Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-01-06

| Nfaysfhis prehgare the defeat Of Nasonsyat
the polls under Writ as our Papirias Cursor;
for surely it i, alike ridiculous by its empty
parades, alike odious by It's abominable oaths,
and has alike heen polluted with human blood.
I In myopinion, we could not have better lead
er. / wholly mistake his character if he be not
/ found as resolute and undaunted as he has
heretofore been ,fuobstrusive. Yethow is this
accomplished and gifted man already treateR
Liberal, candid, unanswerable, as are the sem
| timents of his letter, how has Masonry begun
to deal with them? Reason away their force,
it cannot; but what epithets are too COARSE what
ldenunciationltoo bitter for il to employ against
their author? This conduct is in unison with
the fierce and intoerant spirit of the order, with
its anti-social pledges, under sanctions both un-
natural and unlawful to common support
and to common resentments. That men ofre-
fined and elevated minds who may be Masons;
act under such pernicious influences, nobody
Twill PRETEND but who will pretend that the
great bulk of the Masons of our country are
made up of such men, or that it is they who
| give impulse to the order? 1t is VIGOROUSLY
otherwise, for men of this cast have least to do
with Masonry, even if Masons. 1t drops
| from their minds as it did from our Wirt's
and from WashiDgton's; who did not enter a
Lodge, believe, for thirty years. Such men
are rarely, very rarely, of its counses; they be-
come shy, though nominally they may be up
on the lists. Let Masonry alone, bow down
to it, permit it to, do as it pleases without inn
lpeachment of its ways, and it will be at peace
with you; but when its portentous oaths acting
upon ferocious or infatuated bigots, become
the direct means of tremendous crime, we are
n to raise manly voice against its dangers,
,ut he naFit Of rrnsrriptipnS We MINER not
discuss the question Of its demerits all mouths
must be closed, and peaccahiy e refuse our
] ). eference in ene ballot boxes to these who
cling to an Institution that, in long and fair
! " cor.ce.1d battle with the laws, has abso-
lutely overcome them, and to this hour remains
/ in possession of the victory is persecution!
i We must merely leave the Institution to go
down under The operation of, quiet, harmless,
lunspeaking public opinion Admirable theo-
Try this for all who belong to the school of the
murderer Thurtell, of the pirate Gibbs! Of
fend as much as you please. and with the more
lenormity the better; we visit you with no dis
qualification, no penalty, no act of any kind;
only just leave to your own reflections, and the
rlgentle, silent, corectve,of public opinion;--go
lon, we have no fears that your clique will hold
together against this corrective! This is the
enlarged and philanthropic theory that pro.
noances the decree OF rank injustice, even ia
natiG'sm upon all political Anti-masonry. it
would have any thing but that, 1T would not
Tor the world have the Lode pursued as an Of
flnder' or those who uphold 1t, not voted into
ohIee; It would leave 1t TO die of itself, by an
enthanasia. sort OF easy death, such as Hume
predicted Tor the exit OF the British constitu-
ton! dislike the cant ofPuritanism, and all
cant; but the cant of Masonry and its neutral
auxiiiaries, is the worst We have ever had
Lhey give US cant about its religion and about
Its charity in the midst of the terrible inroads
upon the peace OF society, and the authority
and sanctity of our jurisprudence, of which its
furions and misleading spirit has demonstrably