catholics in the county of Armagh
were banished from their homes, their
houses and property burned or pillaged
by the Peep-o'-Day Boys and Orange
men. "--(Compton' Chronology, by j.
Smith, Belfast. 1921
The cable brings us the terrible It'd
ings from Ireland that a poor Irish
navy, driven from bis work by q mob
Of Orange ship carpenters along with
some hundred and fifty others, who
were peacefully pursuing their indus
try at the docks in Belfast, was On Sun
day week carried to his grave, another
martyr for faith and fatherland, by 90
O00 Of The Catholics of Belfast; and this
last tribute to their murdered brother
a funeral procession on the Lord S Gay
was attacked and stoned by those &C
cursed Orange conspirators. which act
will 10 doubt transform the busy hum
OF industry at Belfast into a seetbinl
caldron of religious hatred, and all this
caused by English rule in Ireland.
1t is now exactly 43 years sincel. a
boy, followed to their last place, III
Friars' Bush burying- ground, the re--
mains of the lanented young editor OF
the Belfast Vindicator, K. Thomas
Buggy, author of 1.-The Saxon Shilling
and the stirring songs III the Nation
This gifted gentleman HAD been Sc
lected to conduct the 'Vindicator as su<-
.:essor Of the great Gavin Duffy, who
had, in the previous year, founded the
journal shat was to enlighuen che world
ON the claims Of Ireland to national
legislature, and whose teach
ings are having full fruiJion
in the England Of to-day where they
are to be appealed to the tribunal Of
the people by means of a general cleo
zion. Az this Sunday morning fuaera!
we had to pass through the notorious
Orange district of Sandy Row, and
although the funeral had been arranged
at very early hour in order to avoid q
collision with these demons in human
shape, the sacredness OF paying the
last tribute to the dead aroused only
theic tliabolical fury. And so along the
route Of the sad procession we had to
march, thousands strong, amid the
ieers. the insults and the missile throw
ing OF an Orange mob, largely consist
ing of women and girls--tiaose en-
ployed in the factories of Belfast~-and
/ regret to add, encouraged in this dia-
bolical work by their employers and
men calling themselves ministers OF The
Gospel.
Well may we exclaim, s. How long
OLord, how long?' when we find TO-
day history repeating itself as it was ia
Belfast forty-three years ago.
May j not appeal to your readers in
support OF Ireland's autonomy, when
we find such a deplorable state of
things as this Orange conspiracy al
lowed by the English Government in
Ireland to exist for ninety years, it
having established its first lodge near
Armagh in 1896. Those conspirators
have carried On a warfare against their
Catholic countrymen for all these years,
have been guilty of dreadful crimes and
many murders, and have been con-
ae1nned by a speech from the throne in
1884. Parliamentary inquiries have
been made into it's origin and history
even by the great O'Connell, but the
Wings and Che Tories alternately CO.
uuetted with it to serve their own
party purposes and persecute the
neaceful Catholics of the. North of Ire
land.
must say right here that the cow
ard]v conduct of those Catholics who,
for generations, have allowed their
brethren in the North to be 50 per-
secuted by these vile conspirators is
only worthy OF the most supreme con-
tempt.
l had the Orange conspirators PIN
ioned by Parliament ana public opin-
ION in 1854, Wheu Lord - Hagan "as
Attorney General, but he had his eye
too firmly set on the Irish woolsack
and a peerage to have bill passed de-
claring the Orange conspiracy a felony
and its followers felons, as wished him
to do. Now he is gone to his account,
leaving his brother Catholics in Ulster
to be murdered, wayl:sid and robbed OF
their substance while hisznemory has a
coronet to add lustre. tOib::
Please God, our Irish Parliament will
make short work Of this vile Orange
conspiracy.
The above was clipped from our ex-
cellent contemporary the Springfield
Herald, and was written by an Ulster
man, The IRISH STANDARD approves
every statement therein contained
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