Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-08-26

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From the Boston Free Press
PRoFANE TITLES.
We are frequently under the necessity of
curbing our feelings when speaking of fyee-
Masonry, its, foliieS and vices, we have nowish
however to paint in more lively colours (if that
Ibe possibe) the wickedness of the institution,
than what is observable to every one who
lgives the subject fair and proper considera-
ton. What can be more wicked, abominably
wicked, than the following orders Of knighthood
found within the pale of Speculative Free
Masonry2-Let the dispassionate reader say,
they are recorded in the Free-4Nqson's MoYaitoy,
otherwise called the Masonic Bible, page 345,
and are as follows, viz,
| "The Knights of the Redemption!
i "The Knights of Christ!
i "The Knight of the Mother of Christi
"The Knight of the Annuciation Of tie
| Vngin Nary!
'sThe Knight of 81. slebheaSl
"The Knight Of the Holy Ghostr' and
Others equal absurd but not SO shocking.
Now we ask, can such titles be heard by any
lperson possessing christian feelings without
the highest indignation?-Can they be read,
| (if we could place the profanity of the thing
behind the curtain.) by any of our Republican
lcitizens, without the most sovess Contempt
and is it not the duty, of the religious, ard
political duty, of us, TO frown both the titles
land the wearers into non-existence? it certainly
lis, and the subject shall not be overlooked or
forgotten, but shall in some future number of
the RNEE PRESS be candidly addressed, for an
lanswer to the independent Freemen Of our
country. Ought titles Of any sort to be adj
United among US, and such as are shocking to
the ear of a christian community?
CONDITION OF MISUNDERSTANDING from
Ireland are distressing. The condition of the
lpeople. in some sections of that country, is be-
lyond the power of description to pourtray,
Famine, and its concomitant, sickness, are
carrying desoation into several portions of the
country, sweeping down thousands, and send
ling tens of thousands, as paupers to range the
!; country, and ask subsistence of the humane.
: 1.-THE wants of the people have. in some dis-
ltricts, made them riotous; and have brought
the bayonets Of the military into acton to queil
Them. All accounts represent, that the ex-
IRENE sufferings of the people arise more from
the want of money, or other means to procure
$ provisions. than from scarcity. There is no
n |scarcity--there is great abundance? And vet
= for the want of money to procure it, "h9uSandS
IA ubon thousands mast beriSh.:' Some endeavor
# to procure miserable subsistence by citing
Y cookies and sea-weeds and eating them-others
bleed the cattle. boil the bt0od and eat ii! Yet
lit is said that in the midst of this superlatve
distress, thousands of the small tenantry are
n ldispossessed to consolidate farms, that space
e lmay be made for :" horses, equipages and
4 Ihouds," and after hapless residents are sent
! tadrift without homes or food. and in a state of
the most deplorable starvation.
twill surprise some to hear that in the midst
of all this misery, no man has been known to
seek aid from his parish who had one acre Of
ground to cultivate for his subsistence. Such
lis the fertility of the soil--such the laborious
+ and careful system of farming such the spirit
n of this population. The great bane Of Ireland
e lis ignoracce. The people are naturally enter
ii pricing and intelligent. But nothing can be
n done in this way. because they viii receive no.
;, thing without the permission of their priests;
o and these it is said refuse their sanction, with
few exceptions, to let their people be educated,
IL knowing that as sure as the population rise in
e cultivation, and in the knowledge of science
o and literature, their influence is dimi nished in
y an equal ratio. This fact will be doubted by
II some, and denied by others; but nothing adj
a mits of more clear and precise demonstration,
lein that Inflated, but, trust, soon to be re-
81 generated country.
y 1t will appear incredible to some of our rea
III ders when it is stated, that such is the great
le abundance of provisions in the very districts
l. in which thousands are pershing for food, thai
z trUo Pence will procure sevsn days subsistence,
e and that the ratio between the price of Irish
!; pstatoes and american -four is in favor Of the
y former more than as fifteen to one! The starv-
= ing population, then, having neither money
nor work, are deprived of all resources nor is
;, England and Wales in much better condi-
: ton in many sections. And yet the collection
= Of Tythes goes on as usual--the soldiers are