On Friday week, July 12th, the Orange anniversary was celebrated
in Ulster, when Sir Edward Carson was the principal speaker. We could wish that those who are continually being invited, and who have perhaps been prevailed upon, to think of the Protestants of Ulster as the real, the original rebels of Ireland, as men who cherish grim violence in their souls, as men who are in precept and practice tyrannical, and as men who stand for an arrogant and intolerant Ascendancy (a word which has long ceased to have any political meaning in Ireland) could have shared our experience of reading a very full account of this anniversary. The people who have been imposed upon by the inversions and perversions of Home Rule newspapers would first of all have been astonished to observe the remarkable moderation and the orderliness of the language in which the Ulster leaders expressed their ideas.
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