The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-09-27
An Episode In Americas w,...
History.

The following incident, Of which the
oncial statement will be found in Part
III. OF the recently published .His,ory
and Transactions Of the Grand Lodge of
New York, l7S1-1S15,7 deserves % be
noticed with certain degree of partic-
ularity. 1t illustrates so truly the real
spirit of the craft.
At the regular meeting Of the Grand
Stewards Lodge, on 50th MAY. 1872. a
Brother Abrams announced thai several
Poitugese brethren, having been forced
TO quit their homes in the Island Of Ma
delra, through the persecution directed
oy their Government against all Free
masons, had arrived in the City Of New
York. 1t was then and there resolved,
that COMMITTEES be appointed to wait
on the Deputy Grand Master and request
him to call "A meeting Of the Grand
Lodge on Saturday evening next, in or
der that some measures may be taken BY
the Grand Lodge Should they Judge i
expedient) to pay some mark of aiten-
ton to their prosecuted brethren. The
committee 50 appointed consisted 5of
Bros. Abrams, Bright and Adams. A
Grand Lodge OF Emergency was ac =
ingly held on the "a Of june fnIIow,s
when II was explained uils me meetihp
had been called, and it was Immediately
resolved "that q committee be appointed
to wait upon the said brethren, and in
the name of this Grand Lodge to request
their attendance at the next regular
meeting, on Wednesday evening next. {"
The committee thus appointed was Or
dered to consist Of W. Bro. Scott, Bro.
Abrams, and the Grand Secretary, and
they were requested to provide refresh
ment for that evening. r. w. Bro.
Morton was also directed ''to prepare an
address to be delivered by him to the
said brethren" At the meeting of
Grand Lodge on the 9th of the month,
Bro. Morton announced that the COM
mittee appointed by Grand Lodge had
waited on the exiled Portuguese brethren,
and invited them to attend that Grand
Lodge. These brethren had expressed
their sense of the attention of the New
York Grand Lodge, had promised at
tendance and were at the time in wait
ing. Thereupon the committee waited
upon them, and conducted them into
Grand Lodge, where they we're received
by those present with marks of the high
est respect. Bro Morton then delivered
the address he had been directed to pre-
pare, and the exiles having requested
that a copy thereof should be furnished,
it was resolved that Bro. Morton be in
vited to present to them a copy. The
usual business of Grand Lodge was then
transacted, and arrangements having
been made for the Lodges to dine togeth-
er on the 25th of June, in celebration of
the festival of St: John the Baptist's
day, the Madeirans were invited to be
present at the banquet, and though
there is no record of the fact, we presume
the banquet came off as arranged.
There is nothing. perhaps, 50 noticea-
BILE in the above resume of the incident,
as recorded in Grand Lodge minutes, as
the marked simplicity of the record
There is absolutely no parade of circum.
stances. A number Of exiled Masonl
arrive in New York, and the Grand
Lodge addresses them in terms of frater
s-f's>SastlO~ a-s~-s'ssNas>-sL 1ybrrser,oee
banquet. The minutes contain no "taI
talk" but merely the usual dry chroni
Gle of fact. 1t is in the highest degree
creditable to our New York brethren o
1892, that they acted so fraternally anC
simply.-Freemasons' Chronicle.