The History of Orangeism

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Excerpt from The History of Orangeism: Its Origin, Its Rise, and Its DeclineThis was the beginning of those Penal Laws which honest Englishmen have learned in the present day to be ashamed off - laws which robbed a people of their inheritance, and sent them in droves to the English shambles, While their own countrymen were aiding in the slaughter or reap ing the benefits of it, and fattening upon the blood of their kindred. William was not a fanatic. He was too good a soldier to be cruel. In fact, that he would have restrained the bigotry of those around him is made evident. But he was made King by the Protestant party, and the tenth part of the population of this island were determined, in the words of Gloster, that they would not be called fools as well as villains, and having got the advantage they were resolved to keep it. Accord ingly the minority, headed by their clergy, insti tuted a reign of persecution, for which they cannot even claim the palliation of avarice, seeing that it was carried out with unexampled and unnecessary cruelty. A strange event in the history of nations - onetenth part of the popu lation set about exterminating the remain ing nine. The Irish Peers and Cominoners of the Catholic persuasion who attended on the summoning of the next Parliament in 1692 were asked to swear that the Mass was damnable, they left the House in a body, and the political existence of the Irish Catholic became extinct. Mitchel says, referring to this incident, that thereafter they had no more in¿uence upon public affairs than have the red Indians in the United Sta The same monarch who signed the death warrant of the Machine, of Glencoe, gave his Royal assent to Bills which were a direct breach of faith with the Irish people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.