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Ireland.
recognitions—until the acceptance of the warrant from the United Supreme Conclave to the Grand Chapter , two co-ordinate governing bodies , supreme over their own dependencies , and recognized by each other as legal and regular , were holding their several sessions , in amity and reconciliation under the same roof . The principles of equality and equity which had been strictly pursued and maintained all through the previous negociationwere as strictly carried out under the
superinten-, dence of the hi gh minded nobleman who now presides over a truly United ancl Supreme Conclave ; and the consequence has been the perfect reconciliation and indissoluble re-union of the Free-masonic body in this kingdom . There has been , in all these proceedings , no sacrifice of any principle on either side . The Grand Chapter has gained all that it ever cared to contend for ; and the Supreme Grand Council of Rites has , by its union , only completed the original plan of its formation .
There has been " no surrender ; " but both parties have cordially coalesced in a singularly propitious re-union of heart and hand . I have now only to add , that , in imitation of the course taken formerly by the " Original Chapter , " the Grand Chapter having now ceded all its authority to the representative body , has relinguished its former title of "The Grand Chapter" as being no longer appropriate , ancl has taken the appropriate title of the " Kilwinning Chapter of Prince or Rose Croix Masons of Ireland , " under the authority of the General Representative Conclave , united and reconciled as the Supreme Grand Council of Rites .
1 his , Sir , is the last letter which I intend that either yourself , or any other person , shall ever , in the capacity of a public journalist , receive from me upon these subjects . —But it is right—it is necessary—that those who saw ancl read of our dissensions—who saw , in the recent contests among Freemasons , an additional proof of the maxim , that no human institution or system can be wholly secure from those imperfections and abuses which sometimes deface even the forms of Christianity
itself , should now he made acquainted with the fact , that however vehement may have been these dissensions for a season , the genial influence , and pure principles of our Order , have ultimately proved the strongest ; and , that whilst neither party has sought or obtained a victory over the other , a great and memorable conquest has been achieved b y both over their own passions . —I have the honour to be , Sir , with much respect and esteem , your very obedient servant , HENRY O'CONNOR . February 13 , 1045 .
Most sincerely do we hope that no discordant sounds may ever again sully the sweet harmony of Masonic melody—that a restoration to love ancl happiness will herald a glorious future , and that all parties will the remember that Peace is of the nature of a conquest ; For then both parties nobly are subdued , And neither party loser . " On the part we have been called on to take , we express no other
comment , than that as the consciousness of a public duty rendered it imperative at the time , we may , without arrogance , congratulate ourselves on happy termination to the Masonic differences in Dublin . All honour to the Duke of Leinster , and Bro . Henry O'Connor .
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Ireland.
recognitions—until the acceptance of the warrant from the United Supreme Conclave to the Grand Chapter , two co-ordinate governing bodies , supreme over their own dependencies , and recognized by each other as legal and regular , were holding their several sessions , in amity and reconciliation under the same roof . The principles of equality and equity which had been strictly pursued and maintained all through the previous negociationwere as strictly carried out under the
superinten-, dence of the hi gh minded nobleman who now presides over a truly United ancl Supreme Conclave ; and the consequence has been the perfect reconciliation and indissoluble re-union of the Free-masonic body in this kingdom . There has been , in all these proceedings , no sacrifice of any principle on either side . The Grand Chapter has gained all that it ever cared to contend for ; and the Supreme Grand Council of Rites has , by its union , only completed the original plan of its formation .
There has been " no surrender ; " but both parties have cordially coalesced in a singularly propitious re-union of heart and hand . I have now only to add , that , in imitation of the course taken formerly by the " Original Chapter , " the Grand Chapter having now ceded all its authority to the representative body , has relinguished its former title of "The Grand Chapter" as being no longer appropriate , ancl has taken the appropriate title of the " Kilwinning Chapter of Prince or Rose Croix Masons of Ireland , " under the authority of the General Representative Conclave , united and reconciled as the Supreme Grand Council of Rites .
1 his , Sir , is the last letter which I intend that either yourself , or any other person , shall ever , in the capacity of a public journalist , receive from me upon these subjects . —But it is right—it is necessary—that those who saw ancl read of our dissensions—who saw , in the recent contests among Freemasons , an additional proof of the maxim , that no human institution or system can be wholly secure from those imperfections and abuses which sometimes deface even the forms of Christianity
itself , should now he made acquainted with the fact , that however vehement may have been these dissensions for a season , the genial influence , and pure principles of our Order , have ultimately proved the strongest ; and , that whilst neither party has sought or obtained a victory over the other , a great and memorable conquest has been achieved b y both over their own passions . —I have the honour to be , Sir , with much respect and esteem , your very obedient servant , HENRY O'CONNOR . February 13 , 1045 .
Most sincerely do we hope that no discordant sounds may ever again sully the sweet harmony of Masonic melody—that a restoration to love ancl happiness will herald a glorious future , and that all parties will the remember that Peace is of the nature of a conquest ; For then both parties nobly are subdued , And neither party loser . " On the part we have been called on to take , we express no other
comment , than that as the consciousness of a public duty rendered it imperative at the time , we may , without arrogance , congratulate ourselves on happy termination to the Masonic differences in Dublin . All honour to the Duke of Leinster , and Bro . Henry O'Connor .