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Pretended Masonic Revelations.
hostile to Masonry , and " public opinion must be right , " and therefore Morgan must have been murdered by Masons . But , unfortunately , excellent as the Yankees are in respect of reaping machines , fast sailing schooners , and lock-picking , we are too much in the habit of reading the papers to be ignorant of their capabilities as fair judges of truth and
falsehood ; and we must confess , that in a case that requires cool and sober investigation , we have no great faith in the decision of a mob meeting . An American clergyman , the Rev . Charles Finney , remarks , — " the anti-Masonic excitement which prevailed a few years since , made such desolation in the churches , and
produced so much alienation of feeling , and ill-will among ministers and people , and the first introduction of the Slavery question , has been attended with such commotions , that many good ministers dread to introduce the subject among their people , through fear that their churches have not reliion h to take it upand consider it calmly . "
g enoug , Now , really , people who are unable to keep their tempers when discussing the question of Slavery , are not very likely to prove the most unprejudiced of judges when excited at an open air meeting by the fiery harangues of interested
demagogues . It is only three months ago , since we had a tearful specimen how these things are managed . " Cuba ! Cuba ! was then the cry ; every where public meetings were held ; war and vengeance were evoked , albeit , the judicious grieved and lamented , that any Americans should have got up the lawless invasion of an island belonging to a power , with
which their country was at peace . But alas ! the voice of the judicious was drowned by the furor of excitement that prevailed , for passion ruled the hour . " Passion did indeed rule the hour ! It urged Lopez into a rebellion , which was unaided by those in whose cause he pretended to be fighting ; and it goaded on the American mob—at all times the slaves
of ambition—into as unprincip led an attack on a friendly power , as is to be found in the annals of history—not excepting the adventures of Captain Kidd , or any other notorious pirate . When we read this , coupled with the assault and attempted murder of the Spanish Consul for the sole crime that Spain is mistress of Cubawhich Yankee
, loafers want to " annex , " we must be excused , if on such testimony , before such judges , we are still inclined to believe that the verdict of all candid and impartial persons upon this sweeping accusation of the book we have reviewed will be , " not proven . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Pretended Masonic Revelations.
hostile to Masonry , and " public opinion must be right , " and therefore Morgan must have been murdered by Masons . But , unfortunately , excellent as the Yankees are in respect of reaping machines , fast sailing schooners , and lock-picking , we are too much in the habit of reading the papers to be ignorant of their capabilities as fair judges of truth and
falsehood ; and we must confess , that in a case that requires cool and sober investigation , we have no great faith in the decision of a mob meeting . An American clergyman , the Rev . Charles Finney , remarks , — " the anti-Masonic excitement which prevailed a few years since , made such desolation in the churches , and
produced so much alienation of feeling , and ill-will among ministers and people , and the first introduction of the Slavery question , has been attended with such commotions , that many good ministers dread to introduce the subject among their people , through fear that their churches have not reliion h to take it upand consider it calmly . "
g enoug , Now , really , people who are unable to keep their tempers when discussing the question of Slavery , are not very likely to prove the most unprejudiced of judges when excited at an open air meeting by the fiery harangues of interested
demagogues . It is only three months ago , since we had a tearful specimen how these things are managed . " Cuba ! Cuba ! was then the cry ; every where public meetings were held ; war and vengeance were evoked , albeit , the judicious grieved and lamented , that any Americans should have got up the lawless invasion of an island belonging to a power , with
which their country was at peace . But alas ! the voice of the judicious was drowned by the furor of excitement that prevailed , for passion ruled the hour . " Passion did indeed rule the hour ! It urged Lopez into a rebellion , which was unaided by those in whose cause he pretended to be fighting ; and it goaded on the American mob—at all times the slaves
of ambition—into as unprincip led an attack on a friendly power , as is to be found in the annals of history—not excepting the adventures of Captain Kidd , or any other notorious pirate . When we read this , coupled with the assault and attempted murder of the Spanish Consul for the sole crime that Spain is mistress of Cubawhich Yankee
, loafers want to " annex , " we must be excused , if on such testimony , before such judges , we are still inclined to believe that the verdict of all candid and impartial persons upon this sweeping accusation of the book we have reviewed will be , " not proven . "