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hearing . Trusting to that most , fragile of all pie-crusts , the promise of a Brother Free-Mason , we implicitly credited his assertions and commenced , carefully guarding ourselves against being committed to , editorially , advocating any wild chimeras our confectioner should propose . We gave him the opening he desired and in his own , or under an assumed name , he had

space to ventilate his opinions , for which , by the notice above them , the writer was alone responsible . This brother had certainly been traduced , but he had impetuously put himself in the wrong by attempting to thrust himself where he had no pretence of right to intrude . Still , we took up his cause and showed , unmistakably , how falsely he had been aspersed .

Pie-crust number one followed . A dignitary of his creation undertook to " make THE MASONIC EXAMINEE . " This brother wrote to say he ' would find us an amount of advertisements which should pay for doubling its size and leave a handsome income for the literary matter . He never found a line . In place of our prime mover contenting himself by a thorough adherence to the Bristol body , and the Old York Rite , he chose to .

take up the abortion called " The Ancient and Primitive Rite , " and ; in his mad fury , vowing vengeance against The Ancient and Accepted Rite , as a whole , ;—instead of confining himself to the vagaries of the Petit Maitre who is reputed to be its wire-puller , —fondly imagined that the revolutionary bantling he adopted could overturn the Ancient and Accepted Rite ; a consummation as probable as that of a mangy mongrel puppy knocking down St . Paul's Cathedral by piddling against the railings . Despite the warning issued from Grand Lodge , in 1859 , and

repeated this year The Ancient and Primitive Rite , which is but another name for a portion of the Reformed Rite of Memphis , and the bastard Mitzraim , propagated here by the ex-Militiaman , some brethren seem infatuated enough to tolerate it forgetting that , as Free-Masons , they are to be loyal men , whilst this wretched burlesque is made the Masonic safety-valve in which the disaffected scum of Europe and the United-States can let

off its superfluous anarchy , treason , and infidelity , under the delusive cover of a Masonic organisation . Of the chief in America , for that is where it comes from , the notorious Harry Seymour , nothing can be surmised as too disparaging . His total absence of moral perception has been so thoroughly exposed in Pomeroy ' s Democrat , that there is no reason to sully our issue by repeating the nauseous details .

An agent of this man came here some months ago and was permitted to defile the last meeting of Grand Lodge by his presence . This precious specimen of Past Grand Mastershi p sought us out , on the introduction of our prime mover , but we had been forewarned in time and , notwithstanding several appeals to meet him we steadily refused and never saw him . From what we have since learned we are now enabled to say that the Ancient and Primitive Rite is presided over by a notorious . That his emissary , who was recently here , is as like the ruler as a pea out of the same pod . That our

prime mover , —whom we grieve has been so misled , —tried to make us the vehicle for disseminating this poison here , but failed . That one of its high dignitaries has " bolted , " owing us ten pounds as his " share of support , " and that another , an ignoramus , whose letter of sixty-seven words contains thirteen child-like errors of orthography , tried , but failed , to do us out of the moderate sum of four shillings ! After such specimens of

" Primitive " humbug Can anyone blame us for washing our linen in public and crushing the vermin who sought a refuge in its folds ? There is no secret at all about the matter . Left , in the lurch by such defaulters THE MASONIC EXAMINER is for sale . The price for the copyright is fifty guineas ( £ 52 10 s . ) , and the first brother tendering that amount shall have it . Should there be

no one come forward to purchase it is very doubtful whether any further number can appear , at present . But , if any brethren think it should not be allowed to die out and offer us hel p , —not

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pie-crust but prompt material help , —we shall have no objection to continue the issue . ~ To our subscribers who have so warmly " supported us , " without paying for their copies , we beg to remind them that an early remittance will enable us to repay the difference to those subscribers who have already paid and are entitled to future numbers or a return of the balance .

And now , having washed the dirty linen , we hang it up to dry and sweeten , for the good of all brethren who , although they may not suffer with us pecuniarily , may yet benefit from our costly experience and learn to air the pretensions of impostors without catching cold .

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