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Bunker ' s Hill , in which the Grand Master , Warren , fell , —the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of coloured Masons , in full costume , a coloured lodge of Odd Fellows , and white and coloured divisions of
Cadets of Temperance , participated in a procession of white Brethren ; and the Catalogue of Books in the Masonic Institution , adds , that the hlack Odd Fellows , and black Sons of Temperance , and all other secret societies , were doubtless bastards of the ill-reputed mother [ Freemasonry .
A petition of the free coloured people of the republic Liberia , for a dispensation to erect a Lodge in this town ( Monrovia ) , under the Grand Lodge of Columbia , slave district , was rejected , in 1851 , without stating any reasons . The requisition was signed with the name of the President and his brother . The Grand Lodge of
Connecticut , free state , found this refusal unreasonable ; meanwhile , one of the states , Mississippi , slave state , pronounces against the opinion of the former , and declares the introduction of Freemasonry amongst the coloured people a trespass upon the invariable landmarks of the
Union . The Grand Master of Texas , slave state , said , in 1852 , at the opening of the Grand Lodge : —" That all Grand Lodges of slave states seriously protest against the admittance of coloured people , and that they had to urge the withdrawal of dispensations , if such have been given , by England . "
The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire , free state , gave its opinion , in 1852 , against the severe resolution of the Grand Lodge of Illinois . " We belong , " they say , " not to those who harbour a strong prejudice for or against men of colour ; if we have an inclination , this goes from the dark to the white colour . We sympathise with pleasure with those of our'Masonic Brethren who live in circumstances
where they have to experience difficulties and trials , the consequence ef the difference of the two races . But we are so free as to confess that our Masonic doctrines point thereto ; that the whole human race , particularly in so far as it is united by the mystic ties , should be contemplated in a somewhat different light than as shown by the resolutions of the Illinois , which completely excludes the coloured
man . We do not intend to initiate in our Order a negro or mulatto ; there is no occasion for the violation of the existing and mutually accepted regulations . If , however , a negro , or mulatto , or Indian comes at the door of our Lodge , and shows that he is a working Brother Mason , accepted by a true and lawful Lodge , we shall certainly treat him as such . "We could not shut against him the door of our Lodge . "
"We find m the correspondence of the Grand Lodge of New York , free state , the following remarks : — " People of the negro race must not he accepted ; their exclusion is in harmony with the Masonic law , and with the old charges and regulations . The social condition of the coloured people is a suppressed one ; their mental capacities are few , they are generally not free-born ; it is difficult , often even impossible , to procure the certainty of the free-birth of a negro ; generally they are not men of
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Bunker ' s Hill , in which the Grand Master , Warren , fell , —the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of coloured Masons , in full costume , a coloured lodge of Odd Fellows , and white and coloured divisions of
Cadets of Temperance , participated in a procession of white Brethren ; and the Catalogue of Books in the Masonic Institution , adds , that the hlack Odd Fellows , and black Sons of Temperance , and all other secret societies , were doubtless bastards of the ill-reputed mother [ Freemasonry .
A petition of the free coloured people of the republic Liberia , for a dispensation to erect a Lodge in this town ( Monrovia ) , under the Grand Lodge of Columbia , slave district , was rejected , in 1851 , without stating any reasons . The requisition was signed with the name of the President and his brother . The Grand Lodge of
Connecticut , free state , found this refusal unreasonable ; meanwhile , one of the states , Mississippi , slave state , pronounces against the opinion of the former , and declares the introduction of Freemasonry amongst the coloured people a trespass upon the invariable landmarks of the
Union . The Grand Master of Texas , slave state , said , in 1852 , at the opening of the Grand Lodge : —" That all Grand Lodges of slave states seriously protest against the admittance of coloured people , and that they had to urge the withdrawal of dispensations , if such have been given , by England . "
The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire , free state , gave its opinion , in 1852 , against the severe resolution of the Grand Lodge of Illinois . " We belong , " they say , " not to those who harbour a strong prejudice for or against men of colour ; if we have an inclination , this goes from the dark to the white colour . We sympathise with pleasure with those of our'Masonic Brethren who live in circumstances
where they have to experience difficulties and trials , the consequence ef the difference of the two races . But we are so free as to confess that our Masonic doctrines point thereto ; that the whole human race , particularly in so far as it is united by the mystic ties , should be contemplated in a somewhat different light than as shown by the resolutions of the Illinois , which completely excludes the coloured
man . We do not intend to initiate in our Order a negro or mulatto ; there is no occasion for the violation of the existing and mutually accepted regulations . If , however , a negro , or mulatto , or Indian comes at the door of our Lodge , and shows that he is a working Brother Mason , accepted by a true and lawful Lodge , we shall certainly treat him as such . "We could not shut against him the door of our Lodge . "
"We find m the correspondence of the Grand Lodge of New York , free state , the following remarks : — " People of the negro race must not he accepted ; their exclusion is in harmony with the Masonic law , and with the old charges and regulations . The social condition of the coloured people is a suppressed one ; their mental capacities are few , they are generally not free-born ; it is difficult , often even impossible , to procure the certainty of the free-birth of a negro ; generally they are not men of