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members of this secret club tbere is no protcnco of toleration or freedom to the covenant or tlio cross, for at the very moment when their lending polid-ticians bid for tho support of their fvllow-suhjccta of other persuasions, they are displajing to their views in tho most publio and insulting manner, the trophic a of a persecution which sacrificed tho heat and rravest men ol the mother country to tho duplicity of Dublin Castlo or tho cruel tortures of the Edinburgh star-chamber. There is no relenting, no shrinking, no attempt to liUirulizb or modalnizo this black remnant of an iron ugo, so remarkable for its civil* despotism and i?s sectarian tyranny; but in broad daylight, as often us tho sun rolls its course from east to west, the dar'c traditions of tho past ere revived, and in this new country an armed band parade tho streets with all tho pomp and circumstance of war, declaring by their scowling looks— sneaking by their detested icsiguia—decreeing by their blood-firing music eternal degradation to those 1who first cleared tho forests and wilds ot Upper Canada and with whom they are, in companion, but aliens on the soil.Nor are they moro wary in their language than in their annual displays, nor more desirous to spread abroad the impression that these same displays and insignia are not pregnant with future penal laws, .than if they wero alone powerful mid unopposed in 1this country for in Toronto by their chaplain, they denounce Presbyterianism as the right hand of Satan, as tho necessary faith ol rebels a id aimcxationists.as ;the burning Jqke of fire and bruustono, to bg avoided iby all good Urungemen mindful of tho glorious traditions of 1690 and I79S ; and again in utmost every 1pulpit throughout the land, they denounce in still more unmeasured terms, the race and the Church to iwhom it W03 their dolight to award the gallows, the flames, and tho rack, during tho centuries which 1handed over Ireland to, their horrid rule. Presby-tcrianism ba3 ever been aud is now as widely opposed to Catholicity as is the North Pole to the -'South — they honestly diftl-r in discipline and faith; but 1 when an intermediate power such us Orangeism stepped in to prevent the free exercise of either form of belief, and to compel them to conform tp High Church Anglicanism, they coalesced politically tor tho miinttMianco of religious liberty, and in t he s'trug- ' gh?s lor this great prinviple, which resulted in thepassage of tho Emancipation Act in Britain, and the 1lnaugura'ion of ltesponsiblo Government in Canada, the flag of tho covenant floated everywhere beside the banner of the cross. Well do the sombre druids of : these secret soeie.ics know too that this thing is not forgotten, ami that on the side of the Presbyterians tho memory of Graham and Claverhous© has not yet fuded away. Well did their leaders know how this same fiery souper rode amongst tho hills and glens of the \\ cst of Scotland to hunt down and sabre the bumble psalm-singers of the Kirk by the commands 1 of an Orange king and with the blessings of a State Church. .And do thede Orange Minister! who have undo the pulpits to resound with their denunciations ot '* Popery,” and their infamous calumnies abbut the “ vice of ignorance ' and the Irish Papists—well do they know wo say, that these latter cun never lorgot who it w;m that perpetrated iho massacre of Glencoe—who it was that decimated Ireland's sons until the progressive spirit of even Protestant England, with all her hatred and contempt for the “ mere Irish,” refused ony lunger to endorse their barbarous inhumanity. Well do the rulers of these secret societies know tho relation in which they have stood anddo now stand in regard to tho Irish Catholics and the Irish Presbytoriuns, and of tho intense hatred of both which burns within tho breasts of every real member of their order ; and lest their or 1thcaosy should bn, impugned, or it should be lor 1a moment presumed that they, its grand direc ors, -were gradually ignoring its diabolical spirii, special 'orders are given aud executed to tho very letter, that Presbyterianism and Catholicity he abused in unoqa.il proportions everywhere during tho celebrations o; 1ihc Twelfth. This abuse, however, bus ! cea not only unequal, exceedingly so, for while only a lew ministers have denounced the Presbyterians, the vilification of the Irish Catholics, a.;d ol ull they hold most sacred has been unparalleled in those Pro- 1viuccs.Tn the church at Eowmanville, tho exhortation to the Order was taken from tho ite.elatious, and represented the Church of one half of the people of this Province, in a political point of vL*w, us “ the (woman) sitting on the beast with ten hums,” and who is drunk with the blood of the saints.” The pp. aker dilated upon this text until ho became Irenxied, and called upon the brethren present, in the most incendiary stylo, • to remember their secret obligations nor cense until they had applied the torch to the strongholds of Koumnism.” At St. Thomas, the brethren call most carncstily upon protestunisof “ nil denominations” to band together in order to resist “ Bomanist pretensions,” and from Lake St. Clair to the Saguenay, the pulpit is made the vehicle of conveying to the tgnoraut and debased the unnecessary intelligence that the range insijai-tiou is the reel foe u» Kornan Catholics, *,u-t tnc only one that can stay the progress of Catholicism.In many places also these denunciations have been followed by msultsprovoking to aggression, and in others by both ot once. In citreetsvilh lor instance a riot occurred, by which one man came near losing his life, and for which another, stranger in th© county, and just fresh from the fcenes of Dolly's llrae, is iacutaeraloJ in the county jail, or wouidhuve been were it not for the kindno-s ol £ warmhearted young coaatfyman, who failed him out. In Uuelp another serious row Os. urred, provoked by the carriage of arms in the streets and the usual insulting jeers and challenges, which if perpo rated by a single individual wo.ild oblige a magistruLo to bind hiut to keep tlio peoco towards his neighbors. In a township an tho Ottawa a Catholic school house was burned on tho night of tho 12th, by one of there incondiariea / aud in the same place there were two school houses and one Catholic church burned a lew years ago by tfcte oonspirat : s against tlm public peace. Several miles from Hamilton another etnuit occurred, which hu.-; terminated in the death of one man and the arraignment of another for the crime of inaiiuluugbter, tho difference arising from disputes about Orangeisin. In this city also, though no notice was tukon of them, tbere were several minor squabbles, which in a more Iniiummuble communtity wuu djsurely Lave,produced bloodshed, in Belleville there was quito uioriuidablo riot; and it was only
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Saint Johns Patriot And Terra Nova Catholic Herald
Saint Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Mon, Sep 01, 1856
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