THE ORANGEMEN AND LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 42, 14 February 1874, Page 10

THE ORANGEMEN AND LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE.

('London Universe.'-) Mr O'Xetll Dattst has been lately aiJre»bing the Ovangonon, and made a poiut a^.unst Lord E-inislillen. the Grand M'jstar of tlie Sojioty, by rcninling his hearers th it, whereas his lord->hip hvl diclared tliat tho disestablishment of tho Church would form a valid ground for the immediate repeal of the Union the noble eirl, in tho words of the ' Nation,' now " hates Home Rule nearly as much as he hates tenant-ri o -!it." The sentiments of tha Ulster m;n ajaiust HooiJ Rule are eviiently modifying At the late Tyrone elecaou many members of Orange lodges voteA fur Mr M-ieartney, whose declarations on tho subject, of Home Rule were of tho most pronounced description, aad, fraternizing with tho Catholics, wore rosettes in their hit.s ani coats ; whilst at the meeting at Enniski lon, the other diy, very strong Homo Rule utterances were undoubtedly cheered to the echo. The ' Nation ' ie thereupon hopeful as to the future.and assures us that — Beyon.l all doubt, through all their prejudices and bi^otrios or passions, I* -spirit of nationality is seeth''ng*and fermenting among the ! mass of the Protest <ini population of Ulster. There is ho reason to I despair (it continues) of seeing thorn taking an Irish part even in tho I struggle fo. 1 Irish nationality, or of seeing them, in tUo regenerated Irish nation, form an element, not of alien impulsiveness, but of true Irish Btrength.