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entirely , or very nearly so , to their own views . Success , I . suppose , redeems the fault , and I willingly pay my tribute of approval of their ability and management . I will now refer to one or two matters personal to Bro . Warren and myself . In a note appended to my letter in your number of June 1 st , it is stated— " If Bro . Warren ' s name was submitted to the members of the Grand Lodge Cluband unanimously rejectedall we need answer isthat

, , , the information"that it never was so submitted was conveyed to its b y Bro . Binckes himself . " To this statement I shall content myself with giving the strongest contradiction consistent with the laws of good breeding . In your last number , at page 1064 , appear two photographs of the same distinguished brother , whose classic features have been so frequently portrayed , to the gratification of the thousands to whom they are so familiar , and who have the opportunity of admiring them in so many places of public resort .

I was hardly prepared , however , to find that any productions of my studio could be honoured by such prominent notice , though I fear the object of so placing them is to subject them to unfriendly criticism on the score of want of similarity . I must defend my work . " Tergiversation" need not he secret . It sometimes is so ; but it is very difficult to keep it so . Some men hesitate in turning their backs upon former professions , and in deserting their friends and comrades of other days , and joining the ranks of their

opponents , and strive to conceal the fact of their having done so . Others do all this in a " candid , open , manly" manner , without scruple or compunction of any kind ; and of this latter class Bro . Warren is a representative . For all this , I have a great regard for Bro . Warren . I respect his straightforwardness of character , and admire his abilities ; and whether in public or in private—in acknowledging his defection from the cause in support of which we were at one time fellow labourers , or in lamenting it—I have invariably spoken in praise of his openness and manliness of conduct . As a set-off , however , to the imputed faults of my photographic vignette

of Bro . Warren , I have received a remarkable tribute to the fidelity of a portrait of greater pretensions . In the letter to which I have before alluded , I threw on paper what may be called for the nonce , a few of the distinguishing features of a celebrated character , in whose sincerity and professions I must say I cannot place implicit confidence . This gentleman I stjded "the arch-apostle of discord . " In Grand Lodge Bro . Havers charged me with so styling him . Will Bro . Havers be good enough to point out where

I have mentioned his name in connection with any such description ? If however , I have held the mirror up , and therein at one glance Bro . Havers sees accurately reflected his own features—not mine the fault . If the vraisembknee of my sketch is so striking that Bro . Havers immediatel y , recognizes as his own the lineaments there depicted , the greater the proof of my accuracy and ability . Bro . Havers caught at the slight laugh with which his allusions were received , and remarked , "I see by the smiles of Grand that

Lodge my brethren take that charge as I do , whence it comes . " The charge—for I admit that the description was pointed at Bro . Havers —comes from one as honest in his advocacy of the best interests of Freemasonry as Bro . Havers professes to be—who , without the ambition of that brother for place , power , and patronage , has no ends of his own to servewho will never shrink from meeting him in argument or discussion—or fear the consequences ofto the utmost of his exposing the machinations

, power , and designs by which that bane of Masonry , cliquism , is preserved—the proceedings arising from which tend to the destruction of good government , and the consequent institution of a mischievous policy . I dare not protract this letter , though I have left many points untouched ,