CORRESPONDENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 1998, 31 July 1874, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

■♦' ORANGE INSTITUTION. TO THE EDITOB OF TUB STAB. SiE, — Mr Clifford, the advocato of Burnett's " History of tho Reformation," has respectfully declined any further conversation on " Orange Institution." I feel perplexed between grief and joy — grief, I said, because he flagged where he should havo commenced, just when tho rays of glittering light wero beaming on his eyes, making him sensible of tho slippery ground he was treading upon in an historical point of v'ew. Joy, I said, because I saw a vacuum to bo filled up with principles both of grammar and rhetoric and of that high and truthful conception of those historical events which are requisite in every ono who pretends to instruct tho public by tho organ of the Prcßs. It is unnatural to fight one who has no means of self defence. I beg leave to bid him farowoll, in the hope that as years roll on ho may improve in knowledge and truth, and bo better conversant in the enthralling bonds of Popery which, in spite of all opposition, redeemed and saved tho world, and in particular, the great green Island of St Patrick, of which ho calls himself a citizen. Not all Irishmen are children of St Patrick ; not uli Irishmen are sons of Ireland. Your obedient servant, FATHER FRANCIS.