Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-04
MASONIC INrELLIGENCE.


AMERICAS MASONIC TEHPLAHIsH.
Cuder the mischievous influences Of
Gsorge Frank Gouley. in whom, we
think, Esal rather outruus wisdom, the
{ Grand Commaudery Of the Brethren
, no style themselves knight Tenn
plan, " in Missouri, hss adopted, as part
Of It's Constitutions or statutes, the fol-
lowing:
ARTICLE XT.
Section =. All Knights TeuplArs hold
/ ing membership within this Jurisdiction,
are hereby forbidden from hOldiug any
/ Templar communication with any Rite
or so called power, which claims Inc
night 10 confer the orders Of kuighthOOd
/ or any part u them within this jdrisdio-
/ tiOT, outside OF the sutbority Of this
Grsud Commandery, aud all Templar
/ Communication is hereby forbidden With
( any one receiving the orders ~ Masonic
/ kuiRhthnud, or any psrt of them within
T ihis Grslld TpmpISr Jurisdiction, unless
the parties 80 receiving them shall re-
Huunce the same aud recogniz5 as Tenn
z plsfs The supremacy Of this Grand
Body.
We have also been furnished with the
f-liowipg copy Of resolution Of the
same body:
Resolved, That IN vlndication Of the
prer0gstiv's of this Grand Body as the
supreme Authority over the orders Of
Masonic knightho0d in this Jurisdiction,
% j hereby ordered that no Knight
TrHIplsr holding allegiance 20 the Grand
Command ~ of Missouri, can be pres
ent IN any 81 the bodies Of the raid
3 cslied A. a. Z Rite, and witness or
assist lu the cGnftrring of any Of their
degrees upon any one who has not
siresdy received the Orders Of Knight
hood la "a regularly constituted Com
mAudHry Of Knights TempiSr.
ATTEST: t.EO. FRANK GDULFf,
Grand LOmm lndeIy.
The Mssons of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite in the United States
have often been provoked t. expose the
di,iugeuuLu mess OF some, and the iguor.
ance ard shaliow self cUnceit Of Others,
Of tbUse who have imagined that they
could With impUuiIy repeat .bs denua-
cistlous Of the higher degrees Of Free
masonry, Rith which the works Of two
OF three French Brethren many years
ago made them familiar. They have
been reluctant 10 ret0rt upon tbs writers
Of Their Rite and to strip them Of their
gaudy feathers. We, among Others, have
therefore, uutu now, bsrne 10 silence
out when an organized body % an Order
which took $ Gegrees from the scale Of
the Rite Of Perfection, aud is only au-
thentic aud legitimate SO far A. IL can
deJuce its descent from the Princes OF
Jerusalem aud the KadOsll, undertakes |
to tracize the Rite which 1t has plum
dereT, 10 cboic. is lett US bat to expose |
its preteusions to contempt, and force it /
back into it. proper place.
The authorities Of the Anrieut and Ac /
cepted Scottish Kite Ia the United States
have never opened their lips to speak in
drpyeciation OF the American Tenn /
plar Order, one Of ,ohose STATE Grand /
Bodies, lthat Of New YOrk Wds actually I
creafsd Jy the Syerious CsT.te1u Grand /
touxistorg or Supreme Council Of The S3a
Geqree. established in New York by JO-
seph Cerneau, a French jsweller, who
belonged ~ the order Of the Rite Of Per
fiction In Sante Domingo, aud pretended
to he Deputy Inspector General
On the contrary, by the regulations Of
the Rite iu the southern jurisdiction OF
the United States high honors are directed
10y courtesy to be paid to the officers OF
the Templsr organization. The Grand
Master Of Templars OF the United States
is a member Of the Supreme Council for
the Northern jurlsdiction and the Past
Grand II 4ster is q member Of the So
preme Council Tor the Southern Jurisdic-
tiou of the United States.
As il does not content the Tsmplars Of
Missouri that these kindly and harmoni-
Gus relations shall continue, We will show
them where their "Order" had its origin
and shall probably cause them to regret
thst they had not let well-enough
alone"
What, then, is American Masonic
Templarism Let history answer the
inquiry.