Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-09

| tiate into pure FreemssOnry astrayi anu
/ into the bOundless fields Of abstract ana
deisticsl speeHlstions and political COM
/ binations, fatal alike to the DearJ anu
estate Of our brethren. Its prime movers
| who work the wires are to-day IN CON
/ spirsey 70 Overturn Grand Lodges, e1e,'
/ aud wherever they find one Of their VIC
/ tins dissatisfied with the empty titles,
rings, ribbons, stars and all other sorts OF
| fiummery, they give him hope OF power,
and if he can be trusted, be is let In the
ring, and so ends his Masonic integrity.
We are sorry to have to say that Bro
GoULEY resorts to his Imagination for
his facts. There Is no such intention or
idea as he alleges, entertained by the
Chiefs OF the Ancient and Accepted
Rite, and he had no reason, and can
have no excuse, for making 80 ridiculous
and baseless a charge. "Let in the
ring u $50 ends his Masonic integ-
rity !''- "Prime movers who work the
wires.U These are merely libels. We
say distinctly that there is no such inten-
ton or idea. Is any Mason added
enough to believe that Bros. A. 6.
MACKEY, WIN. S. ROCKWELL, BEEJA-
MIN B. FRENCH, JOHN R. MCDANIEL,
THEODORE S. PARvIN, E. H. GILL,
GILES NJ. HIILYER, LUKE f. BARBER,
PHILIP C. TUCKER, JAMES PENN, JOHN
DOVE, and others, of one Jurisdiction,
and Bros. DRUMBIoND, JOHN L. LEWIS,
PALMER and scores Of others OF the
other Jurisdiction, are engaged in such a
Conspiracy Bah! Bro. GoULEY
counts too largely on the eredulity of his
readers.
AS to ribbons, stars snd other hum-
merry" we believe there are some used
in Royal Arch Masonry and Templa-
rism.
Again Bro. GOULEY says.
Our next objection is, that its degrees,
obligations, etc, are antsgonistic to the
rights, integrity and independence Of all
other Masonic bodies, and that it IS its
sworn mission to supplant the York Rite
at any sacrifice and by any means, open
or secret.
There is nothing in the Ancient and
Accepted Rite antsgOnistic to the rights,
integrity or independence OF other Ma
sonic bodies. 1t interferes with none. II
does not confer the three blue Degrees, and
its mission, sworn or unswOrn, is not to sup
plant the York Rite. 1t pursues its own
course, and leaves the York Rite to dc
the same. By other Masonic bodies D
| Bro. GoULEY means Chapters, Councils
and Communicates, as well as Lodges
because he has endesvoured to induce the
Chiefs of the A and A. Rite to agree moi
to give the l4th Degree to any but Roya
Arch Masons, or the 18th to any bu
Templars,-a proposition definitely de
clined, and hiHe Hlos ldchTyH19.
We do not say that the Chapter and
Council Degrees are not Masonry, but
that they are no part Of "Aneient Graf
Masonry" We have ourselves estab
Hshed Councils. We only say that i
they are Masonry, so are the Degrees o
of the A. and A Rite, and older Ma
sonry besides, by half a century. Tenn
plarism is not Masonry. No Degree is
that exclud es men who believe in ont
! GoD and the imm ortality Of the soul.
It is quite true that We give other eI
ulans tons Of the symbols than rhosr
given in the " York Rite" and that w
believe and say that most of these SYM
bols are misunderstood in that Rite
But we do not dream of suppla1ting it.
We do rot propose to establish Lodges t.
work the Blue Degrees according to tn
Scottish Rite. We do think and say
J that only in the Ancient and Accepte'
Rite is the true meaning Of Masoni
: SYMBOLISM, and Of The Blue Degree
themselves, to be found. Ill. Bro
, CHARLES SCOTT, author Of the Analog!
, of Masonry and Revealed Religion, an,
other works, said to US, after studying
, the A. and A. Rite: 81 hsv
) written books on Masonry, an
] thought 1 knew all about it; bu
i I now confess that was perfectly ignC
! rant of its meaning" He was atleas
e a. wise and learned 2 Mason as Bro.
= GoULEY: and no man who knew hir
. will doubt his loyalty to Blue and ChaI
= ter Masonry, any more than they wi
that of H.. Bros. JAMES PENN an
/ WILLIAM ?. MELLEN. Bro. GoULE
is rather q young man and Mason to g.
sail with ribaldry the oldest and anon
i the most eminent Masons in the country
e I've ind, after years Of study and retie'
= ton, and Of refraiHiRg from publication
\ that there is for US, much in Masonr
e both to uulearn and learn and Bro.
}. GoULEY has not yet learned all.
e He offers to give a copy Of the Free
D mason for year, to any Brother WI
q can prove that the ritual Of said Ri
Is has not been materially changed man
y times in their most essential parts sine
-e they were first manufactured.
He is on dangerous ground agail
, Does he not kylotO that the Ritual Of Il
= Templar Degree las Bro. ALFRE
3 CREIeH, K. 7. Of Pennsylvania hi
d proven), was wholly and out-and -o1
h changed by American Ritusl-makers
:, that it does not resemble that used
Ie England at ais and as little that, old
T. than itself, used in Pennsylvania Do
T. he not know that the Royal Arch Degr
70 was radically changed by WEBB? 81
that the Mark Master Degree does not
,s the least resemble the old Degree
a Master Marx Mason? We do; for Y
:. have the Ritual Of the old Degree,
- worked in South Carolina before lSO
;. We will go little further. Does he n
know that the work Of the Blue Degre
has been changed in America, so that
is very different from the English wO
and that used in Canada? We know
- because we have seen both. Does he Il
know that WEBB said that he made #
:, use Of the Scottish Rite Degrees, in r
modelling the lectures? Undoubted
the Degrees Of the Ancient and Accept
Rite have been changed. They hs
been completely revised; and if son
= other Degrees were revised, they wou
!, be all the better for it.
=. The Bro. offers another copy Of
newspaper to any brother who can pro
- - that the said Rite is nat an enemy
- .l,1cjeHt Graft Masonry, and he says;
g There is no such thing in existence
an "houorary degree IN Blue Lodg
lie each degree is part Of one perfect Who'll
so there are tone in three" and the thr
Sc constitute one Lodge perfect iD itsel
n hence, s. candidate must pass through
three 10 become u member Of the LOds
U.s. We know that the secret policy Of tryil
70 10 get Lodges and Grand Lodges to reco
nize the first degree as complete in use
and the other two as honorary"
C sinplv to allow another Rite 10 step
in and take possession of the honora
re. degrees leaving Grand Lodges to II
- upon an "inchoate degree" and whe
=, il could only rest about year, and th
III the said Rite would possess all, for Whi
re, ever is honorary may be conferred
DIV ann bodY. That game will not win.
- il the determination Of the Freenlds
TO upmask the deep laid plans OF sc
ey ereigns" in Council, and TO stand by {
D.. Ancient York Rite against all the mac
,at iuations and inventions Of the age.
all We are sorry to say, that the Brothe
h imagination runs away with him aga
in There is no such secret policy" as
tn speaks OF. We do not suppose that a
"a ! h,,~,a,, creatl1re ever dreamed of tryi