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To The Craft.
I have endeavoured to keep one great object in view , " Consistency , " and to persevere against prejudice until that object was attained . What I may have suffere I in this , my leading study , remains with myself . This I know , because I feel the truthfulness , with Steele , that " the greatest affronts are those we can take no notice of . " The current events
shadow out the future with much hope : I allude to the wedge driven into'the block of prejudice , with so resistless a force that , ( although I venture to implore of the honest-hearted not to peril the widow ' s cause by absence at the confirmation of minutes ) will cause her heart to sing for joy . It is to be hoped there will be no dastardly attempt made to interrupt the stream of charity . ROBT . THOS . CRUCEFIX . Grove , Gravesend , 27 th June , 1849 .
The Grand Lodge.
THE GRAND LODGE .
GENERAL COOKE . —The last act of this masonic drama has been . played —the minute of expulsion has been confirmed , and the appetite has been gorged to satiety—meantime no one approves . The following extract of a letter from the general , dated Albany , May , 1849 , will close our remarks on the case . Speaking of the Grand Secretary White , the general observes : " His own pocket-book will betray him ; ask him to
prorluce it , and you will find , in my own hand-writing , unless he has obliterated or defaced my address , that the army of the United States is quite out of the question , and that the substance of his testimony is of his own manufacture . I am known here as ' general , ' from the fact of having such a commission—the title I am entitled to as long as I live . White never submitted any draft , nor read any patent ; that document was handed to me but one hour before I left London , in August , 1847 , and was never opened until my arrival in America in the following month . "
It was impossible to put in the general ' s letter at the Grand Lodge , but it was easy to catch the merry wink of the aged secretary , who , instead of wincing at being caught in a graceless fact , boldly put in his evasive reply . In one night he repudiates conclusive evidence , votes for the Grand Master ' s list for a packed Board of General Purposes , and holds up his hand against the widows' grant ! Matchless
honour—unbounded charity J Great Brother White ! How can the Craft repay such obligations ? Oh , he has not served fifty years for nothing . THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES . —It will be sufficient to state that , notwithstanding the issue of the following ukase by the Grand Officers , and for which list the Grand Master and the Grand Secretary
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To The Craft.
I have endeavoured to keep one great object in view , " Consistency , " and to persevere against prejudice until that object was attained . What I may have suffere I in this , my leading study , remains with myself . This I know , because I feel the truthfulness , with Steele , that " the greatest affronts are those we can take no notice of . " The current events
shadow out the future with much hope : I allude to the wedge driven into'the block of prejudice , with so resistless a force that , ( although I venture to implore of the honest-hearted not to peril the widow ' s cause by absence at the confirmation of minutes ) will cause her heart to sing for joy . It is to be hoped there will be no dastardly attempt made to interrupt the stream of charity . ROBT . THOS . CRUCEFIX . Grove , Gravesend , 27 th June , 1849 .
The Grand Lodge.
THE GRAND LODGE .
GENERAL COOKE . —The last act of this masonic drama has been . played —the minute of expulsion has been confirmed , and the appetite has been gorged to satiety—meantime no one approves . The following extract of a letter from the general , dated Albany , May , 1849 , will close our remarks on the case . Speaking of the Grand Secretary White , the general observes : " His own pocket-book will betray him ; ask him to
prorluce it , and you will find , in my own hand-writing , unless he has obliterated or defaced my address , that the army of the United States is quite out of the question , and that the substance of his testimony is of his own manufacture . I am known here as ' general , ' from the fact of having such a commission—the title I am entitled to as long as I live . White never submitted any draft , nor read any patent ; that document was handed to me but one hour before I left London , in August , 1847 , and was never opened until my arrival in America in the following month . "
It was impossible to put in the general ' s letter at the Grand Lodge , but it was easy to catch the merry wink of the aged secretary , who , instead of wincing at being caught in a graceless fact , boldly put in his evasive reply . In one night he repudiates conclusive evidence , votes for the Grand Master ' s list for a packed Board of General Purposes , and holds up his hand against the widows' grant ! Matchless
honour—unbounded charity J Great Brother White ! How can the Craft repay such obligations ? Oh , he has not served fifty years for nothing . THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES . —It will be sufficient to state that , notwithstanding the issue of the following ukase by the Grand Officers , and for which list the Grand Master and the Grand Secretary