Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-29

meeting sad to the mi chest grade of the An.
esl ng hem elves The Supreme irand Council Of SOW
er mseiOrs General Of he $50 degree Of the North
wgiee they acknowledge to have sprung is the body
1873 and VIII IN the city Of New York in August,
name bnt Sd py special Deputy who they orbcar 10
further state that Frederic King of Pr ~ @ al Ky
neaa OF mes lneiabe Degrees al rataed and confrn
degree 90 Master Mason died in the month of AW
Whatever and tbs9e a, 90 man OF no religious faith
mean ana selfish traits in private life are recorded az Of
sneh eHaraete w1ud hs not at all probable Of
founded upon religious truths. And al the ver tn,s
they assert he was so Interested establishing these DEE
grees he was confined to his bed entreIv Stv ross
and part OF the time insensible suffering from
and so remained for eleven months before his death and
the $50, which they assert emanatcd from M was nnt
o%n snt , is H., PeFiSd q fifteen after his
And with these absurd statements they claim 20 he th
only legitimate body for cOnlerring the lnrfable lie
grees the Northern Jurisdiction OF the United STATES
The Hon, DAM d; Thompkins, whom they claim as
tons OF the Council they hail from and at its
meetings. and they were mainly conducted for the last
three years oft hful existence by three or four midi
vuas the sole purpose Of pecuniary profit Them
selves. which was obtained by inducing strangers and
foreigners to receive these desrees-no residents apply
The Consstory and Lodges at Nassau Hall claim
legitimate birth. and number Ong their
tors thenoblest aud best enrolled upon the
ords OF Free Nasonry; among which those of the
Hon De witt Clinton, the III. Marquis De Lafayette,
Hon Cadwaliader ID. Golden, John W. Mulligan, Esq.,
Past Grand Master Of the Grand Lodge OF New York;
John 1, era e, present Grand Maste$of DO; Clinton r.
Senior Grand Warden; RohOr H. Holmes District Dep
uy Grand MASTER Elias Hicks g. and Secretary; Zenas
olKnighis Tempsrs of New York.
\ he Grand Encampment of knights TIE nplars Of New
York, the FIRST founded in the United States was
founded by the BODY which the Nassau Hall body ema.
nate from. II also founded the Encampment OF Knights
Iemplars at Newport, H. 1. which was the first one
formed in that state consequently the assertion of the
egitmdcy Of the body extends to these Encamrments
founded by them and these Encampments are illegit
mate bodies. The council which this body, who style
themselves the supreme Grand Council" claimed TO
have originated from after diving out In 1873. not
heard from again unit ls47 Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of
"a years The individuals connected with the Mas
sau Hall body are gentlemen, upon whose character
men Islander has not dared to breahe and as members
of the masonic fraternity the verd OF their brethren
who have elected and reelected them to the highest on
ces Of honor and trust is sufficient guarantee Of their
NJ W. Bro E. A. Raymond has for forty years of his
Masonic lie been constantly in ONCE in ihe G neral
Grand Encampment of the u S., the Grand Encamp-
ment of his own state in the General Grand r. A Chap
at the head OF Boston Encampment Of knights en-
plars; of the De Moiay Encampment Of knights TEN
plars oil ST Pauls K Chapter. and still holds offices
of trust in the Grand bodies and has been Grand Master
Robinson, Past Grand aster of the Grand Lodge Of
Mass NJ w Bro Geo D. Randall, d. d., Past Grand
Grand Master OF do NJ. W. Bro Aaron T. Hughes.
Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge Of N H.; NJ. W.
of Rhode Iaud and other less distinguished but equal
" respectable Brethren holding honorable offices in the
In New York and other states, where there
branches of the "Hays supreme Conncl OF which the
Nassau Hall CJnsistOry is one the utmost harmony and
good fellowship prevais but personal difficulties in
Massachusetts spreading dScord among the breth
rem, ami the motive and watchwOrd with some who
hell office is ''rule ruin" But iquia RgQu0nt reg
RdpeTpetua t-authOrty maintained BY Injustice
is never long duration
20 Whoever heard of legitimate body in Masonry
without "a charter warrant empowering them to
work ?"
~ Before associating, brethren with any such body
assert your right to this important proof OF their
legitimacy.
To THE MASONIC FRATERNTrY.-The only body pos
sessng proper authority and HOLDING ANY CHARTER TO
ACT or confer the ''ineflaba degrees in the Of
ssachusetts is that holding regular sessions
at Nassau hall in Boston and under the command Of
ILL., Bro. JOHli X. HALL, Ill. Com. in Chief The at
tentiOn Of all MasOns is called the above and also
to the fact that Masonic body work WithoHt
CHARTER m27 49,