Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-06-13


correspondence
NEW YORK LoDGE, No. $50, F. and A. Nj.
New York, -, 1866.
EnwIS BooTH, Esq-Dsar Sir and Bro. Tie
Undersigned, at a regular communication of the
New York Lodge, No. $50, were appointed a
committee to draft letter Of fraternal greeting,
IN consideration Of recent occurrences not un-
known TO the public.
Thebapproach the subject with much delicaoy
OF feeling, and would at the threshold beg you
to believe that they are aotuated only by those
high and holy motives which control the MasOpio
intercourse.
Your recent communications which have been
made public through the medium Of the press,
relating to the mournful calamity which has
lately beiallen our common country, have i'm
pressed us with sense Of solemn duty to one
whom, as brother of our Lodge, We owe special
consideration.
While Us Masons, we ore not called upon to
take part in, or cspouse any political cause or
ouJect, we cannot refuse the expression Of our
long time and continued confidence in your
loyalty aud good-standing as a citizen Of the
United States, aud as men and Masons fully
endorsing your status throughout the Masonic
and civic world.
1t nfoTds US distinguished pleasure to be the
organ oil New York Lodge in making this COM
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nal and Masonic confidence of the complete aud
entire reliance of the Lodge, aud of all those
VINO know you best, that your political condi-
lion and iealty to the laws and Constitution Of
the Uaited States has ever been firm and stead.
fast.
Your noble heart, generous nature, and liberal
disposition have ever contributed TO the com O..
mon advancement of our fraternity, aud We feel
Il just pride in being thus permitted to responC
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publicly announced. With tho most extreme
delicacy we indulge the hope that the future
may prove that no 'private woe" may be real
lied by you, by reason of the recent occurrence
OF the national Capital and should our thought
IN this respect result in contradiction, it MAJ
not be improper to say that the members Of New
York Lodge, in common with the country q
large, will most enthusiastically Join o lou
acclaim to the Great Master of the Universe il
grateful thanks for the mercful relief that mus
result TO you and yours; and If, On the contrary
it should appear that our hopes are unsubstan
tial, we tender you our delicate sympathies, anl
most sincere coincidence in the domestic afil ic
tion which must necessarily follow.
In any event, dear brother, we can from per-
sonal and ira;ernal knowledge of you, and you
private aud public career in our midst, endurs
you as good man, true friend, loyal citizen
and q faithful brother, and if advice were needed
we might very properly add in the words of th
poet
Honor and sh anne from no condition rise
Act we'll your part, there oil the honor lies"
In conclusion, dear brother, permit us In th,
discharge of this fraterpal duty to add to ou
official communication, our individual sympa
thies, and renewed confidence under the Iryini
circumstances which now appear to surrount
you, and should our hopes fail of realization WI
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OF the All-wise and mtrciful Being, who
"Tsmpers the wind to the shorn lamb
We subscribe ourselves with very high persona
and Iraterna regards
Your friends and broihers-Wm. j. Buuce
Ihos. f. Morris, ames r. Elsey, Thos j, Leigh
WIN. W. PaddOn, j. II. II o bart Ward, VIM. n
smith, VIM. r. Brewster, committee of Ney
York Lodge, No $50.
No % EAST l9rH STREET
BROTHERS Your fraternal and consoling lette
has come to mo at the hour of my greatest need
1t is very comforting amid the dreadful darEnes
which shrouds my present and my future,
If there eau be compensation for such n ca.
lamity as has overtaken me, it is to be found il
the sentiments you so gracefully express and
as believe. sincerely entertain for me-
thank you. brethren, for the great re lief You,
cheering words convey.
1t has pleased God to aiilict my family as non,
other was ever afflicted
The nature, manner, and extent of the crim,
which has been laid at our door, have crusbef
me TO the very earth my detestation and abhor
renee of the act, in oil its attitudes, are insT.
pressiblei my grief is unutterabe, and were I
not for the sympathies Of friends such as Won h
would be inioleTable.
You bear wit ness to my loyalty, you know m,
persistent and to some extent successful eftori,
TO elevate our name, personally and profession.
ally. For proof of this appeal to the records
of the past.
For the future, also, shall struggle on in mv
retirement, bearing heavy heort, an oppressed
memory, and wounded nnme-dreadfui burden
to my too welcome grave
Your afflicted friend and brother,
Enwiv n IN
To the committee of New Yo.4 Lodge, No.
$50, F. and A. NJ o. awe
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