Orangeism: Its History and Progress; A Plea for First Principles (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Intelligent men despise a cause which lives only in the past and they might well despair of the future, if Orangemen contented themselves with lingering on the banks of the Boyne, and applauding the victories of their ancestors. This is an age of questioning, and of the sifting of doctrine, and there are signs of a general return to fundamental principles.

It is charged, for instance, against Orangeism that its creed is Protestant Ascendancy In these degenerate days political leaders endeavour to minimise, or seek altogether to ignore, the existence of Protestant ascendancy - forgetting that it is the key stone of our Constitu tion In addition to the ascendancy of liberty over bondage, of industry over sloth, of the results of industry over poverty - there is also the ascendancy of loyalty over disloyalty, of our Protestant Constitution over Papal pretensions. If it be bigotry and intolerance to deny to the Roman Catholic Church a state-endowed University, how much greater must be the bigotry and intolerance which maintains the Act of Settlement and the Coronation Oath Our Laws and Constitution place the Roman Catholic and Protestant citizen on the same plane. In all that pertains to the civil and religious liberty of the individual, no distinction is, or ought to be, made. In all that pertains to the Roman Catholic Church, and to the Protestant Religion, the State is bound by the Protestant Constitution. It is this great historic fact of Protestant ascendancy that Orangemen are pledged to maintain.

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