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The Retrospect.
sin , unless he shall indeed be enshrined by those holy attributes which leave the dread tempter himself no hope of debasing man . At the moment of writing these observations , there is before the Secretary of State a deputation from the Society of Friends , imploring the mercy of the
crown in favour of one of their deluded members . Shall his misconduct sully the character they have earned by a life of propriety passed under a system of acknowledged morality ?—and must Freemasonry , whose noble Influence is on the side of human felicity , be abused because there exist
in the world crimes , and contentions , and corruptions ? We may further demand whether relig ion itself , by which we mean the pure and holy worship of the Supreme Being , is to be questioned , because many , indeed how very many , of those who profess its tenets , disgrace them by their practice ?
The case brought forward is that of William Morgan , a Freemason , in America , who , in 1826 , was spirited from his home by certain persons called Freemasons . The parties implicated were put upon their trial , sentenced , and punished , according to the laws of the land . After a time
Morgan , however , was not forthcoming , and other parties were arraigned on a charge of his murder—they were acquitted .
Political feeling , it being the time ot the elections , ran high , and it suited the views of many ( not being Freemasons , ) under the state of excitement too prevalent upon these public questions , to doubt the purity of their own laws , and thus , forsooth , these parties would have persecuted , by
new legislative pains and penalties , a system in which were bound up Franklin , Washington , Livingston , De Witt , Clinton , the present President Jackson , ancl nearly all the high minded men of the United States . In consequence , a great variety of tracts against the order issued from the
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The Retrospect.
sin , unless he shall indeed be enshrined by those holy attributes which leave the dread tempter himself no hope of debasing man . At the moment of writing these observations , there is before the Secretary of State a deputation from the Society of Friends , imploring the mercy of the
crown in favour of one of their deluded members . Shall his misconduct sully the character they have earned by a life of propriety passed under a system of acknowledged morality ?—and must Freemasonry , whose noble Influence is on the side of human felicity , be abused because there exist
in the world crimes , and contentions , and corruptions ? We may further demand whether relig ion itself , by which we mean the pure and holy worship of the Supreme Being , is to be questioned , because many , indeed how very many , of those who profess its tenets , disgrace them by their practice ?
The case brought forward is that of William Morgan , a Freemason , in America , who , in 1826 , was spirited from his home by certain persons called Freemasons . The parties implicated were put upon their trial , sentenced , and punished , according to the laws of the land . After a time
Morgan , however , was not forthcoming , and other parties were arraigned on a charge of his murder—they were acquitted .
Political feeling , it being the time ot the elections , ran high , and it suited the views of many ( not being Freemasons , ) under the state of excitement too prevalent upon these public questions , to doubt the purity of their own laws , and thus , forsooth , these parties would have persecuted , by
new legislative pains and penalties , a system in which were bound up Franklin , Washington , Livingston , De Witt , Clinton , the present President Jackson , ancl nearly all the high minded men of the United States . In consequence , a great variety of tracts against the order issued from the