The Irish standard., 1893-06-03
ORANGE cow
The Dastards Exposed in all Their
Hideous Defor1nity by an
Irish Protestant.
THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE,

HE DAl LIE UF lHE BUY NE1
King William Despised the Orange
Guerillas and Executed Them
by the Dozen.
No event of ancient or modern times
has been SO mendaciously and persist
entity misrepresented as the Battle of the
Boyne, writes A. L. Morrison in the Irish
World. Year after year the same hoary
falsehoods are dragged out of their dis
honored graves and set up for the wor-
ship of drunken Orange fanatics; the
same hatreds which have cursed Ireland
for 200 years are annually invoked to in
fame the murderous passions Of the
most infamous, goddess race of bigots
that ever blighted the earth. Any one
who places the slightest credence in
their clustering bravados might be led to
believe that the Orangemen of the 18th
century drove James II. from the throne
of the Stuarts and placed his crown on
the head of his loving SON. in-law. It is
not a supposable case that the dastards
who celebrate the 18th of July by MUIR
dering their innocent neighbors can ever
be brought to see themselves as others
see them, but 1 think it is our duty to ex-
pose them to the world in all their hide
Gus deformity. For the information Of
any American who might be misled by
Orange lying, I present plain historic
statement of the action at the Boyne on
July 1st 60. S.) 1890. The conquests of
Louis XIV. had produced such conster-
nation among the rulers of Europe that
it was deemed necessary to organize a
general alliance, which was designated
the League Of Augsburg. This great
League was composed of the Emperor of
Germany, the Electors Of Saxony, Ba-
varia, and Brandenburg, the Elector
Palatine, the Circles of Suabia and Fran
conf, the Kings of Spain and Sweden,
the Dutch Republic, the Dnke of Savoy,
and Pope Innocent XII. William, Prince
of Orange, was then stakeholder of Hol-
land and was at the head of this mighty
combination. When he invaded Ireland
he had under his command thirty-four
British, four Huguenot, eleven Danish,
fifteen Dutch, aud nine Hiberno- Will
liamite or Orange regiments. These
were all regulars and all but the Orange
men were veterans of the wars of the
League. Besides these, thousands of
Orange guerillas followed in the track of
tie army, giving loose rein to their hell
ish passions and leaving behind them
"plundered homes and ruined shrines,' -
murder, rapine and desolation. Taylor,
an English Protestant writer, says of
them:
"The soldiers of Schomberg were as
founded by the appearance of the men
whose fame had been SO loudly trumpeted
in England. They were descended from
the Jewellers and Covenanters, they pre-
served all the gloomy fanatacism Of their
fathers and believed the slaughtering of
Papists an act of religious duty. They
we're robbers and murderers on principle,
FOR they believed themselves commits
stoned to remove idolatry (Catholicism)
from the land. William himself despised
them most heartily and subjected them
to military execution by the dozen for
violating the laws of war;"
Speaking of the treatment of the garri-
son of Carrickfergus alter most heroic
defence, Taylor says:
''They were subjected to treatment
which darkens the history of the time;
crimes too abominable for recital were
perpetrated by the foreign mercenaries
on the defenseless inhabitants of the
town. They were the outcasts of society,
familiar with every crime, abandoned to
every excess. Vices for which Ian
guage scarcely ventures to find name;
denominations that may not be de-
scribed, aud can, scarcely be imagined,
were constantly practiced by these ban
dts
And in all these vices without name
and cminations that can hardly be im.
agined or described, the Orange robbers
and murderers on principle participated
to the fullest extent in behalf of Prot
estant Ascendancy. But volumes could
be filled with the worse than Pagan
crimes of this bloody and inhuman brood
Of vipers. The advance of civilization
and the higher appreciation of the benign
doctrines of the Lord of love and peace
have produced an almost total elimina
tion of the hateful spirit Of religious ran
cor and persecution from the hearts of
civilized men. ] was abont to except
Orangemen, but that need not be done,
as they cannot be classed among civilized
people. No advance has been made by
them in the gentle arts Of love and toler-