Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-01-06
Iarcrn tAe Ontario phaniS.
Mr.. RuSHiS FIFTH LETTER.


Altho' wrtten.in the course of friendly corr
zespondence, it offered so much pleasure to the
gentleman to whom it was addressed, and to a
few friends to whom it was shown. that he
sought, and finally obtained, the consent OF
Mr.. Rush to its publication. In our judg-
ment, it is the best of the very able and eio-
quent letters which have appeared from the pen
az Mr. Rush, ON the subject of masonry
The classical alIusion to Livy. is very happy
and appropriate We are confident our rea-
ders win participate in the unmingied gratifi-l
cations which its perusal has given us.
York, (Pa.) November 9th. 1881.
DEAR SIR,--I very much regret that lost
the pleasure of seeing yourself and friends
from New York, who did me the favor Of al
call as you passed through this place on your
way to Baltimore. came down stairs mo-
ment after receiving your cards, and was truly
sorry to have missed the opportunity of taking
you all by the hand.
Had you again taken this route on your re-
turn from Baltimore, as cherished the hope
you would do. it would have given me the OPP
portunity of saying to you in person. what |
have been happy to say to others, whenever i
have had the opportunity; viz: how highly /
was pleased with what you did iii the conven-
ton. A better selection than Mr.. WRIT:
could not in my opinion have been made
With genius, as well as high cultivation, the
true elements pt greatness unite in him. 1t is
known to me from the highest scource of in
formation, that when Mr.. Jefferson was about
to retire from the Presidency, to be succeeded
by Mr.. Madison, he expressed strong wish
that Mr.. Writ would consent to come into the
House of Representatives of the United States,
that he might assume the ascendency in that
h,,1v S1yitI the innnenra in niIr II
affairs then growing critical, to which his COM
manding abilities and probity would have. DIES.
tined him. But, little ambitious of public hon.
ours, the road to which then lay open to him
under auspices the most brilliant, he declined.
His service during IL years in the executive
department of the government since, has iden-
tilted hIm with the course of public policy pur-
aued during those years. whilst TO no part OF
it does he stands in the attitude of partiaan.
It is for the same reason that like his anti
masonry. He has taken it up as i statesman
and patriot. not as partizan and persecutor,-
He was startled at seeing the administration OIL
the laws stopped by the secret power of the
masonic Institution. and felt at once the dutv o.
seeing them restored to their supremacy. He
knew nothing of the fatal agency of this Insti.
triton in robbing the laws of their efficacy, I'm.
I'll the assembling of your convention at Bal
the press in Baltimore where he lived, or in
Washington to which he sometimes went, in
form him? Never. You aud know. YOU bet.
ter than /, that it was simply because the, old
established newspapers of the land refused in
almost every instance to publish the facts bro't
60 light by trials in the courts of New
York demonstrative of the dangers of Mason
ry, (shame on the ignoble fears of this Institu.
ton, THAT anti-nasonlc newspapers wert set ur
for the special purpose of publishing them
And was Mr.. Writ, busted in the highest walks
of am exalted profession, which he exalted still
higher by his genius, eloquence and worth, tc
hunt these up, hundred Of miles off and most
OF them in the interior. whilst the boosted SEN
slnris all around hm-those sentinels that sci.
dom failed to serve up to him the particulars
ottvery case of the least note in the police an
nails of Bow street, or the Mansion House in
Lonon were silent? These vigiIcnt sentinels
indced, would perhaps admit tie mere word
anlimasonry INTO their columns, but most com.
monty with fling VI its fanatcism,' lest they
should be thought weak minded, But from
which of them would he have learned those de
tails OF the Morgan trials that go to show.n
che words OF his excellent letter, that masonic
oa,hs 'are not considered by those who impose
and take them as mere idle land uumeanine
words. but as solemn bligations to be practi.
cally enforced;' that the auspaciuus conspirac,
against the life of citizen was not as ha,
been commonly supposed, the act Of few ig.
p"rans men alone, but was engendered in the
lodges themselves, enforced under their dlrec
ton and supported at their expense: the con,
:spiracy embracing within its sweep men of al
degrees, with too much reason to believe tha
the secret energy of the masonic spirit had ell
tered and polluted even the temple Of Justice
al Er 49,
tar persons who had enter, d into these unhal.
lowed oaths, considered their allegiance to the
L ,dges as of higher obligations than theil
allegiance to the laws of their country {, ON
which of them could he have learned these
rl1ings. or any of thenis Ernn None 1 80