The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-21

above report and resolution be transmitted to the
Grand Orient Of France, and TO all regularly con-
stituted American and European Grand Lodges.
GRAND sEcRErAx4's OFFICE, OF THE GRAxD)
LODGE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA: GRAND
Lopez HALL, cor. St. Charles and Perdido ste. J
hereby certify that the foregoing contains .
true transcript from the minutes OF the Proceed
ipgs Of the Most worshipful the Grand Lodge Of
the State of Louisans, at its last annual Grand
Communication. held in the City Of New Orleans,
February, 1869. ..+.--
In testimony whereof, have hereunto affixed
the Seal of the Most Worshipfal Grand
Lodge of the State of Louisiana. A. +. and
[Ls.1 A. Masons, together with my Official Sig
nature. this 18th day Of February. A. d.
JAMES G. BACHELOR. M. D..
Grand Secretary.
THE GRAND coss1sroRY AND THE GRAND ORIENT.
The proceedings of the M. p. Grand Consis-
tory Of SUBJ. p. p. of the B.. s.. SD degree, A.
A. Scottish Rite, In and for the State of Louisiana,
have been published. The annual address Of the
ilustrious commander -in-chief contains the follow.
ing remarks:
at is with deep regret that have to announce
to you that the Grand Orient of France has, by
decree of its Grand Master, dated on the 9th day
of November last, established official and friendly
relation between II and the spurious body IN this
city, calling itself the Supreme Council of the A.
and A. 8 Rite, in and for the sovereign and inde-
pendent State of louisiana" and has further
nCkuOWlcQKtQ
pointment of Grand Representatives.
1.-The report made to the Grand Orient by A.
Hermitte, SD, and upon which this decree was
founded, shows fully and concusively that those
who have influenced this action were fully
acquainted with the illegal and clsndestine char
acter OF the body with which Ii has formed this
strange alliance. and that 1t was done with the
full knowledge that In doing 30 10 was grossly vo-
lsting the laws and usaees Of Masonry, and in
fringing in an unwarrantabie manner, upon the
rightful jurisdiction and authority of the Grand
Lodge OF the State of Louisiana, and also upon
that of the Supreme Council Of the Southern juris
diction of the United States for, although the re-,
port Of Bro. A. Hermitte contains number OF
mis-statements, yet 1t very correctly gives the ORR
gin and status of this pretended Supreme Council,
presided over by one Chassaignac. il.-f
alt narrates the fact that the former Supreme
Council Of New Orleans, which had existed since
the year 1889. had. by the solemn act of its own
members, in 1854, been dissolved, and became
merged in the Supreme Council of the Southern
Jurisdiction Of the o. g.. sitting at Charleston. B..
c.; and also that James Foulhotaze, with some
others. had without any other authority than their
own will, constituted this spurious Council, and
that this body so formed had not been acknowl-
edged by the Grand Orient of France or any other
governing body Of Masons in the world but that,
on the contrary, the Grand Orient, after admon-
ishng James Foulhouze to cease from his wicked
and subversive course, and he refusing to do SO,
had expelled him from the Order for his contu-
macy and erased his name from the Book Of
Cold and yet, after giving all these details and
reciting these facts, because the accuser Of Jas.
Foulbouze, Chassaignac. finding himself deserted
by nearly ell of the white men who had been
leagued with him, had taken in, Unfortunately,
number of negroes, as drowning men catch
straws; therefore, it recommends q violation Of
all the oaths and obligations of Masonry by recog
nizng and holding Masonic communication with
this clsndestine and spurious body.
The true Scottish Rite Mssons Of this CONT
nent have ever upheld the rightful and lawful au-
thority Of Grand Lodges over the three symbolic
degrees; and no one In this country is permitted
TO receive any Of the higher degrees Of the A. and
A. Rite, unless he is first q Master Mason and
member in good standing of regular lodge work
ing under the authority of q Grand Lodge Of F.
and A. Mssons. On the other hand, this spurious
body in our city has been compelled, from the
fact that no true Mason would join them, to con-
fer the degrees upon such profanes as it could in
duce to enter their ranks. Thus, they have taken
10 the lame the halt, and all of those whose moral
and physical condition disqualified them from
becoming regular Masons. We owe it as solemn
and imperative duty to the Grand Lodge Of the
State OF Louisiana, TO declare, in most formal
manner, that we will not recognize any man, or
body Of men, as Mssons, who do not recognize its
rightiul authority over symbolic Masonry In this
State.v