Archive article is so relevant to our times
I have always enjoyed the News Letter through the archives, with Darryl Armitage, no more so than on Friday, January 9.
I would suggest our unionist politicians, in particular DUP representatives and Orange Order leaders, would adhere to the address by Arthur Hill of Hillsborough in 1881 and published by the News Letter.
How relevant 128 years later that address is to today's situation; really worth quoting – "Treason, too long tolerated at home, crafty conspirators, with plausible pretences creating distrust and disturbances, law and order ceasing to exist.
"Government, either credulous or cunning, have abandoned its function. The avowed enemies of the state alone have their decrees executed and their behest obeyed."
Mr Hill concluded: 'The banner of freedom, dearly bought, you never will surrender."
Sadly, 128 years later, we have been cajoled, coerced into the adoption of principles alien and atheistic and we have surrendered to terrorism.
Proof is at Stormont we have five Sinn Fein ministers, one the Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
TR,
Lurgan
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