The Whig chief, therefore, rode through the capital of Toryism amidst general acclamation.

Before him the drums beat Lillibullero.

Behind him came a long stream of horse and foot.

The whole High Street was gay with orange ribands.

For already the orange riband had the double signification which, after the lapse of one hundred and sixty years, it still retains.
Already it was the emblem to the Protestant Englishman of civil and religious freedom, to the Roman Catholic Celt of subjugation and persecution.