Oo: Orangemen

Orange-menUsually a Protestant of Scotch Presbyterian Faith; a member of the Loyal Orange Institution an Irish society organized in the north of Ireland, and largely flourishing in Ulster. It was established in 1795 to defend the laws and rules of England, and to maintain in Ireland the Protestant ascendancy in the face of the rising agitation of the Catholic Emancipation. Its name is taken from the family of King William III of England (William of Orange), who defeated King James II on July 12, 1690, and who landed in England on November 5, 1688. As anniversaries of these two dates, holiday celebrations are made by the L.O.I, at which time members of the order wear orange-colored flowers, oranges sashes and join in parades. Cocktail Party Banter Are you an Orangeman? Literary Contextall kinds The militia were corrupt the army feeble Of these the United Irishmen had no fear The Orangemen they made no secret of their fearing most deeply Samuel Neilson the most determined and dangerous of the United leaders told a supposed confederate who was a spy of the Castle that he was in far greater dread of the Orangemen than of the soldiers They were very powerful and very desperate 1 Had Camden bravely made the Orangemen his allies treason would have crept back into its den and been heard of no more Unhappily under constitutional governments spontaneous loyalty is the last virtue which obtains recognition The friend who is a friend on principle can be relied on as a forlorn hope however coldly looked upon The supposed business of constitutional governments is not to encourage the good but to conciliate the bad if necessary by the sacrifice of the deserving Lord Camden yielding to the cant of Liberalism affected deeper indignation at the disorders of the Orangemen than the outrages of the Catholic assassins.(The English in Ireland in the eighteenth century, Volume 3
By James Anthony Froude)

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