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number of miles «ap consent to no -| secure an election, the laws: of: | require that a candidate shall receive a majority of all the votés given; hence, as there have hitherto been four candi- _ dates for the office, the reason of repeat- ed failures to male choice of a representa- tive. Gen. 'Cahoon is; and bas been from the commencement of the contest, the guti- masonic candidate ; while the:voteg of the masons, and broken: down politicians of every hue and complexion, including the remnants and © odd ends\ of both of the late political parties, were divided betweer gem Cushman, Mr. Bell and Mr. Buck. ° sons z because such performances bave, On the first trial,' gen. Cahoon, the anti- g ere this, becom in their estima» nl ved 1 (in Hite am Sat,» B |mnsonto, candidate, received loss than : 3 aL L then the idea of havihg masons present to whom we| 1000 votes. On every succeeding trial, car appeal for the correctness of the operations | he has continued. to gain; and on . thp tap the flifege __ ___ u_ - sixth (the last) he recqived. upwards. of - ~INTERESTING -_ -} aggq yotes-having gained from 'the' first ~:On Sunday 1353.0\? of the ‘fd‘w‘s of move than 1800 ! (A'ce'rtnin sigmffis our this paper, accompanied by a friends 4t~| ; jonpours would say, that anti masoh tended divine service at west Sherburne |._ ,] Say. ! IY in this county,) in the Présb teri is \ on the wane\ there, as well as in this C 9 ' | comty.y Anothereffort is to be made church ; and on the afternoon of that day {portation and expenses. A knows, can |old offender, ~baving but-recént > liberated from a confinement \of six years im the Auburn state prison..--[ Oxford Re- publican. |__ ooo M John Birdsell was convicted a short time since at Cincinnati (Ohio) of mur- dering his wife, and sentented to be hung on the 24th ult The day previous to carrying the sentence -into \execution it was proposed to the criminal to commute his.punishment for solitary confinement in the penitentiary during his natural life. - This he positively refused, and con- tinued to hold out of that mind until after he had been taken from his prison to the gallows under anescort of dragoons, and actually ascended the :platform, when he suddenly changed. his resolmtfion .and . ac- ceaewto tne toring of-lifegffered him; by signing the conditions, .and was. immedi- ately remanded to prison. The | ground on which intercession was made for him, was, that he was insane, and consequent ly an; unfit subject for the rigour of the law to bo executed upon. - A sad disap- § 'to be broken ;- f what man, womani.aud no longer be a secret. .And & gone through:wi rmas of. an obliga- tion has, 'after if bec \public just as good a right to speak -of it: as any other person, particularly where we have the liberty of the press. - But-strictly, they were never binding. | No man, norset of men, has a right.to impose any cath that the laws of thecountry in which he lives or the laws of God will not tolerate or justify. With respectto my private feelings to- wards you as neighbours, friends and re- spectable inhabitants, they are the same as they ever were. Khave not one desire to injure you or. your feelings. At is> to- wards the institution to which you belong that J feel a disrespect. . ;I do desize.your temporal and eternal. welfare,-and what i herein state I mean for your good, and pray that your hearts .may be- changed and you become. 'the followers of Him whose transactions were made known to the world, And I would give you my advice, knowing that Iam sincerely your isher, to close your eof 'the -and -in 'the members 'of the fraternity.. iy cited to appear at our next regu- \on Wednesday, the 12th August fiuM‘Aum'swei'lo; “mane! id ~?\?“\‘?““'v€§n : PURPLE, Seo'y.\ ' ¥n replying to the above, it is my wish to treat the , citation. and the members of the society of © speculative freemazonry* with all the respect that is due. from me. 'You are acquainted with the fact, that about five years ago LI united with the so- ciety, having heard from masons, re- peatedly, that it was of divine origin and 'of very ancient date, and that it was a very scientific study, and garlicxilarly re- Iigious and moral, and the degrees to be taken were very sublime. | ¢'Fhe word s sublime\ was very often used.) | gepresentations, withthe natural curiosity possessed, and having the example, of many that I charitably believed were ehristians, induced me to petition for mem- bership, hoping that it might be of par- ticular advantage to me in obtaining fur- now- no doubt but that a measonic-ar ® bition will fake place in this village in the course of a few weeks, We hive aletterfrom a friend south of us, which gives positive information that the: gen- teman and his Qfiicetsfcnpuglx to constitute a regu- lar lodge for the purpose of \ making masons\ in due form, blind-folded, baltered, and all, have agreed to[ pay us a visit and go through with the sublime ope* ration in the prosence of spectators. We shall take special care not only to giverour friends notice ofthe time when the exhibition can be withessed, but po- litely invite the afore-mentioned masons to attend and see the performance. | Frue, it.may not be so in- teresting or entertainining to them ag to us anti-ma- ther information on these points. And now, gentlemen, 1 must tell you gubliclyras T have often told masons pyi- 'yately, that I was very much disappoint- '64 in every -represeritation with which my imagivation had 'been Aattered. - Instead, Of finding what had been insinuated, 1 jean say of a truth, that I never felt more 'nortified with any one act of my life, and had it mot been for the stimulant, © that I had but just commenced being instruct- «I' in. masonry,,\ A think 1 should then 6 disCU C e o u ng the degree of fellow craft, I to stop where I was ; but some or more heh kesolve lof the: members said, pond degrees are» not so intéresting, but \'The third is the grond sublimedegree,\ So fiufiemsi‘mysclf to get a little deeper in . speculative freemasonry ; (and this is a fact, the representatioix is that thore is al- - ways something just abead.:) 1 'then looked the whole scene over, as well as 'I could, and forined my opinion of mason- ry, and it has never altered ; and from what I here state, you can judge what that opinion was. | Instead of the institu- tion of masonry being religious, 1 consid- er it irreligious-instead of moral, inumor- al-instead of science, nothing more than, emblems aro presented, - from which ny reflecting mind can draw usefu} in- struction-and too small a business for men who stand high in public opinion to be so much engaged in-irreligious, be- 'cause it perverts the scriptures, and ap- plies thom in a way they were not in- Aended-profane, because it imposes on \one's self penalties which neither the laws offour country nor the law of God will justify-and immaral, because it leads to pany, things which are improper, and Myst-snug of oaths which are enough to take one's blood chill in his veins to re- sheatse : And I consider that accornling to *the first principle: taught and sworn to, 'it juxtifies murder, because the candidate +binds himsolf under no,.less penalty than of having his life taken for. divulging the gecrats of his initiation, (or you may say \the “mm“,vrfi-dery) And what are J No more nor less than for boing hocd-winked, cable-towed,-ncither bare- foot nor shod, srilfed. . ior: clothed, &c.- Now, gentlemen, is thore any Jow which can bo found - that punishes with death, ex- | gept it be for the taking of life, (or for | grimes even worse than death itself,) ex-; 'tept in your society. | 1 therefore assert it plainly, that you administer an oath by whith the. candidate binds himself to be -murdered 'should he promulgate any of | . those small circumatances: _ It is also im- friend and well w lodge at the next meeting forever, and ex- clude me from! ever again within nal weapon ; | race. _ The signs of the times 'are, © the first and se- | ers rejected, the méeting with you the door guarded by a car- for L.consider that it is not within the length of my cable-tow. 'To you wto are the professed followers of the Lord and pray to be more and more conformed to his moral image, 1 would say, lay aside\ every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset, that hinders you from running | the Christian that pointment followed. .The thousands of men, women, and children who had as- sembled and took possession of the ground in the neighbourhood of the gallows, were compelled to return to their. homes without witnessing the awful spectacle of a human being launched into eternity .-- [N. ¥. Evening Post. hie . daphne Garros .-Despatchegayere received on Thursday, at the foreigw* office, from our residerit at Eginma, Mr. Dawkins, dat- ed the 22d May, announcing the capitu- the Rev. Davin Kpxvarr, of Augusta, (Oneida co.] took up the subject of free- masonry in a long, able -and an elaborate discourse, compared its spirit with the spirit of Christianity, and finally came to the conclusion that it was a duty: he owed to himself, his country and his Ma- ker, to renounce, publicly and from the pulpit, benceforth and forever, all connex- ion whatever with the masonic institu- this commotion has not sprung from the ground. & The only authentic history that can be given of masonry . which I have been able to find, is, that it commenced in London about two hundred years ago, among a few bricklayers, and 'they formed. bye- laws to regulate the craft, &c. and after a period of time they found that by open- ing the door for other mechanics it would increase their numbers and make their society appear more respectable. - Hence, the name of \ accepted masons ;\ and [this gave so much life to their society that the bye-laws were so altered as to admit all who would conform to their: rules and regalations, - Hence, the tfiame arose, that it now, has-\free and ac- cepted masons.*\ \Just compare the pre- tensions of its antiquity to some of the passages of the new testament used in working on the mark. master's degree. Mathew xxi. 42-® Did ye never read in the scriptures, the stone which the build- same is become the head of. the corner 1\ - Linke xxil. 17, Actsiv. 11-+ This is the stone which was set at naught, \&o. - Again, the master in giv- ing the key stone so called, says, we read in a passage of . scripture, Revelations Ai. 17-To him that overcometh will I give. t cat of the hidden manna, and will give hima white stone, and it that stone a new name written, which no man know- eth fave him that receiveth it, [(a won- derful misapplication of 'God's word ;] and this new name that has been said so much about, the wisdom of masonry has 'rotealed to be, !*Hirem Tyron, widow's son sent to king Solomon.\ | I would ask how, if this importantidegree was known and it \was necessary that the workmen should. be marked at the time of building the temple, the Revelator's wisdom above and Christ's parable (see Mathew xx. 1 to 16,) used in closing the lodge on this degree, which it appears necessary to use, should have been known about eleven bundred years previous 1 And Go# is bis Providence has beheld tnoral, for in raising a fellow craft to a _mager mason, you represent the taking of life; and then by acertain grip (which it would seom was invested with Al-; mighty power) he is again restored to} life;.and1 have often shuddered at the ' spectacle, that Go4 did not I make them raments of his displeasure | fer the:subjects again to. rise to enumerate the present ; that 1 have of freemasonry, ity convinced that it is a wicked t institution, where souls are destruction, would lengthen n I, however, and suffered man to follow the devices of his own evil imaginations, to invent and add ; and from that little society has sprung an institution that has become a Giant reaching from the rivers to the end of the earth, and once united in any qne object could lay waste all others un- less restrained by a higher Power ; but what man intended for evil, TZbelieve the Lord will overnite for good. & With respect 1 remain your friend, o ~ -J. 8. FITCH. 1 lations of the garrisons of Missolonghi and Anatolico, and the surrender of Le- panto to the Greeks. Gen. Church has resigned the command, of \the Greek army, and gone to Egina to confer with thé president of Greece on the appoint- ment of the president's brother, Agosti- no which had- already given of- fence to prince Ypsilanti. - A proclama- tion has been issued by the lord high commissioners of the lonean Island, stat- ing » that the Greek blockade cannot, a¢- cording to the treaty of the 6th July, 1827, be extended beyond the coasts of the Morea and the Cyclades. - The block- ade of the' coasts of Albania, of course, will not be recognized. | ° ~~ nna gans When Dr. Johnson courted Mrs. Por- ter, whom he afterwards niarried, he told her \that he was of mean extraction, that he had no money, and that he had an uncle banged !\ ' The lady, by way of reducing bersolf to an equality with the doctor, replied, ® that she had no more money than himself; and that, though fifty who deserved hanging.\ And thus was accomplished this very curious amour. enn nino lizzie . A yours Tell the truth, Ben,\ said a mother to her hopeful son of ten or eleven. \ How can I, mother, when I don't know what truth is 1° Alie - PorticAL.--A late review of the mar- ket at Sinithfield, (Eng.) begins, \the cloud that has hung so long over this mar- ket stiff obscures our vision!\ and adds, \the muffor trade partakes of this dull- ness.\ - Ho might have added from Tom Moore, \Sugar's fell, but rum arises.\ Snogrkinge acciosnt.-Last week, M5. John Hain, tanner, of Beaver town- ship, having occasion to Jeave his bark mill, went out leaving his daughter Ma- tia, a child about two years and six months old, playing in the building. On hiis return, after an absence of a few mi- nutes, he found thatthe child had aca- erally ground to atoms, the heavy roller having passed twice over its body. -TUn- ion Times. f - nnn o nmn ome an - Fortunare Rssous.-On Tuacsday afternoon, as the steainer Connecticut was approaching Natiant, one of the seatiien belonging to the vessel; in assisting to lower\ théqqamr-MFQr tha purpose of landmg, was accidentaly thrown over- board. . Several of his comrades finmedi- itely went 'to his rescue, which they $-Faised ae tea' P she had not a relation hanged, she 'had dentally fallen into the mill, and, was lit- tion: ~ He spoke from -John-I-chap-i¥- verse 'l: © Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the bpirits whether they are of God : because many false prophets are gone out into the world.\ . From this text the speaker, who was formerly a ma- son of three degrees, but who silently withdrew from the order of freemasonry several years singe, proceeded to notice 'the spirit of Christianity and of true re- ligion as revealed in the Bible, and to compare with it the spirit of the masonic institution as it now stands, before the., world. - As we have been politely prom- ' ised a cbpy ifér ppbficatipn, it: is*not no- cessary that we should now enter into a minute detail of the different positions asgymed or the arguments by which they were sustained, further than to say, that the subject was admirably discussed, so much so that the speaker gave very gene- ral, and, for aught we could discover, uni- versal satisfaction to as crowded an audi- ence as we Ever witnéssed. - A degree of candour which cannot be too highly com- mended, pervaded every sentence, and every sentiment. | No disposition'to' ren- der evil for evil was manifested ; nor were those who still adhere to the order, indulged ing but a spirit. of charity for their errours, and not of © vengeance\ breathing forth persecution and destruc- tion, was visible throughout. | In a word, the grounds of the speaker were well ta-] ken, and well supported by scriptural proofs, and by a reference to the laws, oaths and obligations of freemasonry. Many of his comparisons and inferences were extremely beautiful and fingularly happy. - But what added greatly to the interest of the scene, was the patriarchal appearance of the speaker, while deliver- ing the oracles of Heaven from the sa- cred desk, and wmpgfing therewith the profane mysteries, dark iniquitie® and impious mockery of every thing holy or diviné--the doctrines of .an institu- tou that bas arrogated to itself almost every vittue, and falsely ~claimed to be the « hand-maid of religion.\ - To a tall 'dnd commandiag person, with a voice hose nt were slow, solemn: any harsh or illiberal expressions towards - sometime in the forepatt of next month, to elect a member. 'The anti-masors, stand by gen. Cahoon, and are' determin- ed to give him another trial.. The ma- sons, dilapidated politicians and remnants of the-old parties before spoken of, have become so much alarmed at gen. Cahoon's rapid increase of support, that we under- stand they have dbandoned, in a gréat measure, if not wholly so, gen. Cushman, Mr, Bell and Mr. Buck, and formed a coa- lition by pitching upon the hon. Prentice, as their candidate, who is admit- ted tobe *a mason and a federalist. *- By some the result may be constdere® doubtful; but when we take into consid- eration this union of forces against gen. Ca:— hoon ; when we reflect that the aggregate namber of votes given to Cushimany Bell and Buck, amounts to more than 4600, or. about 1800 more than gen. Cahoon t;- ceived, we can hardly resist the conviction that the masonic candidate will be elect- ed. - There is no télling, however, what the hardy and patriotic \ Green tain Boys\ may, accomplish. - 'That they will do their. duty, they have already. giv- en the strongest evidence; but whether, so soon after the organization of an anti- masonic party in that state, and with such a fearful and powerful combination arrayed against them, they will be abie to come out of the contest victorious, must be left for time to determine. zm * Should Mr. Prentice succeed, we shall feel some little anxicty to see with what ease and facility our regal arch friend of the Journal will be able to con- vert the federal-masonic principles of (hat gentleman 'into those of real first water republicadisia. ¢ If we had no respect for publicopinion, umon decency, if pot common polite- Bess, such as always ought to mark the conduct of writers for the press in their opposition to the doctrines of each 'other, wohld forbid us from retorting upon the Journal such shameful and scurrilous.cpi- [thets as weekly find a vent through the disgraced and prostituted coluttins of that paper. | Itis no part of our duty, as it is not our disposition, to wage a war of per- sbnalities. - We despise the man who will do so, unless under peculiar ciranpstan- ces of a very aggravated character; but whenever the Journal attempts an argu- ment or advances a statement which we think does not carty its own. refutation or the very facé#of it, it Phay-occasional- ly receive from us a passing exposition, ». to though its vulgarity and billingsgate a- [ buse, as in the present instance, we pass by with feelings of silent and unut- itemblecont'emlfi'. Under this impression, therefore, we do not feel called upon to reply to a single statement in the \last mal; for, as to the senfor editor's g?“ \
