"As Ithers See Us."

"AS ITHERS SEE US . "

A FRIEND has done us the unkindness to send two broadsheets filled with the ravings of a man more fit for Bedlam than to be at large . We advise Mr . R . H . Cotter , the person alluded to , to remain in Ireland ,

for a law was passed on the 6 th inst . which gives power to overseers , relieving overseers and policemen to arrest any person who may appear to them to be under the influence of some mania . It would not be difficult to arrive

at a conclusion with regard to Mr . Cotter . Only let England be named , or Freemasonry be hinted at even , and the vials of his wrath would be poured out in such a torrent as to convince those who heard him that he must

be labouring under extraordinary delusions , ancl that in his ravings he forgets the decencies of life , the slightest regard for facts , It is not pleasant work to gibbet an

enemy , but there is no objection to his doing the thing himself . We are not sure that we are wise in letting our readers see how wild some men become when filled with

hate and all uncharitableness . Freemasons have always had bitter opponents , ancl none more unscrupulous than the Romish Church , but never have we read anything so violent and outrageous as the slanders penned by Mr . R . EL

Cotter . We shall not attempt to reason with a man who is incapable of believing any good of Freemasons ; he shall speak for himself , and our readers can judge how far we are justified in classing him with persons scarcely to

be held responsible for their actions . If he had only Freemasonry on the brain we should not be so much surprised , but he seems to be the incarnation of all that is violent

in his feelings with regard to England . He is no respecter of persons , and we are afraid we must add , has not the least respect for truth .

It would be labour in vain to argue -with such a man . We give some specimens of his language that our readers may know how low it is possible for an enemy to descend . Besides , Mr . Cotter is a curiosity in his way , and let us

hope is even unique in Ireland . The object of the broadsheets before us is " to unmask the plot of God-defying political domination in blaspheming Freemasonry , which it appears is now the State religion of England , " to show

that ^ Masonry was heathenish , as its humbugging libations of ^ wine and oil and corn might suggest . " We owe our origin to a " Jew , who rejected Christianity in toto , for their motto is not only composed of Babylonian Hebrew

cabalistic words , but actually refers to the heathen doctrine of transmigration of souls—a ' doctrine of devils . ' " As their origin is , so are their works , and we need not be surprised that our brethren in Ireland— " traitors to God

, are drawing down Heaven ' s wrath " upon that country . Mr . Cotter has got hold of some books ; he has learned of some renegades , who , like perverts and false friends , become the bitterest of enemies as well as the falsest of

guides . From these he draws pretty largely , and takes all they relate as pure gospel . A Dr . Carwifchen is a great authority in the eyes of Mr . Cotter , and so is a Mr . Trevillan , who thus described a system that had once

tolerated him as a disciple , as " scandalously and detest-+ L ( f nti-Cliristl ' - " He relies very much upon the fact that " one hundred and three " American Masons seceded

from the Order on the ground that it was " a bloody relic ot barbarism . " He mouths this over frequently as if alarmed afc the poverty of his own conversion . Mr . Cotter

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need not fear ; his vocabulary is stored with epithets that an Irish fishwife would envy , some of which we shall presently reproduce . We are told that Freemasonry is a school for grabbing

as well as for murder , " for it is hardly necessary to say that Mr . Cotter believes in the Morgan story . Bishop Plunket , of Meath , according to this veracious witness , was made an Archbishop by " his clique of cowardly ,

darkness - loving blaspheming Freemasons - God - blaspheming ring . " Daniel O'Connell , who was at one time a member of the Fraternity , but retired from it at the bidding of the Romish priests , once described Mr . Disraeli as " the

heir-atlaw of the blasphemous thief upon the cross . " Mr . Cotter has studied the Repealer as a model of vituperation . He calls Archbishop Plunkeb " an impenitent Freemason ;" calls Lodges " Cowardly murderers' dens ; " says that their

frequenters have " blasphemous lying mouths , " and that they are " liars , assassins and blasphemers . " He rails at times against their secret arts , at another he says , " The more secrecy ' the devil' and these ' his angels' keep , the

better I ' m pleased , till they ' re pinned down into the bottomless pit . " We have said that this coarse traducer was no respecter of persons , and the proof is forthcoming . Writing of a relative he described him as " a most gloriously

charitable , most pious skull-drinking , most blaspheming Freemason of immortal memory . " His own brother , a member of the Craft , rebuked him for his vile language , and he is immediately lashed and accused of being " without natural

affection . " Another brother , also a Freemason , who renounced the Order before he died , is extolled almost as an angel . Mr . R . H . Cotter believes any story that can be

made to tell against the Fraternity . He has got it into his head that the brethren make a practice of drinking out of human skulls . This is a great fact with him , and he calls " one hundred and three" seceders and the Standard

newspaper as witnesses . But then he has another witness , " a butler , who lived in the house of the notorious Freemason named Furnell , and that batler saw a coffin full of skulls and bones lying for months in Furnell ' s parlour , in

George Street , Limerick . " After that who can deny that skulls are converted into drinking cups by the abominable Freemasons , who might with equal truth be dubbed bodysnatchers and cannibals .

There is scarcely a crime under the sun of which it is not possible for a Freemason to be guilty , but it may be a consolation to know that they are condemned in the company of others . England is denounced with the same

unsparing hand , and Orangemen belong to the same tribe of fiends . England is " the great Red Dragon , " and Mr . Cotter calls in a witness who believed the day would come when " she would lose all her commerce , and that

Tyre and Sidon ' s end would be hers . She is also a ' scarlet-coloured beast' —the leopard , spotted with all the lies from Puseyism to Bradlaughism . " After all , Freemasonry is the ground-work of all our wickedness . The

brethren are the evil genii of the world ; they are the serpent that beguiled Eve ; they cannot be saved ; they are the elect of the damned , and Mr . Cotter is the destroying angel who means to execute

vengeance . We can imagine how the brethren will open their eyes with wonder at being so foully stigmatised , how they will tremble when they enter

the Lodge , lest the " red dragon , " the " leopard , spotted with all the lies , " should fall upon them and devour them . Let them not fear , Mr . Cotter is living in a world created