The Kilkenny Independent,
Wednesday, May 30, 1827
ANTI-CATHOLIC PETITION- ORANGE
ARTIFICES
One important advantage attending the publication of Signatures to
Anti-Catholic Petitions, in the several Counties of Ireland, is the
exposure of the actual weakness and insignificance of the Orange party,
and of the artifices employed to give it apparent strength and
consequence. In the County of Kilkenny, for instance, the Orangemen
represented every Protestant to be hostile to Catholic Emancipation. But
how many, in fact, of the whole Protestant population of this County
signed the Anti-Catholic petition?- Twenty-five.
Again, what was the case in the County of Carlow? The whole number
of Protestants that could be found to petition for the continuance of the
persecutions of the penal code was only sixteen, tho' these conscientious
gentlemen contrived to swell their number to twenty-eight. By what
ingenious manoeuvre did they produce this apparent increase? To explain
the secret we must first give the names.
- * W. Newton, Bagnalstown House, High Sheriff,
- * R.S. Saunders, Saunder's Grove, Magistrate,
- * Thomas Dennis, Fort Grant,
- * J. Bennett, Magistrate,
- * Samuel Watson, Roseville,
- * John L. Watson, Kilconner,
- * John James Leeky, Ballymalley,
- * P. Whelan, Wathglass,
- * Thomas Watson, Lumdone, Magistrate
- * John Walker, Ballyknockan,
- * John Watson, Ballydarton,
- Samuel Elliott, Kilmeanny,
- * W.R. Steuart, Stenonts, Magistrate
- Walter Newton, Bagnalstown House, High Sheriff,
- R.S. Saunders, Saunder's Grove, Magistrate,
- Thomas Granite, Fort Granite, Magistrate,
- M. Bennett, Bewthut, Magistrate
- S. Watson, Roseville
- John L. Watson, Kilconner,
- Thomas Elliott, Racroge,
- P. Whellew, Rathglass, Magistrate
- Thomas Watson, Lumdone,
- John Walker, Ballyknockan,
- John Watson, Ballydarton,
- Philip Newton, Dunlukery,
- Jos. F. Duckett, Duckett's Grove,
- John J. Leeky, Ballyhenley,
- W.N. Steuart, Steuart's Lodge, Magistrate.
Of the above twenty-eight names the following twelve marked with
asterisks, are repeated twice, with some slight variation in the names or
residences, or descriptions, the better to disguise the repetition from
the superficial reader:- W. Newton, R.S. Saunders, Thos. Denis, J.
Bennett, Sam. Watson, John I. Watson, J. James Leeky, P. Whelan, T.
Watson, J. Walker, John Watson and W.R. Steuart. The following four names
are affixed to the Petition only once:- Samuel Elliott, Thomas Elliott,
Philip Newton and Joseph F. Duckett. The Orangement of this county are
extremely indignant with us for having presumed to publish the names of
those who signed the Kilkenny Anti-Catholic Petition. We promise those
gentlemen, notwithstanding, that we shall continue to publish as long as
they continue to sign; and while they shall have the fear of the Press
before their eyes, we are satisfied that the Orangemen of the County of
Kilkenny will scarcely have the hardihod to follow the laudable example of
their honest brethern of the County of Carlow.
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