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Somes ._ PHB - Published Mondays, at Cooperstown, by HENRY W. HOPKINs, - |~~ TERMS.-—-To village and mail subscritis ' $2 00 in advance, or §2 50 at the end of the \Haves. - Th ”i the general and state governments are amenable to the people, for the proper discharge of their duties. But a free- man, when he votes for a candidate, ear :~*Those wh - reac a- Pci i i gee, #2 oo°;i-y.,°é§',§§,§5§;;fl“ g; “értglzg f - ' en m \-== exercises the right of selecting, among who -receive their papers at the office, and P3); . - BB JUsT-AND rBAR NoT. ., _C | those who are eligible, subject -to. no l ¥ authority under heaven, | For his choi for them in ddvance, $1 50, Rates of Advertising.-50 cents per square for the first insertion, and for every subsequent | cas * insertion 25 cents. - i ._ CooPErsTow N, {. itor must be free of postage. | <a ed A r , A Ans . . A > C *,* All communications nddressed to the Ed- in,“ policy of freemen. .“'? hm? seen ! his happmcsg, it designs at all times brave all the consequences of their de- , support each other in thein commission. i large numbers of the most intelligent, and place; faithfully to protect, by the tecled‘guili, and the public indignation | b - ' 6 i N. Y. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1831. | C - a> =z... and his God. in the oxost sovereign act he can per- form, do himself the great justice of} e highest functionarieg- of - ~ NO. XKTIE. he is accountable only fo.his conavience - And why should he not his Tife bs improvoment, in ite stren E *~ PRINTING. -Books, pamphlets, hand- wealthy. and most respectab oman | applicati a © - {gul tion. To call such detection, denunciation and p;y;(2 expression to the honest con- bs bills, blanks, cards, &c. ke. neatly oo Song ofx‘lew you $1511???“ ..le,f.r°”lm. iappllfahqn of its Elelegatedmeans. The Nothing could: account for this umveg—Ircsislancq, proscription, could never eiclifén olfK'phis soul? If baving the , : on new and handsome type, andin a manner bul - ork, deliberating in their | law is ‘the beneficial instrument of this sal course 6f falsehood, but the unhkap- satisfy an honest mind. It would be) {; habe . \it 1 f that will not fail to please. lodges apd elsewbere,-on the means of protection; and should be appreciated py truth, that the men who are bhvags like bstiglhatismg‘ with a‘n‘o'ppmlricmsL Win-LN cannot do it, he mies slayfi. ] SUPDTOssiNig a written distlusyrt oflheir} by every reflecting man as the sacred, ed in it, have sworn, under the penalty limiting! those -public benefoutors who ! paving the power, I_|e will m3! Io Et’ ho - ADDRESS .geeret; by one of their number--we 'living, and inmost vencrable expressi f death,\ | P ben | ' folati 'is corrupt. An enlightened exercise of \ - To the People of the United States : have so ao fa slande har 'of 8 C , \ex] un of death, to conceal the secrets of free- | teach men that all violations ufgdnl‘y the right of suffrage is the constitution o > [Concluded.] wos rave seen notices of a slanderous char ; o \the national mind and will. Break masonry, a most essential branch, of | are criminal and disreputable, and imnaKe \a) and equitable inodé d by: the ‘ - a + In the first 'degree,. the candidate acter, | simultanceusly printed, a | few | this, and tre nation has but one-right| which consists in thecrimes 8f its mem- | their best.exertions to discourage them. : a la_n EAM at ende. adopted . by: the R 3 22? pledges himself under oath, and upon days before the seizure and murder. qfflt-fl, which it can peaceably enforce the | bers. | This course is countenanced by Wroscriplion canapply dnly to those,: B'fflj-mlasun; o rim-me the eyile: they ols Z £ forfeiture of his life_if he docs nor \.o Morgan, in newspapers a hundred miles | right of suffrage. the President of the U. $., who is a who oppose and lessen the influence-of file [if ' En‘ (Fons? 1le rzrurm5.|l_l|ey ~- ; - - M ; ® 6 so¢ ut this mode, to ailing. < y deem the pledge, to ever conceal and apart, warning the public \against the} The masonic institution , is angwera-| mason, and who has recently appoint- their fellow citizens, because they in- must include /a judicious flint?” a f 3 never reveal the secrets of freemasonry, designs of'the au_thur of this duclusury 1 ble for the crimés to which we have re- ed.as heads of the departments in the i nocently and with good motives, ihink zlxéiéaltes AflLI-lrdiligent. islfqfirt'ma:d a which ho has then received, is about to and especially directed (<0 the lmusomcl fe'rrcd. Th.” were cominitted in obe- national government, a majority of dis- land act differently from themselves. mature deliberation, we have Selected a receive, or may thereafi¢r be. instructed. brotherhood-about the game time, we' <to its prescribed and speciic+-tinguished thasuns. these hoad Buch -proscription deserves .org vinat a R £. W ave n Gremer rants a bnildina wur a . L b ' serves _reprenen- - r <in. Among the secrets, which the can- haul. secnbmasons C lI‘xre [Ora balmnlg oéllri, and tn fear of its pebalties. The) of departments-the Post Master Gen-'sion, because it invades the eqtalright$' as a candidate for the Qéce of Lia's. t- didate may, and must be instructed in, ' Prepared y lhefn withe peeu farsnu: for man-stealing and unurglor, were for no emL the only one retained, of the late; of others, and is averse to the ipprove- dent of the United States, at the next ithe fakes the second\ desreo. is that sudden combustion, because it was sup |other than a masonic offence. The}eabinet, has removed a large number, ment and happiness of all. O i election _ 4 of hi L tua posed to contain this disclosure m man-. whole-array ol its Ingiitial ernnes, out! of his most competent and faithfal dep- ! The off Tree s fry - - c S lis pledge of passive obedience to uscript-we have seen them - employ a ' of court i kk 108 (S OWL C P Ca f y T 0 ences of Tr emasonry upon: . WILLIAM WTIRT, of Maryland ; C a the laws of the lodge and all regular pt ¢ ploy . , and in court, were no uther| utfes, in New York, for the sole: cause our individual: and national rights, if And for Vice President,» Bs masonic printer who was a stranger and | (han necessary means of carrying into of the zealand patriotism with which 'they had been committed a foreig Amos Ecum of Perinsylvania. 'd 7 summonses sent lim by a brother. of . . . al uus - JWA patrit y been committed by foreign , et f is é that degree If he takes the thint de- an alm'n,.to go into the office where (0 effect the obligations it M‘s. deliberately they songht to bring into just disrepute nation would by the law of nations, These citizens we degm Gm'f’em'f y» wi gree, among those secrets are. pledges was printing, with the offer to aid in ; and universally cxncledyl its members. the crimes and institution of freema- have justified a public war to avengeupossessed of the qualifications [felore'set ~ E to fly io the relief of a Lrothercof thar that work by Jabor and money, for the' All who uphold the obligations uphold sonry. [them. Shall we fall in love with criunoffi’m\ as most essentidl for the offices ‘ 4 degree when masonically required so to sole purpose of steatimg the manuscript; ithe-trities. No adhering mason has| 'The course of these transactions is | because they who commit itare near to with which we have associated-their g. 4 doTat the risk of his fife, should there !* have afterwards seen them kidnap j afforded the least willing assistance to) rapidly corroding and wearing away us 1 Shall we spare the destroyer pe. confident of their devoted . be a greater probability of faving the the author of it, carry him hoad winked | H'IE exposure and punislhinent of them.| the very basis of alf -public and 'cause we can subdue him peaceably 1 \aitachment to the [TnnCI'ples‘A‘J adinin- life of the brother requiring, than of and bound, with the greatest secrecy | No lodge nor chapter has called the| private virtuein our country ; and e-,; Freemasoury can be destroyed by the istration contained in this address ; and - a bhk . i : : favs losing his own- to apprise aahrolher p 284 cautton, through a great extent of criminals to account. - Many of them | radicating that mutual confidence, up- | votes of freemen, and by nothing else. ' their concurrence in our views ef the, all afilwoachinw danger if possible-and populous country, to a fort in the Uni- are known to be public. Cheesbro, and | on which the business of life, its peace, ' All who are truly opposed to it, wil crimes of freemasonry, and the neces- to conceal (hensecrers of a brother ma- ted - States,-unlawfully - and forelb!y . b“,\\.:\l'r’ and Lawson, and Bruce, and fand its enjoyments essentially depend. always vote against it. - Aud they de- sity of their removal“ by directing a- x: 5 ; imprison him there-collect together in | Whitney, have been convicted of the| When men refuse to bear testi in | cein U s sely v _ ' gainst thein the sovereign and free rem- son, when communicated to him as P \ $ hes h estimony in | ceive nobody but themselves, who pro - pote D N frequent deliberation-upon the means conspiracy to kidnap, and have been | court, to public offences, of which they ! fess opposition to it ret. dare edy of public suffrage, and the bestow n and yet dare not e- such, murder and treason ouly except- . o a . I » b P1 t ye r ; . p A ' P meal r of his final disposition-communicate, , condemmed and suffered infamous pun- know the perpetrators, and\are praised , express {1 osi by their v ment of official favors, we earnestly st ed, and they left at his discretion, Aud mc , OSP R i I puls perp 7 I express that opposition by their vote, . t he if he takes the roval arch degree, a . while in this situation, with several | ishments ; and the very murderers are| forit-when they perjure themselves, No good reason has been rendered, , r$°°£“\'°\d_ them to your support- et mon {hoqe secrets are lcd\t‘SF—lo members of a chapter of their body, { known with moral, though not - with | and are not disgraced-when they are ' or can be rendered, why a freeman who : Their election. would be a great step of \mi a Abrovlher of t ll: d: ree. from then numerously attended in the neigh-} strict judicial certainty. Not one of convicted of a conspiracy to kidnap iis opposed to freemasonry should pur } towards the rescue f’r our republic (19m ZS 'danger if he can whelL‘er (he?! bruise.- borhood-and - resolve - unanimously; these men has been expélled. - The | free citizen, and are applauded as vie-' vote against it. | 'The application of the the udmusgnd formidable power which b- be rah! or wrnn; to promote® his | though with painful reluctance on the grand lodge or grand clgpter, of which tims to'the prejudices of their country- rights. of suffrage against it is just, len'danlgex—‘s it ; and‘ we labor to accom- nd Hitical preferment bef. mp” t (;alll (Flo part of some, that their masonic obliga-) they were members, has the power of, men-when the distinction between peaceable, effective,and may be as com- PHth it in the spirit of freemen, In a; ers off; ual mlificazuns mar?d to clu'v‘x. ; tions required them \to murder him ; | expulsion but has declined to exercise right and wrong are practically super- | prehensive as the evils which alarm this laber we invite you to participate. ea seal ”Squaw; ° ia \ r and treason not \° for any offence against the state, but it in relation to them ; and such of them ; seded, by the systematic, numerous &' us. And no ether means can be de-} O“; free principles Win? bt Free; le- cite :ed . Till]: kn”; concca‘lment of for the sole cause of his attempting to! as-aro-still living, ares -in-masonic esti-| powerful society . diffused &-sustaining.-sc bu imazined, which unite these ! scrim:t mlhulft 605153\- Eiffiii‘fjjn onne ed cepied. \. - : publish the secrets of_the order, which ' mation, worthy members of the order. itself in all the places ofsorial influence characteristics, Voting is the only de. 4 Continuance of h? same disintcrested crimes made a masonic duty ; ~and the t ; y me P r UWB P Y °°\. and det d act by which the # ; sty discl M ,a|l caquiv he had a lawful right to do, and which,! But the fraternity have gone much | and honor-when the pursuance of this! cisive means by which public opinion ® {era-m: da £197: Y t;— L Yt . on (an? ates (71:11:05; yr: mmo ”(if considering their character, he was farther to make that ctime their own. injunction, the laws of the land, in the | can be distinctly ascertained upon the | \** esta “r'el' tL l'e-v use th‘e e!\ - menta' reser?alions i \O0. bound to do, by every consideration of , In 1827 the grand lodge gave §100 to | solemn places of their judicial applica- subject. | And since man ersons nor | Possession of the rich, an e on'y Y B 5 P J PI } My, 2; of mind, both in the first degree and I}!lpfimO méralyfvt)’ and-fdelity to. his; une of its members then under public! tion for the admonition and punish: l‘inifialedinlo the society, openly con [wealth of the poor. They are the \ \ i : - P > - ~ P 627 h I ' i co- “lillsfvjldo these parts of masonry affect 'country. On the night of the 19th Sept. accusation for kidnapping Morgan, and ment of the most Aagrant offences, are' nect themselves with its fortunes, and TOT;\I‘lnlx‘:$:acfi’:iul‘fi'hPETITSY X: g? pe r E f ® a , ; ; aft rards * ricte o; diy baflled, se id dos _J k serv exorti ; iy re vation, & s rights, ~ . . 1826, they accordingly murderod him, afterwards 'convicted of that offence;| lordly baffled, set aside an scorned make every exertion in their power to. - ian > 1. . si . L0 R i tue s . sh- the moraldcharncler of its memb‘ehrs 1 In 'To this fearful consummation none were and the grand chapter, by its vote, pla- then, the social fabric is trembling- {sustain it, by their votes, we cannot: tun): a\: \Earn?!” c liberties no o the» first degree, nm.l “'°';?' other, \‘l(1\pri\\’ but those who had as masons, ¢ed $1000 at the control of another of then there can be but one alternative, | safely if we would, betake ourselves to ; h\ ‘Fl fir tlelprICe (fl t?\ it‘ebeurs rr ‘Zfli ml?“ i \f“:ons' “It’swom to assist cach other, right or: is members, ostensibly for charitable, that of reform or ruin--then, looking |any other resort but the ballot boxefl; Eli-TTI'JurémgfiI-er near: E’ntellffznt r after he has sworn to conceal them. ! aL ; h atherls-mn uses. of which a nart has heen proved, beyond, but not forgetting, all the con- fur its destruction, 'These persons p. [ ded wrtho M ol Le- is 6 inciple i ts, that there | 529 \CT CTO 02 murder. |i 4 , ; Mey h ar- is a first principle in morals, Yh91 | q d- freas After the murder, in a court of justice, to bave been appli- siderations of attachment to the policy ; fect to consider themselves: as entitled\ +/ Jne l \ - at i tability without knowledge : CON 200 _ ¢ ef \ * ' a f ; wll ; -_. ages of just, and earnest thought, of ett is no accountability with herof 5° /all the precaution possible was taken ed for the. benefit of other kidnappers; | of \encouraging this or. that branch of [To the praise of all candid and unexci= \ ce and > nerous effort; of Weiss-Jude ite and free will, Such oaths, therofore, | aling it is pot being' and the trustee of the charity has never national industry-this or that scheme'] ted minds, by the course which they brave and gene ® tl d 1 indi I forms; b | for concealing it, but this no li ¥ P M R ) 'and suffering, and blood. Nor have re are not binding, and no forms;or ob» _ en ri rosecu.| been called to an account by the grand | of financial nanagement,;-this or that| adopt ; and profess to be neither ma- & fr lis a aps . has ke th { wholly successful, and legal prosccu-; & M € n gemen : | ador prc 10. lhl they been purchased in vain. . They ton jects, or uqlummlws, can make them so. [tious being threatened, the criminals fre- 1chapter, forany part of the sum, though exposition of the principles of our po- sous hor anli-masons ; claiming the bys y tavel (P (A To - sl’esfimale tes But what is the purpose Pr the orders quently met and consulted together, in all other cases such accountability | htical organization-this or that object ; respect of the community for their in- * ‘FT‘L ght man to or? fir}: t of hi uze in the ceremony of inpostn g them 1-- \for their mutual safety. The most in-} '3 enforced by the chapter. 'The records | of all our foreign and domestic policy, { difference to its rights and welfare. If T I\? fir,\ ‘T ortn, an 0“ H: 1 ”Sr [if Can it be good 1 Is it o | fluential among them insisted, that if} of this last body, apparently relating to! the considerate friend of his country (it had not been for the support of the fellow: ellnlgh’ L3 estrmate hlle tits, © art; as can be accomplished only by men «called upon touteslkfy, they one and aj} | this transaction, have been produced in will govern himself pri.narily, by the order, by interested and profligate poli- * rczsonrlll: elan 35537073: i cl uld‘ 18, silk divested of all senso of rccountability. | |\ (, swoor that they knew nothing of' Court, and wore seen to be mutilated, obvious neéessity To which he is Tedu-] liciins, who were not members, the ‘f‘ui‘ yfil ‘FIP mile w lLt‘ll::lJ:?:aj;eLéi a? k? The less of this sense the better, for «}} the matter i otherwise they would be: 'The fraterhity have also employ ed; ced of preserving for his country the | forfeiture of public confiJeace justly in- 4\ (”Lb Ci“ i”; is“; faculties confer ; > \ L - - r F 4 - 'ety - mi; the purposes of fraud and erime-and forsworn to ufasonry and might lose the ! and paid able counsel to defend the crim-| power of determining far itsell upon | curred by its crimes, would have been a; 3. “I so eby his \le2: aim! the in am the more of it the better, for all the life they would thus forfeit. ° As Wit ! inals. | any course of policy, and of disengaging ; So carried home to the minds: of its most $13”chde iiriucs of his character red purposes of integrity and virtue. TIN” nesses 1:19 magistrates, as sherifls, as In this way, while the chief magis- {the heart of the body politic from the worthy members, as long ago to have {milki'hile they have abased the prom; Fk are truths, which nobody can gainsay. grand ‘jururi f‘\ pelit jurors, as legisla . trate of the state of New-York was, by | fangs of a monster more blood thirsty, \induced its entire dissolution. It is an Erom his slihedyand hanghty elevation 1. All the history of piety, on one hand, N ; with wi roclamat fering money for the remorseless and insatiable, than any,. un loubted fact, that the men who are ® * nd- ~ * tors, these masons and others with whom pFeclamation, offering meney for Tie, rom > 6 1 ¥ 1 h . 8 p the poor to the ‘(- apd sin on the other asserts them.- ' int} . ; o conviction of the offenders, the Iighest ; which has ever come to prey upon the neither masous nor anti-masons, are they have brought UP I ' at - they: were intimate, would know noth | h + gh prey up R . exalted, standard of human rights and cke They are obvious to the common §e08¢ >;) op ;p po all other civil relations {©A§ODIC bodies in that state, were offer- { hopes of man. jauswerable for the continuance of the human hopes ; and thus opened the way 2:3 of all men. This NOON-jam“ olffrcclnfrv thsy violated their oaths and the most 98, and in their associate capacily mm? 'There isa bearing of freemasonry, < order. 'They have kept it from stick = - for the whole’family of man, \ to rum es: sonry, is, therefore, ebviously in hostil- geered duties. They flew to each oth ; ually paying money to protect and not yet embraced in this address, which , ing into annthilation by its sins, and the great career of justice.\ We have co- ity to good morals. ls is more than er's assistance, knowing their criminal. ‘suppqr! them. Can it be justly thought 'is replete with ”we most distressing ap- lare thus equalby with its set gut first in this career. Lotus re- do: that. To take such an'oath deliborate- ity: They gave each other notice of then, that so few convic. prelicnsions, There is located in Bos- members. No association of men, how- move every in pedinent which would . at ly, and with an intent to pen-“rm it, is ll;e.npp|oncllinf' danger of legal prose- tions have followed upon such enor- ton, a masonic body denominated (he ever impudent and lurdcucd, can with- obstruct our progress in it, and, by the (fin nn attempt at the voluntary extinguish , t The r r flfi’txz‘m witnesses - mous offences, and that no more .of the . African Grand Lodge, which des its stand, for years, the indignant, well Attractions of our success, invite all na- irae ment of the highest tights of the soul, 3:3 1?“th . {Myra} would disclose too facts have been ascertained in legal origin before the American Revolution,\ founded, universal rebuke of (heir \Tat fnuns to embrace it. If “fa are true to ~ - ion and a complete foreclosure of the source 11\:ch 12h” péjured themselves in form! and derived its existence: from a_ Seot-- low. citizens. So treated, the WOS. _)) up jacuitutions, our fathers, f ; ° A » rp . . bine ars ve a i ® ®. ®, a : of every duty. It is not possible to. ,,,, They contumaciously relused The: crminals, in all these atrocities tish Duke, 'This body acknowledges! members would be driven from the dace | | | |__ posterity, this is to be our glo- ind imagine a more aggravated crime.-/ to answer questions decided to be le- ' testified their. devotion to the institu-} no aegrance to any of the assoorations. of the sun, and from public observation, vious destiny. The influence of our ex- ed Rape, murder, treason, may be repent» | The? (Icclinc‘d to answer, on the ' lion, and by its own laws are only the of American masonry. It has already into the fastnesses and caves of the ample is already groat. In our foreign + ; + ° U 1 . P 1 * lat- ed of, and their perpetrators reclaimed. that if they should, they would more entitled to its guardian care, by l granted many charters to Africa? IImIlg- exnllln‘, lo‘ Like uimu thmrsnzvesfl the conflicts and negociations, our vigor { La hol. ( + involy \ * i e -o & ts t th the flagi- - f y'llll But to forego the rights of knowledge Eriminmt‘ themselves in relation to the all the hazards they involved. That | os. We are afraid to intimate their lo- shu bing habs s, along with th ag: prudence, and wisdom, have inade us ® and volition, in regarfl to every propo-\ 1 Th vented the judicial ' Cate has been extended to them in eve- {eation; to look-in upon theis proceed-. tious purposes of felons; and the best. bestected and [fustrious, Let not there: . on ; hist be-effered to a inoral MHTCC!: lir lll Wa } Loup ory form. of expression tending to their ings, to count their inmates, or to spe- would be compelled to abandon it. \I - .* ver ascertamment-ant- pumistmmnt -of -the- P r} fg Fraur TT imattemptoto-mnlcmamt masonry qualities be wanting in their proper on- gleam-amounts to a desperate erasu?¢ -\) 0) \o) against the tights of relief and comfort. Besides the exer- G in?” rt Mrl‘l.Cc!. ¢ bnmaking a tbaus no ”Ir; T2 2 limed muy, domestic applications, that the value of 3:1 of the image of God from the breast. It the citizen, and the laws of the land. - - Tous of Their brethren atready attudht What-are- 2m, means * thee? meat rec H s -for example may be- ennanent-amtis i : would necessarily preclude repentenC®) opy)\ 00002) of (hem were: acquainted 1% adhcring masons have, at great ex these dangers 1 'The dangers are con- these a uupls must recoil upon (B68 cou olney increased. Providence has ws reformation, pardon, hope,, and he death, “Jinn\; of the steps of those. eries pense, established and circulated news fined to nx one place, in ou’r rnnnlryi with whoin (\mi \Tynan“. {Sunfllmi mamfestly cast upon us the high re- H- 3 in its most unulterable horrors. It 200 apes to vilify all who were engaged and to no one department of our social ty rants cab tiuk the use of politica lbality of dut the. nost ' against the state. | Hundreds of them P1 ' . \ - daces mans de . bre see sponsibility of determining: the. most in 3:5!- 4 would be as much worse than common _if:'m ‘ adi lef: s Lin ¢Xpusing the crimes, and to call into | intervallvhm extend to all j lit-x an i.:;‘“1> aandtng. And ”RTE til\ to teresting problem of sectal life, that of ery é jeide-as tho of the immortal A Folveni i lool an with actin the entire resoumes of the fla- every dep Irflm‘im- \l: \I. IL“ “l ar effronte r“ ”h Wrman‘scaparllv for sell. government. If a Ar good-ortreen-cin - - - ir: 4 country u hare ornery R Mike bo fl eprrit is greater than that of the cor- . l'flhrence and see a fellow freeman in behalf uf those who commit- - Uemmamis; trait thear \ K- v- f com *-we suppress alf meatal nmpiracy sud lai P © indiffe Tj owe have, be capable of reaching them, wherey >- thing inost. memorable in its lustory . p vm , ruptible body .. kidnapped and murdered. - He cannot ted them.. , newspapers Nave. R ble of a sife | Lecu mmseparal ly connected with °. selfish faction, from within, as we hith- (30 ° R In degrees, higher than the Royal know that such crimes are successfully with the most unblushing hardihood, er they exist, and susceptible, of a i\ \ I\? Al“! nieet T t donncc F“ \l\ t Put ertoo have done all dictation and tyr- \$3p ; s 3 - .- + eme v mos - ? > Lg Arch, the members swear to oppose the protected, by an extensive, artful, and asserted the mnocence and praised the appilc-Illoll. in lllmui ulgurrilwixiert - “Z‘SSMKEUV «In’t‘lllis, all—Amiga? i]: gpl é\; anny fron without, we shall determine g % interests, derange the business, and de- werful conspiracy, without being ex virtues uf the convicts, several of whom Such means we have ; an Prowl in \dl £ hrc [ 1, IF d R in favor ot liberty. Such a determina- 3 rm} is stroy the reputation, of unfaithful hmhfp}: ‘de nst II: The sympathies of a < they knew to have confessed. their of-. miliar with their use. - They consist in déut “PU\!l {WANG-ll amonrjn Pager-Arm“ the great and the good of every z ¥ . ; cited agai f ? \ * e c s U x sion. x t > # is F ren, through life, to prefer the interests E brace his whole country. - fences. - They have commended the the honest exercise of the right of suf - vision L he eitrlmys of our fa .cr\ nation expect from us ; and {ley are ~ w F a of a Patnot embra M bb fusal in court to re- (rage, and, the most: patriotic employ- to establish out In tependence, were - N _ A> of a companion of the order, and 0 'The poorest man, the most defenceless most stubborn refusal t . a m , exert E ‘ copy beginning io the face of all their foes, companion's friend, for whom he pleads he P N hild in it cannot veal the trath by | masonic witnesses. imeut of uflicral patronage. re evils. political exertions, ven the revolu- ,) , ,,rq upon it, their possessrons to c ;, Woman, the weakest chrld in 1\. They t v of freemasonty operate upon the moral thronary war and the war of 1412, were . * ** * . to those of any mere man of the world, be added with unlawful violence, («* manly firmness. hey have in e h fr . T their hbenor and their lives. Let us & is . Inniited to- assailed. «tig - ery form. of imisrepresentation, which and political condition of the nation. and waged for political objects. he con- neither disappoint them, nor betray Bs f without quickening his prise, \ * .o A darken can be removed only by moral and pa- sututons, by which eur crviland rel- . * . \s Cpe lags € them-never to engage in mean party ; ath indignation.- (hey could devise, labored to darken C2 ? * , ourselves. A disinterested and farlful £ A frae : /. ening his sinews, with indigh: f ¥ relating to litieal means. Ttis the exalted excel- gious mghts arg-serfired, are. political el. < strife, nor conspiracies against the gov- very case of hich all knowledge of the facts relating te - - 10. adherence to the pr.nciples which we . igi f thei His blood is up in eter , . blot th or- , lence of our political institutions, that constitutions. - And this independence, . £ ernment or religion of their énunlr)‘. ctime ; and keeps up against the ag- the outrages . and to blot out the m I ily designed and adap- these constitutions and nights, can be inculcate, and to the modes of «tstain- m. V!\ Thereby f f _ a ‘rn so, till the Taw Pfl‘mms “m-“mn‘m mmmgmlg‘ ; diffe “he! are} eflWf'iV ih'fifi—Mhfiwrwfimfiwpmi M tS lhgq’gL “b'th‘j—e—lgmvmend' be- h c associate with dishonorable men 5\°°\\\> willhng . _ Hundreds of the brethren in differ-\ ted to secure our TIgNts, cirmpres ® * PF 1°\ comes both onr cause and our p ever to - upon him. To the law he is willing ; v. i pertain tous as moral beings. In vo- lucal means. . p ed £ for moment, EXCEPT it be to secure Pm because knows it is the ent counties in the state of N. ¥. have pertain * j $22 bisty ; and irresistibly commending it- ick é the interest of such person, his family, , C ' ; beef the public will. published addresses. under their fiifié‘s.§\fl7 every elector «hould always be. - Young for our pulfwhc servants. is the To ine t a . . p on < - c i ghest exercise of severeign pow er f : R whose no. | deliberate expresst have deliberatety com +R ned -b» h * ist lot re that cause suc- § or {vend}, to a'wmlifn'022’rnddim ag / for the public good ; the great shield in, ETC: 2:1); established judicially, by { and the desire of preserving them - knuiwn in our land. It is the para- Siffre“, 1'1 (2:1? $1.9“. ngbht, duts, im- > fimufer“;uw strictty ~avery~ hy the hapds of all over the tradicte their adhering brethren and , There can be no Ingher political duty mount distinctive privilege of freemen. ___\ ___ up oternment y‘l‘fl' their nds-to b \on many of © \Ta tountnes where only «mail mmor ! lint : - F ious knight«, and rights of all. - any seceding masons : and which | than this. Th Y= * hess, are phantoms. - We shall be com- St. : command of the illustrion: F gi.ts are, separately con- by many $ fu 1 nsed v I - € lally to _. Individual rights are, paral tion of a lawful cath, | But the use of our nght of suffrage its of the people are autho to vote, led to repudiate the memory of cur 1a ' nd Commander, and especa''} ble and indefina- under the sanc He p ad g gra der, is sidered, of rmmeasura an ® nd fect to ss examination beforeiagamfl free masonry is termed pro- if oppresssive measures are adopted, by immortal aires, and forego the great in- z € megwq' 0343-1“ worth. . partake of the ‘nfikltge subject “no” be compelied to|senption. Prosenpuon cannot be iin- _ their ruler, they roust either submit, or hes have hat _L ; . Have these points of mason i moral existence and response: publie, they wouht r i p beca ft fust > i countri here all the cir ° wal - z: gations any political bearing * € bulih‘nc As muggmphlgdwbvyfldaixr gh'v-‘admfl. Sim itteed shat is Elton; “sit 11:1“:le p?‘§§::.arerzuctfit:xmedst:2gi an? «2:12: ' in“? \$1 iii. F om l: not f * in hi i ; j 4 poses a j h ~ r - he frie man, than t fa- to jn his meral - R g one published in an address of a commit \ more 1 M od rights of mana med \ ernment, a single individual, and P [it d lodge of Rhode Island- | scription to be resolute and active in-oppressed, they can throw of the OP- yore of heaven,. It is equally cur - ad nature. It is the i‘furfhcgd'free 8°\ las much as another, is an august being. Md ebgfln i r; of the grand lodge of detecting and denouncing opinions of pression by their votes And if the Aighest glory, our most sscred duty ar ernment to secure him in the p« on itled to invictable reverence, and andthe * lesa ; s tendency is to un- frowns of power, or the calomnies of. b a al ve of thesa rights. Whatever is ‘m'é: filing upon him the badges of a most N. Y. has ”\ubfly inflate-33; | afifixefi-flfr to rang! by every malefactots have force to dissoage them 3:03:15”an hore, oor profs it to morality, is therefore opposed. to t lieth er, in which he represe > ; s fon. h- T+ Wflmgwf-Tfig 3s means,. the influence. of menifrom usnng their votes. to throw it C6). \ follow. the artes af tbs Delagerse ® is sometimes omitted in the transceadant destinations. . His O who commit cmmes and confederais toithap are ft for slaves, and can bt CRIT woah sea colt fy, the want af room { rufiah degree ; and sometimes rocimded in {hig liberty gth, and determiced to cnt thefraster's degreo * .
