The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-06
Masonic Column.
ANNUAL MEETINGS.

ANNUAL MEETINGS.
The Grand Commandery of Knights
Templar Of the state of Vermont will hold
its annual conclave at Burlington on Tues
day, June 10, 1877, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Col. Albert B. Jewett, SwanLon, grand
commander; ]. Monroe Poland, Montpe-
lier, grand recorder. The ri on for
eign correspondence " sented by
Edward S. Dana of New len.
The Grand Council of Royal and Select
Masons will hold its annual convention at
Burlington on Tue;day, June ~, at 6
o'clock p. m. Col. Albert G. Hubbell, Ben
nington, grand master; w. II. s. Whit
comb, Burlington, grand recorder The
report on foreign correspondence will be
presented by the grand recorder, W. H. s.
| Whitcomb.
The Grand Lodge of Master Masons will
meet in annual communication at Burling-
ton, Wednesday, June 10. Henry H..
Smith, Rutland, grand master, Henry
Clark Rutland, grand secretary. The re-
| port on foreign correspondence will be pre-
sented by Henry Clark, grand secretary.
The annual assembly of the order of
High Priesthood will occur at Burlington
on Thursday, June IA. Edward s. Dana,
New Haven, president John B. Hollen-
beck, Burlington, grand recorder.
Arrangements will be made for fare one
| way over the several railroads for those at
tending all the masonic bodies.
1t is proposed during the grand lodge at
Burlington to organize veterans associa-
ton to be composed Of Masons who have
been connected with the institution for 25
years or more.
We understand that Burlington Com
mandery, No 2, X. T., are to do escort
of the Grand Commandery of Vermont,
which is to be held in Burlington during
| the present month, and that the Burlington
commandery are now busilY engaged drill
ing.
| The assertion that Herr Won Duchroden,
master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons
Of Prussia, who is at Rome, had become a
convert to Roman Catholicism, is declared,
by his deputy in office, on the authority of
despatch received from the grand master,
to be an infamous falsehood.
| MAsoNs AND PATRIOTS.
| We are the masonic descendants of those
great men of revolutionary times whose
names illumine the brightest pages of hu-
man history-prominent among whom are
Washington the father of his country,
whose name is his eulogy the illustrious
La Fayette, young man of vast fortune,
of high rank, and of powerful connections
at the most brilliant and fascinating court
to the cause of American Independence,
with moral courage without parallel in
history, espoused the gloomy cause Of the
colonies, and sailed for our shores in yes
sci fitted out at his own expense, to Join a
feeble army without clothing or aims, when
| our government was without resources, and
/ our agents in Paris were compelled to con-
| fess that they could not furnish him with
means of transportation the intrepid and
adventurous farmer general, Israel Putnam;
the accomplished Joseph Warren, who ably
defended the rights of his country with his
pen, and afterwards with his sword, and
poured out his precious blood at Bunker's
Hill; Richard Montgomery, the gifted
Irishman, who CALAMITY sacrificed his life
for his adopted country before Que &c
Benz amin Franklin, the philosopher and
patriot, who was characterized by Chat
ham, in the English House of lrds, as one
whom all Europe held in ! '7'.matiOn
for his knowledge and 10 was an
honor, not 10 the Englis. On al ne, but
to human nature John Marshall, the peer
less chief justice of the United States and
James Otis, the inspired orator of Massa.
chusetts, who more than any other man.
except perhaps Patrick Henry. electrified
the people OF the colonies with his match.
less eloquence. Springing from such lin
cage, what manner of men ought freema
sons to be ?--Bro. Hon. A. r. r. Butler
Of Wisc0nein.
TRoUMsCH AS A MASON.
Masonry, the handmade of the christian
religion dwells amongst the wild and inhu
man inhabitants of the woods, as well as II
kings palace. She loves to associate with
the rudest men in their fiercest moods, anC
soften their cruel hearts by her magic in
fluence. To them her symbolisms and mys
teal language speak more eloquently anC
far more impressively than the words o.
any written or spoken tongue The Great
Spirit and the Great Architect are revealed
as the same, by storms on the mountains
the roar OF the waters, and the majestic 81
lence of the forest. tuneful to the sensitive
soul of the child of nature.
To whom has the masonic virtue of OIL
lence, the golden, been more perfectly
taught than to the American Indians
And when that silence is broken, it is will
words few, sententions and dignifed. New
er was this laconic eloquence better illus
trated than in Tecumsehs speech to Gov
ernor Harrison when theinterpreter said tC
him:
"Your father requests you to take Q
: chair"
''My father !" replied Tecumsch, with Q
look of scorn. "The sun is my father, ant
the earth Is my mother, AID on her bosom
will repose," and he threw himself on thu
ground.