Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-18
MASONIC AFFIKAATION WITH Ne
GROES
From the Memnbis Appeal I6tb

From the Memphis Appeal, 18th.
We find Published the following lette
from Garribaldi to Eugene Chassaignae o
New Orleans, who is the presiding Office
OF body styling itself the Supreme Coun
ell of the thirty-third degree for the soy
ereign and independent State of Louis
lana: ia fE
MoNsUsndANo, June 81, Beloved
Brother ] associate fully, indeed, with
your manly resolutions of admitting all
colored brethren ihto your lodges.
He is the Lord of the cedaIs of Leb-
anon, as well as Of the hyssop which
grows best in the deepest reeesses of the
valleys."-Massiil0n.
The G. A. of the U. dispenses light and
air to the lion and the lamb, and holds
to each an equal measure; and he f.
cundates the seed for the ant as we'll as for
man. aai
Your great repnblic-the palladium Of
the worlds freedom-ought not now to
falter in the path Of the emancipation Of
all races, sanctffsd asst has been by 50
much blood and heroism.
An afectionate and triple embr ace to
the brethren from,
Yours for life, G. GARRIBALDI,
Thirty Third.
The body in New Orleans was established
some years ago by James Foulhouze It
has few lodges and other bodies under it,
all Of which the Grand Lodge of Louisi-
ana and the Supreme Council at Charleston
denounce as illegal and spurious. The
persons who are of its obedience are not
recognized as Masons by any regular body
in the United States Mr. Toulouse was
expelled by the Grand Orient of France,
(which made him 33d) for establishing a
body pretending to be Supreme Council,
within the jurisdiction of that of Charles
ton.
Wedo not know that Garibaldi ever regu-
larry received the Esd degree. A patent
was sent him by one Henry ]. Seymour,
who is the head in this country of the Rite
of Memphis, which gave ninety or more
degrees by simply declaring man invested
with them, or by sending him patent for
them. Now, we believe, they have reduced
their degrees to thirty-three. Seymour was
expelled from the Supreme Council of the
SD degree in New York, in 1865, for pro-
pagating the Rite of Memphis, Rite which
the Grand Orient of France has refused to
recognize, except in the first three degrees
1t will be wise for Radical newspapers to
let the subject of colored Masons alone.
The Lodges and Grand Lodges in the
Northern States have always refused TO re-
cognize negroes as Masons, and have al
ways denied that the negro Lodges had
any legitimacy. Whenever it is attempted
to introduce negroes into Masonic Lodges,
a hundred thousand Masons in the North,
aho are Radicals, will oppose tito the bitter
end.
No man can be made Mason in Amer
lea, lawfully, who is not free born. This
Of itself excludes most of the negroes. The
attempt to lug politics into Masonry, and
make freedmen into Masons, will prove
pretty disastrous when it is attempted.
The body in New Orleans has done it, be-
cause it had nearly died out.
Negro Royal Arch Masons and Templars
are utterly illeeitimate and spurious. None
of them ever received the degree legally,
nor was any body of them ever established
by competent authority
There is Grand Consistary of the 32d
degree in Louisiana, for the State, which is
the governing body of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rit in the State, and Of
which Samuel II. Todd is COMMANDMENT
Chief This is under the Supreme Council
of the sd degree, for the Southern iuris-
diction of the United States, whose See is
at Charleston, South Carolina There are
no legitimate Scottish Rite Masons in the
United States, except those of the obedi-
efiSs d that supreme Council, and the
one for the Northern jurisdiction of the
United States at Boston aud neither these
nor the bodies under them recognize the
Foulhouse and Chassaignac people or those
of the Rite of Memphis; nor are negro
Masons recognized anywhere in the country
by any regular Masons. The Radical jour
mails are meddling with matters they know