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gCHE &^ TO THE EDITOR OF -THE ; FRiiJ ^ SONfc- ¦ MA-OiZINB , ATOMASOHIO MIRROR . Sir Mv Brotheb , —The discussions which have followed the late attack on the Grand Master more attention than the attack itself !
With that attack the Grahd Lodge dealt as good Masons know how to deal with slanderous Msehoods . They vindicated the character of their Grah . il Master nnjiistly assailed , arict their own honoxir touched by an insult to their chosen chief . The offence was denounced without reference to the offenders , whose supporters it was to be presumed would continue to maintain on this subject the silence which they discreetly observed in Grand Lodge , and which common sense and common decency alike prescribed .
Yet two leaders of those who are discreditably known by the name of the 44 Observer party , " have since ventured to obtrude on the Masonic public their efforts to extenuate , if not excuse , the offence of which their organ has been convicted . One of these worthies tries to extenuate that offence into a mistake . ' " Other men have a shorter epithet for an admitted calumny . Repleads , too , that" a handsome acknowledgment" has been made . He seems not to be aware that a " handsome acknowledgment , " where an unfounded charge has been made , consists in a complete retractation of the charge and a manly expression of regret that it was made . The saying that the denial of guilt , by him who has been slandered , is accepted , can hardly be called an
acknowledgment , and clearly is not a handsome acknowledgment , btill less can the term " handsome" be applied to the statement that u We-and the public were mistaken , " implying the impertinent untruth that the public once believed what is now universally admitted to be false—or to the silly insinuation about the so called " enormous patronage" of the Grand Master .
This Brother ' s ill conditioned remarks having drawn upon him the severe but just rebuke administered in your pages , the controversy ^ in which he has made so sorry a figure appears to have terminated in his withdrawal under the shower of dirt which he lias endeavoured to cast on several Valued Brethren , and among others on yourself . The other leader of the " Observer party" took a bolder course , but Vis
notions as to doing things handsomely" seems to be much the same , lie presented himself to a 'Provincial ( Jrand Lodge as the sole dissenter from an act of justice to the Grand Master . He discoursed about his " sympathy"
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Correspondence
OQERESPOIDENCE
[ The Editor does not hold Mmself responsible jfbr [ miy opimons entertained by' OorrespoiideMs . ]
gCHE &^ TO THE EDITOR OF -THE ; FRiiJ ^ SONfc- ¦ MA-OiZINB , ATOMASOHIO MIRROR . Sir Mv Brotheb , —The discussions which have followed the late attack on the Grand Master more attention than the attack itself !
With that attack the Grahd Lodge dealt as good Masons know how to deal with slanderous Msehoods . They vindicated the character of their Grah . il Master nnjiistly assailed , arict their own honoxir touched by an insult to their chosen chief . The offence was denounced without reference to the offenders , whose supporters it was to be presumed would continue to maintain on this subject the silence which they discreetly observed in Grand Lodge , and which common sense and common decency alike prescribed .
Yet two leaders of those who are discreditably known by the name of the 44 Observer party , " have since ventured to obtrude on the Masonic public their efforts to extenuate , if not excuse , the offence of which their organ has been convicted . One of these worthies tries to extenuate that offence into a mistake . ' " Other men have a shorter epithet for an admitted calumny . Repleads , too , that" a handsome acknowledgment" has been made . He seems not to be aware that a " handsome acknowledgment , " where an unfounded charge has been made , consists in a complete retractation of the charge and a manly expression of regret that it was made . The saying that the denial of guilt , by him who has been slandered , is accepted , can hardly be called an
acknowledgment , and clearly is not a handsome acknowledgment , btill less can the term " handsome" be applied to the statement that u We-and the public were mistaken , " implying the impertinent untruth that the public once believed what is now universally admitted to be false—or to the silly insinuation about the so called " enormous patronage" of the Grand Master .
This Brother ' s ill conditioned remarks having drawn upon him the severe but just rebuke administered in your pages , the controversy ^ in which he has made so sorry a figure appears to have terminated in his withdrawal under the shower of dirt which he lias endeavoured to cast on several Valued Brethren , and among others on yourself . The other leader of the " Observer party" took a bolder course , but Vis
notions as to doing things handsomely" seems to be much the same , lie presented himself to a 'Provincial ( Jrand Lodge as the sole dissenter from an act of justice to the Grand Master . He discoursed about his " sympathy"