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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
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THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES . TO THE EDITOR OP TIIE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sin AND BnOTiiKii , —The " Observer faction" found to their cost , at the Grand Lodges of December 1 S 5 S , and March 1859 , that the Canadian grievance would no longer serve their turn . There ivere 111 , 1113- lv ' hoped that thesi defeat which those occasions ivould have
, gnal they experienced on resulted in relieving us from any future annoyance on their part . I , lor one , scarcely entertained that hope . Their object is , not to advance ( he interests of our Order , but to obstruct and oppose in every possible shape . Consequently it is almost idle to expect that the most humiliating defeats ivill teach them to bow to the powerfully expressed opinion of the Craft . ft must not therefore cause any surprise that the agenda paper for next Grand Lodge contains a notice of motion ivhich would seem to take its rise from , or perhaps to be the natural sequence of , an anonymous paragraph which appeared in the Era of the loth instant , as follows : —
"BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES , " ( FROM A CORRESPONDENT . ) " On Thursday , a meeting was held at Bro . Roxburgh ' s office , consisting of Bros . Adams , S . B . "Wilson , Smith , Wheeler , "Warren , Symonds , Gregory , and seventeen other brothers . Bro . Boxburgh stated he had called them together at the request of Bro . John Havers , who , notwithstanding the great loss of time and moneyivould agree to be their presidentprovided that a respectable Board and
, , , free from tho ' Obserrer party , ' be elected ; and that the brothers present » Teo to support an entire list . That Bros . Hopwood , Seott , and Hervey retire from the Grand Master ' s list , and the two Grand Deacons and Bro . Levi be nominated in their stead . Tlie list tor the other members to be made by Bros , KoxbuHi and ¦ Havers after the nomination on "Wednesday next . These propositions were agreed to after the meeting had pledged themselves to Bro . Savage that no purples shotild be nominated ut the Board of Masters . The meeting mis anything but unanimous
as they find great difficulty in loading Bros . Savage , AVilson , and Smith , who appear not at present willing to sacrifice all their independence aud the Craft to party purposes . " I pass over the lamentable ( or pretended ) ignorance of the writer , who appears not to understand the method of appointment of the President of the Board of General Purposes ; . 1 pass over his studious and covert insult to the worthy brother who now fills that office—and merely pause to record
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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
+ — , — [ Tire EDITOR does not hold himself responsible for any of-m u ns entertained by Correspondents . ]
THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES . TO THE EDITOR OP TIIE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sin AND BnOTiiKii , —The " Observer faction" found to their cost , at the Grand Lodges of December 1 S 5 S , and March 1859 , that the Canadian grievance would no longer serve their turn . There ivere 111 , 1113- lv ' hoped that thesi defeat which those occasions ivould have
, gnal they experienced on resulted in relieving us from any future annoyance on their part . I , lor one , scarcely entertained that hope . Their object is , not to advance ( he interests of our Order , but to obstruct and oppose in every possible shape . Consequently it is almost idle to expect that the most humiliating defeats ivill teach them to bow to the powerfully expressed opinion of the Craft . ft must not therefore cause any surprise that the agenda paper for next Grand Lodge contains a notice of motion ivhich would seem to take its rise from , or perhaps to be the natural sequence of , an anonymous paragraph which appeared in the Era of the loth instant , as follows : —
"BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES , " ( FROM A CORRESPONDENT . ) " On Thursday , a meeting was held at Bro . Roxburgh ' s office , consisting of Bros . Adams , S . B . "Wilson , Smith , Wheeler , "Warren , Symonds , Gregory , and seventeen other brothers . Bro . Boxburgh stated he had called them together at the request of Bro . John Havers , who , notwithstanding the great loss of time and moneyivould agree to be their presidentprovided that a respectable Board and
, , , free from tho ' Obserrer party , ' be elected ; and that the brothers present » Teo to support an entire list . That Bros . Hopwood , Seott , and Hervey retire from the Grand Master ' s list , and the two Grand Deacons and Bro . Levi be nominated in their stead . Tlie list tor the other members to be made by Bros , KoxbuHi and ¦ Havers after the nomination on "Wednesday next . These propositions were agreed to after the meeting had pledged themselves to Bro . Savage that no purples shotild be nominated ut the Board of Masters . The meeting mis anything but unanimous
as they find great difficulty in loading Bros . Savage , AVilson , and Smith , who appear not at present willing to sacrifice all their independence aud the Craft to party purposes . " I pass over the lamentable ( or pretended ) ignorance of the writer , who appears not to understand the method of appointment of the President of the Board of General Purposes ; . 1 pass over his studious and covert insult to the worthy brother who now fills that office—and merely pause to record