The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1829-04-30
or a. mnhv ns thirty one Years, in a Bohc.


son. and Franklin, and Clinton arc blush
ing. at this moment. that they dwelt so
qonr with these 'hariots and ubominationsY
You ought, in mercy, to have spared them
This cutting rcproach - How mast you pity
tho poor, deujed ia Fayetc. the foe to
all freedom whose life has been one unin-
corrupted scene dullness thought
lessness, and stupidity. with the incubus Of
freemasonry pressing him TO the earth?
But you betray an abundance Of good
sense, and good breeding too, by inycishing
so vehemcntly against a society you have
been attached 10 so long. Why sir IL il
quite common for traitors 10 pour most un-
qualified and persevering malice. upon
cause they have treache'ously nbandonedl
and | am not aware. that trcachery has any
other snlace: il would Therefore seem cruel
TO deprive il Of this RS otly one. There is
no other ''hattering uncinn It can lay 10 it's
soul" But do YOU think an dUO'ced traitor
20 one cause, likoly to be uusted III another:
Do YOU thirk the dcnunciations Of such
one will be accredited? Do you think, tha,
when Benedict Arnold had abandoned the
interest Of ha American Revolution. and
become the vilGer and Gbuser OF that sub
limo operation, he was entitled 10 credence:
And had you listened 10 his dcnunc iatlous.
would you have accounted him honest ona
sinccre? And do you fancy that yOurscl
will be accounted honest and sincere, in youi
wrathfi inYect;ycs against tho mssoncf
fraternity? Don't yon think the example Cf
Judas. in hanging himself af'cr he bad br
trayed the Son Of God. worthy the imitation
of traiio-s to so ne other causes: Do 70
think anti masonry will boast Of her victor
over your integrity? If she do she " III cor
descend To boast o' lriulnhhs exceeding,
small Jemima Wilkinson was accus'om-
e1 10 boast when she won away weak SIZE
ter ike Won, from some other cause, 20 The
adoption of her faith. and tho acknowledge
mont of her supremacy. Why, tho mason
ick cdIicc needed some such agitation, t.
shake or the hidden reptiles, that were rot
tinr in us arches and poricos.
Tho period Of your ronunc iation is much
in favour OF presumtlon Of your honesty
II happens at a time, when IL is quite fash
ionablc to reuOunce and still more fashion
able 10 denounce the fraternity when an
Atheist has only so break an oath, that ncv
er touched his receding conscience: and
conicnn Revelations; and be clothed with
hononr,and invested with power a period
od very similar TO that IN France. when her
learned & venerable bishops min sters ofthc
religion oflesus Christ denounced the prln-
ciplcs of eternal truth, they had spent their
lives in promulgating--wh they declared
religion farce n dream and death nm
eternal sleep, AS they were not credited, by
the cool and unimpassioncd oithelr own ma
ton, even in the worst oitlmes, 40 you will
not be credited, by the cool and uninpas
stoned Of your own nation now.
You speak Of Judge Cowons refusal Ia
preside, be beins mason, at the trial of
some mason or masOns, for some real or i'm
putcd offence, connected with the Morgan
nfIaIr.at the late Oyer and Tcrmlncr ~ Gen
cssr. VIII You speak out again, aud insln
uate If you dare, that such refusal was
grounded upon any other than consldera
lions ofdelicacy? II you thought such to be
the motives ofthatrefIsal, Why had you the
audacity 10 insinuatC before, tha, other con
sidera,ions induced it? Dll you suppose his
cycs were closed to the mons stcrs that sur
rounded him, uttcring screams OF death,
i'm accents tefrible;" and dcmhnding ven
reancc alike upon the innocent and the
Uuilty: from whose hoyls of horror and OK
ecrn,lon. the judicial crmine had proved in
sufficient for the protection ol others? ID
You suppose he had forgotten the hery dc
uunciations. which had asSailed the benCl
OF nrichbouring county; with the mos
venerable aud upright, the learned and m
ncNihlc Nathaniel w. Howell at IT'S hcer
not mason, but in truth hostile 10 masonry
for pyononncnr what no lawyer cuntcnds
was not. and had not been the law OF the
land. longer than they bad been It's cxpound
ers, in the rejection of Gddins as witness
Ionr opipioR, that the decrceS al DEITY
have bnen accomplished as to secret soclc
ties. may prove YOU TO have read with to-
enable ease. the SavbroGk Platform and
Westminster Calcchlsm; much better thar
the general scope and tendency ofyout at
dress, proves your inst appreciation oi The
gool sense Of that publick, before whichyoo
have suffered your miserable and vile pro.
duction To draw vou. But you talk otyour
opipioH! Cool God! what is vonr opinion
worth aftcr snch an exposure ofyonr iolhes:
You ih,uk tho original land marks oi the
institution have becn lost sight of Here we
have vnnr opinion agaiu' Aud is this cause
for NIB ,lishnr m institution IN itsoli good, diS
perscd throur rh tho four quarters of the globe,
instead Of bringing II back 10 tho principles oi
rcci,uic, from which il had departed Wlllvou
bctray the interests ofyour masonck brethren
throughout the world-'ho captive III the dun.
rrnn- the mariner upon the drSrrt the dcs.
olatc. and the oppressed, and the forgotten of
your species, merely because mnsons III New.
York. and in ono corner Of New York too, or all
over the state if ynu please have lost sight ol
"tho original landmarks Of tho insttution''
II sccms YOU will Because good principles
have boon violated aud abused arc YOU ready
90 declare ,hosc principjcs "excerablc'? On
shame! mcthnks YOU have lost your blush
Did YOU ever know an individual church, or
religious society. to lose sight of tic origi.
al Ia nd rk of thp pT
would YOU therefore abolish Christianity and
nbuso il? Is It your opinion, hat the legislature
all the learned Judges and jurs,s. of all the
high courts Of iaw and equity Of this siatc,evcr