Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-28

ized by JeSulusnl,N y which, as applied by
him is utterly Inappropriate, was used by
as ia reference TO the teachings of fol
lower of FOulhonze in New Orleans.
II is quite true that IN other countries
r than the United States, the Supreme
4 Councils of the Ancient and Accepted
Rite administer the Blue degrees. They
n have right TO do so. They have quite
q IS much right TO charter Lodges, a
4 Grand Lodges in this country have
l. There has been no aggression in the
a case. The Grand Lodges OF the United
= 5tstes are in some respects sal geaeris
a In other countries, mere Blue Lodges
I have become Grand lodges, as the
Lodges Royal York and of the Three
: Globes Ia Berlin. The United States do
not make Masonic law for all the world.
We have all agreed that, in this country,
the Grand Lodges shall exclusively gov
+ ern Blue Masonry but there is not and
never Was any such law in any other
country ;-Auu this is rather a large
world. Moreover, aud lest we should
T be misunderstood, We say that the York
Rite Is DO more real Masonry than the
: French or Scottish Rite; nor any better I:
and that il an American Grand Lodge
would not grant Scottish or French Rite
MasOns a charter TO work under accord
ing to their own Rite, the Supreme
Council could rightfully grant the Char
ter, and onght TO do il. IL will be time
TO talk about our aggressiOns," when
We take any step To interfere
with the Grand Lodges. 1t is enough
to say, as we do now distinctly
say, that there is not one word of truth
in all that the FreeBldSOn has said in re-
gard to the Intentions of the Supreme
Councils to interfere with the York Rite
or the Grand Lodges. We are, OurselE
though Sovereign Grand Commander of
the Supreme Council for the Southern
jurisdiction, a member OF = Lodge
chartered by the Grand Lodge of Ten
nessee, and were one OF the Petitioners
for dispensatiOn for that Lodge. All
that the breeDldSOH contains on that sub
ject is mere bOsh and CANNON, and
much of il great deal worse than that.
] He says: Again, We received let
ter dated October 9Th, from a venerable
Brother in a venerable city, stating that
a meeting had just taken place at the
- House, consisting of the distin-
| guished leaders of the Scotch Rite, both
North and South, and that the better
manner Of ruling Crane. Lodges Dy tax
/ ing in the Memphis Ritz OF ninefy i've
/ degrees was one of the propositions be-
] fore themn
We met H.. Bro. Drummond,
! Grand Commander of the Northern Ju-
rlsdiction, and some members OF the
! Supreme Council for that Jurisdiction, at
/ the Parker House, IN Boston, ia October,
/ and not single word was said in regard
/ to the better manner of ruling Grand
I Lodges, or as TO " taking in - the Mem
4 phis Rite. The whole story is an utter
/ IalsehOOd, how venerable sOeveT the
] Brother who wrote the letter,
-. a
not q word was said about Grand
Lodges or the York Rite, or any thing
about taking in " the Rite OF Mem
| phis nor has such a thing ever been
thought Of.
And we should like to know lCh0t city
is alluded to ii this paragraph
Again, We are advised Uf the cabals
held IN another city, in which the lime
Is counted when the whole York Rite
will be sold cut to the Scotch Rite, aud
it become the sole and ruling power III
Masonry"
We do not believe that any thing of
the kind has been talked OF any where.
We knOl0 that nothing of the sort was
ever talked of in the Southern jurisdic-
ton. or the powers of Supreme Councils
and the duties of Grand Lodges, we, in
dividnally, spoke frankly to the Grand /
.
ago: but We spoke for surself alone.
There IS not, in the whole Southern
jurisdiction, the least trouble between
the Supreme Council aud any Grand /
Lodge; and the only trouble between US 1
aud the Templar organization is in /
Missouri, got up entirely by the Grand /
Commander himself. He deserves 1
for it the severest condemnation of the /
whole Order; and the unknightly and /
UnmasOnic mode in which he conducts {
the controversy is worthy Of the cOntrO. /
versy itself.
The Scottish Rite, he says, ais but an /
infant as Rite" 1t has been worked /
as such for siXty-six years, at least; and /
the Rite of Perfection, in twenty-five of /
its degrees, was worked more than a .
hundred years ago. How old his Rites /
are, we will show in due time. Of
course we do not deny that we have /
changed the work. We suppose that /
the Supreme Council, or even we Ourself, /
had rs much right TO do that as Webb l
had to make degrees, change the whole /
Pemplar work, and manufacture Ma [
sOnry generally.
Hesays that l.. U. Bro. :. Charles Scott /
told Bro. Mitchell, Past Grand Master of 1
Missouri, that after studying the Scotch 1
Rite, be could tell nothing about it-that /
one part Of it pointed thus, Ba5" and /
another part thus, @d5a and another part
thus, and another part thus, 3
OF course we snail not say that H..
Bro.' Scott did not say so but we shall
say that we do not believe it for he was /
a devoted Mason Of the Scottish Rite,
and there are many witnesses here who
can prove how high his appreciation of
10 - -. ]
thing to-day and another Tomorrow
We have not endeavOured " TO raise US
in antagOnism to the III. Brethren
who have been unconscious Of the many
objections which the FFeeDldsOIs has dis
covered, to the Scottish Rite. We only
said that it was singular that Mackey, +
French, Rockwell, Palmer snd many
others had not seen these objections, and
that it was reserved for George Frank
Gouley to discover them.
He does we'll TO commend DR.. FOger's
Masonic % History 1t is Just the kind
of work that we should suppose he would
value. He had better also commend
Masons TO the perusal Of Robson, the
Abbe Barruel, Col. Stone and other anti
Masonic writers, equally veraciOus and
reliable.
When the FreemasOn saws that we
Accepted Scottish Rite is &C the same all
over the world" it makes US say what
we never said, and what its editor k7lolUs
we never said. We are not q fool, TO
make such a statement, which a thou
sand men could contradict.
When be says that we reqret that the
three symbol degrees are not under the
control Of the Scottish. Rite, he says that
which.he has no warrant or right or rea-
son TO say. We have never either ex-
pressed or felt any such regret, and have
no desire to bring about anything Of the
kind, nor any idea that il will ever take
place. We lave no design to reassert
any authority over the Blue Degrees, and
no one has either right or reason to
say SO.
Nor are we "the enemy Of the York !
Rite" We dOnot see or know or acknOwl-
edge that it is any more excellent, in any
respect, than the Scottish OF French !
Rite, or the Rite OF Schroeder of Ham
burg: and we rejoice to see it and every
other Rite of FFeemasonry flourish.
Whether the Grand Constitutions were
really made in lTS7, under the authority p
Of Frederick the Great, We neither know a
nor care. All that the FrseDl0soq saws II
on that point was long ago said by LIE o
Blanc MOrcenuaey, and 1 repeated by s
FOulhOuZe, ana we long ago replied to !
these Brethren in full. Whenever and
wherever made, they are the law Of the
Rite, accepted as such 10 1901, and which
81 who ever took the degrees of the Rite A
have sworn to recognize and obey as its :
law. To prove that Frederick b
sanctioned them by his authority would
not make them any more binding. The -
laws Of Numa were not dictated by I
Egeria, nor those OF Minos by Jupiter;
but they were none the less binding on
hose VINO swore to obey them, as the Z
editor Of the FreenasOn has siOor,l
o obey the Grand Constitutions. How 1
he keeps his oath, he can answer for
himself. Els reference to pages 389 and A
1876, OF the Ritual OF the degrees 10 to 80, q,
10 read which he must have taken and
lid take the obligations Of a Kadosh, is
MS sufficient condemnation and he "
,ould as rlghJfully violate his obligation I
IS Master Mason or Templar as those
which he took as Kadosh. The sane A
.ity Of these obligations az no degree de-
bends on the authenticity Of the Consti-
utions. He cannot lay that haAering -