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equally strange why they call the others , " -cotch Rite ; " " the ° Grand Lodge of Scotland having repeatedly declared that she knew nothing about them . As it is , however , the Scotch Rite Council in New Orleans , which gave rise to all that hubbub , a brief history of these Scotch Rite degrees in
America will not be out of place iu connection with the subject . Between tlie years 173 ll and 178 ( 1 , there were manufactured in France about a thousand degrees , called Masonic . Some of those degrees were undoubtedly fabricated b y Chavalier liamsav and other adherents of tl ; eStn * rts , who
pretended that they brought them from Scotland . In 1758 , certain Masons , styling themselves "Princes and Grand Officers of the Grand Sovereign Lodge of St . . ) olm at Jerusalem " founded at Paris a chapter of " Emperors of the East and AVest , " which consisted ot twenty-five degr . es , including the blue
degrees . In 17 C 2 these degrees were introduced m Charleston , South Carol ! n « . In 1802 the possessors of those degrees ii , Charleston issued a document , setting forth that Frederick tlie Great had discovered and diciphcred ancient Masonic manuscripts brought by crusaders from the holy land , and thereupon added
eight more degrees , thus making the thirty-third , the last ami highest degree ; and in the same documents they also announced that in the Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of all the Emperors in Charleston rests the power to rule all the Grand Lodges . The Grand Lodge of South
Carolina naturally felt offended at their presumption , andappoiutcdacoiuinittee to investigate this hitherto unheard-oi claim . The M . P . S . G . C , Rev . Dr . I *' . Dalcho ( the real Frederick the Great ) , replied to the G . L . that a certain Stephen Morin received the power of cstali'isliiug Symbolic Lodges from the French Emperors of East and West , and who
conferred the said power on him ( Dalcho ) ancl bis success u-s , but at ihe same ( hue he agreed to waive that right . "Tliis" Folger says , " was the commencement of strife among the brethren , which has continued to tlie present da } ' , " and this is precisely what the Scotch Rite Council at New Orleans have ceased to waive . AVe see nov here
the chicken was hatched , but we must proceed with ournarrative . AhouttheyearlSlU the Charlestoiiian Emperors sent a certain Abraham Jacobs to New York to propagate their sublime degrees , and establish consistories , ev . c ., in the said city ; there were , however , certain Christian sublimated Masons in New York who were discontented with bowing
to a Jewish Emperor , so they picked up a Frenchman , "ho is described asau illiteratepedlingjeweller . He also pretended to have received the thirty-third degree from Morin , and this pedlar was made Sovereign ( l . C . So thcr- were two Most Puissants in New York , the Charleston one was Jacobs , and the other was named Joseph Cerneau . In 181 : 5 De La Mottt came to New York from Charleston
and pronounced Cerneau and I is Council as imposters , at the same time declared that Frederick the Great ordered that only two independent Councils should exist in tlie United Stites , or in other words , Frederick established the original '' Mason nnd Dixon line" the line that divided the slave from
the five Stites . Cerneau , however , continued to propagate not only the " Scotch Bite , " but instituted and organised other rites and degrees such as the " Knight Templars , " " Band of Aaron , " etc ., and among others , be granted a commission to New Orleans for a Scotch Lite Consistory . This
Consistory or Supleme Council made some treaty with the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , and continued iu a kind of partnershi p with it , notwithstanding the hue and cry of the then Charleston Emperor , and this treaty lasted until 18-0 , when the G . L . of Louisiana had its conseieucc pricked by the
Charleston Emperor , for harbouring a spurious Consistory in its bosom . The said G . L . thereupon broke up the treaty , or ' concordat" as they styled it ; several of the lodges preferred to work under thu Consistory , and the said Consistory had ever since 1800 issued charters and formed its own lodges .
The G . L . of New York did not , however , for many years tile fc' c least notice of that irregularity , but ou the contrary , we find that its ilignitiries iu 1 > S . ' > 2 received the most illustrious Bro . Foulhouzj , the chief mover in the New Orleans Consistory , as a representative to the New York , or Ccriicaiiconcern .
Thc said r ' oulhoiizi * even instilled its officers , and made a treaty of everlasting union nlul friendship between tho " New Orleans and New York Consistories . Now , we venture to assert , that some ol these men , who mule the treaty with Koulhouz ,
aro now active members of tha G . L . of New York . The question we now ask is , why was it right iu 1852 to court the society and flatter the very man who lirst issued chariots in defiance of the G . L . of Louisiana , aud wh y is it wrong now 1
PART II . AVe will now take up tho rival branch of the Scotch Rite , established by the Charleston Emperors in the City of New York . These sagacious statesmen , finding that a Frenchman was more popular as a Sovereign Grand Commander in the City of
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New York than a Hebrew schoolmaster , Abraham Jacobs was therefore superseded by J . J . J . Gourgas , the said Gourgas ( I was assured by Bro . John W . Simons , P . G . M . and present Grand Treasurer of New York ) , never received more than the first degree in a regular constituted lodge , and moreover , was never seen inside a blue lodge . Gourgas
became Emperor for life with power to appoint his successor . This coucern , like the others , repeatedly fell asleep ancl then woke up again . Two remarkable events , however , took place in the year 1844 . The two greatest Masonic authorities iu the United States , and some will have of the world , became sublimated by those wonderful mysteries .
These were Albert G . Mackey , of South Carolina , and Charles \ V . Moore , of Massachusetts . AVith such master minds to move the levers the concern was not likely to continue slumbering , either North or South ; we * consequently find in 1844 , Bro . Mackey resuscitated the Charleston concern ; and in 1848 Bro . C . W . Moore and E . A . Raymond , of Boston
met the tsaid Gourgas and a few others in the City of New York , when they issued a manifesto , that we Messrs Gourgas , C . AV . Moore and Co ., were alone entitled according to ancient Masonic law , to confer the Scotch Rite degrees north of Mason and Dixon line , at the same time denouncing all other pretended Councils in dowm-ight
Billinsgate style , and further repeated their favorite dogma , that "AVe , Gourgas , C . AV . Moore aud Co ., " have a light to rule all the Grand Lodges north of the said Mason and Dixon line , but for the present they obligingly waived t » exercise the said right . So we see here again , the doctrine to rule Grand Lodges by these higher degrees was affirms i by the greatest
Masonic authority in the world , as he believes himself to be . Yes ! C . AV . M ., of Boston , said it is so , and who shall dispute his decision ? In 1851 , this Gourgas and Moore concern removed its Grand East from New York to Boston , when the aforesaid E . A . Raymond was appointed Most Puissant Sov . Or ,-ml Commander , and C . W . M . as Illustrious
Grand Secretary ; and iu IffiO , the Most Puissant Sov and Illustrious Grainl Secretary had a quarrel , which resulted in a split of their joint concern . So we bad now , two Grand Easts iu Boston , one in New York , one in Charleston , South Carolina , and one in New Orleans . Of these five concerns , the Cerneau Council of New York renounced its right
to rule Grand Lodges ; the one of Charleston , and the two of Boston , only waived it while tlie one iu New Orleans or Louisiana exercised that right . In the year 1807 , the three concerns iu the North finally amalgamated . The one cf New Orleans , however , which according to the will of Frederick the Great ought to succumb to Albert Pike , the
pres"nt Charleston Emperor—we say it ought , but it will i i . t succumb ; tiny will not be persuaded that Albert Pike uloue has the power to rule the whole South , fo 'he New Orleans Council , ns soon as the late war was over , and the abolition of shivery in the South became an established fact , the said New Orleans Council isued circulars to all the
Negro Lodges in the United States , ackunwlcdgiii' the said orgaui / . tions as Masonic , and allowing its members mutually to visit each other ' s lodges This st' * ose of policy produced its effect in Europe . I'elgitliu and France successively acknowledged the New Orleans Consistory . The Southern Emperor , Albert Pike , some time ago fulminated a decree of
expulsion against the Grand Orient of Belgium . Belgium , however , did not appear to feel the thunder of the Southern Vatican . So now , he ordered his agents to stir up the Grand Lodges in the United States , to suspend intercourse with the Grand Orient ot France . These Grand Lodges arc and will be used bv him . after the fashn n of the
monkey ii"d cat ' s p . iw . Tbe leaders and movers ot his Orders < h > not care so much about the invasion of Louisiana by the French Orient , nor do they care a button ab > ut the right :-, of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana . It is evident from the foregone : lirst , that the Louisiana Council received its right iu 181 ' ) , from it New York instructors ; second , that the
Grand Lodge of Lousiai . a by making » treaty or concordat with the said New Orleans Council , virtual ! . niiTendercil its exclusive right to the jurisdiction of the State ; thirdly , tho very leaders and movers iu the N w York Grand Lodge for suspension of iiitercoinse with the Grand Orient of France were act ve members of the Cerneau
concern , when I'oulhouze was received by them with the givatest mirks of distinction ; ami fourthly , we have seen that th y till agree in the doctrine of the right of these Councils to rule Grand Lodges , and we have no hesitation iu stating , tli . it . Messrs Albert Pike . 'aid C . AV . Mooi \* would long fince have enforced tin ir pretended right ii it paid thcr . i
bjtti-r lit dn so . The ; main came of the New York leaders was therefore not the rights of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , but the acknowledgment by the Grand Orient of Franco of the Negro Lodges and Masous iu the Uu ted . States . Here , then , is ti : e real sore part . Our democratic Emperors canli' t bear the idea th it a despised negro should be acktiow Ijdged by any one in the world , not only as
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a Mason , but as a sublimated Mason ; a Mason of the " ineflable degrees , " a Mason of the " Ancient and Accepted Rite , ' * etc , etc . ; that is too shocking , positively too shocking to their sensitive nerves . For my own part , while I despise all kinds of socalled higher degrees , and while I detest the dogma
of their right to rule Grand Lodges , yet in this case there is very little choice , both parties , North and South , have ever preached up that pretended right ; the question now is , which of the two acts more in accordance with Masonic ideas of universality and cosmopolitanism . This I must , iu common with the
Grand Orient of France , award to the New Orleans Consistory . Whether their acknowledgment of the Negro Lod ges proceeded from conscientious motives or from motives of policy is immaterial , the action was truly Masonic , and we hope it will be sustained by other Grand Lodges besides those of France and
Belgium . There is , however , another question which must be taken into consideration . Does the acknowledgment of the New Orleans Consistory by France merit this contemplated uproar ? The Grand Orient of France did not declare the illegitimacy of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana . It merely
said—gentlenien . whenever either of you should visit France , we shall be glad to receive aiid acknowledge you , either in our lodges as brethren , or in our consistory as illustrious Emperors . Surely , lias it not a right to do that ? There are now , ! believe , two distinct bodies who grant charters in France for
Symbolic Masonry , and members from each are admitted into all the lodges in the United States . There are three Grand Lodges iu Prussia , and three iu Great Britain and Ireland ; are they not all treated alike in the United States . Again , while the schism from 1 S 49 to 1858 lasted in tlie State of
New York , both parties appealed to the Grand Lodge of England for its recognition , and the Grand Lodge of England , if I am rightly informed , acknowledged both parties , and members from both Grand Lodges were indifferently admitted as visitors into English Lodges , and this appears to be all that the
Grand Orient of Frciice is now doing with respect to Louisiana , and may be with other jurisdictions wherein Negro Lodges exist , and this will yet be done by other Grand Lodges besides France . It ia all well enough for our American Grand Lodges to talk about their exclusive jurisdiction , but they
cannot be allowed to act tyrannically and arbitrarily in their jurisdictions . If they insist in maintaining ancl defending a corrupt Masonic system , other Grand Lodges cannot , and should not tolerate their exclusive ri ght to such jurisdiction . Thus we find that tbe Grand Lodge nf England granted a charter
to Jewish brethren residing at Fraukfort-on-Maine , notwithstanding the claim of some local body to jurisdiction ; and the Grand Lodge of Hamburg granted two charters to German brethren residing in New York . It is all well enough for the New York dignitaries to suspend intercourse with every
Grand Lodge which look upon Masons from a different point to what the New-Yorkers do , but what will be tlie result of it ? Simply this . whenever there are a dozen French or Belgian brethren in New York who may bo refused admission into Mnsoi'ic Lodges , these French or Belgian brethren
will apply for charters to France , and may eventually form a Grand Lodge of their own in the State of New York , or in auy other State . These New York leaders forget the fact that one canni t be successful in establishing tyranny without possessing power to enforce it . Looking at the subject
therefore from either side , I must come to the conclusion , that the Granil Orient of Prince liaa nothing to fear from the flattering ebullition of American Grand Lodges , while we hope cm the other hand that the rebuke they received from those foreign bodies will stimulate the American Grand
Lodgi s to the necessity of internal reforms . Let them make tlie Masonic Institution what it professes to be , and what it ought to be . Let them honestly carry out Ihe principle , "to unite men of every country , sect , and opinion . " Let them show to the Masonic world that the term men is not confined to
white men alone ; then we have no doubt all their internal and external troubles . vill cease . Respectfully and fraternally yours , JACOB NO .. TON . Boston , Massachusetts , July 20 th , 1800 .
THE forthcoming work by Bro . AVm . J . Hughan will contain : —1 . An article on Masonic M . SS ., b y Bro . Hughan . 2 . A reprint of the Constitution ol the Freemasons by the Grand Lodge of England , 172 . 1 , being t \\ c first edition ( slightly abridged . ) fl . A f ' ac-simile lithographic reprint of Coles' copperplate edition of the Constitutions , 1728 , from transfers
from ( he original in Bro . Hughan ' s possession . Seventy copies only are to be printed for sale , at Ills . ( id . each , nnd _ 0 copies for presentation . Tho work will be dedieated jby permission , to the M . AY . G . M ., the Karl of Zetland . Subscriptions to he sent to the publisher , Bro . Win . Lake , Truro , at once , stating name in full and Masonic position .
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equally strange why they call the others , " -cotch Rite ; " " the ° Grand Lodge of Scotland having repeatedly declared that she knew nothing about them . As it is , however , the Scotch Rite Council in New Orleans , which gave rise to all that hubbub , a brief history of these Scotch Rite degrees in
America will not be out of place iu connection with the subject . Between tlie years 173 ll and 178 ( 1 , there were manufactured in France about a thousand degrees , called Masonic . Some of those degrees were undoubtedly fabricated b y Chavalier liamsav and other adherents of tl ; eStn * rts , who
pretended that they brought them from Scotland . In 1758 , certain Masons , styling themselves "Princes and Grand Officers of the Grand Sovereign Lodge of St . . ) olm at Jerusalem " founded at Paris a chapter of " Emperors of the East and AVest , " which consisted ot twenty-five degr . es , including the blue
degrees . In 17 C 2 these degrees were introduced m Charleston , South Carol ! n « . In 1802 the possessors of those degrees ii , Charleston issued a document , setting forth that Frederick tlie Great had discovered and diciphcred ancient Masonic manuscripts brought by crusaders from the holy land , and thereupon added
eight more degrees , thus making the thirty-third , the last ami highest degree ; and in the same documents they also announced that in the Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of all the Emperors in Charleston rests the power to rule all the Grand Lodges . The Grand Lodge of South
Carolina naturally felt offended at their presumption , andappoiutcdacoiuinittee to investigate this hitherto unheard-oi claim . The M . P . S . G . C , Rev . Dr . I *' . Dalcho ( the real Frederick the Great ) , replied to the G . L . that a certain Stephen Morin received the power of cstali'isliiug Symbolic Lodges from the French Emperors of East and West , and who
conferred the said power on him ( Dalcho ) ancl bis success u-s , but at ihe same ( hue he agreed to waive that right . "Tliis" Folger says , " was the commencement of strife among the brethren , which has continued to tlie present da } ' , " and this is precisely what the Scotch Rite Council at New Orleans have ceased to waive . AVe see nov here
the chicken was hatched , but we must proceed with ournarrative . AhouttheyearlSlU the Charlestoiiian Emperors sent a certain Abraham Jacobs to New York to propagate their sublime degrees , and establish consistories , ev . c ., in the said city ; there were , however , certain Christian sublimated Masons in New York who were discontented with bowing
to a Jewish Emperor , so they picked up a Frenchman , "ho is described asau illiteratepedlingjeweller . He also pretended to have received the thirty-third degree from Morin , and this pedlar was made Sovereign ( l . C . So thcr- were two Most Puissants in New York , the Charleston one was Jacobs , and the other was named Joseph Cerneau . In 181 : 5 De La Mottt came to New York from Charleston
and pronounced Cerneau and I is Council as imposters , at the same time declared that Frederick the Great ordered that only two independent Councils should exist in tlie United Stites , or in other words , Frederick established the original '' Mason nnd Dixon line" the line that divided the slave from
the five Stites . Cerneau , however , continued to propagate not only the " Scotch Bite , " but instituted and organised other rites and degrees such as the " Knight Templars , " " Band of Aaron , " etc ., and among others , be granted a commission to New Orleans for a Scotch Lite Consistory . This
Consistory or Supleme Council made some treaty with the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , and continued iu a kind of partnershi p with it , notwithstanding the hue and cry of the then Charleston Emperor , and this treaty lasted until 18-0 , when the G . L . of Louisiana had its conseieucc pricked by the
Charleston Emperor , for harbouring a spurious Consistory in its bosom . The said G . L . thereupon broke up the treaty , or ' concordat" as they styled it ; several of the lodges preferred to work under thu Consistory , and the said Consistory had ever since 1800 issued charters and formed its own lodges .
The G . L . of New York did not , however , for many years tile fc' c least notice of that irregularity , but ou the contrary , we find that its ilignitiries iu 1 > S . ' > 2 received the most illustrious Bro . Foulhouzj , the chief mover in the New Orleans Consistory , as a representative to the New York , or Ccriicaiiconcern .
Thc said r ' oulhoiizi * even instilled its officers , and made a treaty of everlasting union nlul friendship between tho " New Orleans and New York Consistories . Now , we venture to assert , that some ol these men , who mule the treaty with Koulhouz ,
aro now active members of tha G . L . of New York . The question we now ask is , why was it right iu 1852 to court the society and flatter the very man who lirst issued chariots in defiance of the G . L . of Louisiana , aud wh y is it wrong now 1
PART II . AVe will now take up tho rival branch of the Scotch Rite , established by the Charleston Emperors in the City of New York . These sagacious statesmen , finding that a Frenchman was more popular as a Sovereign Grand Commander in the City of
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New York than a Hebrew schoolmaster , Abraham Jacobs was therefore superseded by J . J . J . Gourgas , the said Gourgas ( I was assured by Bro . John W . Simons , P . G . M . and present Grand Treasurer of New York ) , never received more than the first degree in a regular constituted lodge , and moreover , was never seen inside a blue lodge . Gourgas
became Emperor for life with power to appoint his successor . This coucern , like the others , repeatedly fell asleep ancl then woke up again . Two remarkable events , however , took place in the year 1844 . The two greatest Masonic authorities iu the United States , and some will have of the world , became sublimated by those wonderful mysteries .
These were Albert G . Mackey , of South Carolina , and Charles \ V . Moore , of Massachusetts . AVith such master minds to move the levers the concern was not likely to continue slumbering , either North or South ; we * consequently find in 1844 , Bro . Mackey resuscitated the Charleston concern ; and in 1848 Bro . C . W . Moore and E . A . Raymond , of Boston
met the tsaid Gourgas and a few others in the City of New York , when they issued a manifesto , that we Messrs Gourgas , C . AV . Moore and Co ., were alone entitled according to ancient Masonic law , to confer the Scotch Rite degrees north of Mason and Dixon line , at the same time denouncing all other pretended Councils in dowm-ight
Billinsgate style , and further repeated their favorite dogma , that "AVe , Gourgas , C . AV . Moore aud Co ., " have a light to rule all the Grand Lodges north of the said Mason and Dixon line , but for the present they obligingly waived t » exercise the said right . So we see here again , the doctrine to rule Grand Lodges by these higher degrees was affirms i by the greatest
Masonic authority in the world , as he believes himself to be . Yes ! C . AV . M ., of Boston , said it is so , and who shall dispute his decision ? In 1851 , this Gourgas and Moore concern removed its Grand East from New York to Boston , when the aforesaid E . A . Raymond was appointed Most Puissant Sov . Or ,-ml Commander , and C . W . M . as Illustrious
Grand Secretary ; and iu IffiO , the Most Puissant Sov and Illustrious Grainl Secretary had a quarrel , which resulted in a split of their joint concern . So we bad now , two Grand Easts iu Boston , one in New York , one in Charleston , South Carolina , and one in New Orleans . Of these five concerns , the Cerneau Council of New York renounced its right
to rule Grand Lodges ; the one of Charleston , and the two of Boston , only waived it while tlie one iu New Orleans or Louisiana exercised that right . In the year 1807 , the three concerns iu the North finally amalgamated . The one cf New Orleans , however , which according to the will of Frederick the Great ought to succumb to Albert Pike , the
pres"nt Charleston Emperor—we say it ought , but it will i i . t succumb ; tiny will not be persuaded that Albert Pike uloue has the power to rule the whole South , fo 'he New Orleans Council , ns soon as the late war was over , and the abolition of shivery in the South became an established fact , the said New Orleans Council isued circulars to all the
Negro Lodges in the United States , ackunwlcdgiii' the said orgaui / . tions as Masonic , and allowing its members mutually to visit each other ' s lodges This st' * ose of policy produced its effect in Europe . I'elgitliu and France successively acknowledged the New Orleans Consistory . The Southern Emperor , Albert Pike , some time ago fulminated a decree of
expulsion against the Grand Orient of Belgium . Belgium , however , did not appear to feel the thunder of the Southern Vatican . So now , he ordered his agents to stir up the Grand Lodges in the United States , to suspend intercourse with the Grand Orient ot France . These Grand Lodges arc and will be used bv him . after the fashn n of the
monkey ii"d cat ' s p . iw . Tbe leaders and movers ot his Orders < h > not care so much about the invasion of Louisiana by the French Orient , nor do they care a button ab > ut the right :-, of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana . It is evident from the foregone : lirst , that the Louisiana Council received its right iu 181 ' ) , from it New York instructors ; second , that the
Grand Lodge of Lousiai . a by making » treaty or concordat with the said New Orleans Council , virtual ! . niiTendercil its exclusive right to the jurisdiction of the State ; thirdly , tho very leaders and movers iu the N w York Grand Lodge for suspension of iiitercoinse with the Grand Orient of France were act ve members of the Cerneau
concern , when I'oulhouze was received by them with the givatest mirks of distinction ; ami fourthly , we have seen that th y till agree in the doctrine of the right of these Councils to rule Grand Lodges , and we have no hesitation iu stating , tli . it . Messrs Albert Pike . 'aid C . AV . Mooi \* would long fince have enforced tin ir pretended right ii it paid thcr . i
bjtti-r lit dn so . The ; main came of the New York leaders was therefore not the rights of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , but the acknowledgment by the Grand Orient of Franco of the Negro Lodges and Masous iu the Uu ted . States . Here , then , is ti : e real sore part . Our democratic Emperors canli' t bear the idea th it a despised negro should be acktiow Ijdged by any one in the world , not only as
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a Mason , but as a sublimated Mason ; a Mason of the " ineflable degrees , " a Mason of the " Ancient and Accepted Rite , ' * etc , etc . ; that is too shocking , positively too shocking to their sensitive nerves . For my own part , while I despise all kinds of socalled higher degrees , and while I detest the dogma
of their right to rule Grand Lodges , yet in this case there is very little choice , both parties , North and South , have ever preached up that pretended right ; the question now is , which of the two acts more in accordance with Masonic ideas of universality and cosmopolitanism . This I must , iu common with the
Grand Orient of France , award to the New Orleans Consistory . Whether their acknowledgment of the Negro Lod ges proceeded from conscientious motives or from motives of policy is immaterial , the action was truly Masonic , and we hope it will be sustained by other Grand Lodges besides those of France and
Belgium . There is , however , another question which must be taken into consideration . Does the acknowledgment of the New Orleans Consistory by France merit this contemplated uproar ? The Grand Orient of France did not declare the illegitimacy of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana . It merely
said—gentlenien . whenever either of you should visit France , we shall be glad to receive aiid acknowledge you , either in our lodges as brethren , or in our consistory as illustrious Emperors . Surely , lias it not a right to do that ? There are now , ! believe , two distinct bodies who grant charters in France for
Symbolic Masonry , and members from each are admitted into all the lodges in the United States . There are three Grand Lodges iu Prussia , and three iu Great Britain and Ireland ; are they not all treated alike in the United States . Again , while the schism from 1 S 49 to 1858 lasted in tlie State of
New York , both parties appealed to the Grand Lodge of England for its recognition , and the Grand Lodge of England , if I am rightly informed , acknowledged both parties , and members from both Grand Lodges were indifferently admitted as visitors into English Lodges , and this appears to be all that the
Grand Orient of Frciice is now doing with respect to Louisiana , and may be with other jurisdictions wherein Negro Lodges exist , and this will yet be done by other Grand Lodges besides France . It ia all well enough for our American Grand Lodges to talk about their exclusive jurisdiction , but they
cannot be allowed to act tyrannically and arbitrarily in their jurisdictions . If they insist in maintaining ancl defending a corrupt Masonic system , other Grand Lodges cannot , and should not tolerate their exclusive ri ght to such jurisdiction . Thus we find that tbe Grand Lodge nf England granted a charter
to Jewish brethren residing at Fraukfort-on-Maine , notwithstanding the claim of some local body to jurisdiction ; and the Grand Lodge of Hamburg granted two charters to German brethren residing in New York . It is all well enough for the New York dignitaries to suspend intercourse with every
Grand Lodge which look upon Masons from a different point to what the New-Yorkers do , but what will be tlie result of it ? Simply this . whenever there are a dozen French or Belgian brethren in New York who may bo refused admission into Mnsoi'ic Lodges , these French or Belgian brethren
will apply for charters to France , and may eventually form a Grand Lodge of their own in the State of New York , or in auy other State . These New York leaders forget the fact that one canni t be successful in establishing tyranny without possessing power to enforce it . Looking at the subject
therefore from either side , I must come to the conclusion , that the Granil Orient of Prince liaa nothing to fear from the flattering ebullition of American Grand Lodges , while we hope cm the other hand that the rebuke they received from those foreign bodies will stimulate the American Grand
Lodgi s to the necessity of internal reforms . Let them make tlie Masonic Institution what it professes to be , and what it ought to be . Let them honestly carry out Ihe principle , "to unite men of every country , sect , and opinion . " Let them show to the Masonic world that the term men is not confined to
white men alone ; then we have no doubt all their internal and external troubles . vill cease . Respectfully and fraternally yours , JACOB NO .. TON . Boston , Massachusetts , July 20 th , 1800 .
THE forthcoming work by Bro . AVm . J . Hughan will contain : —1 . An article on Masonic M . SS ., b y Bro . Hughan . 2 . A reprint of the Constitution ol the Freemasons by the Grand Lodge of England , 172 . 1 , being t \\ c first edition ( slightly abridged . ) fl . A f ' ac-simile lithographic reprint of Coles' copperplate edition of the Constitutions , 1728 , from transfers
from ( he original in Bro . Hughan ' s possession . Seventy copies only are to be printed for sale , at Ills . ( id . each , nnd _ 0 copies for presentation . Tho work will be dedieated jby permission , to the M . AY . G . M ., the Karl of Zetland . Subscriptions to he sent to the publisher , Bro . Win . Lake , Truro , at once , stating name in full and Masonic position .