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would submit whether strict justice to me among your readers , as well as strict justice to the Brethren from whom you have received your communication from the colony , " does not demand a publication of the whole case on both sides--when of course Brother Toby and I would he judged on the evidence we respectively furnish . I am sure from your character
as impressed on the Magamie r y < m are totally incapable of doing either an xmMndness or an injustice ; I am jus in the ranks of opposition to the voice of an authority unless you firml y believed you were called from duty to be there , and therefore Lurge my request for the publication of Brother Toby ' s despatches and my own with deference and confidence . I am the more earnest that it should be done with
all speed , inasmuclf as the very difficulties you see , the very points to which you refer , and all the mistakes into which you have been led , by the u communications from the colony , " are all taken up in my despatches to the Grand Secretary , and gone into at In the mean time permit me to state , that Lodge Peace and Friendship , ' as far as I know , never worked . Brother Kane , in his letter
( p . 435 ) , does not say so ; the reference to the Lodge , by Brother Coram , at p . 436 , as having worked for five years , is an assumption . Brother Kane says only , that the Peace and Friendship , '' five years ago , applied to Sydney , & c . " The conclusion at which you arrive against my Masonic knowledge , based on Brother Kane ' s letter , is clearly a non seqititiir . Surely it does not follow that because his letter to Brother Coram evinces a wrong view of constitutional practice , that my views are also defective .
That my Masonic views were correct , and swayed the Lodge , is clear from the fact , that no dispensation was ever attempted to be issued by the Lodge of Hope , No . 901 . Brother Kane ' s letter was not written by direction of the Lodge , nor did I ever know of it . till a comparatively recent date ; I eontend , therefore , that on the part of Brother Toby it is unfair to use the personal letter of any Brother in asking advice , as proof of my Masonic ignorance . Had the letter borne my signature the ease would ^ liave been altered ; and at most , as the letter stands ^ it is not an official one , nor on behalf , or in the name of the Lodge ; it is a personal communication from
one W . M . to another W . M , asking counsel ( on a point which needed no clearing up ) for his personal guidance before a meeting of his Lodge took place . Pray do not estimate my knowledge of Masonry from this letter , for it is not mine . At p » 436 reference is made to the memorial from Lodge No . 781 . I affirm that the 110 Avho signed it are not all members of No . 781 , and some do not belong to any Lodge whatever .
. In suspending No . 781 , 1 dealt with a working Lodge . I have no jurisdiction over Masons not belonging to any Lodge , and I would ask , therefore , where does their right lie to _ step into my territory , and aid and abet a Lodge in its contumacy , of which they are not members ? Is it right—is it fair—is it constitutional on the part of Brother Toby—to make use of such an instrumentality in order before Grand Lodge to make a numerical show of strength at the tail of a memorial ? Every name among the 110 representing a Mason not a member of Lodge No * 781 , is a fiction , nay , more , Lod
an imposition on Grand ge . I am sure that , with your clear judgment , you have only to consider the matter for one moment impartially to see that the voice of any , not members of No . 781 , cannot be considered in the case , and any altempt ^ to make use of them is only a proof of weakness , and of wrong . It is somewhat curious that though No . 781 existed at Hobart Town for some twelve or thirteen years , no need was felt for any other Lodge , until a Prov . Grand Lodge was formed at Launceston ! I affirm , therefore , that the attempt there to establish two more Lodges was for the express
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would submit whether strict justice to me among your readers , as well as strict justice to the Brethren from whom you have received your communication from the colony , " does not demand a publication of the whole case on both sides--when of course Brother Toby and I would he judged on the evidence we respectively furnish . I am sure from your character
as impressed on the Magamie r y < m are totally incapable of doing either an xmMndness or an injustice ; I am jus in the ranks of opposition to the voice of an authority unless you firml y believed you were called from duty to be there , and therefore Lurge my request for the publication of Brother Toby ' s despatches and my own with deference and confidence . I am the more earnest that it should be done with
all speed , inasmuclf as the very difficulties you see , the very points to which you refer , and all the mistakes into which you have been led , by the u communications from the colony , " are all taken up in my despatches to the Grand Secretary , and gone into at In the mean time permit me to state , that Lodge Peace and Friendship , ' as far as I know , never worked . Brother Kane , in his letter
( p . 435 ) , does not say so ; the reference to the Lodge , by Brother Coram , at p . 436 , as having worked for five years , is an assumption . Brother Kane says only , that the Peace and Friendship , '' five years ago , applied to Sydney , & c . " The conclusion at which you arrive against my Masonic knowledge , based on Brother Kane ' s letter , is clearly a non seqititiir . Surely it does not follow that because his letter to Brother Coram evinces a wrong view of constitutional practice , that my views are also defective .
That my Masonic views were correct , and swayed the Lodge , is clear from the fact , that no dispensation was ever attempted to be issued by the Lodge of Hope , No . 901 . Brother Kane ' s letter was not written by direction of the Lodge , nor did I ever know of it . till a comparatively recent date ; I eontend , therefore , that on the part of Brother Toby it is unfair to use the personal letter of any Brother in asking advice , as proof of my Masonic ignorance . Had the letter borne my signature the ease would ^ liave been altered ; and at most , as the letter stands ^ it is not an official one , nor on behalf , or in the name of the Lodge ; it is a personal communication from
one W . M . to another W . M , asking counsel ( on a point which needed no clearing up ) for his personal guidance before a meeting of his Lodge took place . Pray do not estimate my knowledge of Masonry from this letter , for it is not mine . At p » 436 reference is made to the memorial from Lodge No . 781 . I affirm that the 110 Avho signed it are not all members of No . 781 , and some do not belong to any Lodge whatever .
. In suspending No . 781 , 1 dealt with a working Lodge . I have no jurisdiction over Masons not belonging to any Lodge , and I would ask , therefore , where does their right lie to _ step into my territory , and aid and abet a Lodge in its contumacy , of which they are not members ? Is it right—is it fair—is it constitutional on the part of Brother Toby—to make use of such an instrumentality in order before Grand Lodge to make a numerical show of strength at the tail of a memorial ? Every name among the 110 representing a Mason not a member of Lodge No * 781 , is a fiction , nay , more , Lod
an imposition on Grand ge . I am sure that , with your clear judgment , you have only to consider the matter for one moment impartially to see that the voice of any , not members of No . 781 , cannot be considered in the case , and any altempt ^ to make use of them is only a proof of weakness , and of wrong . It is somewhat curious that though No . 781 existed at Hobart Town for some twelve or thirteen years , no need was felt for any other Lodge , until a Prov . Grand Lodge was formed at Launceston ! I affirm , therefore , that the attempt there to establish two more Lodges was for the express