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Show - AN" IMPEACHMENT OF ORANGE-ISM. ORANGE-ISM. Home time ago we stated that ex-I'riest ex-I'riest Slattery. having been taken in hand by the Australian Orangemen. , the ev. Edward Lewis, who held the position of an assistant chaplain in the uj-der, :it first welcomed him and then 1 finding out his true character de- i nounced him, setting forth the facts ; upon which he grounded the denunci- ' ation. Fur this he was expelled from the "Loyal Campbell Lodge," and in j fcuch a high-handed and unfair man ner that another member of the lodge, the Rev. Charles Tickering. a Baptist minister, hr.s lesipned in disgust, and after "the utter lack of even the lowest low-est form of justice" on that occasion, Ties "The Lord save me and mine from ( rangeism forever." In a letter published pub-lished by the Melbourne Argus, Mr. Iwis reiterates on the Orangemen. He makes a series of charges against them, declaring that they are guilty of two ! . local murders, that at their ceremonies j of initiation and their lodge meetings they have habitually indulged in profanity, pro-fanity, indecent songs and recitations, and intemperance in drink, and that v hiie professing a kindly feeling for Catholics, they constantly inculcated the bitterest hatred toward members of that denomination. It was, he says, by slow degrees he fully realized the true character of the situation; other-vise other-vise he would long before have ceased to be a member. This, of course, is an It cx-parte statement, and we give It 1 ! merely as such, but it is a statement which requires an answer. |