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Article APPEAL OF BROTHER R. T. CRUCEFIX. ← Page 5 of 5 Article THE CONSEQUENCES. Page 1 of 5 →
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Appeal Of Brother R. T. Crucefix.
Consequently , there were but eight ; of whom six were for the sentence , and two did not oppose it : Therefore the unanimous vote of the Board , consisting of twenty-five members , rests after all with six persons ! The above account refers to the truly Masonic compliment paid to Dr . Crucefix . AVe have not been able to investigate precisely the modus operandi in the other cases .
The Consequences.
THE CONSEQUENCES .
It now became necessary for Dr . Crucefix to consider his position . Alderman AVood , who was declared by the Board to have INTENTIONALLY spoken disrespectfully of the Grand Master , had been most graciously permitted to shake hands ! Brother Stevens , although he made a manful stand against the Old Bailey Masonry , had suffered his full punishment , wanting but one week , and would therefore be at such time restored to the full
exercise of his Masonic (!) functions and privileges , of which he had been most unmasonically deprived . But Dr . Crucefix being met by a refusal to urge his appeal , that might possibly have made due impression , felt he was thereby robbed of the privilege given him by the Constitutions , and resolved to disentrammel himself from his unenviable position . Pie addressed the following letters to the Grand Master , the Grand Secretary , and the Masters
of the several London Lodges with whom he had been so long connected . Those Brethren who can enter into his feelings on this painful task , wall at once appreciate the high moral compliment he has paid to the Order of Freemasonry , by the sacrifice he has made on the shrine of honour . AVe believe there are no Lodges where there is reciprocated such an affectionate attachment between Brother and Brother as in these three Lodges—of two of them he was the father—and at the altar of one his Masonic fealty was first pledged !
" To His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick , Dulce of Sussex , K . G ., § c- &; c ., Most Worshipful Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of England . MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL PIIGIINESS , SIR , —I am irrepressibly induced to address your Royal Highness , at a moment in which I find my best solace to arise from the contemplation of
a duty which you , equally with myself , owe to our mutual Creator—at a moment when I dare to hope he will pardon you for having withheld from mc the protective power with which you have been entrusted—and at a moment in which my reliance , with the most implicit confidence , on the exercise of your highest prerogative—justice—has been so grievously disappointed . It is with mingled feelings , among which the deepest regret prevails , that I am urged to declare—That the Grand Master has been unmindful of the very FIRST ARTICLE of our ' ANCIENT CHARGES '—wherein , if he had conscientiously considered
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Appeal Of Brother R. T. Crucefix.
Consequently , there were but eight ; of whom six were for the sentence , and two did not oppose it : Therefore the unanimous vote of the Board , consisting of twenty-five members , rests after all with six persons ! The above account refers to the truly Masonic compliment paid to Dr . Crucefix . AVe have not been able to investigate precisely the modus operandi in the other cases .
The Consequences.
THE CONSEQUENCES .
It now became necessary for Dr . Crucefix to consider his position . Alderman AVood , who was declared by the Board to have INTENTIONALLY spoken disrespectfully of the Grand Master , had been most graciously permitted to shake hands ! Brother Stevens , although he made a manful stand against the Old Bailey Masonry , had suffered his full punishment , wanting but one week , and would therefore be at such time restored to the full
exercise of his Masonic (!) functions and privileges , of which he had been most unmasonically deprived . But Dr . Crucefix being met by a refusal to urge his appeal , that might possibly have made due impression , felt he was thereby robbed of the privilege given him by the Constitutions , and resolved to disentrammel himself from his unenviable position . Pie addressed the following letters to the Grand Master , the Grand Secretary , and the Masters
of the several London Lodges with whom he had been so long connected . Those Brethren who can enter into his feelings on this painful task , wall at once appreciate the high moral compliment he has paid to the Order of Freemasonry , by the sacrifice he has made on the shrine of honour . AVe believe there are no Lodges where there is reciprocated such an affectionate attachment between Brother and Brother as in these three Lodges—of two of them he was the father—and at the altar of one his Masonic fealty was first pledged !
" To His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick , Dulce of Sussex , K . G ., § c- &; c ., Most Worshipful Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of England . MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL PIIGIINESS , SIR , —I am irrepressibly induced to address your Royal Highness , at a moment in which I find my best solace to arise from the contemplation of
a duty which you , equally with myself , owe to our mutual Creator—at a moment when I dare to hope he will pardon you for having withheld from mc the protective power with which you have been entrusted—and at a moment in which my reliance , with the most implicit confidence , on the exercise of your highest prerogative—justice—has been so grievously disappointed . It is with mingled feelings , among which the deepest regret prevails , that I am urged to declare—That the Grand Master has been unmindful of the very FIRST ARTICLE of our ' ANCIENT CHARGES '—wherein , if he had conscientiously considered