{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "tJ AfL i-un^", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "ORAIf GE1SM EXPOSED,\\nV. ITH A\\nREFUTATION OF THE CHARGES,\\nc. c.\\nBROUGHT AGAINST THE\\nBY\\nLAWYER DAVID GRAHAM,\\nOF jYEW-YORK,\\n1ST HIS DEFENCE OF THE ORANGEMEN, TRIED IN THIS CITY, Q.N\\nTHE 13TH AND 14TH DAYS OF SEPTEMBER, 1824,\\nFOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY ON A POOR\\nIRISHMAN, ON THE TWELFTH\\nDAY OF JULY, 1824.\\nBIT AST UNBIASSED XRXSHlftAHr.\\na A more unjust and absurd constitution cannot be devised than that\\nwhich condemns the natives of a country to perpetual servitude, under the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2arbitrary dominion of strangers and slaves.\\nNeUJ=\u00c2\u00a5otlt:\\nPRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.\\nM Loughlin Crampton Printers, 163, Chatham-street.\\n1824", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "p.m.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "c. c.\\nThere is no country whose history is so little known, nor\\none which has heen more exposed to the calumny of enemies\\nand hired scribblers, than Ireland. This may be attributed to\\nthe Vandalism of her oppressors for, so soon as England\\ngained a footing in that country, her interested policy led her\\nto the destruction of every document, within her grasp, that\\ncould throw any light on its history or expose her usurpations,\\nand the system pursued by her, in relation to its government.\\nThe necessity of this policy has been so well understood\\nin England, and it is a remarkable fact, that from the earliest\\nperiod, up to the present day, the different factions which\\nhave succeeded each other in the government of Ireland,\\nhave uniformly concealed or palliated the atrocities com-\\nmitted therein by their predecessors.\\nIt is curious to see, that however this selfish people may\\nquarrel among themselves about power at home; with what\\ncircumspection they avoid every thing that may lead to an\\nexposure of the administration of the government in Ireland.\\nTheir very vehicles of slander, (the news-papers) through\\nwhich they heap abuse on each other without measure, seem\\nto haye an understanding on this head for if they notice Ire-\\nland at all, it is not for the purpose of exposing the misgovern-\\nment of, and the atrocities committed in that devoted pro-\\nvince. No they know too well, that such a course would\\nprove injurious to British pretensions, with her numerous soci-\\neties for the civilization of the pagan world; as it would natu^\\nrally and undoubtedly expose to astonished Europe the real\\ncharacter of the English Government and people, who expend\\nimmense sums under the specious pretext of converting and\\ncivilizing the barbarous subjects of foreign powers at the same\\ntime that they pursue a system which has for its object the total", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "4\\ndebasement and degradation of a people whom they arc bound\\nto protect, and to whom they deny the common rights of man.\\nThere is no better course to be pursued, if one wishes\\nto attract the notice of the British government, and secure\\nsome lucrative employment, than that of reviling the\\nIrish people, trampling them under foot, and falsifying the\\nhistory of their country. The few who have pursued a dif-\\nferent course who have made any attempt at an impartial\\nreview of the treachery and tyranny of England, have been\\npersecuted and hunted down as traitors to the good old cause*\\nThe authorized romances of Musgrave and others, are\\nbandied about as the only pure sources whence the members\\nof the Orange faction can derive their knowledge of Irish his-\\ntory. It is not wonderful, then, that they should be so invinci-\\nbly ignorant as not to know the most remarkable circumstances\\nconnected with their own ascendancy, nor the origin of that\\npower whence they derive their very existence.\\nThese remarks are called forth by a publication that now\\nlies before me.t In itself it merits not the attention of any man,\\nand I may be censured for noticing it some declaring it be-\\nneath contempt; others that it is a bait for English patronage.\\nI agree with all, yet am of opinion, that the subject claims our\\nmost serious attention. In it is involved the hope of the\\nemigrant, and the future repose of the Irish citizens of this\\ncountry. If Orangeism be tolerated here, we are undone.\\nThe sooner we abandon the country the better. Our feelings\\noutraged, the sanctuaries of home violated, we shall be ex-\\nposed to midnight assassination, a continual strife will de-\\nstroy the confidence of the government we shall become\\nhateful to our fellow-citizens, and, at length, sink into the\\nPlowden was employed by the British ministry to write a Court Ca-\\nlander, he was, however, found not sufficiently pliant, having- thought pro-\\nper to write something 1 like a history, he was discarded, persecuted, com-\\npelled to fly his native country, and is now living on a garret in Paris, yet\\nthis man advocated the Union, was the friend of the present king-, Pitt, kc.\\nc. and is in every respect a very prejudiced Englishman.\\n-f- A mutilated report of the speeches for the prosecution, and in defence\\nof the OraDg-emen, c. e.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "same abject state of despondency from which we emancipated\\nourselves with an effort in abandoning our native land. To our\\ncountryman in oppression it will be still more injurious. To\\nwhat country then can he look for refuge when driven from\\nhis home When he flies the murdering banditti that dies in\\nblood the green fields of his native land, where can he seek\\nan asylum It is incumbent then, on every honest Irishman,\\nto contribute his migbt towards the exposure of the views\\nand principles of those dangerous assassins, as well as the his-\\ntorical falsities on which their advocate founds his pretensions to\\nhave them treated as men belonging to a harmless association^\\nwhich derives its origin in the pure source of religious toleration.\\nLord Bolingbroke ridicules the idea of love of country being\\nimplanted in us by nature he supposes it founded more in\\nmoral than in physical causes,* and although I do not fully\\nsubscribe to this doctrine, Amor patrice ratione valcntior omni,\\nyet am I led to think that there is some foundation for his opi-\\nnion, from the melancholy fact, that Ireland has given birth to\\nso many men, who do not seem to be actuated by any other\\nfeeling towards her than dislike and aversion. They seize on\\nevery opportunity of calumniating her people, falsifying her\\nhistory, and sounding forth praises of England, and their own\\nadmiration of her power and glory. That Mr. Graham is one\\nof the living examples in support of this doctrine, will be fully\\nproved in the course of these sheets and as the champion of\\na system, which has long been reprobated by every honourable\\nmind, he must but attribute it to his own Quixotism, if he be^\\ncome so notorious, as that no Irishman will associate with an\\nindividual who has dared to calumniate nine tenths of his suf-\\nfering countrymen the Catholics and Presbyterians of Ire-\\nland.\\nHad he been wise, he had still remained in obscurity, court-\\ning the smiles of his warm hearted countrymen or if he felt\\nan uncontrolablc desire of bringing his oratorical powers into\\nnotice, why did he not resume his original prof ession of holding\\nLocke and Condorcet labour also to shew the absurdifv of the bcheF 19", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "forth to the multitude or what would be still more congenial to\\nhis feelings and principles, why did he not wait patiently till\\nOrangeism was organized in the country and then his ambi-\\ntion of notoriety might have been fully gratified, by the appoint-\\nment of High-Priest to the tribe but perhaps he considered\\nthe course pursued the surest way of attaining this honourable\\noffice if so, I congratulate him on his prospects\\nWith his attack on Emmet and Sampson, it is beneath me to\\nwrestle. Men, who will live in the memory of future times,\\nwhose names belong to history, require not my advocacy and,\\nfrom the contemptuous smile that lighted up theirfeatures when\\nthis modest gentleman told them, that in science, legal know-\\nledge, and every other acquirement, than experience at the\\nbar, he (Graham) would not shrink from a competition with\\neither of .them, we may form some idea of the importance\\nthat they attach to his opinion.\\nThe vanity ot such a man, in placing himself on a level\\nwith men, whose enlightened minds and expanded views soar\\nso far beyond the murky darkness of his bigot soul, will lead\\nhim, no doubt, to conclude that considerable importance is\\nattached to his opinions, and to himself individually, in thus\\nintroducing him before the public but, to undeceive him, I\\nnow tell him once for all, that his assertions, so false in fact,\\nso full of ignorance and absurdity, would remain unnoticed by\\nroe, were it not to dispel the mists of prejudice that may have\\nbeen raised in the public mind, by uncontradicted statements,\\nreflecting on my country and its inhabitants, made too, by a\\nman who calls himself an Irishman.\\nI shall pass over, in silence, this gentleman s attack on that\\nfalse and cruel religion, as he is pleased to entitle the re-\\nligious creed of seven-eighths of his countrymen, nor will I\\nmake any attempt to defend those horrid tenets which have\\ndesolated the world.\\nThis in me is a matter ot inclination as well as of prudence.\\nI am ignorant of theology I never had any inclination for\\nthe study. Should I, therefore, make the attempt, the odds\\nwould be fearfully against me Mr. Graham being a theolo-\\ngistj as I presume, from his having been some years ago on", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "the mission in the Jerseys. But, in history there I will\\nmeet him fearlessly I know history as well as he, I know the\\nhistory of my country better than he does, as I shall show,\\nbefore I have done.\\nTaking his assertions in rotation, as they present them-\\nselves, I shall begin with page 10, line 31, he says, that\\nabout the middle of the 1 2th century, the English first gained\\na footing in Ireland, Orangeism took its rise in a religious\\ncontroversy of seven hundred years standing, that is pre-\\ncisely 393 years before there was any difference in religious\\nopinions in England, much less in Ireland, and about fifty\\nyears before the English landed in the country.* This is too\\nmuch, most learned counsellor what, the English inha-\\nbitants fighting for Irish lands, and Irish tithes, ffty years\\nbefore one of them landed in the country, and quarrelling\\ntoo, on the score of religion, 400 years before the refor-\\nmation this requires no comment. Line 13, page 11, To\\ndepict the disasters of the English during the period of two\\nhundred years that followed, would exhaust volumes What\\nsympathy is here betrayed for ruthless invaders, blood-thirsty\\ntigers, who came to deprive an unoffending people of their rights,\\nand to rob them of their liberties and possessions. Would to\\nGod that their disasters had been greater, that every one of\\nthem had been exterminated, and that the people had cause, and\\nthat they would have exterminated the invaders, had they\\nbeen true to their country and to themselves, we need but\\nrefer to the history of that period. We shall there see that\\nas early as the reign of Edward II. the work of plunder com-\\nmenced on a large scale the earnings of the people went\\nthen, as they do now, to the support of their oppres-\\nsors; free quarters robbed them of even the semblance\\nof property they had nothing but what became the prey of\\na rapacious soldiery Sir John Davist describes the coyne\\nand livery, or free quarters of that day thus, that this extor-\\nThe English under Robert Fitzstephens first landed in Ireland in\\nthe spring of 1170.\\nf Sir John Davis was an Englishman and a British Judge he resided\\niono: in frelan\u00c2\u00abt", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "tion did produce two notorious effects. First, it made the\\nland waste next, it made the people idle for when the hus-\\nbandman had laboured all the year, the soldiers, in one night,\\ndid consume the fruits of all his labour, lungique peril labor\\nirritus anni.* Doctor Leland, at a later period, remarks;\\nil The compendious Irish method of quartering the soldiers on\\nthe inhabitants, and leaving them to support themselves by\\narbitrary exactions, seem to have been pointed out by the\\nurgent occasion, was adopted with alacrity, and executed\\nwith rigour. Riot, rapine, massacre, and all the tremendous\\neffects of anarchy were the natural consequences. Every\\ninconsiderable parly, who, under the pretence of loyally, re-\\nceived the King s commission to repel the adversary in some\\nparticular district, became pestilent enemies to the inhabit-\\nants. Their properties, their lives, the chastity of their\\nfamilies, were all exposed to barbarians, who sought only to\\nglut their brutal passions and, by their horrible, excesses,\\npurchased the curse of God and man. Here, might not our\\nsuppose, Dr. Leland was describing the Orange faction of the\\npresent day, but no such thing. These outrages were first\\nperpetrated by the catholic English. English catholic kings\\nadjudged it no felony to kill a mere Irishman in time of\\npeace, and those found with their upper lips unshaven for\\nthe space of a fortnight, (as was the Irish fashion), were liable\\nto be seized on as Irish enemies, their properties taken, and\\nthey themselves held to ransom. By the statutes of Kil-\\nkenny, alliance by marriage, nurture of infants, and gossipred\\nwith the Irish, are made high treason. TT\\nThus commenced that lineof demarcation drawn by the policy\\nof England, to keep her party distinct from the great body of the\\npeople, that it might have a separate interest, and be entirely\\ndependent on her. It is this feature in her government, that has\\nparalyzed the energies of Ireland, brought ruin on her people,\\nand died the country in blood. All these facts, are, however.\\nSir Davis Diser. 174.\\n-j- An English protectant divine. Histor. 1 vol. page 2.;0.\\nt Dav. Dis. 102. Stat, of Trim, 25 Hen. VI. Chap. 4\u00e2\u0080\u00941447.\\nT 40 Edward III.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1366.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "overlooked by the learned Mr. Graham, his sympathies arje\\nexcited, his compassionate regards are only directed to the\\ndisasters of those who robbed Ireland of its independence.\\nThe second paragraph, in page 11, begins with anew\\nimpulse was given in the reign of Henry VIII. to the hostility\\nof the ancient Irish. The English Pale readily absented to\\nthe doctrines of the reformation, c. c. The latter part\\nof these assertions is utterly false, and devoid of all founda-\\ntion. The people of the English Pale became, in despite of\\nBritish policy, in some degree, amalgamated with the Irish\\nbefore the period he alludes to. The reformation made little\\nor no progress in that country till a much later period.* The\\nsection of country, that originally formed the English pale, is\\nabout the most catholic in Ireland. This is not of any fur-\\nther consequence in itself, than as it goes to prove the utter\\nignorance of the man who is, according to his own opinion,\\nequal in every thing to an Emmet. The Pale, in its most\\nextended limits, formed itself of a part of the counties of\\nLouth, Meath, Dublin and Kildare; those four counties contain-\\ned, according to the census of 1822, a population of 626,412\\nsouls of these 33,926 are protestants or dissenters, and the\\nremaining 592^486 are ,catholics.t The descendants of the\\ngreat families of the Pale are to this day catholic. The Plun-\\nkets, the Prestons, the Barnwells, the Bellews, c. C.J The\\ndescendants of those who became protestant at an early pe-\\nriod, in Ireland, are, to a man, Irish in feeling and principle.\\nThey execrate, as much as any other portion of their country*\\nmen, the tyranny of England, and that hellish crew of Orange^\\nmen of which Mr. Graham is (if not in name) in spirit a\\nSee Lord Clare s speech on the Union, page 13.\\nf See notes on Ireland by Reed, a protestant and surgeon in the British\\nnavy, page 333. He gives the census of Ireland for 1822, as 7,855,606;\\nof these 6,871,919 are catholics. The surplus S83,687 souls are presby-\\nterians or protestants.\\nI An estate in Ireland, now in the possession of a catholic Lord, belong*\\ned to the ancestors of the writer of these sheets one of them was robbed\\nof it in the time of Cromwell, merely because he was of the old Irish, and\\ngiven to an ancestor of the present Lord Southwell, who professed himself\\na protestant tMl the storm pa seed.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "io\\nmember. It was reserved for the colonists after tire refbmation\\nto complete the degradation and enslavement of that ill-fated\\ncountry.\\nAt the period of which we are now treating, the in-\\nhabitants of the Pale became obnoxious to the English, by\\nwishing to strengthen themselves, by forming alliances with\\nthe ancient Irish, against the encroachments of Henry VIII.\\nand his satellites. The struggle was no longer between the\\nAnglo-Irish of the Pale and the Irish nation. A new horde\\nof English adventurers, under the plea of religious zeal, pass-\\ned over, with the Bible in one hand, and the sword in the\\nother, headed by George Brown, an apostate Augustinian\\nEriar. They covered themselves with the mantle of heaven,\\nthat they might the more securely plunder the hapless na-\\ntives of this ill-fated country. They, however, met with mi-\\nexpected opposition^ in the firmness of Cromer, Archbishop\\nof Armagh, by birth an Englishman.\\nAnd if any proof be necessary to establish the fact, that a\\ndifference in religion was at no time the cause of distur-\\nbances in Ireland, but merely seized on as a pretext to\\ndivide the people and create heartburnings in the country,\\nit is in the account given of the suppression of Lord Kil-\\ndare s rebellion, in the reign of Henry VIII. by Borlase,\\nwho was himself a satellite. He says, that on the failure of\\nthis enterprise, Henry VIII. affected to consider it a new\\nConquest of Ireland, and proposed it to be debated in hi\\ncouncil, whether he had not now acquired a right to seize at\\nonce on all the estates of the Kingdom, spiritual and temporal,\\nand reparcel them out to his- hungry followers. He no\\nlonger considered the inhabitants of the Pale, but as a part of\\na devoted people. They were plundered and persecuted\\nunder the name of offended religion- They were considered\\nand treated as Irish enemies.* This, in truth, they merited r\\nit was but a just retribution of Divine Proridence, for the\\ntyranny they themselves exercised but a little before on the\\nunhappy natives.\\nThe same Machiavelian policy has been pursued by all the\\nFide Dr. Lelant!, vol. i.i. pa*6 1 7 1", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "n\\nEnglish monarch,? towards this devoted country whether\\ncatholic Mary* or protectant Elizabeth! wielded the British\\nsceptre,, it made no difference the same systematic persecu-\\ntion still prevailed.\\nWe now approach the most eventful period in Ireland s his-\\ntory. The commencement of tl\u00c2\u00bbe reign of the hypocritical\\nand infamous house of Stuart. About that time it was that the\\nseeds of Orangeism were first implanted in our soil. Whole\\ndistricts were laid waste by James I.ji and colonies of Puri-\\ntans from Scotland and England, filled with the spirit of ra-\\npine and religious bigotry, took possession of the lands of the\\naffrighted natives, who fled in terror to the farthest extreme-\\nties of the island. It was then that the new impulse was\\ngiven to the hostility of the persecuted natives. houseless\\nwanderers, strangers in the lands their fathers, is ,it a won-\\nder that they were hostile Yet Mr. Graham, true to his prin-\\nciples, speaks of the want of power of language to depict\\nthe horrors that awaited the puritans (for protestants there\\nwere but few)\u00c2\u00a7 of Ireland, at this period. I will here ask any\\nAmerican how he would feel, how he would act, were he\\ndriven from his home, plundered of his property, by a horde\\nof infuriated wretches from a foreign land, whatever might be\\ntheir religious opinions But let us hear what Sir John Davis\\nsays of the Irish of this period, and judge if this charge of Mr.\\nCatholic Mary, by her deputy, robbed of their estates the Catholic Irish\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of two districts, Lcix and Gflalia, now king s and queen s counties.\\nf The picture given of the atrocities of some of Elizabeth s generals, by\\nSpencer, who was secretary to the cold-blooded .monster, Lord Deputy\\nGrey, is truly frightful. He describes the country then as rich and plen-\\ntiful, full of corn and cattle, ih yet in one year and -a half ihe people were\\nbrought to such wretchedness, that their legs could not support them, they\\nlooked like anatomies of death they did eat dead carrions, happy where\\nthey could find them, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or sham-\\nrocks, there they flocked as to a feast, in a little time the country was\\nleft void of man and beast.\\nSir Richard Cox says, that 511,456 Irish acres were .seized on by\\nJames, and the possessors banished. See, also, Sir George Paul s life of\\narchbishop Whitgift, page 47.\\ni Geoghegan, in his history, says that .there were not 60 protestant fa-\\nmilies in Irdlead at the accession of James I.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nGraham be well founded. Sir John was then residing in the\\ncountry as British chief justice, he says For the truth is,\\nthat in time of peace the Irish are more fearful to offend, than\\nthe English or any other nation whatsoever, and again,! In\\nwhich condition of subjects they will gladly continue without\\ndefection, or adhering to any other lord or king, as long as\\nthey be protected and justly governed, without oppression on\\none side, or impunity on the other. For there is no nation of\\npeople, under the sun, that doth love equal and impartial justice\\nbetter than the Irish, or will rest better satisfied with the exe-\\ncution thereof, though it be against themselves. This is the\\ntestimony of an Englishman who knew the people, and had\\nan opportunity of judging. Is he not entitled to more credit\\nthan a bigot descendant of those very puritans of whom we\\nare now treating\\nThe next in order is Mr. Graham s attack on the Irish of\\n1641 their religious bigotry, their persecuting spirit, their\\nmassacres, .c. c. It is very difficult to disprove general\\nassertions, mere declamation, without argument. That the\\nIrish have committed excesses, every body will allow but\\nthat their uniform resistance to British tyranny, even up to the\\npresent day, is fully justified by the cruelty and oppression of\\ntheir governors, no candid man will deny for, setting aside\\nthe right that all people have to govern themselves, and\\nadmitting for a moment, that England ha had a legitimate\\nright to govern Ireland, yet has she not forfeited all claims\\nto the obedience of the p ople of that country, by robbing\\nthem of their rights as men, by refusing them the protec-\\ntion of her laws, and treating them as common enemies.\\nThe rising of 1641, to which the gentleman alludes, occurred\\nabout thirty years after the expulsion of the Irish out of the\\nNorth. The cause, he however, does not state but I will.\\nWith a new reign (Charles I.) commenced new measures;\\nnew favourites were to be provided for; the infamous Strafford\\nwas named Viceroy. He was impatient to signalize his ad-\\nministration by a service of immediate and extensive emolu-\\nDav. Dis. 257. j Dav Dis. 283.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ment to his royal master. His project was nothing less than\\nto subvert the title to every estate in every part of Connaught,\\nandto establish new plantations throughout the whole province.\\nThus were the unfortunate natives, after having been driven\\nfrom their homes in the North, to seek a shelter in the desolate\\nwilds of Connaught, threatened with the loss of this their last\\nasylum. Free-quarters were proclaimed as a preparatory mea-\\nsure add to this, the solemn promises of Charles remained\\nunredeemed the Penal laws were enforced with the utmost\\nrigours ;t fines were imposed on those who neglected attend-\\ning the Established Church an high commissioned Court\\nwas erected to try the titles to the estates of the inhabitants of\\nConnaught, which were in the possession of their ancestors\\nfor a thousand years. So determined was Stratford to obtain\\nhinds for his minions, that jurors who gave their verdict ac-\\ncording to their consciences, were censured in the Castle-cham\\nber in great fines 5 sometimes pillored, with loss of ears, and borr(\\nthrough the tongue and sometimes marked over the forehead\\nwith other infamous punishments. Were not these provo-.\\ncations sufficient to drive a whole people to madness Yet\\nthey were but the prelude. Lord Clarendon says, that\\nabout the beginning of November, in this year, the English\\nand Scotch forces in Carrickfergus murdered, in one night, all\\nthe inhabitants of the island Macgee, to the number of three\\nthousand, men, women, and children, all innocent persons, in a\\ntime when none of the Catholics of that country were in arms\\nor rebellion and lie concludes the paragragh with a Noia\\nBene that this was the first massacre committed on either\\n,side and of course it was the signal for a general rising. The\\nLeland, vol. 3, p. 30,31.\\nJ A Catholic Priest was dragged from the alter whilst performing di-\\nvine service, by an infuriated soldiery, headed by the protestant arch-\\nbishop of Dublin, and the Lord Mayor. They carried off the sacred\\nutensils, ornaments, c. This was winked at by Strafford.\\nJ Articles of impeachment of Stratford s. Journal of the House ofCom\u00c2\u00bb-\\n.itwns.\\n5 Clar. Hist. Review of the state of Ireland, page 329.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "1 4\\npeople found, unfortunately from experience, that their omy\\nix pe of safety rested on their union, and in the field for whets\\nactually there, their native bravery, in spke of every disadvan-\\ntage, secured them against treachery and massacre. In their\\nIiomes they had no safety peace they could not enjoy. In\\nDesey s county, the neighbouring English garrisons of the\\ncounty of Cork, after burning and pillaging all that county,\\nmurdered above three hundred men, women, and children\\nbefore any rebellion began in Munster, and led one hundred\\nlabourers prisoners to Caperquin, where, being tied by couples,\\nthey were cast into the river, and made sport to see them\\ndrowned at the same time that this county is not charged\\nzsifkmiy murder to be committed on Protestants. So much\\nfertile bigotry, the persecuting spirit, the massacres of the\\nIrish, he. If they did massacre, the ancestors of Mr. Gra-\\nham set them the example* The Irish did not commence the\\nwar of 1641, till they were convinced that they must have\\neither turned Protestants, or quit the country, or be hanged\\nat their own doors\u00c2\u00bb t They flew to arms in their own de-\\nfence. The retaliation was dreadful. The infamous faction\\ntbat planned and organized the insurrection were nearly .ex-\\ntirpated. They wished for a pretext to butcher the people\\nand had like themselves to have fallen victims to their own\\nMoody policy. u The partizans in the Privy Council privately\\nwrote to the Earl of Leicester, then Lord Lieutenant, desiring\\nhis secrecy, for they could not speak openly at the Council\\nBoard, that he would riot accept of any overtures for checking\\nthe Northern rebellion, because the charge of supplies from\\nEngland would be abundantly compensated out of the estates of\\nthe actors in the rebellion. The only danger dreaded was\\nthat of a too speedy suppression of the rebellion. Extensive\\nforfeitures was the favourite object.\\nI have been induced to enter more fully into this portion of\\nthe history of Ireland, than perhaps my limits would fully\\nClarendon s Review of the state of Ireland, page 396.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J Dr. Anderson s Genealogies, page 786.\\nCart. 1 vol. page 194. 4 Leland, vol. 3, p. }QQ", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "lb\\nwarrant, by the desire of disabusing those who might hav$\\nbeen led away by the coloured statements of prejudiced histo-\\nrians, who have painted the rising @f 1641, as a war of reli-\\ngion. That it was the Powder Plot of the government injlreland,\\neannot be doubted; and that it did not succeed as in England,\\nis to be attributed to the differences in the numerical strength\\nof the contending parties* In both, the object was the same\\nfc rob the people of their possessions, under the plea of re-\\nligious differences. Let us here pause for a moment, and re-\\nflect on the object and end of all governments, founded in right;\\nand justice. If in the protection and happiness of a people be\\nconstituted the rights of rulers and governors, what must we\\nthink of those who plan and goad a people into rebellion, that\\nthey may rob them of their properties, and fatten on the spoils\\nBut the Irish of 1641 y were Papists;* and Papists (Mr\u00c2\u00bb\\nGraham says, page 1 1 believe in the infallibility of the Pope,\\nand hold that no faith is to be kept with those who differ from\\nthem in religion* Good God can these b the assertions of\\na man who boasts of his science and legal knowledge. I my-\\nself do not suppose him so ignorant as to believe, in such ma-\\nlignant falsehoods. What 1 the Catholics of Ireland hold the\\ndoctrine, that no faith is to be kept with Protestants-\\nWhy then- do they exclude themselves from all offices of\\ntrust or emolument, under the British government They\\nare but required to take certain oaths to make them eligi-\\nble to every office; and yet 4hey have remained excluded\\nfor more than a century, in spite of their belief that ?io\\nobligation can bind them that no faith is to be kept with\\nProtestants. This doctrine, which the learned gentleman\\nattributes to Catholics, is in truth the ground-work andfunda-\\nThe influence of the Romao FonthT was never admitted in Ireland be\u00c2\u00bb\\nyond that of spiritual supremacy, as first Pastor of the Catholic Church.\\nIn 1152 the first general council, under the control of the Eoman Pontiff\\nwas held in Kells, Cardinal Paparon, leg-ate a latere, presiding. He, no\\ndoubt, was sent to pave the way for the submission of the Church, to the\\nmandate of an infamous English Pope. The clergy, notwithstanding,\\nopposed it manfully; yet are the Cathohcs of Ireland, tauntingly called\\ngapists, by the descendants of the basest slaves of the Roman Pontiff,. y", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "1G\\nmental principle of Orangei m. The very allegiance c\\nOrangemen is conditional not so long as their idol king pre*\\nserves their liberties as citizens, do they swear to be good\\nand loyal subjects; no such thing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 this is not their political\\ncreed. It is, so long, and so long only, as he secures to them\\ntheir ascendancy in Church and State so long as he thinks\\nas they do, believes what they believe, and changes his reli-\\ngious opinions with every new act of Parliament: but should\\nhe presume to think for himself; to think that the people\\nare entitled equally to the protection of the laws, without\\nany regard to religious destinctions they will oppose him,\\nas not being longer the king of a faction he will not be en-\\ntitled to their support.\\nMr. Graham, in his review or summary of that which he\\nwould feign make pass for Irish history, passes over in silence\\nthe period from 1641 to the invasion of William III. Is it\\nthat he felt ashamed of the conduct of his ancestors, the Pu-\\nritans, their base desertion of their benefactors, the Stuarts;\\nthe infamy of their union with the puritanical, bloody tyrant,\\nCromwell. No the advocate of Orangeism must exult in the\\nsufferings of the people besides, they then did but what their\\ndescendants and successors, the Orangemen, do now. They\\njoined in trampling on the rights of the people. They united\\nwith the myrmidons of Cromwell in their atrocious massacres\\nand house burnings. It was no longer profitable to support,\\nroyalty. The Irish, on the contrary, faithful to their oaths,\\nand fancied obligations towards the English king, struggled for\\neleYen years in defence of that throne which was raised on\\nthe ruins of their country. After the most fierce and\\nbloody contest, in which the whole face of the Island was de-\\nsolated, and its population nearly extinguished, they were\\ncompelled to bend beneath the yoke, or expatriate them-\\nselves.* Thus leaving their properties as spoils for traitors,\\nOn one occasion Cromwell did not scruple to transport 40,000 Irish\\nfrom their own country, to fill all the armies in Europe with complaints of\\nhis cruelty and admiration oi their own valour. Dalrymple Mem. 1 vol-\\npage 267.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "and yet in spite of the unheard-of sufferings of this ill-fated-,\\nunfortunate people, in the cause of Charles II. he, on his res-\\ntoration to the throne, not only did not restore to them their\\npossessions, confiscated by Cromwell, but guaranteed to the\\nmurderers of his father, these rewards of their treachery, and\\nwith that systematic ingratitude which has characterized his\\nwhole race, he sanctioned the enactment of laws which ex-\\ncluded the Irish from all places of trust or profit ami that fa-\\nmous act of settlement, in which they are stiled rebels, for\\nhaving fought in his defence, and by which 7,800,000 acres of\\nland were set out under its authority to a motley crew of\\nEnglish adventurers, nearly to the total exclusion of the old\\ninhabitants.* Titles were conferred on the rebellious regi-\\ncides, and a brave and loyal people surrendered up to the fury\\nof the enemies of social order.\\nNow for Mr. Graham s jump of nearly fifty years. Page 12,\\nbegins, After various renewed attempts to effect an entire\\nextermination of the Protestants, their enemies resolved to\\nembrace the reign of James II. to give it completion, Sec.\\nThe work of destruction, projected on a large scale, was in\\nrapid progress, when William, Prince of Orange, was resorted\\nto by the sufferers, and supplicated to assume their protection*\\nWhen in an exuberance of joy the Lord Mayor of Dublin\\ncommitted the officers of Christ Church, because the bells did\\nnot ring merrily enough on the birth of a son to James.\\nWhen more than three-fourths of the population of Ireland\\nunited, swore, upon the altar ol religion, the utter exterminac\\ntion of protestants when the wretched remnant of a most\\nsanguinary persecution trembled in expectation of the decisive-\\nblow. At that poriod it was, on the 12th of July, 1690, on.\\nthe bunks of the Boyne, that William, Prince of Orange, com-\\nmissioned by heaven, like the destroying angel, who smote the\\nAssymatrl camp, by night, attacked and routed the armies of\\nJames. The invasion of William the reign of James with\\nthe dirty name the final degradation of Ireland, and the\\nu-iumph of a faction, are themes on which the Orangeman\\nkh Lord Clare s Speech on the Union. J", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i8\\nwishes to dwell. The events of this period of Ireland s his-\\ntory first warmed him into life, and furnished food to the ma-\\nlignant passions of his soul. We must again have recourse to\\nhistory, to disprove those sweeping assertions of the modest\\nand learned gentleman. That James was counselled, not by\\ncatholics to his worst acts, but by protcstants, hear Dr. Leslie,\\na famous protestant divine he says that it is now publicly\\nknown, that the fatal measures he took were advised, and often\\npressed, against his majesty s inclinations and opinion, by\\nthose protestants, whom bis unexampled and even faulty cle-\\nmency, had not only pardoned for all their bitter virulency in\\nopposing his succession, but brought them into his most secret\\ncouncils, and acted by their advice.* But an entire extermi-\\nnation of the Protestants was projected on a large scale.\\nIs it not a notorious fact, that all Ireland was in the military\\npossession of the catholic army under James s viceroy, up to*\\nShomberg s landing, (two garrisons excepted yet no massa-\\ncres were committed. On the contrary, the discipline of\\nthe Irish army was admirable, as is acknowledged by its\\nmost inveterate enemies some of whom being candid enough\\nto declare, a that the Protestants had less to dread from it, than\\nfrom that English army, who came (according to Mr. Graham)\\nto deliver them from popish slavery. Dr. George, who\\nwas secretary to Shomberg (William s confidential General.)\\nsays, in a letter addressed to a Colonel Hamilton, that it was\\nresolved (by them) to treat the Protestants of Ulster rather as\\nenemies than friends. That the goods and stocks of the Pro-\\ntestant inhabitants once seized by the enemy were forfeited,\\nand ought not to be restored, but given as encouragement to\\nthe soldiers that their (the protestants) oaths and complaint?\\nwere neither to be believed nor redressed that so an easier and\\nsafer approach might be made to the little left them by the\\nIrish that free-quartering was the least retaliation that Pro-\\ntestants could give for being restored to their former estates\\nthat religion was but canting, c. If to these you add, the\\npressing of horses at pleasure, deny ing the people bread or\\nLeslie s preface to his answer to Archbishop King 1", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "seed of their own corn, c. whereby multitudes of families\\nare already reduced for want of bread, and left only to beg\\nand steal, or starve these being the practices, and these the\\nprinciples, and both as well known to you as to me, it cannot\\nbe wondered that the oppressed Protestants here should report\\nrs worse than the Irish. 1 So much for the real policy of\\nWilliam, this idol of Orangeism, who came like the destroy-\\ning angel, and saved the protcstants from utter annihilation.\\nThe truth is, William cared as little for Protestants as for Ca-\\ntholics he grasped at a throne, and cared not about the means.\\nAt this period in England the hue and cry, raised about fifty\\nyears before against popery, being at its height, William, of\\ncourse, affected the utmost hatred of Catholics yet his foreign\\ntroops were composed of Catholics and men of the proscribed\\nreligion were most of his confidence. Intolerance being ever\\nthe spirit of the English People, he professed himself an enemy\\nto toleration, yet no man loved it more. His Dutch subjects\\nwere all equally protected and entitled to his favour, without\\nany distinction as to religion but, devoid of all principles\\nhe was a hypocrite in religion, and a camelion in politics.\\nHe suited his administration to the prejudices of the times and\\nthe people that he had to govern. The Spirit of his adminis-\\ntration was, as to Scotland Presbyterian, to England Puritani-\\ncal, and to Ireland it was any thing and every thing to suit the\\nfaction which governed in his name. A king without power to\\ndo good the general of a rapacious horde of hungry expec-\\ntants, he has been more unjustly censured, and falsely praised,\\nthan any other monarch that has filled the British throne.\\nJames is condemned by the base admirers of William for\\nhaving intended, as they say, to do in Ireland what he did\\nnot do when in his power, and what king William actually did\\nwhen in Scotland, viz. to overturn the Church, then by law\\nestablished, though king James had truly the argument of */tg\\nCromwell, too, had scriptural auihority ready to shelter his boldest\\nand most atrocious crimes. He used to urge his soldiery to treat the Irisjj\\ncatholics as the Canaanites had been treated in the time Of Jcshua*", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20\\nihclinations of the people, i. e. of the major part in freland-\\nwhich was but a pretence, and falsely collected in Scotland,\\nfrom the fanatic rabble being let loose, and encouraged to\\nact all sort of outrage upon the episcopal clergy.* Here I\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2wish to observe that I am not the apologist of James. 1 ex-\\necrate the memory of his house. The Stuarts were the bit-\\nterest enemies Ireland ever saw. My intention being to ex-\\nhibit the actions of the contending parties in their proper light;\\nnot to bolster up the character of a kingly tyrant.\\nI must do James the justice to say, that the laws enacted\\nby the Irish parliament, whilst he was in Ireland, were the\\nonly ones, passed since her first connexion with England, that\\nhad her prosperity for their object. He himself recommended\\nan act for the advance and improvement of trade, and for the\\nencouragement and increase of shipping and navigation.}\\nThis act in particular must be peculiarly offensive to the\\nselfish policy of England. That country having always\\ndreaded competition from the geographical position of Ire-\\nland, her superior fertility, and the facility with which she\\ncould export her products and manufactures, owing to the\\nexcellence of her harbours and plentiful supply of materials\\nfor ship-building, resolved that she should have neither ship-\\nping, manufactures, nor trade. The more effectually to destroy\\nevery hope of this kind, her forests, the finest in Europe,\\nhave all disappeared under the withering blast of an infa-\\nmous state policy her manufacturers are compelled to emi-\\ngrate the accumulated obstructions of centuries, remain in\\nthe mouths of her rivers her harbours are deserted, c c.\\nc. these are a part of the blessings continued to her by the\\nglorious revolution of 1688.\\nMr. Graham has drawn all his slores from the same foul\\nand lying calendar. He knows better than I do, (for I never\\nhad any connexion with the British government,) the im-\\nmense sums that have been expended by his government in\\nLesley s Preface to his answer to Archbishop King,\\nf The illustrious deliverer, the apostle of Orangemen, William, had\\nIbis act publicly burned.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "21\\npurchasing the testimony of venal historians and apostate\\nUnited Irishmen; yet I do not believe that any bungler it has\\nemployed, ever before went so far as to assert that the battle of\\nthe Boyne was fought on the 1 2th of July, 1 690. Williams s\\ncommission from heaven, must be of an earlier date for the\\nbattle of the Boyne was fought on the first of Julv. The\\ncelebration of the 1 2th is to commemorate the battle of Aughrim,\\nthe assertions and the bombast of the learned gentleman, not-\\nwithstanding.\\nThat William was sent as a destroying angel, every\\nOrangeman, (I know) religously believes, and that he paved\\nthe way for the final enslavement of the fairest portion\\nof the earth, history fully proves.! For if he gave liberty\\nto England, he forged chains for Ireland and, afier having\\nratified them, he violated, without the shadow of pre-\\ntext the solemn engagements entered into at Limerick.\\nNotwithstanding this treaty, which secured to the people\\ntheir civil and religious liberty, a parliament of Britons,\\nunder his sanction, and before the ink was well dry on\\nthis Charter of the liberties of Irishmen, passed the most\\nsanguinary laws that have ever disgraced their statue book\\nto restrain education,* to disarm the people, to banish Ca-\\ntholic ecclesiastics to* prevent protectants intermarrying\\nVide Mr. Graham s harangue, p. 12, lines 20 and 21.\\nf That the protestant s of Ireland went further than merely the ringing\\nof bells in their demonstrations ef loyalty to James, and that the better in-\\nformed among them were not blind to the real motives of William s inva-\\nsion, we have but to refer to Dr. Leslie. In his answer to Archbishop\\nKing, he says, that the protestants prayed for James, that iod would\\nstrengthen him to vanquish and overcome his enemies he says farther,\\nthat they prayed four times in one year, forwards and backwards, point\\nblank contradictory the one to the other. 1\\nJ Lord Clare says in his Speech on the Union, lhat The sHu:itk n of\\nthe Irish Nation, at the revolntion df 1688, stands uuparalelled in the His-\\ntory of the inhabited World. If the wars of England, carried on here\\nfrom the reign of Elizabeth, had been waged against a foreign enemy, the r\\ninhabitants would have retained their possessions under the established\\nlaw of civilized nations, and their countrv would have been annexed, as\\nprovince to the British empire.^", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "with catholics to prevent Catholics being solicitors, c. c\u00c2\u00bb\\nc. Yet, notwithstanding these outrages on human nature,\\nis this man with his horse, worshipped as the champion of\\ncivil and religious liberty, by men who call themselves Irish-\\nmen.!\\nWith the following opinion of Burke,*as to the effects of the\\nrevolution of 1688, on the prosperity of Ireland, I shall close\\nthis part of my subject. By the total reduction of Ireland,\\nin 1691, the ruin of the native Irish, and in a great measure,\\ntoo, of the first races of the English, was completely accom-\\nplished. The new interest was settled with as solid a stability\\nas any thing in future affairs can look for. All the penal laws\\nof that unparalleled code of oppression, which were made\\nafter the last event, were manifestly the efft-cts of national ha-\\ntred and scorn towards a conquered people, whom the victors\\ndelighted to trample upon, and were not at all afraid to pro-\\nvoke. They were not the effects of (heir fears, but of their\\nsecurity. They who carried on this system, looked to the\\nirresistible force of Great Britain for their support in acts of\\npower. They were quite certain, that no complaints of the\\nnatives would be heard on this side of the water, with any\\nother sentiments than those of contempt and indignation.\\nTheir cries served only to augment their torture. Machines,\\nwhich could answer their purposes so well, must be of an ex-\\ncellent contrivance. Indeed, at that time in England, the\\ndouble name of the complainants, Irish and Papists, (it would\\nPapists teaching school publicly or privately, or being ushers to pro-\\nfcestant school-masters, should be transported on pain of death if they re-\\nturned. Fifty pounds reward were offered for a Catholic Bishop ten\\npounds for a Catholic school-master, and twenty pounds for a Priest, to be\\nlevied on the catholics of the county where they were found 7 William\\nIII. c. iv. Burke, in allusion to this act, says, I have ever thought the\\nprohibition of the means of improving our rational nature to be the worst\\nspecies of tyranny that the iasoience and perverseness of mankind ever\\nJared to exercise.\\nt On the Orange flag is the figure of a horse to which the votaries\\nkneel. I myself have heard an Orangeman drink li to the immortal me.-\\nmory of William s hoir:e r", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "he hard to say, singly, which was the most odious) shut up tils\\nthe hearts of every one against them. Whilst that ternpei\\nprevailed in all its force, to a time within our memory, every\\nmeasure was pleasing and popular, just in proportion as it\\ntended to harrass and ruin a set of people who were looked\\nupon as enemies to God and man and, indeed, as a race of\\nbigoted savages, who were a disgrace to human nature itself.*\\nWhen memory turns to the period, (the last fifty years) I\\nwould now describe, how heart-rending are the scenes which\\npresent themselves. My pen trembles in my hand as the re-\\ncollections crowd on each other; within that time, Ire-\\nland took her rank, for a moment, among the nations of thro\\nearth. Within that time, Ireland was an independent king-\\ndom that kingdom was bought and sold. Within that time r\\na brave and long suffering people united, made one grand-\\nstruggle for the liberties of their country but they were be-\\ntrayed, and their country plundered, and they themselves^\\nhunted down, like wild beasts in the forests, by ferocious mon-\\nsters, who, under the name of Orangemen, spread devastation\\nover the land.\\nThe rise and progress of Orangeism is accounted for by\\nMr. Graham, in this way, page 13, line 6, Sec. After the\\nfirst abortive attempt at revolution, reflecting men among the.\\nprotestants, began to think they had acted rashly in forming\\na brotherhood with catholics. Whether, upon the whole, it\\nwas prudent to sever at a blow, the arm of the British go-\\nvernment, which, with all its maladies, protected them. The\\nre-action began among them. They united, kc, and the*\\nwisdom of the measure recommended itself strongly. This\\nwas the starting point from which the present Orange associ-\\nation of Ireland is to date its origin. That that faction-\\nunder different appellations, devastated Ireland for more than\\na century before, is already proved but allowing, for a mo-\\nment, the learned gentleman the full benefit of his argument\\nwhat does he prove Why that the faction, true to their\\n:i Loiter to .Sir Her. Lang. p. 44.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "w\\nprinciples, finding, after an abortive attempt at revolution,\\nthat it was much more profitable to join the government, de-\\nserted their former companions, and were foremost in their\\nbutchery. It was then that reflecting Orangemen regretted\\nhaving formed a brotherhood with Catholics. It was much\\nmore congenial ,to their feelings and principles, to trample\\nand oppress, than to unite with them in their struggles for\\nfreedom. Mr. Graham says that he himself was a United\\nIrishman, but abaudoned them on reflection; of course he too\\njoined in the re-action that is, in pursuit of naked, un-\\narmed wretches, who, when surprised, were burned in their\\nhabitations but, that reflecting men, among the protes-\\ntants, have approved of the institution of a bond of union\\namong any portion of their countrymen, distinct and separate\\nfrom the great body of the people, and that they have en-\\ncouraged the celebration of the battle of Aughrim, I totally\\ndeny on the contrary, all the Irishmen who have, for the\\nlast fifty years, by their talents and their genius, illumined\\nthe political horizon of their ill-fated country, have uniformly\\nadvocated a union of Irishmen, and have indignantly depre-\\ncated the infamous and unnatural conspiracy entered into by\\nOrangemen, to perpetuate the slavery and degradation of Ire-\\nland.*\\nWith what naviete this modest and learned gentleman\\ntreats his subject. He describes the horrors of 1798, as a\\nmere re-action. The blood-stained flag, the emblem of de-\\nstruction, an Orange handkerchief set on a pole for amuse-\\nment. I should like to ask the gentleman if he has ever\\nheard or read of such atrocities as were perpetrated in 1798.\\nby his faction, or if he could point out a single year in which\\nthey have hoisted their Orange handkerchief on a pole for\\namusement, that has not witnessed the murder of some one-\\ninhabitant of wretched Ireland.\\nIn this number we find a Flood, a G rattan, a Duquery, a Barrington, a\\nCurran, a Burke, a Sheridan, a Robert Emmett, an Edward Fitzgerald,\\na Bushe, a Plunkett, c. c. From such a constellation of genius, could\\nMr. Graham not borrow one ray of light tD illumine the darkness of hi?\\nown intellect.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "w?\\ni\\nOrangemen were never Uiyted Irishmen, those who bfc;\\n5ame so as spies excepted on the contrary, an insurrectional\\nplot, irt which were embodied all the talents, s.\\\\\\\\ the patriot\\nism and energy of the country, .was rendered abortive by this\\nhellish \u00c2\u00a3action\u00c2\u00bb. a .A people, ground U powder by enormous\\nrents\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the pressure of- tithes, for the support of a church es-\\ntablishment, with which they had no connexion, were easily\\ndriven into premature action, by a well directed espionage.\\nThe Orange system was brought into.play, and the soldiery,\\nJet loose on the people, commenced the work of death and\\ndesolation covered the country with the horrors of a most\\ncalamitous war, and drove the innocent in co-operation with\\nthe guilty. All the ties af social life were torn up, and filing\\ninto one .vast heap of uudistinguishable ruin. The bayonet,\\nwhetted with religious rancour, was opposed by the merciless\\npike whilst at the same time insidious, but pitiless, policy\\nheld out in one hand, the olive branch, and flourished the\\nlash of torture in the other. It was not war it was butchery*\\nThe contest was mad revenge, driven to desperation by exter-\\nminating pursuit. The proscription, in the time of the huri-\\ntans was revived. The Catholics of the north were oncdniote\\nwarned from their homes, on pain of extermination^ to seek ai.\\nrefuge in the western wilds. Written notices were posted ori\\ntheir doors with CromwelFs watch word s, To Hell or Co ti-\\nnaught. Obedient to this bloody admonition, the affrighted\\nCatholics abandoned their habitations to the fury of the\\nspoiler but even this could not satisfy Orangemen, ^tliif\\nthirsted after the blood of Papists, and were but too well\\nseconded by the government of that day.\\nThe Insh government, in 98, stigmatized with the name @f\\nrebellion, that which was but legitimate defence, and hating\\nmade the charge, it considered itself at perfect liberty i\u00c2\u00ae\\nabandon the peasantry to the whole fury of the tempesi;\\nGrattan describes the faction that desolated Ireland at ifeat\\nIt is asserted by many respectable individuals (fiat ffom 5 79^\\nfamilies abandoned their homes the North at this period,-\\n4 L", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20\\nday in a letter addressed to the Orange corporation of Dnu-\\nlin. \u00e2\u0080\u0094After vindicating his- own character, he proceeds to de-\\nvelop the causes which have produced so much misery to\\nthat country. He says, it is that faction which is the secret\\nmover of all this calumny and all this injustice they stand at\\nthe head of a bloody combination I look on them as the.\\ncause of the evil that has of late fallen on their country. I\\nprotest I do not know a faction, which, considering the very\\nsmall measure of their credit and ability, has done so much\\nmischief to their king and country. They opposed the re-\\nstoration of the Constitution of Ireland they afterwards en-\\ndeavoured to betray and undermine it they introduced a\\nsystem of corruption, unknown in the annals of parliament\\nthey then proclaimed that corruption so loudly, so scandal-\\nously, and so broadly, that one of them was obliged to deny\\nin one house the notorious expressions he had used in ano-\\nther. They accompanied these offences by abominable pe-\\ntulence of invective, uttered from time to time against the\\ngreat body of the people^ and having by such proceedings and\\nsuch discourse, lost their affection, they resorted to a system of\\ncoercion, to support a system of torture, attendant on a con-\\nspiracy of which their crimes was the cause. And now their\\ncountry displays a most; extraordinary contest, where an\\nEnglishman, at the head of its government, struggles to spare\\nthe Irish people, and an Irish faction presses to shed then\\nblood. I repeat it, I do not know a faction more danger on.\\nmore malignant or ?iwre sanguinary.*\\nSo thought illustrious Grattan, but the paternal government\\nojf. England was of a different opinion. They had titles and\\npensions conferred on the leaders of this murdering banditti,\\nand acts of indemnity passed to screen them from the punish-\\nment due to their crimes. The disgusting and horrid detail\\nof their half-liangings. their pitch-caps their torturings, and\\nmilitary massacres, 1 will not now venture to describe.\\nWould to God! that the remotest recollection of thatbloodj\\nC rattan s letter is dated Twickenham. 9th November. 1798,nnd pul*\\nJislied jji the Courier of the same month", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "~27\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a stem was buried in eternal oblivion, and Irishmen at length\\nunited.\\nI will, however, beg the reader s indulgence, whilst I make\\nfew extracts from a speech of Lord Moira* in the British\\nHouse of Lords in Nov. 1797. It shews so clearly, and de-\\npicts so forcibly, the situation and sufferings of my country-\\nmen at .this period, that I cannot offer any thing equally\\nstrong and clear to prove nry positions, and the falsities of\\nthe assertions with which the people of this country have\\nbeen amused I address you upon this day, my Lords, upon\\ndocuments sure and and stable. Before God and my country\\n1 speak of wlw.t 1 have seen myself. My Lords I have seen in\\nIreland the most absurd, as well as the most disgusting tyranny\\nthat any nation ever groaned under. I have been myself a\\nwitness of it in many instances I have seen it practised and\\nunchecked, and the effects that have resulted from it have\\nbeen such as I have stated to your Lordships. I have seen in\\ndiat country a marked distinction made between the English\\nand Irish. I have seen^ic most wanton insults practised upon\\nmen of all ranks and conditions. I have seen the most grievous\\n-oppressions exercised in consequence of a presumption, that\\nthe person who was the unfortunate object of such oppression\\nwas in hostility to the government and yet that has been done\\nin a part of the country as quiet and as free from such distur-\\nbance as the city of London. Who states these things, my\\nLords, should, I know, be prepared with proofs. I am pre-\\npared with them. His Lordship, observing on the curfew\\nlaws then in force in Ireland, continues, have known an in-\\nstance, where a master of a house had in vain pleaded to be\\nallowed the use of a candle to enable the mother to adminster\\nrelief to her daughter; struggling in convulsive fits. Again,\\nhe says, When a man was taken on suspicion, he was put to\\nthe torture; nay, if he was merely accused of concealing the\\nguilt of another. I have known a man, in order to extort\\nThis nobleman will not be accused of too much humanity by Ameri-\\ncans, wlieu they are toU that it was be who commanded in the Carolinas,\\nunder the title of Lord Kowden, during the glorious struggle of the re-\\nrolutiaa.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28\\ncanfession of a supposed crime, or of that of some of his neigh-\\nbours, picquetted till he actually fainted picquetteda second^\\ntime till he fainted again and, as soon as he came to himself;\\npicquctted a third time, till he once more fainted, and alts\\nupon mere suspicion Nor was this the only species of tor-\\nture men had been taken and hung up liH they were half\\ndead, and then threatened with a repetition of the cruel treat\\norient, nnlesS they made confession of the imputed guilt. These\\nwere not particular acts of cruelty, exercised by men abusing\\nthe power committed to them but they formed a part of\\nour system. This, however was not all their Lordsliips, no\\ndoubt, would recollect the famous proclamation issued by a\\nmilitary commander in Ireland requiring the people to give up\\ntheir arms it never was denied, that this proclamation was\\nillegal, though defended on some supposed necessity; but it\\nwas not surprising, that any reluctance had been shewn to\\ncomply withk by men who conceived the vConstitution gave\\nthem a right to keep arms within thel-r houses, for their own,\\ndefence and they could not but feel indignation in being call-,\\ned upon to give up their right. In the execution of this order, the\\ngreatest cruelties had been committed. If any one was suspected,\\nto hav\u00c2\u00ab concealed weapons of defence in his house, his furni-\\nture and all his property was burnt but this was not all if it\\nwere supposed that any district had not surrendered all the\\narms it contained, a party was sent out to collect the number\\nat which it was rated and in the execution of this order, thirty\\nhouses were sometimes burned down in a\\\\$ingle nighL Officers\\ntook upon themselves to decide discretionally tfcje quantity of\\narms and upon their opinions .these fatal consequences fol-\\nlowed. From prudential motives I wish to draw a veil over\\nmore aggravated facts, which I could state, and which 1 am\\nwilling to attest before the Privy I ouncil, or at your Lord-\\nship s bar.* 3\\nThe ill-omened struggle of 1798 coujd npt last long. A\\npeople unarmed and without leaders were soon compelled tc\\nsubmit, and butchered in detail. Orangeism progressed, and\\nSee Journal of the Lords for November 179?.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "29\\nM its votaries had now no fears for the loss of their dominion,\\nthey gave some attention to the proper organization of the,\\nholy brotherhood. A higher order of exterminators was esta-\\nblished, (known under the name of purple marksmen.) They\\nare the staunch bloodhounds of the pack, to whom is specially\\nreserved the task of checking the increase of Irish enemies,\\nby shooting a few hundred married men and women annually.\\nThe mere Orangeman is a low beastly creature, set on as a cur\\nto start the game 5 he proceeds by every manner of provoca-\\ntion to rouse a sensitive people to resistance and then it is, that\\nthe purple marksmen, those hellish exterminators are let loose\\non the people, to riot in blood, and clear the country of its\\nsuperabundant population*\\nMr. Reed (already quoted) has himself been an eye-witness\\nto some such scenes. In 1 822, on the 25th of June, About\\nnine o clock in the evening a riot took place, (in Armagh)\\nwhich appeared to originate in party spirit there were a great\\nmany engaged. The constables were not to be found, and had\\nit not been for the prompt interference of the military, the\\nquarrel might have assumed a serious aspect. Some of the com-\\nbatants continued to patrol the streets till a lale hour, and\\nseemed very anxious to find ri bbon-men to fight with. About half\\npast ten I met with a party of about thirty, several of whom\\nwore red coats (in the kings pay of course,) they stopt me,\\nand rudely demanded whether I was a ribbon-man but being\\nanswered in Ihe negative, they permitted me to proceed, say-\\ning at the same time, It is d d well for you that you arc\\nnot. Here we have a sample of Irish State policy; the\\nmilitary were called out, yet the Orangemen continued to\\nparade the streets, the town was cleared for them that they\\nmight amuse themselves,^ trample on the inhabitants with im-\\npunity, and insult respectable strangers.\\nAnd all this no doubt in celebration of the victory of the\\nBoyne, as a few days make no difference with Orangemen be-\\n-ides they had as good a right to suppose the anniversary or.\\nj?ee his notes on Ireland, page 168,", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30\\n1ie 25ch Jane as their learned brother Graham has to fix it on\\nhe twelfth day after it actually occurs.\\nOn the 12th of July, Mr. Reed went to Middleton in Ar-\\nmagh county, to witness the celebration of the battle of Augh-\\nrim. The cause of this place being selected was openly de-\\nclared by some of those brave high-minded gentry, and was\\nsimply this some three or four years back, a number of them\\nimd met, as usual, to celebrate the glorious memory, and\\nirmiU their fellow-subjects the Catholics who, at length driven\\nto resentmeni, repelled the aggressors, and the affray terminat-\\ned in the glorious memory-men getting gloriously thrashed.\\nThis stain on their chivalry they determined to wipe off; and\\nfor this purpose their forces were this day to be concentrated\\non the ground which had before been the theatre of defeat.\\nAt an early hour the road between Dungannon and Cala-\\ndon was crowded with men, hoys, women, and children\\nmost of them wore shoes, many had stockings, and all were\\nprovided with flags, scarfs, or ribbands of orange colour.\\nSome of these indeed were discoloured by smoke and soot-\\nrain but their owners (or more properly their wearers, for it\\nwas said that many of them were borrowed,) did not appear to\\nprize them the less on that account. The importance of the\\noccasion was heightened ..by drums, fifes, and bugles, which\\nproduced exhilirating discord. Some of the Orangemen and\\nOrangezoomen were mounted on horses, that appeared cer-\\ntainly to stand more in need of. a feed of oats, than the airing\\nintended for them in this procession.\\nThere lived in the neighbourhood a poor man, named John\\nBeaviers, almost worn out by disease haemoptysis had\\nbrought him to the verge of the grave. I had myself pre-\\nscribed for him, and most rigidly enjoined abstinence and\\nquiet but so irresistible was the desire to swell the ultra-loyal\\nranks, that this infatuated creature was staggering along with\\nthe crowd, nobly supported by his wife. On my expressing\\nastonishment and regret at the fatal folly of this man, an ac-\\nquaintance, who was standing by, and who. was an Orange\\nman, said, The boy? must alt shexo themselvAS else hov: could", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "SI\\n%\u00c2\u00bbc tell whether they arc of the right or wrong sort I asked-,\\nwould any of these right or wrong fellows support the poor\\nman s widow and children if he were called from them. This\\nseemed treading on tender ground. I got no reply, and my\\nright or wrong friend walked off, not at .all pleased at my\\nBUriosity. He proceeds to describe his meeting straggling-\\nparties of the Orangemen, who had taken apremature departure\\nfrom the aggregate body not, however, before they had laid in a\\nlarge store of whiskey and irresistible loyalty. So desirous\\nwere they of an opportunity to display this exalted sentiment,\\nthat t he, cry, five pounds for the face of a black mouth pa-\\npish was shouted incessantly. Many of them were mount-\\ned on horses, which I knew were not the\\\\r own almost every\\nhorse had two riders It was really disgusting to hear the shout\\nfrom boys, whose ages could have not exceeded sixteen or se-\\nventeen years, but some of whom, it would seem, were officer*.,\\nas they bore standards, and were invested with other insignia\\nindicative of authority. In the large body I should think there\\nwere between eleven and twelve hundred persons and I can\\nsafely and solemnly assert, that in the whole number there war\\nnot one decent looking individual. This did not dissappoint me\\nfor I zvas assured that men who had any pretensions to respect-\\nability could not be found in brotherhood, or in any way as-\\nsociating with such canaille.\\nWith them, extirpation of the unoffending catholics, ?ear\\na cherished object. In the arms of apparent death, the faint\\ner} r of five pounds, for the face of a black-mouthed papish\\nwas the last articulate sound that could be collected from\\nthose heroes, when they fell overwhelmed by the effects of\\nextreme intoxication. Knowing that a considerable portion of\\nthe population of that part of the country were catholics,\\nwho, it was reasonable to suppose, would oppose/orec to vio-\\nlence, I apprehended serious consequences,but, the Orangemen\\nrould find no Cathplics to tight with a quarrel there could no!.\\neasily be excited. It is barely doing justice to say that tin:\\nconduct of the Catholics this day, was orderly, decent, and\\npeaceable in amost creditable degree. In the transactions", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "of this- day, so far as they fell under my observation, the\\npeace was preserved in spite of the innumerable premeditated\\nefforts made to the contrary, and bloodshed only prevented\\nby the forbearance of the insulted class. Every hostile in-\\ntention to produce battle, lost its object in the grave contempt\\nof those it was meant to injure; it is probable that very seri-\\nous mischief would have ensued were it not for the praise-\\nworthy moderation of the Catholics,. One atrocity, notwith-\\nstanding, was committed in the neighbourhood. A party o!.\\nthose whom I had seen at Middleton, on their return, got\\nhold of a poor Catholic, and beat him unmercifully he died\\nof the abuse shortly afterwards.\\nIt was. reasonable to expect that some step? would be\\ntaken to bring the perpetrators of so foul a crime to justice\\nbut the magistrates of the district manifested, in this instance,\\na spirit of v forbearance and forgiveness, of. which they had\\nnever before .been suspected 5 the delinquent? were left ai\\nlarge, c. Had they chosen, they might have performed\\nsimilar exploits the next and succeeding days, ad libitum,\\nwithout molestation from the local authorities.\\nThe events just mentioned are the* natural consequences\\nof a system to which the vital interests of that country have\\nfor centuries been blindly sacrificed.\\nI would dispassionately ask the upholders of the Orange\\nAssociation, what benefits has it conferred on the country.\\nHas Ireland ever derived from it ought but jealousy, discontent\\nand sanguinary, discord/ Its advantages if it have any, are\\nknown to very few. Its baleful consequences, who does iioj\\nknown 1\\nThis portrait of Orangeism in 1 822, is entitled to the more,\\nconsideration as being the production of a British officer, and\\nalthough it presents but a faint outline of the real sufferings of\\nthe Irish people, yet is it more than sufficient to convince\\nevery rational man of the unhappy consequences that would\\nfollow an introduction of such brotherhood into this country .J\\nTwo of tho murderers are sous of a parson who is also a justice,\\nSee Reeds notes on Ireland, from page 187 to 197.\\ni The Baltimore Federal Gazette has just fallen into m.v hands, sorn^-", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "33\\nMr. Graham lias made a bold attempt to palm this associa-\\nion on the people as the great bulwark of Protestantism in\\nthis there is more perhaps than meets the ear. Could the\\nAmerican citizens be induced take to their bosoms these mis-\\ncreants as sufferers in the cause of religion. Orangeism, na-\\nturalized in the country, would soon give England a prepon-\\nderating influence here. Secure of the devotion of the cne-\\nof its contents bear so forcibly on the subject here under discussion, that\\nI must take leave to insert them. At the Fermanagh Assizes in Au-\\ngust last, Catholic prisoners were tried for murders at Innismore, and found\\nguilty of manslaughter. At the adjournment, the Catholic prisoners\\ntried for the riots were found guilty, the Orange traversers (nothwithstand-\\ning the wrecking of the houses of the Catholics at Innismore, and the\\nshooting at and wounding the Catholics,) were only two., those two were\\nacquitted. The jurors were exclusively Orangetnen.\\nIt was proved by a respectable witness, that one of the traversers {John\\nSye,) had fired the shot that wounded Lawrence Hannan in the thigh it\\nwas proved that a man by the name of Riley was dangerously wounded by\\na shot from Kenney s party he proved it himself, and that three magis-\\ntrates of this county had, after repeated applications, refused to take t/te\\nwitness s information.\\nAfter Lawrence Hannan Lad been examined as a witness, and was\\nmaking his way from the council table, he was hauled by a party of Les-\\nbellaw Peelers, (not the least apprehensive of the consequences, and assault-\\ned almost within view of the court. A few minutes after, on his arrival in\\nthe street, in presence of ounsellor Rolleston, he received a most despe-\\nrate blow on the back of the neck from an Orangeman of the name of\\nM Cready. As soon as the fact was made known, Counsellor Kernan\\ncommunicated it to the Judge, and had informations prepared and sworn to\\nin the Court against the offender (he had no difficulty in escaping.)\\nThe Sub sheriff denied the charge, and said he had fifteen witnesses to\\nprove to the contrary.\\nJudge Moore\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Talk not to me, Sir, of j T our fifteen witnesses. IN\\nTHE PROGRESS OF THESE TRIALS 1 HAVE SEEN ENOUGH\\nOF THAT. I saw the hustliug in the Court myself; I saw the rush from\\nthe galleries. If, Sir, your constabulary force be not sufficient to protect\\nthe administration of justice, (I know not -how long the Bench itself will\\ncontinue safe) call out the posse comitatus of the county and if that be not\\nsufficient, Sir, said the Judge, with great warmth and indignation, I shall\\ncall out the military. The proper conduct of the High Sheriff prevents me\\nimposing such a fine on you as this abominable transaction merits.\\nI wish I had room for the excellent observations with which this article\\nis accompanied by Mr. Guynne, in the Gazette. He himself is, if I wis-\\nlake not, an Irish Protestant, and therefore the better able to describe the\\nreal views of a faction who have long laboured to make Protestantism and\\nOrangeism in Ireland mere convertible terms. He says, If the Orange-\\nmen, not one to seven of the nation, are depraved and perjurers, the fault is\\nin the Government, which has so long nurtured them in bigotry and cor-\\nruption, as a priviledged caste, net subject to the wholesome control of\\nlaw or reason and if the Catholics, seven to one of the population, retaliate\\nthe murders practised on them, the fault is in the Government, which for\\nseven hundred years has kept them in a state of debasement, and without\\naffording them legal protection from the insults and crimes of their domes\\ntic oppressors.\\n5", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "mies of social order, she could then the more easily mar the\\ngrowing strength and prosperity of a dreaded rival, insinuate\\nherself into the councils of the nation, excite distrust of the\\nIrish emigrant, and thus neutralize his ardour in the cause oi*\\nliberty and the country.\\nMr. Graham s hostility to every liberal principle, his attach-\\nment to England, to its mode of government and policy, and\\nhatred of religious liberty, make him a very fit agent. A man\\nwho could declare, without ablush, in the face of history\\nand the world, that he did not believe that the British Go-\\nvernment is predicated (as to Ireland) on a policy merely ma-\\nlicious, or that it is the direct and studied object of her rulers\\nto promote the miseries of the subjects of that ill-fated coun-\\ntry but that he did believe that that government did no!;\\nmake, but found the difficulties deeply inlaid in the ancient\\npolicy and history of Ireland, which have hitherto retarded\\nher emancipation. Good God how blind are the prejudices\\nof that desolating faction; when one of them, a man, too,\\nnursed in penury, whose wants must have been few, and who\\nwas obliged to abandon his country in search of that subsist-\\nence which was denied to his industry at home, still defends\\nthe very policy which sent him a wanderer.\\nThat Mr. Graham owes to it some acknowledgement, I will\\nfreely admit. It has thrown him on a country where he has\\nhad the good fortune to raise himself to rank with those who\\nwould not associate with him at home, and it has afforded him\\nan opportunity of recommending himself to the attention of the\\nBritish government by a display of those necessary qualifica-\\ntions for propagating the baneful principles of Orangeism.\\nThis latter consideration had no doubt its proper weight with\\nhim, when regardless of the ties of gratitude, which bind even\\nhonorable mind to its friend and benefactor, he insulted the\\nVenerable and aged patriot, who extended to him the hand oi\\nfellowship, patronised and opened to him that source, from\\nwhich he now draws his support, when poor, a stranger, and\\nunknown.\\nThat the government of England is predicated as to Ire-\\nland on a policy truly malicious that it is the direct and,", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "35\\nStudied object of her rulers to promote the misery of the Irish\\npeople that it is only fitted to the destruction of liberty,\\nto trample down in the wantonness of cruelty and oppression\\nthe comforts and rights of the people, and that it thinks of no-\\nthing but how to turn one to cut the throat of the other, few\\nwill deny who are conversant with Irish history.\\nThe same system of oppression and plunder has governed\\nthe policy of England towards that country for 600 years.\\nThere is not a single act upon record from the invasion of\\nHenry II. to the declaration of American independence which\\nhad not for its object the moral degradation of the people, and\\nIhe destruction of the wealth and resources of the country.\\nIn the time of the Pale, Sir John Davis says, that the English\\nlords could not endure that any other should have authority but\\nthemselves. They persuaded the king of England that it was\\nunfit to communicate the laws of England to the Irish people,\\nthat it was the best policy to hold them as aliens and\\nENEMIES, AND TO PROSECUTE THEM WITH A CONTINUAL WAR.\\nThe Revolution of 1688 gave an encrease of power to the\\nEnglish faction to oppress and plunder the people. The Patron\\nSaint of Orangeism, William, in a speech from his throne at\\nthat period, pledged himself that he should do all that^lay in his\\npower to D1SCOURAOE THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURIES OF IRE-\\nLAND, and by his ready co-operation with the Parliament, the\\ntrade was prohibited soon-after, thousands thrown out of em-\\nployment and the raw material exported to supply the manu-\\nfactories of England.*\\nThis act was but a prelude to further encroachments, until\\nat length the people were left without the means of support-\\nThousands emigrated to France and other countries to escape\\nthe wretchedness that awaited them at home.t\\nThus did this apostle of liberty, whjpse very mantle has\\naccording to Mr. Graham entailed a spirit ever watchful of the-\\nproiestant interest, first enact that the Irish people should not\\nread, as his soldiers did, that they should not eat bread, and,\\nThe woollen manufacture of Ireland is naturally its staple fabric, oi^\\naccount of the richness of the soil, aod the excellence of i|s climate.\\nf By a reference to the register of the war office of France, it appears^\\nthat from the year 1691 to the year 1745, incmsive,yawr hundred and Jiffy\\nthousand Irkh enlisted umter the banners of France.-- Th\u00c2\u00bbs in itself speaifti\\nvolumes.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "m\\nthen decreed that eveii the bounteous hand of providence\\nshould be stayed, that its gifts might go to another people\\nThis was the protection afforded to the protestant manufactur-\\ners of Ireland.\\nBut they cannot complain as he left them his mantle to\\ncover and protect them, they need not manufactures.\\nThe prophet s mantle, ere his flight began,\\nDropped on the world a sacred gift to man.\\nCampbell.\\nThe succeeding reign introduces the ferocious act of Ann,\\nby which Catholics were disabled from the purchase of any\\nlands, or interest in them, for a term beyond thirty-one years\\nand, if property came by descent, by devise or will, the next\\nheir, if a protestant, might possess himself of it. Another\\nprovision destroyed the mutual confidence and relation of pa-\\nrent and child it went to the total boulversement of society\\nit sapped the very foundations of social happiness, and re-\\nversed the order of nature entire, as it placed the father at\\nthe mercy of his child. It permitted a son, on becoming a\\nprotestant, to make his father tenant for life to his own\\nestate.*\\nThe accession of the house of Hanover to the English\\nthrone, caused no alteration in British state policy, and\\nits leading principle that the Irish ought to be plundered,\\nand none protected, was as anxiously cherished by the\\nGeorges, as by any of their predecessors.\\nIn consonance with the recommendation of the then Lord\\nLieutenant, ihe Parliament of Ireland, in 1 723, came to eight\\nviolent resolutions against the Catholics, which passed with-\\nout a desentient voice. To prevent the further growth of\\npopery for strengthening the Protestant interest in that king-\\nDr. Curry, in his History of the civil wars, vol. ii. page 234 says that\\nthrough this act, there runs such a vein of ingenious cruelty, that it\\nseems to be dictated rather by some Pretor of Dioclesian than by a British\\n]Nobleman.\\nAnd Burke in his letters to Sir Her. Langrish, page 87, says of this ac\\nYou abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do it\\njustice. It was. a complete system full of coherence and consistency.:\\nwell digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise\\nand elaborate contrivance and as well fitted for the oppression, impove-\\nrishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human\\nnature itself as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ablom and for castrating every catholic clergyman tiia?\\nSHOULD BE FOUND IN THE REALM., LC. C. C.\\nBut with the declaration of American Independence com-\\nmenced a brighter era. That glorious effort awakened the\\nslumbering energies of a long suffering people for when\\nwith the cry of liberty, the standard of freedom was unfurled on\\nthe shores of America, and tyrants started at the sound.\\nEighty thousand Irishmen in arms re-echoed this cry.\\nThe greatest enthusiasm pervaded all ranks in the country.\\nInternal dissensions were allayed, and not one domestic ene-\\nmy contaminated the face of Ireland,\\nA people united are irresistible. The Irish volunteers\\ncommanded the freedom of trade for their country, and tire,\\nindependence of its parliament, with some relaxation of the\\npenal laws. Would to God they had gone farther. They\\ncommenced by imitating the Americans they asserted their\\nrights as men gained an immoral victory of liberal prin-\\nciples, but they closed their career, as slaves.\\nEngland soon took advantage of this falling off. Freed\\nfrom the ^imminent danger with which she was threatened,\\nwhile America beat her armies abroad, and France her fleets\\nat home, resorted once more to her favourite system of divi-\\nsion and persecution on it she founds her power in Ireland.,\\nwell convinced that in the enjoyment of internal peace, a union\\nof Irishmen of all religious denominations would soon follow\\nand destroy her supremacy, for the people would then feel\\ntheir own strength and awaken to othex feelings than those of\\nbase submission to the ordinances of a foreign power.\\nIt was easy to open half closed wounds, to renew the strug-\\ngle between slaves and their task-masters, and to excite dis-\\ntrust and spread false alarms by the means of a well paid host\\nof spies and informers*\\nAt length the object was attained. The people were driven\\ninto rebellion, and after having suffered under the most un-\\nheard of cruelty, and the most sanguinary acts of atrocity, and\\nstill smarting under the lash, and irritated by threats of conf,i-\\nOne method resorted to was a publication industriously circulated,\\nstating that a scheme was formed between the Catholics and Presbyterians\\nfor the subversion of the established re%ion and constitution. Curran,\\n1 Par. Deb. W).", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "infliction, they looked on, as was expected, with the most per-\\nfect indifference, when the former acts of justice, wrung from\\nthe fears of an English Minister,* were rendered abortive by\\ndie suicidal act of the same Parliament, who, eighteen years\\nbefore declared itself independent of the Parliament of Eng-\\nland.\\nAfter this sketch of Irish history and Irish sufferings, will any\\nman for a moment doubt, that the government of Ireland is\\npredicated on a policy merely malicious, That it is the direct\\nand studied objectof her rulers to promote the misery of the Irish\\npeople. That it is fitted only to the destruction of liberty,\\nto trample down in the wontoness of cruelty and oppression\\nthe comforts and rights of the people, or that it thinks of\\nany thing else but to turn one individual, in Ireland, to cut\\nthe throat of another; If there be any such in this country,\\n(besides Mr. Graham, for he says that he does not believe it\\nlet him read the following quotation with which I shall close\\nthis part of my subject.\\nYou are called upoti to give up your independence, and\\nto whom are you to give it up To a nation which for six hun-\\ndred years has treated you with uniform oppression and injus-\\ntice. The Treasury Bench startles at this assertion Nou\\nmeus hie sermo est. If the treasury scold me, Mr. Pitt will\\nscold them it is his assertion, in so many words in his speech,\\nIreland, says he, has always been treated with injustice und il-\\nliberality Ireland, says Junius, has been uniformly plundered\\nand oppressed. This is not the slander of Junius, or the can-\\ndour of Mr. Pitt-y it is history. For ccnhirieshas the British na-\\ntion and Parliament kept you down, shackled your commerce^\\nparalized your exertions, despised your character, and ridiculed\\nyour pretensions to any privileges, commercial or constitutional.\\nShe never conceded a point to you which she coidd avoid, or\\ngranted a favor which was not reluctantly distilled. They have\\nbeen alhvrungjrom her like drops of her heart s blood, and yon\\nare not in possession of a single blessing, except those which\\nyou derive from God, that has not beep, either purchased or ex~\\nAt a time when he was told those truths by Burke, That Ireland was\\nnow the chief dependance of the British Crown, and that it behooved Eng\u00c2\u00bb-\\nRmd to^dmit the Irish nation to the privilege of British citizens", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "39\\ntortcd by the virtue of your own parliament from the illiberal!-\\nly of England*\\nIn page 26, Mr. Graham says that the British Govern-\\nment did not make, but found the difficulties deeply inlaid in\\nthe ancient policy and history of Ireland, which have hitherto\\nretarded her emancipation.\\nThis is the last assertion of his which I shall notice, and^l-\\nthough it requires but little effort after what has been already\\nsaid to show its utter fallacy, yet will I for a moment (to des-\\ntroy all doubt carry m the readers attention back to the early\\nhistory of my country.\\nWe have the concurring testimony of the early historians\\nwho have written on the subject that the national character\\nof the Irish was long established before their unfortunate con-\\nnexion with England. And that whilst the inundation of\\nsavages from the North covered the whole of the Roman Em-\\npire, that Ireland alone, by her insular situation, secure from\\nthe storm that swept the last vestige of civilization from every\\nother part of Europe, continued to patronize the arts and\\nsciences. And that so soon as the inundation had subsided,\\n*ihe seized on the first moment of calm to send forth her Jearn^\\ncd missionaries, to preach the gospel of peace, establish\\nschools, and found and superintend seminaries in every part of\\nEurope.1 And that for centuries before the connexion her\\nshores were annually crowded with students from the conti-\\nnent, who were not only educated, elothed and lodged, (by the\\nSpeech of Mr. Bush, [now Lord Chief Justice of King: Bench in Ire-\\nSand 1 in the Irish Parliament in 1800, on a motion made for the\\nunion of Ireland with Great Britain. Mr. Graham will not question this\\nauthority, nor call him a partisan\\nHenrick of St. Germain, who wrote m the time of Charles the Bald,\\nsays why should I mention Ireland? Almost the whole nation, despising\\nthe dangers of the sea resort to our coasts with a numerous tram ot Ph\u00c2\u00bbk\\nIn the reign of Pepin of France Virgillhis Solivagns, an Irishman, war.\\nbishop of Saltzburgh, he it was who first maintained the true form of the\\nearth on the continent and for which he was. degraded by the Pope\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAnother 500 years after placed him on the calender ot saints.\\nA little after flourished the famous Johannes Scotus Engena, also an\\nIrishman. 1 1 writings were various, was a favourite of Charles the Bald.\\npassed over to England at the intreaty of Alfred the Great and was the Jirst\\nprofessor of geometry and astronomy in the university oi Cxford he\\ntrantated the Hierarchy of Uionysius the Ariopagite from th.e Greek.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "nation) but even furnished with books, then so scarce anariui,.\\ngratis.*\\nTo her Alfred, England s boasted king, owed bis education.\\nMany other facts might be adduced equally strong and convinc-\\ning to justify her claim to a high degree of civilization at an\\nearly period.\\nHer admirable code of laws, as given by Ollam Fadhla, 930\\nyears before Christ, improved and digested by her Brehonst\\nthe Beatagh regulation of public hospitality, for which provi-\\nsion was made by the nation, the cultivation of poetry and\\nmusic, the extensive and magnificent ruins, once the seat of\\narts and sciences, the sanctuaries of learning, all bear testimony\\nto what Ireland has been. But alas how lost, how fallen now\\nA blank in the map of Europe, her people compelled to wan-\\nder in every clime in search of subsistence, and her blood her\\ntreasures and resources going to the aggrandizement of that\\ncountry which has robbed her of every thing but the ruins of\\nthose monuments of her departed glory.\\nWhen an American reflects a little on the foregoing, when he\\ncontrasts the past with the present, the former prosperity of\\nIreland when independent, with its misery and wretchedness\\niiowthat it is under the dominion of England, will he not con-\\nclude, that to a government of misrule, is to be attributed the\\nunparelled wretchedness of the Irish peasantry. J\\nWhen he considers the natural resources of a country in\\nwhich the most appalling pictures of human misery daily and\\nhourly present themselves. When he is told that many wret-\\nches are there, induced to the perpetration of crime by the\\nhope of being transported out of a country which they\\nA most honorable testimony, says Lord Littleton, not only to the\\nlearning but also to the hospitality and bounty of that nation See Leland\\nprel. disc. 31, Bede, Lord Coke, 4 inst. 349, c. Sic. c.\\nThe conformity of tins with the Jewish and Egyptian codes goes to\\nprove what has been so often asserted, that Ireland was colonized first by\\nScythians, who were compelled in the year before Christ 1290 to submit to\\nthe Iberian Gael or Milesians, and who were themselves the children of\\nJScythia, being 1 a part of a colony of Phoenicians that had established itself\\nin Spain. I myself have been shown in Rome several manuscripts which\\n(my friend aesurred me) fully proved the truth of those assertions, and\\nwhich I was the more inclined to believe, after lie had translated for me a\\npart of those invaluable documents of Irish history.\\nTo those who wish to pursue this subject, I shall refer them to Colonel\\nVallancv s researches Sir Lar. Parsons Def. of the An. Hist, of Irl. Bedc.\\nUsher. O Conner, OMIalloran, O Kelly, c. c. c.\\nAnd that too in spite of the excellence of the climate, the fruitfull-\\nness of the soil [which commonly produces from 60 to 70 bushels of wheat\\nto the acre,]the pleasant and commodius seats for habitat ion; the safe and large\\nports and havens, lying 1 open for traffic in all parts of the world the long\\ninlets of many navigable rivers and so many great lakes and fresh ponds\\nwithin the lands; as the like are not to be seen in any part of Europe, the\\nrich fishings and wild fowl of all kinds, and, lastly, the bodies and minds of\\nthe people indued with extraordinary abilities of nature^ Sir] Jolm Das ics", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "*.:iiinr^i;istiral]y loVe, the apprehension? of the horrid death\\nby iojniiie which await them; should they remain at home\\ntio(g this and every other tie, what must he the convictions\\nof his mind will he think with Mr. Qrahani that England\\ndid not make, hut found the difficulties deeply inlaid, in the an-\\ncient policy and history of Ireland, or will he say the fault lays\\nin the turhnienec and barbarity of the Irfsb peasantry. I admit\\nthat the 1;* h peasantry are curspd with many of the vices oi\\npry, hut we must recollect that the Irish peasant can-\\nno! be peacihie and industrious for if he toils, it is without re-\\nward, instruction is denied him, if he remonstrates it is rebel-\\nlion; hut he is accused of violence, he is violent; he ought,\\nto be violent; habituated to misery, familiiarized with oppres-\\nsion, he can bear ever) thing but insolence, but that he can.\\nnever bear.\\nPlundered of every thing that could be taken from him. and\\nnot recognised! nor protected by the laws of England, the\\ncare of self preservation, the laws of nature remain to him en-\\ntire he i? as n\u00c2\u00bb the government of Ireland, and to the faction\\nwhich controls that government in a style of nature, he is\\nbound to them by no ties, obedience to them would be a crime\\nsubmission, cowardice and non-resistance a sin against his\\ncountry and posterity, yes; perpetual war, revenge, death to\\nthe tyrants, this should be his cry,\\nBut hclas long continued, and debasing oppression has so\\nweakened the spirit of resistance which should glow in the bo-\\nsom of Irishmen, that their instinctive bravery, their impa-\\nf The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (Maners,) declared some few years\\nbuck from the bench, that the law did not recognise nor suppose one Cath-\\nolic in Ireland.\\nt In this doctrine I am supported bv Rousseau, Aristotle, Coimorsoi, t a-\\nley. Price, Locke, Priestly, MolineaUX and u hers. iVo one will pretend\\nto say that obedience is due where there is no protection,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 so late, a* $06,\\nLofd Kingston stated in the House of Lords that the magistrates in ti\u00c2\u00bb\\ncounty of Sligo, were the real promoters of the disturbances, that some ot\\nthem deserved rather to be hanged than to be made magistrates, yet they\\nwere all Orangemen and enjoyed the confidence of the government. This\\nis the sort of protection afforded to the Irish people.\\nAnother instance of this sort of protection is the interference of the law\\nin the sob-inn and tender relation of Husband and Wife. In August last,\\nm this year l\u00e2\u0082\u00ac24. The Reverend Barnard M Cann was indicted at the\\nAntrim Assizes in Ireland for that he being; a reputed Popish priest did\\nunlawfully celebrate two marriages each between a Protestant and a Cath-\\nolic had he been convicted of this crime of uniting Protestants and Cath-\\nolfcs, he would have been bung, as the law makes the first offence pum.sh-\\nable with a fine of fioOQ and imprisonment,and for the second, death with-\\nout benefit of clergv. In both instances the marriages are declared void\\nin law as contrary to that state policy which would keep the people divi-\\nded into factions.\\nResistance to such a system is a matter of prudence for no one GStn\\ndoubt the peoples right. C. J. Fax, G", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42\\ntiencc of contpol, their impetuosity, have all givcnway to the\\ndesire of an unnoticed and unknown existence. 1 It is only when\\nroused to avenge themselves of some atrocious insult that the\\ndreadful energy of their character shews itself; which, like the\\nwhirlwind or the mountain torrent in its fury sweeps all be-\\nfore it.\\nInternal and eternal disunion have destroyed all confidence\\nin each other. Single acts of oppression may meet with dread-\\nful retaliation, but a systematic and united effort to effect the\\nemancipation of their country is become now almost hopeless.\\nThe eye glistening with grateful sensibility at the sounds of\\ncondolence, lights up the furrovred feature with intelligence\\nbut that divine expression of an innate gem is suddenly cloud-\\ned with a recollection of debasement, and the grief that all tal-\\nlent in that state is as dross settles round the heart, and fastens\\nthere in perpetual gloom.\\nIn America then let Irishmen unite and swear by their\\nCountry s wrongs, and by the immortal shades other murdered\\npatriots, to use all the means that God and nature have furnish-\\ned them with, to destroy her oppressors, to break down the\\ntyranny of Britain and dissolve the conexion.\\nTo rouse the expiring hopes of their countrymen at home,\\nwould be a very effectual way of attaining those ends, for lead-\\ners are not wanting, in that country there are still daring and\\nintrepid spirits who would yet give life and vigour to a strug-\\ngle, and trample in the dust the whole fabric of British tyrany.\\nBut they want arms and ammunition and countenance-\\nfrom abroad.\\nWith ourselves on this continent, in Canada, England is vul-\\nnerable. It would not require a great effort to destroy her pow-\\ner in that country.\\nAt all events it behooves Irishmen here to instruct their chil-\\ndren in the history of the country of their ancestors, that they\\nmay imbibe an invincible hatred of the British name, and of\\nthat sanguinary faction, part of which has now for the first time\\nmade its appearance in this country.\\nAfter having driven us from our homes, wanderers on the\\nearth after having rioted in the life s blood of that country\\nto which they owe their birth, and robbed it of every thing\\nbut its name, they pursue us even into this, our last asylum.\\nWill this be tolerated No forbid it heaven, in, the land of li-\\nberty, in the asylum of the persecuted, a murdering banditti\\nwhose history may be graced in the blood of its victims, will\\nnot be tolerated, will not be allowed a settlement.\\nExposed to their fury, our brethren massacred 1 before our\\neyes, we abandoned to them our country and the ashes of\\nour ancestors, and sought an assylum among strangers, and in\\np. strange land, far distant from the scenes of our boyhood. bu l", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "haying sworn our utter extermination, flight and distance can?\\nnot save us, for even in this free country they conspire our de-f\\nstruction, murder is their trade, in their breath is contagion,\\ntheir grasp is death, Here sick of a subject that awakened\\nin me the most painful recollections, I threw down my pen\\nand put on my hat, chance led me to the City-Hall, an hon-\\nest and upright man was on the bench, before him stood those\\ndemons of discord, the slave drivers of an English Oligar-\\nchy.* They bore on their fronts the marks of reprobation,\\nthe Algerine scowl, yet not once did they raise their eyes to\\nthe bench, for there they could not command the protection\\nof the court, nor look on the judge as a partisan. They seemed\\nas if unconscious of all that was passing around the able and\\naffecting appeal of the Honourable Richard Riker, before pro-\\nnouncing the sentence of the law, was intirely lost on them,\\nthey heard it not; I watched their countenances of livid hue\\nbut not the slightest shade betrayed the workings of a single\\npassion and yet the scene was new to them, for never before\\ndid they hear from the bench, that Irish Catholics were en-\\ntitled to the protection of the law equally with themselves,\\nnor could they comprehend, how it were possible for a Presby-\\nterian judge to administer justice impartially, between an\\nIrishman and Orangemen.*\\nAfter the clear and forcible manner in which the Recorder\\nreprobated the attempt made to trample on the laws of a coun-\\ntry that affords equal protection to every man cast upon her\\nshores, whatever may be his. creed or political principles it is\\nto be hoped that the committee directeur in Ireland will see the\\ninutility of sending any more agents here, to desturb public re-\\npose. They must be convinced, that the refugees who have\\nescaped their murderous fangs, will be fully protected here by\\nthose taws which they have sworn to defend.\\nHere I close for the present, but whatever capacity, what-\\never spirit, whatever energy God or nature has given me, I\\nconsider myself as holding but in trust for my country, to be\\nexpended for her use whenever her oppressions or destresses\\ndraw for their assistance. 1\\nAN UNBIASSED IRISHMAN.!\\nThe Presbyterians are looked upon by the Orange faction as the most\\ndangerous rebels.\\nNot having been born till about the period of the failure of the Uni-\\nted Irish System, I have never attached myself to any political society\\nwhatever.", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "1900\\nWmmSfJZI; CONGRESS\\n021 342 826 3\\nPOSTCPJPT.\\nThe man who bullys to-day and crouches to-morrow, rsnol\\nto be trusted. His vacillating principles submit themselves to\\nhis interest; and you can never know what the) are, or what\\nhe wishes to be at. One day. led away by his passions, he\\nstands exposed in his native deformity the next, alarmed by\\nselfish fears of interest, he reassu tries the garb from under\\nwhich he was wont to impose on the public.\\nThese reflections suggested themselves on reading about\\nhalf an hour ago a late speech of Lawyer Graham, on the trial\\nof some three or four Irishmen, for a riot which grew out of\\nthe Orange affair.\\nThe hurried eagerness with which he attempts to gloss over\\nthe calumnies and falsities of his historical review, betrays so\\nmuch baseness, is so unworthy of a man who belongs (even\\nthough he crept, into it) to the first profession in the world,\\nthat I should not again pollute the paper with his name, were\\nit not for the necessity 1 am under of checking the propagation\\nof falsehood^ and to gratify at the same time my wishes in\\nshewing to the world the truth of Cobbet s assertion, that a\\npure lie is necessary food to that worst faction the world ever\\nsaw.\\nThe gentleman says, that the United Irishmen were prin-\\ncipally, though not exclusively, Catholics.\\nThis is equally false with all. his other assertions for at the\\ncommencement of the conspiracy, the leaders were almost all\\nPresbyterians or Protestants, and in the executive there was\\nbut one Catholic.\\nThat reflecting Protestants of the north seceded at a\\nmore advanced stage, when self-exposure was necessary, will\\nbe readily conceded, for their deception and treachery alone\\nbrought ruin on the whole but the Presbyterians of the\\nnorth, and the Protestants of the centre and south never lost\\nsight of that which they owed to their country and to that\\nse in which they had embarked their lives and fortunes\\nThe insidious design of Mr. Graham in giving all the credit\\nto the Catholics, and in making them the chief instigates and\\nactors in the scenes of 1798, is an old trick of the faction\\nv wish to make believe that the Catholics and Presbyte-\\nrian e n ldh cause in their uniform resistance\\ntoBritisI that the discontents of eacharenc/f\\nbottomed in e of the most unheard-of oppression,\\nbut in religions ranc our, vvhichhas lk endured, accordin,\\nMr. Grabs e stored ye u", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Mi\\n\u00c2\u00a3l 34 2 826 3", "height": "3430", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "orangeismexposed00newy_0050.jp2"}}