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Article TO THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND.—No. IV. ← Page 4 of 4
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To The Grand Lodge Of Ireland.—No. Iv.
Council of Rites—that ho never committed himself as such . I have heard some pretty curious circumstances , but which , without his permission , I cannot divulge ; a shrewd guess , however , I can make at the aider and abetter of this pamphlet , and point directly to one , of whom I enquire , if the letter quoted by Mendax be genuine , how came that person possessed of it ? Leaving the public to form their own opinion of the matter if it be not so , ' I should rather think the
letter is a genuine one ; for it is evidently written in the better style of the gentleman whose signature is appended . But what a disgrace on the part of the Grand Council of Rites to give up a letter to aid so base and dishonourable a purpose ! The attack on this Brother is continued with a rancour that exhibits the vilest feeling . Mendax has some intuitive idea that he is safe in his falsehoods , or he would surely be struck by tlie fact that the abused
party , instead of being disregarded by his Encampment , is at this very time again at the head of it ; and although he may prefer to adopt the Horatian maxim , '' Feras non culpes quod vitare non potest "for no one can escape the cowardly assassin or the anonymous slanderer —yet Mendax , and those who herd with him , may rest assured that the object of their puny jealousy , at no period of his eventful and useful Masonic careerstood so high in the estimation of the Craft as he does
, at the present time . There are other gentlemen with whom great liberties are taken by name and circumstance , but as they are residents of Dublin , they can repudiate the foul slander without difficulty . My chief object , as a member of an Irish Loclge , is to step forward and defend an English Brother in his absence . My apology is ' due to him for the manner in which I have done thisbut his position in the Order claims the
; chivalric support of every honest ancl true-hearted Mason . In taking my leave for the present , may it please you not to be deluded by the mendacious railings of a few blockheads ; let not fraud ancl imputlence prevail , but by your determination allow honest ancl ardent men to resume their rights and privileges under your own hopeful restoration to "light . " Dublin , Jan . 5 , 1845 . JUSTCI
Olim Verax , sed nunquam Mendax . [ Our correspondent at the time he wrote the above letter , could not be aware of the happy termination of the Masonic differences , in the arrangement of which his Grace the Duke of leinster and Bro . Henry O Connor became the entrusted guarantees . ]—Eo .
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To The Grand Lodge Of Ireland.—No. Iv.
Council of Rites—that ho never committed himself as such . I have heard some pretty curious circumstances , but which , without his permission , I cannot divulge ; a shrewd guess , however , I can make at the aider and abetter of this pamphlet , and point directly to one , of whom I enquire , if the letter quoted by Mendax be genuine , how came that person possessed of it ? Leaving the public to form their own opinion of the matter if it be not so , ' I should rather think the
letter is a genuine one ; for it is evidently written in the better style of the gentleman whose signature is appended . But what a disgrace on the part of the Grand Council of Rites to give up a letter to aid so base and dishonourable a purpose ! The attack on this Brother is continued with a rancour that exhibits the vilest feeling . Mendax has some intuitive idea that he is safe in his falsehoods , or he would surely be struck by tlie fact that the abused
party , instead of being disregarded by his Encampment , is at this very time again at the head of it ; and although he may prefer to adopt the Horatian maxim , '' Feras non culpes quod vitare non potest "for no one can escape the cowardly assassin or the anonymous slanderer —yet Mendax , and those who herd with him , may rest assured that the object of their puny jealousy , at no period of his eventful and useful Masonic careerstood so high in the estimation of the Craft as he does
, at the present time . There are other gentlemen with whom great liberties are taken by name and circumstance , but as they are residents of Dublin , they can repudiate the foul slander without difficulty . My chief object , as a member of an Irish Loclge , is to step forward and defend an English Brother in his absence . My apology is ' due to him for the manner in which I have done thisbut his position in the Order claims the
; chivalric support of every honest ancl true-hearted Mason . In taking my leave for the present , may it please you not to be deluded by the mendacious railings of a few blockheads ; let not fraud ancl imputlence prevail , but by your determination allow honest ancl ardent men to resume their rights and privileges under your own hopeful restoration to "light . " Dublin , Jan . 5 , 1845 . JUSTCI
Olim Verax , sed nunquam Mendax . [ Our correspondent at the time he wrote the above letter , could not be aware of the happy termination of the Masonic differences , in the arrangement of which his Grace the Duke of leinster and Bro . Henry O Connor became the entrusted guarantees . ]—Eo .