The Experience Of All Former Ages Had

The Conflict Between The Principle Of Liberty And The Fact Of Slavery Is Coming Gradually To An Issue. Slavery Has Now The Power, And Falls Into Convulsions At The Approach Of Freedom. That The Fall Of Slavery Is Predetermined In The Counsels Of Omnipotence I Cannot Doubt; It Is A Part Of The Great Moral Improvement In The Condition Of Man, Attested By All The Records Of History. But The Conflict Will Be Terrible, And The Progress Of Improvement Perhaps Retrograde Before Its Final Progress To Consummation.

And May That Being Who Is Supreme Over All, The Patron Of Order, The Fountain Of Justice, And The Protector, In All Ages Of The World, Of Virtuous Liberty, Continue His Blessing Upon This Nation And Its Government, And Give It All Possible Success And Duration, Consistent With The Ends Of His Providence.

The Barbarian Chieftain, Who Defended His Country Against The Roman Invasion, Driven To The Remotest Extremity Of Britain, And Stimulating His Followers To Battle, By All That Has Power Of Persuasion Upon The Human Heart, Concludes His Exhortation By An Appeal To These Irresistible Feelings - "think Of Your Forefathers And Of Your Posterity."

The Declaration That Our People Are Hostile To A Government Made By Themselves, For Themselves, And Conducted By Themselves, Is An Insult.

I Do Conscientiously And Sincerely Believe That The Order Of Freemasonry, If Not The Greatest, Is One Of The Greatest Moral And Political Evils Under Which The Union Is Now Laboring ... A Conspiracy Of The Few Against The Equal Rights Of The Many ...masonry Ought Forever To Be Abolished. It Is Wrong - Essentially Wrong - A Seed Of Evil, Which Can Never Produce Any Good.