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not have deemed it necessary to have noticed your animadversions ; hut when we , the Masons of Dudley , know under what animus your informant has endeavoured to wound ( through your medium ) the feelings of ^ a very worthy Brother , and transparently bespattered himself with praise and merits which never belonged to him , it becomes necessary to put the province of Worcestershire right oil this head ^ by noticing the un-Masonic indignity evidently directed against P . M . Morris with the unenviable spirit of petty jealousy and disappointed ambition .
Your columns have unfortunately been made the medium of recommending- the propriety of appointing Bro . Wigginton to that office for the futiire , because he happens to be a respectable architect and a Mason of some literary attainments . " . Beally , Mr . Editor , it is very kind of you to enlighten the Masonic world with that important fact , whilst we poor benighted Dudley Masons have not been able to discover those attainments . But if the conlmercial management of a defimct dubious local newspaper , and the
attendance at a few uproarious parish meetings are the visible evidences _ oi Bro . Wigginton ' s u literary ; : attaiixments , thenwe are quite satisfied with the nature of the status he holds in Dudley in general , and amongst the members of the Craft in particular . As there can be no mistake about your informant intending his views to be embodied in your editorial remarks , it is seriously to be regretted that there should he found members of the Craft so far forgetting themselves as to wilfully pervert and practically
ignore their solemn obligation taken in the third degree , to such an extent as not only to draw clown upon them the well merited ignominy of the Craft , hut also place themselves without the pale of honourable society . When Bro . Wigginton has spent twenty years of Masonic life in endeavouring to sustain the harmony and wellbeing of a Lodge , in a district where Masonry was but very indifferently acknowledged , and has passed the
chairs with the same judgment and proficiency as P . M . Morris did some twelve years ago , then he may be allowed to have some claims to the office of censor ; but until that period has arrived , his most consistent motto should be , " Audi , Vide , Tace . " Yours fraternally , Dudley , Oct , 13 , 1858 . P . M ., 313 .
[ In the remarks which have appeared m the Freemason . ^ Magazine , there was no intention to disparage the Masonic abili tic s of Bro . Morris ; and had he been appointed Prov . G . Warden we should never have said one word relative to him . Our Brother is too severe upon Bro . Wigginton , who , we again repeat , had no hand whatever in the preparation of the articles which
have appeared , and who could not have known anything about them until they were published in the Magazine . Our information was not derived from Bro . Wigginton , nor even from Dudley ; neither do we recommend Bro , Wigginton for any office . —En . ] .
S PAV . PO : Rl . ) SinRE MASONIO
TO THE EMTOtt OF THE FllKEMASONS MAOAJOT . E AND MASONIC MIttttOH . Dkak Sin and Ihuvnnm , —You will be pleased to hear that Colonel Vernon , the Prov . G . M . for tins province , intends admitting to the Prov . Grand Lodge ( to be held at Stafford on i \ i Q 20 th instant ) all Master Masons :
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not have deemed it necessary to have noticed your animadversions ; hut when we , the Masons of Dudley , know under what animus your informant has endeavoured to wound ( through your medium ) the feelings of ^ a very worthy Brother , and transparently bespattered himself with praise and merits which never belonged to him , it becomes necessary to put the province of Worcestershire right oil this head ^ by noticing the un-Masonic indignity evidently directed against P . M . Morris with the unenviable spirit of petty jealousy and disappointed ambition .
Your columns have unfortunately been made the medium of recommending- the propriety of appointing Bro . Wigginton to that office for the futiire , because he happens to be a respectable architect and a Mason of some literary attainments . " . Beally , Mr . Editor , it is very kind of you to enlighten the Masonic world with that important fact , whilst we poor benighted Dudley Masons have not been able to discover those attainments . But if the conlmercial management of a defimct dubious local newspaper , and the
attendance at a few uproarious parish meetings are the visible evidences _ oi Bro . Wigginton ' s u literary ; : attaiixments , thenwe are quite satisfied with the nature of the status he holds in Dudley in general , and amongst the members of the Craft in particular . As there can be no mistake about your informant intending his views to be embodied in your editorial remarks , it is seriously to be regretted that there should he found members of the Craft so far forgetting themselves as to wilfully pervert and practically
ignore their solemn obligation taken in the third degree , to such an extent as not only to draw clown upon them the well merited ignominy of the Craft , hut also place themselves without the pale of honourable society . When Bro . Wigginton has spent twenty years of Masonic life in endeavouring to sustain the harmony and wellbeing of a Lodge , in a district where Masonry was but very indifferently acknowledged , and has passed the
chairs with the same judgment and proficiency as P . M . Morris did some twelve years ago , then he may be allowed to have some claims to the office of censor ; but until that period has arrived , his most consistent motto should be , " Audi , Vide , Tace . " Yours fraternally , Dudley , Oct , 13 , 1858 . P . M ., 313 .
[ In the remarks which have appeared m the Freemason . ^ Magazine , there was no intention to disparage the Masonic abili tic s of Bro . Morris ; and had he been appointed Prov . G . Warden we should never have said one word relative to him . Our Brother is too severe upon Bro . Wigginton , who , we again repeat , had no hand whatever in the preparation of the articles which
have appeared , and who could not have known anything about them until they were published in the Magazine . Our information was not derived from Bro . Wigginton , nor even from Dudley ; neither do we recommend Bro , Wigginton for any office . —En . ] .
S PAV . PO : Rl . ) SinRE MASONIO
TO THE EMTOtt OF THE FllKEMASONS MAOAJOT . E AND MASONIC MIttttOH . Dkak Sin and Ihuvnnm , —You will be pleased to hear that Colonel Vernon , the Prov . G . M . for tins province , intends admitting to the Prov . Grand Lodge ( to be held at Stafford on i \ i Q 20 th instant ) all Master Masons :