Bro. Morris And Bro. Findel.

BRO . MORRIS AND BRO . FINDEL .

I have been so closely engaged since my return from Palestine , that I have not had the time to write you . Add to this , my time has been spent in New York , ( or thousands of miles to the eastward ) , Avhere I have

not seen a copy of the MAGAZINE for five months , and you Avill understand that I Avas not dead , all that time , but speechless . Arrived at home for the holidays , one of my first and greatest enjoyments has been to read the files of the MAGAZINE .

What a new world of thought is being awakened among your correspondents . Many of them shoAY plainly that they are just opening their eyes ; others afford us the results of Ions ; and anxious reflection , of profound study of original lines of

investigation . The names of Anthony Oneal Haye , Lyon , Hughan and many others of renown are suggestive of good promise , that never fails of performance . Long may they wave to draw forth from the treasures of Masonic learning , thing-s new and old .

We have nothing of special interest doing in our forty Grand Lodges , into which the once more United States are apportioned out . All the excitable themes have died out , unless it be the " negro " question . Half our Masonic journals

are giving columns of matter in each issue , to the great question of nigritude . Perhaps you are not aware that there are negro lodges , and negro Grand Lodges , and one negro national Grand Lodge , already blessing us Avith unmingled

happiness . They are deemed clandestine by us , not because their members are black , but for the same reason your correspondent Bro . Findel ' s favorites in the United States are clandestine , that is because their warrants of authority , as lodges , are irregular .

Is that a good reason ? What would you think , if an American Grand Lod ge Avas to quarter a negro lodge upon you in London , and that lodge should warrant another one in Liverpool , and another in Edinburgh , & c , & c , and they should unite

¦ themselves into a Grand Lodge and then claim recognition from the Grand Lodge of England , and the whole fraternity ? Yet that is exactly the

condition of thenegro branch of Mi-sous hare . They are clandestine , and we are forbidden by our O . B . ( are not you ?) from associating masonically , Avith clandestine Masons . Since I have named Bro . Findel and his

American friends , I will be more explicit . He claims great merit for the preparation of a History of Freemasonry in Europe , which , accrediting the origin of the institution to some German mechanics a feAV hundred years since , ignores all the time

honoured traditions of the craft , rejects the Holy writings as part of the furniture of the lodge ; changes the O . B . to a mere pledge of honour , and abandons all the ground , for Avhich the wise and good men of modern times of our Order , have

contended since the days of A . nderson and Desaguliers . And he charges us , American Masons , with being in midnight , heathenish darkness , because we have not bought move than thirty copies of his book . Does Bro . Findel write the English

letters that appear over his signature ? if so , I must say that I never read such concerted composition in a Masonic journal before . For his own credit , I should think he has a translator who traduces him .

American readers of Bro . Findel ' s history cannot respect a Avork , Avhich shows such ignorance of their own history , and such utter disrespect to their own regulations . The constant reference to lodges and men , publicly denounced by the Grand

Lodge of New York as clandestine , would in itself condemn the work , while the few facts of American Masonic history that are clumsily thrown together , prove the utter Avant of skill , as Avell as of information . It AA ould not be difficult to point to tAventy

writers in our ranks , AVIIO can Avrite , and have written Masonic works better Avorthy the name of history than his . So much in the Avay of Roland to his Oliver . A review of his history Avas made last winter , in the New York Despatch , that does not

leave a peg for it to hang upon . Since my return I have been busily engaged distributing among the 4 , 000 good fellows who united with me in the Holy Land enterprise and which I have brought from there the specimens aud relics . ROB . MORRIS .

P . S . —I am rejoiced to see that Bro . H . B . Tristam has received his well-merited grade of LL . D ,, from the University at Edinburgh .