IRISH ORANGEMEN AND ROMAN CATHOLICS.

Evening Star, Issue 3876, 27 July 1875, Page 2

IRISH ORANGEMEN AND ROMAN CATHOLICS.

To the Editor.

Sir, —With reference to a letter in yesterday evening’s Star, signed “ True Blue,” relative to the late Mayor J ejection, permit me to call the earnest attention of the Orangemen of New Zealand to the patriotic words written by the late ever to be lamented John Martin in an eloquent preface to the “Life and Times of Hugh O’jNeil, Earl of Tyrone” “ When Irishmen consent to let the past become indeed history —not party politics—and begin to leam from it the lessons of mutual respect and tolerance, instead of endless bitterness and enmity, then, at least, this distracted land shall see the dawn of hope and peace, and begin to renew her youth, and rear her head amongst the

proudest of nations.” Such an observation should be circulated in every Orange Lodge in the Southern Hemisphere; and he would be a true friend of every Orangeman who would have the above sage reflection inserted in the minute-book, and read at every meeting of the Orange Lodges in the Colony. Let each Orangeman|remember thi patriotic words of Ingram, of Trinity College, Dublin ; Still let the Orange lily be Thy badge, my patriot brother; The everlasting green for me, And we for one another. I am, 4c., , Belfast. Dunedin, July 27.