“ULSTER'S" LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 3563, 24 July 1874, Page 3

“ULSTER'S" LETTER.

To the Editor.

• q ib. — 'n absurd letter signed “Ulster” appeared in your paper one evening last week, I wonder it has not been noticed before. “ Hlster” seems very sensitive to ridicule. If he did not lay himself open, he would neither have cause to fear nor to assume that he and his fraternity were to be systematically made its subject. This part of the business, however, is his concern, not mine; but when he talks of the Queen's protection and toleration, and expects Mr We’.don to interfere with the free rights of free citizens, I think something may be said. His reference to the Connaught brogue was doubtless intended to bo very cutting; but his remark shows that oven in a matter of accent he is devoid of to!- ration ; indeed, tol- ration seems little known to Orangemen, and the Ulster brogue pdrhaps has not the merit of purity, which at least belongs to its western neighbor. As to the Queen’s protection, we all have it. but it would be a sorry day for colonists were that protection to go out of its way to enshrine a body of men, the effect, if not the intention of whose organisation, gatherings, and language, is a standing cause of irritation to their fellow-countrymen of another denomination.

“ Protestants ! your sympathies !” exclaims “ Ulster.” Now, as a Protestant, which I am, I have no sympathy to give ‘ U ster” or his tody. Religion teaches peace on earth and goodwill towards men ; but the reverse is rather our experience of Or ngemeu, for under the name of religion ihey do violence to its teaching, and instead of deprecating by a better example the intolerance they would decry in others, they 'hemselves are most intolerant, and are the main cause of t! e periodical riot and Wood •died which disgrace the North of Ireland, t abhor intolerance, no matter whence it comes; and crediting Orangemen, as I do, 'vitb much of the division which has kept Irishmen asunder, and so materially retarded the national progress, it would be vrong to let “ Ulster” remain under the delusion that he has a wholesale and indiscriminate claim to the sympathy of Protestants in General. Dunedin, July 24.