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Masonry In France.
had xvritton such eulogistic letters before he had calculated upon a vacancy in the office . To some he painted Bro . de Marconnay as a determined legitimist ; for others he xvas a Bonapartist , and again a Socialist : in short , he xvent the most violent lengths of defamation . Bro . de Marconnay , on his side , strong in his claims and his acquirements , thought it unnecessary to take steps which his character xx'ould not allow him to use . The day of election arrived . Bro . Hubert obtained 61 votes , and Bro . de Marconnay 23 . The first , therefore , became Chief of the Secretariat , and the second remained simple member of the G . 0 . This decision xvas come to on the 5 th of April , 1851 , and Bro . Hubert in consequence entered on his duties . This Chief of the Secretariat and his Protector-General Perier were thus become
masters ofthe entire administration ; they xx'ished to give the G . M . a coadjutor , and cast their eyes on Bro . Bonjat . Bro . Desanlis , not wishing to be responsible for an administration xvhich xvas reddening fast , and seeing that the man on xvhom he had counted for stemming abuses had lost his election , gave in his resignation , and the G . 0 . was left entirely to the intriguants . The events of the 2 nd of December succeeded . On the 4 th the G . 0 . ought to hax-e held a regular sitting ; fexv of the members attended . Some of the Brothers xvere enraged : they spoke of protestations against xvhat they called " le coup
d ' etat" of the President of the Eepublic ; but the majority retired , and the malcontents remained solely xvithout an echo . Pifteen days afterwards matters had changed . Two members of the G . 0 ., in the Lodge of which Bro . Claude , secretary of Prince Murat , vvas a member , gave Bros . Perier and Hubert to understand that Masonry was lost if they did not bend to the existing order of things , and that they ought to nominate the Prince to the office of G . M . to give guarantees to the Government . Bro . Hubertlike an adroit subjectseeing the path he had to take to insinuate
, , himself xvith the G . M ., and that the protection of a cousin of the Emperor might replace to advantage that of the members of an assembly whom he had courted as long as he thought they had the upper hand , became a Napoleonist , as if he had never been anything else , and the more he had to forget in his antecedents , the more he showed himself lukewarm towards his new pursuits . Prince Murat xvas nominated xvithout opposition , for most of the members of the G . 0 . xvere sincere partisans of the Government , and the fexv opposed to it did not dare to express their sentiments .
Bro . Desanlis , seeing that there xx ' . is noxv a man at the head of the Order from xvhom he could hope for support for his beneficial plans , put himself on the list for re-election as President of the G . 0 . substitute ofthe G . M . Bros . Hubert and Perier , fearing the straig htforwardness , the experience , and inflexibility of principle in this Brother , set every engine to work to make him lose the election . By their management , Bro . Desanlis was ousted by a fexv votes , and Bro . Brugnot was chosen ; a very respectable man , certainly , but xvho , without capacity , position , or energy , might be expected , and xvho certainly became the mere tool for all this
pair wished him to perform . A rivalry subsequently took p lace between Bros . Hubert and Perier for gaining possession of the mind of the Prince . Bro . Hubert , more pliant than his competitor , obtained the preference , and the head-elerk in onr bureau , who ought never to have been anything but the instrument of its officers , became thenabsolute master . He reigned noxv without control where he ought to have been a mere salaried subordinate , and succeeded in poisoning the mind of the Prince against his benefactor . No other blame can attach to Bro . Perier
throughout this affair than to have p laced his confidence on a party xvho sought to make every one the steps of a ladder from xvhich he could carry out his projects of disorganization through an Order which had given him bread , and who is certainly but a Jesuit in plain clothes . He afterwards followed a system of illegal measures which have made everyone murmur , and which have strewn disaffection through all the Lodges in our connection ; but to all representations Bro . Hubert has pushed forward the name and xvill of the Prince , and the latter , completely abused , has resisted all the objec-VOI .. T . T .
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Masonry In France.
had xvritton such eulogistic letters before he had calculated upon a vacancy in the office . To some he painted Bro . de Marconnay as a determined legitimist ; for others he xvas a Bonapartist , and again a Socialist : in short , he xvent the most violent lengths of defamation . Bro . de Marconnay , on his side , strong in his claims and his acquirements , thought it unnecessary to take steps which his character xx'ould not allow him to use . The day of election arrived . Bro . Hubert obtained 61 votes , and Bro . de Marconnay 23 . The first , therefore , became Chief of the Secretariat , and the second remained simple member of the G . 0 . This decision xvas come to on the 5 th of April , 1851 , and Bro . Hubert in consequence entered on his duties . This Chief of the Secretariat and his Protector-General Perier were thus become
masters ofthe entire administration ; they xx'ished to give the G . M . a coadjutor , and cast their eyes on Bro . Bonjat . Bro . Desanlis , not wishing to be responsible for an administration xvhich xvas reddening fast , and seeing that the man on xvhom he had counted for stemming abuses had lost his election , gave in his resignation , and the G . 0 . was left entirely to the intriguants . The events of the 2 nd of December succeeded . On the 4 th the G . 0 . ought to hax-e held a regular sitting ; fexv of the members attended . Some of the Brothers xvere enraged : they spoke of protestations against xvhat they called " le coup
d ' etat" of the President of the Eepublic ; but the majority retired , and the malcontents remained solely xvithout an echo . Pifteen days afterwards matters had changed . Two members of the G . 0 ., in the Lodge of which Bro . Claude , secretary of Prince Murat , vvas a member , gave Bros . Perier and Hubert to understand that Masonry was lost if they did not bend to the existing order of things , and that they ought to nominate the Prince to the office of G . M . to give guarantees to the Government . Bro . Hubertlike an adroit subjectseeing the path he had to take to insinuate
, , himself xvith the G . M ., and that the protection of a cousin of the Emperor might replace to advantage that of the members of an assembly whom he had courted as long as he thought they had the upper hand , became a Napoleonist , as if he had never been anything else , and the more he had to forget in his antecedents , the more he showed himself lukewarm towards his new pursuits . Prince Murat xvas nominated xvithout opposition , for most of the members of the G . 0 . xvere sincere partisans of the Government , and the fexv opposed to it did not dare to express their sentiments .
Bro . Desanlis , seeing that there xx ' . is noxv a man at the head of the Order from xvhom he could hope for support for his beneficial plans , put himself on the list for re-election as President of the G . 0 . substitute ofthe G . M . Bros . Hubert and Perier , fearing the straig htforwardness , the experience , and inflexibility of principle in this Brother , set every engine to work to make him lose the election . By their management , Bro . Desanlis was ousted by a fexv votes , and Bro . Brugnot was chosen ; a very respectable man , certainly , but xvho , without capacity , position , or energy , might be expected , and xvho certainly became the mere tool for all this
pair wished him to perform . A rivalry subsequently took p lace between Bros . Hubert and Perier for gaining possession of the mind of the Prince . Bro . Hubert , more pliant than his competitor , obtained the preference , and the head-elerk in onr bureau , who ought never to have been anything but the instrument of its officers , became thenabsolute master . He reigned noxv without control where he ought to have been a mere salaried subordinate , and succeeded in poisoning the mind of the Prince against his benefactor . No other blame can attach to Bro . Perier
throughout this affair than to have p laced his confidence on a party xvho sought to make every one the steps of a ladder from xvhich he could carry out his projects of disorganization through an Order which had given him bread , and who is certainly but a Jesuit in plain clothes . He afterwards followed a system of illegal measures which have made everyone murmur , and which have strewn disaffection through all the Lodges in our connection ; but to all representations Bro . Hubert has pushed forward the name and xvill of the Prince , and the latter , completely abused , has resisted all the objec-VOI .. T . T .