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Grand Lodge.
the punishment is disproportionately beyond the offence , if that of which Bro . Cooke lias been accused had been proved ; but we are bound to state that no prejudging was displayed when the Grand Registrar moved the first resolution six months since , nor has he given any influence to the ultimate decision . We do not by inference wish to blame our very talented Bro . R . G . Alston , but we cannot see that Majorgeneral Cooke has added to his crime by sending his explanation ; one thing we blame all our brethren for , that the subject was fully gone into
in September , 18-18 ; that again Major-general Cooke ' s case was discussed in December , 1848 , but notice for him to appear and show cause , was only served upon him in January , 1849 ; this is manifestly unjust , to try a case twice without giving the accused a chance of attending or sending is , to say the least of it , not masonic . Major General Cooke ' s letter will be found at page 45 .
On the day of the Grand Lodge , but too late for taking advantage of the circumstance , letters were received from General Cooke , dated I 8 th February , 1849 , wherein he expresses a desire that an error should be corrected relating to the University of Ripley , and observes as follows : —
"It is stated that the University does not exist , whereas I hold the manifesto and all public documents belonging to the College , and certainly I ought to know somewhat about its destinies . As regards titles , fees of honour , & c , I never accepted of a nominal election or appointment of any character , unless satisfied the same was legal and duly conferred . My appointment as Chancellor , with college honours , was
conferred by ballot , and issued from the several departments with the signatures of the President , Trustees , and other officers , and I regret that I cannot at the present crisis personally attest written proof of what I affirm ; there is much cruelty in the Grand Lodge , more than oppression . " Having inadvertently misapprehended the'General ' s connection with the Chancellorship , we feel in honour hound to give insertion to
this quotation from his correspondence . We conclude for the present , with , a most apposite quotation from the "Times" of 30 th December , 1 S 41 . " The recent trial has certainly exhibited , in the strongest light , the absence of all these scruples of human justice , and those precautions of the law destined to act as checks to its own severity , which experience and a happier state of society have taught our judges , and infused into our legislation . "
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Grand Lodge.
the punishment is disproportionately beyond the offence , if that of which Bro . Cooke lias been accused had been proved ; but we are bound to state that no prejudging was displayed when the Grand Registrar moved the first resolution six months since , nor has he given any influence to the ultimate decision . We do not by inference wish to blame our very talented Bro . R . G . Alston , but we cannot see that Majorgeneral Cooke has added to his crime by sending his explanation ; one thing we blame all our brethren for , that the subject was fully gone into
in September , 18-18 ; that again Major-general Cooke ' s case was discussed in December , 1848 , but notice for him to appear and show cause , was only served upon him in January , 1849 ; this is manifestly unjust , to try a case twice without giving the accused a chance of attending or sending is , to say the least of it , not masonic . Major General Cooke ' s letter will be found at page 45 .
On the day of the Grand Lodge , but too late for taking advantage of the circumstance , letters were received from General Cooke , dated I 8 th February , 1849 , wherein he expresses a desire that an error should be corrected relating to the University of Ripley , and observes as follows : —
"It is stated that the University does not exist , whereas I hold the manifesto and all public documents belonging to the College , and certainly I ought to know somewhat about its destinies . As regards titles , fees of honour , & c , I never accepted of a nominal election or appointment of any character , unless satisfied the same was legal and duly conferred . My appointment as Chancellor , with college honours , was
conferred by ballot , and issued from the several departments with the signatures of the President , Trustees , and other officers , and I regret that I cannot at the present crisis personally attest written proof of what I affirm ; there is much cruelty in the Grand Lodge , more than oppression . " Having inadvertently misapprehended the'General ' s connection with the Chancellorship , we feel in honour hound to give insertion to
this quotation from his correspondence . We conclude for the present , with , a most apposite quotation from the "Times" of 30 th December , 1 S 41 . " The recent trial has certainly exhibited , in the strongest light , the absence of all these scruples of human justice , and those precautions of the law destined to act as checks to its own severity , which experience and a happier state of society have taught our judges , and infused into our legislation . "