Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JULY 1794-TO THE
EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , J » b 12 > 1794 * IN the Gentleman ' s Magazine for last month , I read with astonishment a most insidious attack on our excellent Institution , in an anonymous essay , which , to add to its publicity , was afterwards sent to and inserted in the St . James ' s Chronicle of the 8 th inst .
Plow tenets not only so innoxious , but so truly laudable as those inculcated in our Fraternities , can have suggested to any man the base idea of branding us with a vice most revolting to our minds as men , and our principles as Masons , that of political mischief , I am utterly at a loss to conceive . I forbear , however , to enter into any reply to the essay alluded to , presuming , that if you have not many much
abler vindicators , it will be occasioned by a general opinion , that , the imbecility and inconsistency of the anonymous insinuator do not require refutation , and that his unmanly illiberality deserves it not . With submission to you , however , I conceive it to be a part of your duty to the Society , to bring forward a treatise of so artful and malignant a tendency , in order to afford an opportunity to such Brethren
as may think it necessary to counteract by any remarks the virulence of its poison , and to make manifest in the mirror of Truth its detestable deformity . I am , Sir , " Your faithful Brother , and occasional Correspondent , S . J . VOL . III . A
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JULY 1794-TO THE
EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , J » b 12 > 1794 * IN the Gentleman ' s Magazine for last month , I read with astonishment a most insidious attack on our excellent Institution , in an anonymous essay , which , to add to its publicity , was afterwards sent to and inserted in the St . James ' s Chronicle of the 8 th inst .
Plow tenets not only so innoxious , but so truly laudable as those inculcated in our Fraternities , can have suggested to any man the base idea of branding us with a vice most revolting to our minds as men , and our principles as Masons , that of political mischief , I am utterly at a loss to conceive . I forbear , however , to enter into any reply to the essay alluded to , presuming , that if you have not many much
abler vindicators , it will be occasioned by a general opinion , that , the imbecility and inconsistency of the anonymous insinuator do not require refutation , and that his unmanly illiberality deserves it not . With submission to you , however , I conceive it to be a part of your duty to the Society , to bring forward a treatise of so artful and malignant a tendency , in order to afford an opportunity to such Brethren
as may think it necessary to counteract by any remarks the virulence of its poison , and to make manifest in the mirror of Truth its detestable deformity . I am , Sir , " Your faithful Brother , and occasional Correspondent , S . J . VOL . III . A