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Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
AVAS GEN . TAYLOR A MASON ?—We have been frequently asked if the late President was a member of the Masonic Fraternity . AVe have seen it stated that he was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , at the time of his death ! and some of our Brethren have been led into unpleasant dilemmas by assuming that he was a Mason . To prevent a recurrence of similar mistakes , and that the Institution may notthrough inadvertenceor for the want of the proper
informa-, , tion , be exposed to tlie charge of assuming what does not rightfully belong to it , we feel called on to say , that Gen . Taylor was not a Mason . When the direct question was put to him by a friend at AVashington , his answer was , that he had always entertained a favourable opinion of the Institution , that many of his personal friends , and officers of the army with whom he had been associated , were Masons , and that he should probably have been one himself , had not so much
of his time been occupied in camp duties , or had he been more favourably circumstanced to avail himself of the opportunity of joining a Lodge ; and added , " I would do so now , but have got to be too old . " We may not have given the precise words used by the late President in the conversation referred to , but we are sure they are in substance as they were communicated to us by the Brother who was a party to the interview , which took place soon after the inauguration in 1849 . — Freemasons' Monthly Magazine .
SUBORDINATION . —Subordination to the legally constituted authority is a cardinal virtue which should govern every good Mason who has the best interest of the Institution constantly in view . And so should every subordinate Lodge be governed in like manner , byjbe same spirit of subordination ; for it would be a matter of impossibility for our glorious and time-honoured Order to exist for any considerable length of time without complete subordination in all things to the Supreme head of the
Fraternity . If the officers and representatives of that Supreme head ( who all go out from the subordinates ) commit errors in the management of its affairs , or infringe upon the constitutional rights of any , the evil can easily be remedied by those who are subordinate to it , by electing and sending such representatives to said body , as are known to have correct views upon the question in dispute . It will not justify , by anv means , any one in committing " violent and riotous acts , " which are calculated to bring the Masonic Institution into disrepute , because the officers and members of Grand Lodge adopt laws and regulations which conflict with our views upon the subject . —Ibid .
INTERESTING ANECDOTE . —Professor Lawson , in a recent lecture before McMillan Lodge , at Cincinnati , related the following circumstance which occurred at the battle of Buena Vista : — " In the ever memorable and almost unequalled battle of Buena Vista , a scene occurred which , although unknown at the War Office , and untold by the public prints , yet there was no event connected with that wild and fearful struggle more worthy of record . During the fiercest of the fight , while
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Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
AVAS GEN . TAYLOR A MASON ?—We have been frequently asked if the late President was a member of the Masonic Fraternity . AVe have seen it stated that he was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , at the time of his death ! and some of our Brethren have been led into unpleasant dilemmas by assuming that he was a Mason . To prevent a recurrence of similar mistakes , and that the Institution may notthrough inadvertenceor for the want of the proper
informa-, , tion , be exposed to tlie charge of assuming what does not rightfully belong to it , we feel called on to say , that Gen . Taylor was not a Mason . When the direct question was put to him by a friend at AVashington , his answer was , that he had always entertained a favourable opinion of the Institution , that many of his personal friends , and officers of the army with whom he had been associated , were Masons , and that he should probably have been one himself , had not so much
of his time been occupied in camp duties , or had he been more favourably circumstanced to avail himself of the opportunity of joining a Lodge ; and added , " I would do so now , but have got to be too old . " We may not have given the precise words used by the late President in the conversation referred to , but we are sure they are in substance as they were communicated to us by the Brother who was a party to the interview , which took place soon after the inauguration in 1849 . — Freemasons' Monthly Magazine .
SUBORDINATION . —Subordination to the legally constituted authority is a cardinal virtue which should govern every good Mason who has the best interest of the Institution constantly in view . And so should every subordinate Lodge be governed in like manner , byjbe same spirit of subordination ; for it would be a matter of impossibility for our glorious and time-honoured Order to exist for any considerable length of time without complete subordination in all things to the Supreme head of the
Fraternity . If the officers and representatives of that Supreme head ( who all go out from the subordinates ) commit errors in the management of its affairs , or infringe upon the constitutional rights of any , the evil can easily be remedied by those who are subordinate to it , by electing and sending such representatives to said body , as are known to have correct views upon the question in dispute . It will not justify , by anv means , any one in committing " violent and riotous acts , " which are calculated to bring the Masonic Institution into disrepute , because the officers and members of Grand Lodge adopt laws and regulations which conflict with our views upon the subject . —Ibid .
INTERESTING ANECDOTE . —Professor Lawson , in a recent lecture before McMillan Lodge , at Cincinnati , related the following circumstance which occurred at the battle of Buena Vista : — " In the ever memorable and almost unequalled battle of Buena Vista , a scene occurred which , although unknown at the War Office , and untold by the public prints , yet there was no event connected with that wild and fearful struggle more worthy of record . During the fiercest of the fight , while