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He asserted in the name of the Institution that Orangemen

asked for no ascendancy over the Roman Catholic minority, and that the liberty they demanded for themselves they were pre- pared to extend to others. The minority had every right to protection and would certainly receive it provided that they recognized the obligation to obey the law and not to act as gunmen. The vile story that Orangemen hated their Roman Catholic countrymen was " circulated by the enemies of peace." The Orange Institution wanted " love and peace instead of hate and crime "—a sentiment that was cheered by the audience— and it appealed to Roman Catholics to drop the revolver, the bomb and the torch and to try to establish " the principles laid down by the Prince of Peace."

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