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good report ; they have rarely business , property , office , or other honest means of sustenance of a family ; and such conditions make Brotherly love and union generally impossible . Further , no negro must be received and examined as a visitor , if he has been initiated
in an African Lodge of Worth America , because all their Lodges , as they exist" in Boston , Cincinnati , St . Lewis , Philadelphia , New Jersey , and New York ( in the latter also a Boyal Arch Chapter and Encampment of Knights Templar ) , are all illegal . Finally , it is not advisable , generally , to accept Indians , or erect Lodges amongst them , because the generality of them are too uncivilized , immoral ,
and barbarous ; with special permission , however , of the Grand Master , a few exceptions have taken place . " The correspondence of 1852 and 1853 acknowledges the same principles . The Grand Lodge of the state of Ohio recommends , in its transactions of 1852-3 , the avoidance of all intercourse with negro Lodges , as none of them worked under the authority of the Grand Lodge ,
and were therefore illegal . From these facts , it appears to be evident that no perfect , just , and lawful Lodye of coloured people eccists in the United States of North America , Even if the dispensation of the African Lodge , in the last century , should really have been given by England , this Lodge , without doubt , has been struck off the list , having given no signs of life for some time , which is evidently shown by the Grand Lodge of
England not taking any notice of the requisition lately made . According to the American civil law , the Lodge of negroes , erected by a foreign Grand Lodge , would be the less recognised , as it would interfere with the national feeling against the complete emancipation of the slaves . There would be no remedy left , except that the Grand Lodges of the Union founded sister Lodges for free coloured people , or granted to their white sister Lodges to accept
those of the darker shade . Of the Grand Lodges of the slave states this cannot be expected . Here and there a weak voice may be heard from states not keeping slaves , which dares , notwithstanding the prejudice , to recommend , cautiously , the admittance of such men of colour as have been initiated in just and lawful Lodges of other countries , passed partly by their position into foreign Grand Lodges ,, as those of England , France , and Hayti . In some cases such
admittance has even taken place . Grand Secretary Moore , of Boston ,, says , in a letter to the Grand Lodge of New York , that the treatment on the part of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts was not the consequence of a prejudice , as shortly only a coloured Brother of England was friendly received in a Lodge at Boston ; the initiation of negroes , however , has never been favoured . Older members of
the Pythagoras Lodge recollect that a coloured clergyman , said to be accepted by a negro Lodge in Boston , was received , with his son , as a member of the St . George Lodge , No . 6 , in Shenectady ( New York ) , and that , by a special resolution , both were admitted to the meetings of the Grand Lodge , in consequence of which a part of the members withdrew .
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good report ; they have rarely business , property , office , or other honest means of sustenance of a family ; and such conditions make Brotherly love and union generally impossible . Further , no negro must be received and examined as a visitor , if he has been initiated
in an African Lodge of Worth America , because all their Lodges , as they exist" in Boston , Cincinnati , St . Lewis , Philadelphia , New Jersey , and New York ( in the latter also a Boyal Arch Chapter and Encampment of Knights Templar ) , are all illegal . Finally , it is not advisable , generally , to accept Indians , or erect Lodges amongst them , because the generality of them are too uncivilized , immoral ,
and barbarous ; with special permission , however , of the Grand Master , a few exceptions have taken place . " The correspondence of 1852 and 1853 acknowledges the same principles . The Grand Lodge of the state of Ohio recommends , in its transactions of 1852-3 , the avoidance of all intercourse with negro Lodges , as none of them worked under the authority of the Grand Lodge ,
and were therefore illegal . From these facts , it appears to be evident that no perfect , just , and lawful Lodye of coloured people eccists in the United States of North America , Even if the dispensation of the African Lodge , in the last century , should really have been given by England , this Lodge , without doubt , has been struck off the list , having given no signs of life for some time , which is evidently shown by the Grand Lodge of
England not taking any notice of the requisition lately made . According to the American civil law , the Lodge of negroes , erected by a foreign Grand Lodge , would be the less recognised , as it would interfere with the national feeling against the complete emancipation of the slaves . There would be no remedy left , except that the Grand Lodges of the Union founded sister Lodges for free coloured people , or granted to their white sister Lodges to accept
those of the darker shade . Of the Grand Lodges of the slave states this cannot be expected . Here and there a weak voice may be heard from states not keeping slaves , which dares , notwithstanding the prejudice , to recommend , cautiously , the admittance of such men of colour as have been initiated in just and lawful Lodges of other countries , passed partly by their position into foreign Grand Lodges ,, as those of England , France , and Hayti . In some cases such
admittance has even taken place . Grand Secretary Moore , of Boston ,, says , in a letter to the Grand Lodge of New York , that the treatment on the part of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts was not the consequence of a prejudice , as shortly only a coloured Brother of England was friendly received in a Lodge at Boston ; the initiation of negroes , however , has never been favoured . Older members of
the Pythagoras Lodge recollect that a coloured clergyman , said to be accepted by a negro Lodge in Boston , was received , with his son , as a member of the St . George Lodge , No . 6 , in Shenectady ( New York ) , and that , by a special resolution , both were admitted to the meetings of the Grand Lodge , in consequence of which a part of the members withdrew .