Year: 1878

Lord Duffern made an excellent speech 40 To-
ronto on the 2Gh nst to the delegation Of the Irish
Protestant Benevolent Association. His LOrdship
dwelt strongly upOn what he designated as the
unaccountable exacerbation and recrudescence OF
party feuds and religious animosites." He narrated
his personal observation Of them in Belfast, help
lessly given over for an ontre week into the hands
of two contending religious factions.D He saw the
dead bodies of young men in the prime
of life. lying cold upon tho floors Of
hospitalsi tho delicate forms Of young women
writhlng In agony upon the hospital beds
the victims Of traditonary ill-wil and Of senseless
and wicked wrath. Lord Dufferin askedlwlth great
force, what could be more Cain-like more insane
than to import into America this bloodthrsty strife
and these brutal quarrels, religious and political of
Protestant and Catholic, Of Orangeman and of
Unionmanf lie inoulcated mutual forbearance and
a generous Hberal,ty Of sentiment. He did not
think that the evil could be elfeotually and radically
remedied by statutory provisions or re-
strictions or even by the interference of
an armed executive the cure would be
found in making wholesome and right the public
opinion of the community. The Society which he
addressed Is understood 10 be of the same opinion
and to be actuated by broad and liberal spirit.


There has been from time 10 time observable in
this country and particularly in this city tendency
to revive these old time and Old World Quarrels,
resulting in some instances, in fragrant breaches
of the peace and riots Of considerable magnitude.
II man in New-York who wishes 10
fight over here and again the Battle OF
the Boynea can be considered amenable
in the least to reason il Ia to be wished that the
sensible voice Of Lord Dufforin could be brought
home to him. raore melancholy spectacle, one
more suggestive Of the nfTmities Of human nature,
than a owling mob, ready TO kill and TO be killed
In behalf of It's particular idea Of Christianity it is
impossible TO conceive Of II Is wildly doing for its
faith precisely what its faith forbds it 20 do.
1t Is reducing malice, hatred and all un-
charltableness 20 the concrete form OF bludgeOns
and pistols aud muskets. II Ia the old
organized and in some respects judicial persecution,
with the element of anarchy superadded. In this
land Of universal toleratiOn, which every man Is
left free to believe as he peases, and TO worship
God according 10 the dictates of his own
science, the religious riot Is not only silly and
wicked, but suicidal. Persisted in TO any general
extent for generation two 1t could only result
in some form of religious despotism, sustained by
the more successful party. Meanwhile it is not less
wicked and hardly less misehievous, though il
may have no deGuite results. Ii may break
out at any time, may rage without reason and be
suppressed with greater less difficulty. Ii may be
kept possible from year to year by inherited preiu-
dices, the legaoos Of unsatlsed hatred and of TO-
yengeful passions. Lord Dufferin Justly remarked
that "it is the property of these quarrels TO
feed on therown exeesses' aud that unless checked
they may involve the whole country In internecine
strife. so long as they merely smouldering and
not eItngulshed, 1t is impossible to be sure always
Of social peace aud order.


To great majority Of our own community, these
Orange aud Union feuds which have occasionally
brokon out in NewYOrk arc so diAtasteful that no
body stops 10 inquire which party is to blame,
aud censure IL equally bestowed upon both, 10 tho