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 UNIVERSITY 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
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 COLLECTION MADE BY 
 
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 AND BEQUEATHED TO 
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
CELEBRATION 
 
 Of It. 
 
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 GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 AT THE 
 
 Q^Ilct^onic 'temple, ^o:&ion^ 
 
 WEDNESDAY EVENING, 
 
 X)KC. Sy, 1871. 
 
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 122 Washington Street. 
 1872. 
 
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CELEBRATION 
 
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 GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 AT THE 
 
 "^SUa&anic "^cwjric^ ^o^ton^ 
 
 WEDNESDAY EVENING, 
 
 DKC. 37, 187-1. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 PRESS OF ROCKWELL & CHURCHILL, 
 
 ie2 Washington Street. 
 
 1872. 
 
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BANQUET 
 
 At the conclusion of the installation ceremonies of the 
 Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, on Wednesday evening, 
 December 27, 1871, the members of the Grand Lodge, and 
 ' other guests, by invitation of Grand Master Nickerson, 
 proceeded to the Banquet Hall in the Temple, where the 
 tables had been spread by Bro. J. B. Smith, with a boun- 
 tiful supply of creature comforts. A portion of Gilmore's 
 Band were in attendance, whose music during the evening 
 added much to the pleasure of the occasion. 
 
 The company standing in their places at the tabic, a 
 blessing was asked by W. Grand Chaplain Quint, where- 
 upon Grand Master Nickerson, mounting a chair, ad- 
 dressed them as follows : — 
 
 Brethren of the Grand Lodge : — One of the first oflBcial 
 acts of my distinguished predecessor was an order for the 
 destruction of an elevated platform that once stood on this 
 spot. Upon that platform we were accustomed to erect the 
 table, around which were gathered the dignitaries of the Fra- 
 ternity on occasions like the present. The platform was de- 
 molished, and we were all reduced to the same level. The 
 principle is excellent, but unfortunately it sometimes works 
 badly when reduced to practice. He supposed that you would 
 
4 BANQUET. 
 
 always select for his position men as big as himself. He did 
 not dream that j'ou would ever commit the indiscretion of put- 
 ting so small a man as myself in so large an ofHce. By this 
 levelling act of his, at the very outset of my career, on the 
 occasion of my first appearance in the character of G-rand 
 Master, I am placed in the mortifying predicament of being 
 obliged to exhibit my short-comings to you, and to demonstrate 
 that in one respect, at least, you have made a mistake in your 
 selection of a Grand Master ; I am driven to the undignified 
 expedient of literally taking the chair, iu order that I may look 
 in all your faces while I welcome you, as I do most cordially, 
 to the Feast of Saint John the Evangelist. That it should be 
 no more worthy of you and of the occasion, "'my poverty and 
 not my will consents." Such as I have give I unto you. Eat, 
 drink, and be merry. 
 
 "And the night shall be filled with music, 
 And the cares that infest the day, 
 Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, 
 And as silently steal away." 
 
 Brethren, the mutton is cooling. Stand no longer upon the 
 order of your going, but go in. 
 
 The company were immediately seated, and an hour 
 was very happily spent in jjartaking of the good things 
 with which the tables were loaded. The Grand Master 
 then called the company to order. 
 
 Brethren of the Grand Lodge, — You will all rise, with 
 your glasses in the left hand. As the first regular sentiment 
 appropriate to the occasion, I give you, — 
 
 ' ' The Memory of the Holy Saints John. — May we ever epiulate their 
 virtues, and keep ourselves circumscribed witliin their precepts." (With 
 the Honors.) 
 
B A X Q U E T . O 
 
 ,Thf. Geand Masteb. — Brethhen: I give you the second 
 r(;;rnlar toast, and again you must rise. It requires no intro- 
 duction, and will find its fitting response in your own hearts. 
 I give you, Brethren, — 
 
 " The Memory of George Washinyton." 
 
 This to;i,t having been drank, the Grand Master said : — 
 
 Bretheek, — Masons are good citizens, and as such are 
 taught to pay due respect to the Chief Magistrate. I therefore 
 give you, as the third regular sentiment, — 
 
 " The President of the United States. — Jlay God have him in His holy 
 keeping." 
 
 The band played, "Hail Columbia." 
 
 SPEECH OF M.W. GBAND MASTER XICKEESO^T. 
 
 Beetheek : — In the year 1733, the Earl of Montague, then 
 Grand Master of England, commissioned R.W. Hexry Peice as 
 Provincial Grand Mastf-r for New England. In that com- 
 mission, he expressly willed and required that the Brethren 
 under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Grand Master should 
 celebrate each year, the Feast of St. John the Evangelist. The 
 first Feast of St. John the Evangelist held on this continent 
 took place in the " Bunch of Grapes Tavern" in King street, 
 Boston, on the 27th of December, 1733, and it was annually 
 celebrated, either at the "Bunch of Grapes Tavern," or the 
 " Green Dragon Tavern," every year from that time until the 
 breaking out of the Revolution. 'That interrupted the Feast as 
 well as many other Masonic duties. It was only observed at ' 
 intervals, I think, fron) that time until the year 18.57, or 1858, 
 when, under the administration of Grand Master Heard, the 
 
b BANQUET. 
 
 Feast was revived, and since that time it has been celebrated, 
 in some form or other, at each annual recurrence. 
 
 I am extremely gratified, Brethren, to see so large an 
 assembly on the occasion of this celebration. I am indebted 
 to my predecessor for the hint of an important feature in these 
 festivities. It is forty years since the Freemasons of Boston 
 and vicinity issued the Declaration, a copy of which I have 
 caused to be placed under each plate to-night. I believe that 
 that Declaration has not been reprinted since it was originally 
 issued, Dec. 31, 1831. Of the fifteen hundred Brethren who 
 signed it, probably not ten per cent, survive. About four 
 hundred and fifty signed it, in Boston, and as nearly as I can 
 ascertain, only about forty-five of them are living. Several of 
 those Brethren are present to-night, including the author of the 
 Declaration. We thought it ii'ould not be safe to postpone the 
 celebration to the fiftieth anniversary of the date of the Dec- 
 laration, for fear that there might be no survivors present with 
 us. For the purpose of giving you the fullcist and most com- 
 plete explanation of the state of things at that time, I propose. 
 Brethren, to call up first on this occasion the author of that 
 Declaration, and he will excuse me if, in doing so, I become a 
 little personal, and venture to tell a story which is familiar to 
 a few of you, but probably to most will be entirely new. 
 
 Some years ago, a company of Masonic Brethren left Boston 
 for a fishing excursion down the harbor. The winds blew, the 
 waves were tempestuous, and many of these Brethren were 
 terribly sick. They wished they hadn't come. They gave more 
 than they took from Neptune, and some of them were disabled 
 through the whole day, among whom were the then Recording 
 'Grand Secretary, and our venerable Father Martin, so well 
 known to many Brother Masons. They were stretched out at 
 full length on the deck of the yacht, and didn't care much 
 
BANQUET. 7 
 
 whether they lived or died, whether they went overboard or 
 not. After lying in this manner for some time, Brother Moore 
 wriggled and twisted, and finally said, "Brother William, move 
 a little ; I want to stretch my legs." Father Martin retained his 
 wit, in spite of the condition of his body, and he immediately 
 replied, " Oh, don't ! ! ! Charles, don't ! ! ! ! they are long enough 
 already.'' (Laughter.) Looking upon" it in the light in which 
 Father Martin regarded the subject, we cannot dispute that he 
 was quite right ; but as Masons, we must all admit, that if a 
 man is a good Mason, the more of him there is, the better. 
 (Applause.) At any rate, on this occasion, it is my duty to 
 draw him out. (Great merriment.) In my judgment. Breth- 
 ren, notwithstanding he has been in the service of the Frater- 
 nity, in some position or other, for more than forty years, the 
 grandest service he ever rendered -the Institution was in 
 writing that Declaration. (Applause.) If he had done 
 nothing else, he would be entitled to honor from this assembly. 
 Brethren, I give you the health of Right Worshipful Charles 
 W. Moore, the author of the Declaration. He is a Mason of 
 fifty years' standing, and six feet two in his stockings. Long 
 as he is, we would not bate one jot or tittle of him. (Loud 
 applause and laughter.) 
 
 Song, — " So say we all of us." 
 
 SPEECH or E.W. CHAELES "W. MOORE. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : — I could wish that I 
 was just now down the harbor trying to catch cod, and my 
 Bro'ther Martin was really pulling my legs out. I think I 
 should stand a chance of getting off better than I shall here. 
 But my first duty'is, to thank you' most cordially, and from the 
 bottom of my heart, for the opportunity you have afforded the 
 
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 few remaining survivors of the signers of the Declaration to 
 come together on this occasion. I regret that they are not all 
 here. The number is very small, but it would have been very 
 gratifying, I know, to the Brethren, to have looked upon their 
 faces once more, and probably for the last time in life. 
 
 Sir, I thought, when you suggested that I should be expected 
 to speak on this occasion, that perhaps it would be interesting 
 to the Bi-ethren, if I should go back to the time of the anti- 
 Masonic excitement, and trace its history down at least to the 
 period when this Declaration was demanded by the public 
 sentiment ; but the clock admonishes me that short speeches 
 must be the rule and order of the evening. I cannot, however, 
 pass on through much of this history, without stopping to 
 refer briefly, in a single word, to some of its more prominent 
 facts, omitting all the collaterals, all the incidents, which I 
 know would be interesting to my Brethren, who are not, 
 probably, well informed as to the transactions which occurred 
 fort}^ years ago in relation to our Institution. 
 
 I desire, in the first place, to notice a fact of some impor- 
 tance, which has been too generally overlooked in the dis- 
 cussion of the subject, and which teaches a lesson that may be 
 useful to all hereafter. This fact is, that the anti-Masonic 
 excitement which overran this country like a tornado from 1826 
 down to 1834, when it was killed off in Massachusetts, is 
 traceable directly to the bad management of the Fraternity in 
 the interior counties of the State of New York. There had 
 been, as early as 1822, or 1823, serious differences in the 
 Grand Lodge, between the Lodges in the western part of the 
 State and those located in the eastern part. I cannot go into 
 the details, but the result was, that the Grand Lodge was 
 divided into two rival bodies, one of them holding its sessions 
 at Albany, and the other in the city of New York. The great 
 
BANQUET. 9 
 
 I'adical mistake, however, ■was, that the whole jurLsdlction was 
 thrown open tp be occupied in common bj' both bodies. The 
 conseqnence of this anomalous arrangement was, that it created 
 in the State two rival Grand Lodges, and the natural sequence 
 was that rival Lodges were scattered about all over the terri- 
 tory ; the ambition of each being, not only to multiply 
 Lodges, but to increase tlie members of them ; and all along 
 the line of the canal, where\er there was a boat landing, or an 
 inconsiderable village, there was a Lodge to be found. Can- 
 A'assers, either by appointment, or as volunteers, were active 
 in all the Western counties, and persons were urged to come 
 into the Institution, who had no more right or claim to be there 
 than they had to be in any other good place, or to associate 
 with honorable men. They were brought in, forced in, ■without 
 the paj-meut of any money, but on notes and due-bills, and when 
 the time came for a settlement and a readjustment of the 
 pending difflcnlties, and a reunion of the bodies, thousands of 
 dollars rolled into the Grand Lodge in due-bills, that had 
 never been paid, and which there bad never been any intention 
 to pay. This condition of things was one precisely adapted to 
 produce the ri^sults which followed. 
 
 This view of the case has usuallj- been allowed to pass 
 without special remark, in discussing the attendant causes of 
 the excitement. Our New York Brethren suffered as we all 
 suffered : but the lesson which the fact teaches, is of too much 
 importance to the present and future welfare of the Institution 
 to be wholly passed over in silence. We ai'e always in more 
 danger from internal differences and dissensions than from the 
 open and fanatical attacks of our enemies. 
 
 In this way the soil was prepared, and the seed was sent 
 forth, froui the little town of Batavia, by a clique of men, of 
 whom William Morgan was the principal, having as aceesso- 
 
10 BANQUET. 
 
 lies, David C. Miller, who was then the publisher of a paper in 
 BataTia, and David Johns, employed as an .emissary and 
 agent in circulating the writings of Miller and Morgan all over 
 the State. The proper explanations were not made by the 
 official organs of the Craft. Our Brethren were alarmed, and 
 misled by their groundless fears. They were more timid then 
 than they are to-day about what it is proper te say abroad, or 
 what it often becomes necessary to say openly. They took the 
 alarm, and the natural results followed. But I will not trouble 
 you with tracing that record. There is, however, one fact that 
 I desire to state, and that is, that the last that was heard of 
 Morgan, he was in Fort Niagara, near Lewiston, N. Y., in 
 charge of Edward Giddings, a seceding Mason, and the author 
 of the first, and perhaps most unscrupulous and scandalous 
 anti-Masonic AJmanac ever published in this or any country ; 
 and if Morgan was ever feloniously^ put out of the way, it was 
 by the party who were most interested in it, of which Giddings 
 was one of its most efficient and trusted agents. 
 
 In September, 1826, the excitement broke out in New York, 
 and by the summer of 1827, the State was all in a blaze. 
 There was no safety in the interior counties of the State for 
 any man who had the courage to avow himself to be a Mason. 
 The coaches, as thej" drove up to the hotels, were stopped, the 
 doors were thrown open, and the inquiry was made, whether 
 there were any Masons there. The whole business of the State 
 was interrupted ; churches were broken up, and Masons denied 
 communion with them ; families were divided ; fathers were set 
 against their sons, and mothers against their daughters. This 
 last fact may seem a little singular ; but when I tell you that 
 the women in the western part of the State held a convention 
 at one time, and voted that their daughters should never marr}' 
 
BANQUET. 11 
 
 . a Mason, you will understand that suck a condition of things 
 might very well exist. 
 
 Such was the position of affairs in 1827. In the summer of 
 that year, while this anti-Masonic fire was raging with great 
 violence all over the State of New York, and had extended 
 itself to Eastern Ohio, swept over Michigan, and touched the 
 western part of Pennsylvania, a resident of the neighboring 
 town of Milton, a gentleman of mercurial temperament and not 
 over-particular in his discriminations between right and wrong, 
 visited that hot-bed of anti-Masonry, took the infection, and 
 brought it to Massachusetts. He engaged with him a person 
 who was at the time the postmaster of his village ; another, a 
 lawyer, who was a fit instrument for his purpose, but whom I 
 cannot stop to describe. These three, big with the importance 
 of their mission, united, and came into Boston, and enlisted with 
 them in their unrighteous work such men as Phelps, Odiorne, 
 Gassett, et id omne genus, and employed the notorious Avery 
 Allen, a seceding Mason, as a public lecturer. Such was the 
 beginning of the anti-Masonic excitement in Boston. It soon 
 worked itself into all the neighboring towns, broke up many of 
 our Lodges, spiead dissensiofi in our churches, and demoralized 
 too many of our clergy, too many (God knows, too many) of 
 whom, trampling their obligations under their feet, joined our 
 enemies, and, in many instances, did us more harm than all the 
 other opposition that was arrayed against us. Among them, 
 I am reminded, was Moses Thacher, of Wrentham, a man who 
 had been made, gratuitously, a Knight Templar in the Provi- 
 dence Encampment, paying simply the small initiating fee to 
 the Grand Encampment of the State. He took those degrees, 
 and on the first opportunity turned against us, betrayed us, 
 and came out one of the most active and dangerous, because 
 one of the most talented, anti-Masons in the State. He 
 
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 subsequently went into the Legislatui-e, and served one year as 
 Senator, and I have heard of him as having been within a year 
 near his old location, from which he was ejected for his immor- 
 alities aside from his anti-Masonic and religious views. 
 
 Well, sir, the excitement continued. It worked its way, as I 
 have said, into our villages. As in New York, it broke up 
 Masons engaged in business, wherever it obtained a foothold. 
 Many of our Ltidges were swept away, entirely broken up. I 
 had occasion subsequently, in settling up matters, to visit some 
 of them myself, and I found their working materials and all 
 their property in some cases stowed away in attics. I remem- 
 ber that in one instance, out here in Taunton, I found the 
 material scattered about in a dirty attic, where a few Brethren, 
 not more than three or four, were in the habit, during the 
 excitement, of meeting and cultivating the ritual of the Order. 
 Among them was a friend by the name of Brown, — I have 
 forgotten his given name. There were not more than half a 
 dozen at that time who were willing to avow themselves 
 Masons and to stand by the Institution. Few men in the small 
 towns could do so without sacrificing their personal comfort 
 and that of their families. ^ 
 
 In 1830, or a little earlier than that, the Grand Lodge was 
 occupying the old State House in this city. Their lease had 
 expired, and it became necessary that they should provide for 
 themselves a new location, — a thing that was not verj- easily 
 done. With a very small sum in the treasury, and perhaps 
 some debts upon them, they purchased the land on which the 
 old Temple, here on Tremont street, was subsequently built. 
 In October of that year they laid the corner-stone. Notwith- 
 standing anti-Masonry was so violent here at that time, that 
 no Mason could walk through the streets without being pointed 
 at and denounced as a murderer, such as "There goes one of 
 
BANQUET. 13 
 
 the murderers of Morgan ;" " There goes one of those knightly 
 assassins," and all such opprobrious and insulting epithets, — 
 the Grand Lodge had the firmness and determination to lay 
 that corner-stone with a public procession. This was formed 
 at Faneuil Hall in October, 1830 ; and after the Brethren had 
 got together and organized within the building, they marched 
 out of the door now in front of Quincy Hall, into a crowd 
 such as the eye, at that time, rarely rested upcta. The entire 
 square, as well as Merchants' Row and North Market street, 
 and every place where anybody could get an opportunity to 
 see, was crowded with people. The Grand Marshal who led 
 off on that day, or one of the Assistant Marshals, was Lj'nde 
 M. "Walter, a young man, but a man of a good deal of nerve ; 
 and Masons at that time had a good deal of nerve, particularly 
 those who dared to come out in a procession. He walked out 
 with his baton in his hand, and, with his head erect, marched 
 into that crowd. It was the grandest exhibition of moral 
 courage that my eyes ever fell upon. (Applause.) Old men, 
 with gray hairs and trembling limbs, our oldest and most sub- 
 stantial citizens, such men as Thomas Denny, Thomas Mel- 
 ville, Francis Welch, Thomas B.* Wales, Rev. Thaddeus M. 
 Harris, Revu Dr. Samuel Osgood, of Springfield, and hundreds 
 of others, of equal weight of character and social position, were 
 among the number, and they walked into that crowd as the 
 cavalry at Balaklava walked into the Russians. Of course we 
 had the police there, for Mayor Otis had taken charge of that, 
 to open a way for us, and we moved on steadily through Mer- 
 chants Row. and up State street, the whole way lined with 
 anti-Masons, and every ten steps we heard the taunt, " There 
 go the murderers ! " Men would come up to the Boston 
 Encampment, and say, " You are the men who killed Morgan ; " 
 and the crowd hooted and yelled at the "assassins," as 'they 
 
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 called us. It. was a trying time, and it required a good deal of 
 nerve to meet it ; b^it it ivas met, and the corner-stone ivas laid. 
 In a few weeks, as soon as the building rose above the ground, 
 those infamous scoundrels went, in the night-time, and wrote 
 upon its corner-stone, " Golgotha ; " intimating that there was 
 the place for assassins, a building erected for murder, " the 
 place of the skulls." 
 
 The corner-stone was laid ; but the excitement increased 
 rather than diminished. I should have stated before, that prior 
 to this time, — a year before, I think, — the anti-Masons had 
 raised a fund to establish a paper in the City of Boston, called 
 the " Anti-Masonic Free Press," one of the editors of which was 
 a young lawyer of the name of Paine, — Asa Warren Paine, who 
 was at one time Secretary of one of our Lodges. Associated 
 with him was another young lawj'er, one of his own class, by 
 the name of George W. Adams. They conducted that paper 
 with such assistance as they could get from Ga^sett, and 
 Phelps, and other violent anti-Masonic leaders, for some time. 
 It was even more violent after the laying of the corner-stone 
 of the Temple than before ; but, feeling that their force was 
 inadequate to the purpose they had in view, since there were 
 over two thousand Masons who dared to appear in procession in 
 the streets of Boston in defiance of their maledictions, the party 
 sent on to Providence, and engaged Mr. Benjamin F. Hallett 
 to take charge of a new paper to be published semi-weekly in 
 Boston, which was called the "Anti-Masonic Advocate." 
 That paper was supported by Henry Gassett, John D. Wil- 
 liams, and other men of means. I am told that Mr. Williams' 
 part of the es^^ense was $20,000. However, it went on, up to 
 1830. The public mind, after that procession, for it had an 
 effect upon the intelligent people of Boston, got very uneasy. 
 Men were willing to believe, though without any just reason, 
 
BANQUET. 15 
 
 that Masonry interfered too much with politics, but they were 
 not willing to admit that Masons could possibly be guilty of 
 the scandalous charges alleged against them. They said, 
 however, that it was imperative upon them, out of respect to the 
 interests of the community (which meant the interests of party), 
 and out of respect to themselves personally, that if these 
 charges were not true, they should be denied. The Grand 
 Ledge thought then, that it understood its own business about 
 as well as the politicians did, and they were not prepared 
 immediately to do it. However, it was pressed so hard upon 
 the Fraternity in Boston, that Grand Master Jenkins called 
 around him his officers and advisers, and suggested to them 
 the expediency, the necessity, indeed, of coming out with some 
 official denial of them. Two or three conferences, I think, 
 were held, but they could not agree upon any proper document 
 to be laid before thp public. The Hon. Francis Baylies, one of 
 the able men, and one of the most distinguished of his day, 
 prepared, as I was told (for I was not present at those meet- 
 ings) , a long, and of course a learned and powerful argument, 
 to lay before the people. There was the mistake. It was not 
 an argument that the occasion called for, or that the ' people 
 would read if they had it. The consequence of this disagree- 
 ment was, a postponement of the subject from time to time 
 until the patience of the Brethren in the city was entirely 
 exhausted. 
 
 It so happened that just at that time there was in existence 
 a little body of faithful, firm Brethren, who did not fear to look 
 anti-Masonry in the face, who had no fears of any personal con- 
 sequences, and who devoted themselves night and day to the 
 protection of our Institution, and devising means for its defence. 
 That little body was known at that time as the " Boston En- 
 campment of Knights Templars." (Applause.) It was a glo- 
 
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 rious body, and if there is one organization in this whole coun- 
 try to wliich the Masonic Institution is more indebted than 
 another, it is to that littl« band of twenty-five or thirty, of 
 faithful, stanch, and intelligent Brethren. (Applause.) Their 
 custom was to meet at each other's houses every Friday night, 
 to consult on the condition of the Institution, and to enjoy 
 themselves, as a matter of course. There wasjno movement 
 during that whole excitement ; there was not a substantial 
 measure taken to meet it or allay it, that was not either origi- 
 nated or immediately seconded by that little band. Finding 
 tliat the Grand Lodge was dilatory, as they thought, on one 
 Friday night, at the house of the venerabje and beloved Brother 
 Robert Lash, it was proposed that the Boston Encampment, 
 small as it was, should come out, over their own names, and 
 give the lie to the scandals with which they were dailj' and 
 hourly assailed. (Applause.) A committee was then ap- 
 pointed, of which I was made chairman, with my brother Dame 
 here as my associate, to draft a paper to be presented at the 
 ensuing meeting of the Encampment, at the house of our la- 
 mented brother, Thomas Power. I wrote that Declaration, and 
 presented it at his house, and it was immediately accepted, and 
 measures were at once taken to have it signed by the members. 
 But it soon got out, perhaps the next day, that the Encamp- 
 ment were moving in the matter. It was then found necessary 
 to print a few copies to be circulated in the city of Boston. 
 We did not contemplate, as I have said, going beyond the En- 
 campment, but the Brethren pressed us so hard, that a few 
 copies were printed and put into the hands of members, and 
 the leading Masons of the city were vraited upon, — among 
 
 them, Grand Master Jenkins, an honorable, devoted brother 
 
 and they immediately endorsed the plan, abandoned whatever 
 they had before the Grand Lodge, and adopted this Declaration. 
 
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 In less than a week it was signed by four hundred and thirty- 
 seven good, substantial, faithful, Masonic Brethren, resident in 
 the city of Boston. 
 
 I should state further that the cou.ntry members, hearing of it, 
 came forward and desired to sign it, and before it was pre- 
 pared to be published, as you have it now, it was signed by 
 over fourteen hundred and thirty Masons. It was subsequently 
 adopted by the Grand Lodges of Rhode Island and Connecti- 
 cut, and was sighed by more than six thousand Masons here in 
 New England. 
 
 This Declaration was the first heavy blow given to anti-Ma- 
 sonry, but it did not kill it. It continued on until it received 
 two other blows in Massachusetts, namely, the surrender of the 
 civil charter of the Grand Lodge in 1834, in a memorial to the 
 Legislature which I had the honor to write, and the trial of 
 Moore and Seavy for an alleged libel on Samuel D. Green, then 
 editor of the Boston " Anti-Masonic Christian Herald," in 
 which the defendants proved the plaintiff to be a man of a de- 
 praved and vicious character, and were of course acquitted, 
 and this virtually terminated the contest. 
 
 But, Most Worshipful Grand Master, I am occupying more 
 time than I should, and after thanking you again for your 
 kiijdness in affording an opportunity to the remaining few who 
 signed that Declaration to be with you to-night, I will, with 
 your permission, ask those who are here to rise. 
 
 Several gentlemen rose, and were greeted with hearty 
 and proldbged cheers. 
 
 Hon. Marshall P. Wilder. — I propose, sir, with all solem- 
 nity, as some of the few who are here will probably never cele- 
 brate this anniversary again, that the names of the surviving 
 members who are present be called. 
 3 
 
18 BANQUET. 
 
 The Graud Master called the names, the venerable gen- 
 tlemen remaining standing, and responding as they were 
 called, the large company cheering with the utmost hearti- 
 ness and enthusiasm : — 
 
 R-W. WiNSLOw Lewis. Bk. John Bigelow. 
 
 E.W. Chaeles W. Moore. Bk. E. B. Poster. 
 
 R.W. Abraham A. Dame. Br. Samttel Millard. 
 
 E.W. Marshall P. Wilder. Br. William Palfret. 
 
 K.W. George G. Smith. Br. Jo^n T. Ddtglet. 
 W. Br. Lovell Bick^jell. 
 
 Br. Moore continued : — 
 
 Brethren, — We are indebted to our Most "Worshipful Grand 
 Master for an opportunitj' once more to meet around the festive 
 board. It is the last time, probably, that so many of us will 
 ever be permitted to meet on an occasion like this. It is right 
 and proper, therefore, that we should here pledge a glass of 
 wine to those departed Brethren who stood by us and by our 
 Institution in the time of trouble and of trial. I propose, then, 
 that one glass of wine shall be pledged to them. 
 
 The Grand Master. — Brethren : I now present to you one 
 of the oldest Masons in the jurisdiction. Stand up, Brother 
 Sheppard, and let the light of your countenance shine upon 
 your Brethren. Rise up, Brethren, before the hoary head, and 
 honor the face of the old man. Let us drinli the health of our 
 Past Junior Grand Warden, R.W. John H. Sheppard. 
 
 Drank standing, and in silence. The band then played 
 the air, "Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot." 
 
BANQUET. 19 
 
 SPEECH OF R.-W. JOHN H. SHEPPABD. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : — The lateness of the 
 hour, and the exceedingly interesting detail of the unhappy- 
 troubles that took place in the days of anti-Masonry, which we 
 have just heard, render it hardly proper that I should presume 
 to make many observations ; still I felt it would be an honor on 
 this occasion to partake with you in the festive banquet of St. 
 John at a time when our Institution was flourishing beyond 
 what was ever known in this or any other country, and at a 
 time when everything looked so prosperous around us ; for it 
 may be that this is the last opportunity I shall ever have to cel- 
 ebrate a festival of St. John in the Grand Lodge or in any 
 other Lodge. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master, there is not probably at 
 this table one whose years have been lengthened out like mine. 
 I am over eighty-two years of age, and it is nearly sixty years 
 since I was made a Mason. (Loud applause.) Nearly two 
 generations have passed away since that took place. I was 
 made a Mason in Lincoln Lodge, in a flourishing seaport of 
 Maine, in one of the only three Lodges at that time existing 
 in that State ; a Lodge which afterwards flourished beyond all 
 others in that district (for then it was a district) , and a Lodge 
 which came forward at the very time, to which Brother Moore 
 has referred, of the anti-Masonic movement, although but few 
 in number, with the firmness of a Macedonian Phalanx, to re- 
 sist those enemies. In the little town of Wiscasset, where we 
 lived, we were exposed to insult, we were threatened with ex- 
 pulsion from the church, and with deprivation of our oaths in 
 court, and in various ways were persecuted. I well remember 
 those days, and nearly all that Brother Moore has stated is as 
 familiar to me as any of the early incidents of my life. It was 
 
20 BANQUET. 
 
 at that time, — pardon me, Most Worshipful Grand Master, if I 
 speak of myself, but sometimes U may be necessary, — at that 
 very time we me{, and an address was delivered in defence of 
 Masonry, against the anti-Masonic Society, and that address 
 was published in Boston, passed through three editions, and 
 three thousand copies were printed. It brought down upon the 
 writer who now stands before you the vindictive reproaches of 
 John Quincy Adams, who was trying to make anti-Masonry a 
 political movement ; and in reply to his attack, obscure as I 
 was, I wrote not less than two columns in the " Boston Ga- 
 zette," published by Beales & Homer, and addressed the letter 
 to him personally, because he had attacked me personally on 
 account of my address. That letter was republished in New 
 Yo'rk, in Philadelphia, in Baltimore, in Richmond, in New Or- 
 leans, and in all the principal cities of the United States, and 
 it made him a bitter enemy to me for life. 
 
 I came up to Boston after that, and here I met with honors, 
 to be sure, that I did not deserve. I was received with open 
 arms by the Masons, and they conferred upon me all those dis- 
 tinctions which lay in their power, and for which I was grateful ; 
 and they have ever since noticed me in a manner of which I 
 have always been jn-oud. (Applause.) 
 
 Let me make one remark with regard to what we have just 
 heard from Brother' Moore. His life, like the lives of the rest 
 of us, may be uncertain. Here we meet upon a most joj'ous 
 and festive occasion, one of the best that I was ever present at ; 
 we know not within a few months or within a few years 
 how many of us may be separated forever ; but there are facts 
 in history, there are important events, that ought' to be de- 
 scribed that they may be lasting. AVhat Brother Moore has said 
 to us this evening will die with him, if he does not put it upon 
 record. There is no man living who can write the history of 
 
BANQUET. 21 
 
 anti-Masonry, as he can. (Applause.) He has the knowledge 
 to do it, he has the ability to do it, he has the spirit to do it, 
 and why don't he do it? (Tremendous applause.) They say, 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master, that the lion, the noblest of 
 beasts, cannot sometimes be moved until you begin to stir his 
 mane ; then he will rise up and thunder. So it is with my 
 friend Moore ; he wants in some way to be aroused to this thing. 
 Speaking seriously, sir, I say, if we do not get a history of anti- 
 Masonry now, when we can get it, we shall never get it. We 
 shall not get it of our enemies, — they are ashamed to recollect 
 it ; and of our friends there are but very few still among us who 
 lived in those days. I suppose, in looking round this assem- 
 bly and the assembly that met in the Grand Lodge this after- 
 noon and evening, that a large portion of them belong to the 
 present generation. Probably no one present was as old as my- 
 self, and we old men are passing away very rapidly. Though 
 these events took place long, long ago, they ought to be secured, 
 and that immediately. I would that the remarks that were 
 made this evening, and the feeling that we all have upon the 
 subject (for I believe I express the feelings of the whole body 
 of guests who are present), could arouse Brother Moore so that 
 when he got up to-morrow morning the first thing he would do 
 would be to get out his pen and paper, and make a begin- 
 ning ; and when a beginning is made, the old maxim is, the 
 work is half done. Let him put down what he has told us to- 
 night, and let him put down a great many incidents which he 
 had not time to tell us. Let him look over that valuable paper 
 which he published when he stood forth in the community almost 
 as the sole advocate of Masonry, and bore the burden and heat 
 of the battle. I well know that to be a fact. He did me the honor 
 to publish that address in full that I delivered at Wiscasset. 
 He knows all about those events ; he has a sterling memory, he 
 
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 has a sound judgment, be is a man of a great deal of reading, 
 he wields a ready pen, and he can write very quickly. Why, 
 then, does he not go to work and do this? Oh, that I could 
 arouse him ! I should go home rejoicing in my heart, thinking 
 I had done at least one good thing for our Institution. (Loud 
 applause.) 
 
 I have but a little more to say. There are members present 
 of more eloquence than ever I had, and more wit than lies in 
 my bosom, who will entertain you vastly beyond what I can 
 hope to do ; but let me say to you, that I have been delighted 
 with the exercises of this day, delighted when I have reflected 
 upon the great prosperity of this Institution. I have been de- 
 lighted that I have lived to see the Institution flourishing to the 
 extent it now does, and my grand object in coming here to-night 
 wag simply this : I wanted to rise up here in the presence of 
 the Grand Lodge, who have honored me so much in former 
 times, and testify to them as a witness of the excellence of our 
 Institution, the excellence of Masonry, the most noble, the 
 most valuable Institution that the earth ever yet saw. And let 
 me say. Most Worshipful Grand Master, if this Institution here- 
 after should ever break down, if the whirlwind should pass over it 
 and the earthquake shake terra Jirma, and everything of a 
 moral and noble nature must give away, I say that our Insti- 
 tution will still survive, unless we commit suicide ; if it is ever 
 brought to destruction, it must be from internal disease, not 
 from external force. No power on earth can put it down ; but 
 we may injure ourselves, we maj' ruin ourselves, in ways that I 
 have not time now to state to j'ou. As Brother Moore has 
 said this evening, there is no doubt that the troubles in the 
 State of New York which led to the anti-lMasonic excitement 
 which convulsed society at that period, grew out of corrupt 
 Lodges, out of Lodges composed of persons who came to this 
 
BANQUET. 23 
 
 country ignorant of our institutions, uneducated, and unfit to be 
 brought into the Institution, and when there theyknewno more 
 of the ritual of Masonry than they did of the ritual of the 
 church. But it is time for me to close and I will say no more. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 The Gkand Master. — The Declaration which has been 
 placed before you to-night is doubtless new to many of you ; 
 probably few of your number have ever read it, and some have 
 never heard of it. As it is short, I will call upon the E.W. 
 Grand Secretary to read it. 
 
 DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS^ OF BOSTON AND 
 
 VICINITY. 
 
 Presented to the PuUic December 31, A.D. 1831. 
 
 While the public mind remained in the high state of excitement, to 
 which it had been carried by the partial and inflammatory representations 
 of certain offences, committed by a few misguided members of the 
 Masonic Institution, in a, sister State; it seemed to the undersigned 
 (residents of Boston and vicinity) to be expedient to refrain from a public 
 declaration of their principles or engagements, as Masons. But, beliey- 
 Ing the time now to be fully come when their fellow-citizens will receive, 
 with candor, if not with satisfaction, A solemn and unequivocal denial 
 OF THE ALLEGATIONS, which, during the last five years, in consequence of 
 their connection with the Masonic Fkateknity, have been reiterated 
 against tliem, they respectfully ask permission to invite attention to the 
 subjoined declaration. 
 
 Whereas, it has been frequently asserted and published to the world, 
 that in the several degrees of Fbeemasonet, as they are conferred in the 
 United States, the candidate on his initiation and subsequent advancement 
 binds himself, by oath, to sustain his Masonic brethren in acts which are at 
 variance with the fundamental principles of morality, and incompatible 
 with his duty as a good and faithful citizen ; in justice, therefore, to them- 
 selves, and with a view to establish truth and expose imposition, the un- 
 dersigned, many of us the recipients of every degree of Feeemasonkt 
 known and acknowledged in this country, do most solemnly dent the 
 existence of any such obligations in the Masonic Institution, so far as 
 our knowledge respectively extends. And we as solemnly aver that no 
 person is admitted to the Institution, without first being made acquainted 
 
24 BANQUET. 
 
 with the nature of the obligations which he will be required to incur and 
 assume. 
 
 Freemasonry secures its members in the freedom of thought and of 
 speech, and permits each and every one to act according to the dictates of 
 his own conscience'in matters of religion, and of his personal preferences 
 in matters of politics. It neither knows, nor does it assume to inflict, 
 upon its erring members, however wide may be their aberrations from 
 duty, any penalties or punishments, other than those of admonition, sns- 
 PENsioN and expulsion. 
 
 The obligations of the Institution require of its members a strict obedi- 
 ence to the laws of God and of man. So far from being bound by any 
 engagements inconsistent with the happiness and prosperity of the Nation, 
 every citizen who becomes a Mason is doubly bound to be true to his 
 God, to his Country, and to his Fellow-men. In the language of the 
 "Ancient Constitutions" of the Order, which are printed and open for 
 public inspection, and which are used as text-books in all the Lodges, he 
 is " required to keep and obey the Moral Law ; to be a quiet and peace- 
 able citizen; true to his government and just to his country." 
 
 Masonry disdains the making of proselytes. She opens the portals of 
 her asylum to those only who seek admission, with the recommendation of 
 a character unspotted by immorality and vice. She simply requires of the 
 candidate his assent to one great fundamental, religious truth — the ex- 
 istence AND providence OF GoD ■ — and a practical acknowledgment of 
 those infallible doctrines for the government of life which are written by 
 the finger of God on the heart of man. 
 
 Entertaining such sentiments as Masons, as Citizens, as Christians, 
 and as JIoral Men, and deeply impressed with the conviction that the 
 Masonic Institution has been, and may continue to be, productive of 
 great good to their fellow-men; and having "received the laws of the 
 society and its accumulated funds, in sacred trust for charitable uses," the 
 undersigned can neither renounce nor abandon it. AVe most cordially 
 unite with our brethren of Salem and vicinity, in the declaration and hope 
 that, " should the people of this country become so infatuated as to deprive 
 Masons of their civil rights, in violation of their written constitutions and 
 the wholesome spirit of just laws and free governments, a vast majority of 
 the Fraternity will still remain firm, confiding in God and the rectitude of 
 their intentions for consolation, under the trials to which they may be 
 exposed." 
 
 Boston. Benjamin Whitman 
 
 Thomas Jlelvill Daniel Baxter 
 
 Tliomas Dennie Henry Farnum 
 
 Thomas K. Jones (Kev.) Asa Eaton 
 
 Robert G. Shaw Thomas Blake 
 
 Geo. Blake Thomas Power 
 
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 25 
 
 John J. Loring 
 Samuel F. Coolidge 
 Ellphalet Williams 
 Abraham A. Dame 
 Gideon Snow 
 Edward Bldridge 
 N. F. Cunningham 
 N. T. Eldridge 
 James K. Mills 
 Winslow Lewis 
 Benjamin Russell 
 Francis J. Oliver 
 John Dixwell 
 David Henshaw 
 Augustus Peabody 
 (Rev.) Paul Dean 
 John Suter 
 Jonas Chickering 
 Charles Newman 
 Alex. H. Jennings 
 David Orr 
 B. D. Baldwin 
 Geo. Blackburn 
 John M. Whidden 
 John Robinson, Jr. 
 William Gutters on 
 Wm. M. Stedman 
 Nester Houghton 
 Warren Fisher 
 E. Williams, Jr. 
 Calvin Ellis 
 Albert WiUiams 
 Marshall S. Perry 
 Elias B. Thayer 
 Duther Thayer, Jr. 
 B. M. Nevers 
 Samuel Morrill 
 John L. Phillips 
 Edward Bugbee 
 Jos. T. Buckingham 
 Stephen Codman 
 Amos Getting 
 Daniel Dole 
 Joseph Jones, Jr. 
 James E. Cooley 
 4 
 
 John Bigelow 
 Joel Nason 
 Ebenezer Oliver 
 Samuel Goodrich 
 John Peters 
 John A. Lamson 
 John Flint 
 Wms. Bradford 
 P. Allen 
 
 Samuel Brewer, Jr. 
 Cory Cook 
 
 Ephm. M. Cunningham 
 Simeon Dunbar 
 David Manley 
 Peter Dunbar 
 L. H. Osgood 
 Jno. B. Derby 
 Abijah Patch 
 Gera Jenkins 
 Samuel Howe 
 Joseph Stockwell 
 Stephen Locke 
 J. P. Robinson 
 Samuel A. Allen 
 William Palfrey 
 John K. Simpson 
 Luther Faulkner 
 Joseph Eveleth 
 Jacob Amee 
 Robert Lash 
 William Ingalls 
 Harrison Gray 
 Adam W. Thaxter 
 Daniel L. Gibbens 
 Samuel .Curtis 
 John J. Low 
 Thomas A. Dexter 
 E. L. ElUott 
 Abner Bourne 
 (Rev.) Jona. Greenleaf 
 Amos Bridges 
 Nathan Crafts 
 Joseph Blanohard 
 John T. Dingley 
 Joseph Converse 
 
26 
 
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 Daniel E. Newhall 
 Job Tower 
 Amos Coolidge 
 James Hunt 
 John Augustus 
 Wm. W. Motley 
 Jon. Bowditch, Jr. 
 Martin Bangs 
 Samuel Sweetser 
 Alonzo Crosby 
 Josh. Holdeu 
 Thomas Crehore 
 John Baker 
 Abel P. Baker 
 John Bacon 
 Josiah Baldwin 
 David Parker 
 Martin Tyler 
 Francis Welch 
 Edwarl Shaw 
 Joseph Jones 
 William Nye 
 (Rev.) John L. Blake 
 Tristram Haynes 
 W. B. Annin 
 W. Philpot 
 John Chadwick 
 Joseph Jenkins 
 Richard W, Bayley 
 James Gushing 
 Daniel Stone 
 Nicholas Little 
 Wm. Emerson 
 Jno. Benson 
 Jos. Baker 
 James W. Gates 
 H. Daggett 
 John Banchor 
 Wm. McClennen 
 Lewis Lerow 
 Thos. M. Vinson 
 James Estabrook 
 Sam'l Eveleth 
 Josiah Dunham 
 Ebenezer Stevens 
 
 Benj. Whipple 
 John D. Dyer 
 Josiah Newhall 
 Ezra Mudge 
 Josiah Dunham, Jr. 
 James A. Dickson 
 Henry Purkitt 
 Benjamin Smith 
 Thomas B. Wales 
 Charles WeUs 
 Daniel Baxter, Jr. 
 J. S. Hastings 
 John Dwight 
 Isaac P. Osgood 
 Justin Eield 
 Marshall P. Wilder 
 (Rey.) E. M. P. WeUs 
 John Brazer Davis 
 J. B. Brown 
 Abel Baker 
 Nathl. Winsor, Jr. 
 Henry N. PuUerton 
 Wm. Lang 
 L. M. Walter 
 Ambrose Morell 
 Willard Pelt 
 Wm. Eowson 
 Josiah L. C. Amee 
 Horace Dupee 
 Robert Keith 
 James . Holbrook 
 Simon W. Robinson 
 Henry Robinson 
 Ensign Sargent 
 Eben. Scott 
 Chas. Williams 
 John R. Bradford 
 John Punchard 
 James Johnson 
 Nathan Pessenden 
 Galen Holmes 
 Simon Wilkinson 
 Wm. Adams 
 Thomas Wait 
 Charles G. Hall 
 
BANQUET , 
 
 27 
 
 L. Snow 
 Marshal Keith 
 "W. C. Martin 
 W. H. Neville 
 Amos Stevens 
 Fred. LeCain 
 Thomas J. Stone 
 Seth T. Thayer 
 Isaac Stevens 
 Nathl. Hammond 
 Andrew H. Ward 
 Oliver Fletcher 
 Abraham T. Lowe 
 James B. Richardson 
 Sumner Crosby 
 Elias Haskell 
 Alfred Dutch 
 Clement Willis 
 M. Eoulstoue 
 Peter Stephenson 
 David Tillson 
 Bzekiel Bates 
 Jeremiah Foster 
 Abiel Buttrick 
 Jeremiah Washburn 
 Francis L. Bates 
 Obadiah Kendall 
 John Wedger 
 Geo. W. Foster 
 John Park 
 Amherst Eaton 
 Salmon Washburn 
 John Allen 
 Wm. Crombie 
 (Eev.) Ew. T. Taylor 
 John B. WeUs 
 L. Lawrenson 
 Gideon Eldridge 
 Benj. Converse 
 Elijah Williams 
 Ferdinand E. White 
 James Foster 
 Benj. Stevens 
 Thos. Wetmore 
 John Wilson 
 
 Joseph H. Lord 
 John Wheelwright 
 James Wilson ' 
 Charles Hubbard 
 S. B. Barren 
 William Hilliard, Jr. 
 F. P. Leverett 
 J. Vincent Browne 
 Samuel Kneeland 
 Abraham Millett, Jr. 
 Leach Harris 
 Warren Bowker 
 Richard Witherell 
 J. C. Tebbetts 
 Thos. Waterman 
 Jeremiah Priohard 
 Wyatt Richards 
 Benj. I. Leeds 
 Ruel Baker 
 Edwin Barnes 
 Wm. Knapp 
 Jacob Page 
 James Mann 
 John Green 
 J. A. Pollard 
 Giles T. Crocket 
 George G. Smith 
 Ward Litchfield 
 Eleazer G. House 
 Nathaniel Hill 
 Wm. Eaton 
 Reuben T. Robinson 
 Timothy Fessenden 
 Ephraim Nute 
 Geo. W. Crockett 
 Josiah Bradlee 
 Francis Fisher 
 Isaiah Bangs 
 Jona. Howard 
 John J. Valentine 
 Elisha V. Glover 
 Joshua B. Flint 
 Hugh H. Tuttle 
 Wm. V. Kent 
 Leonard Battelle 
 
28 
 
 BANQUET . 
 
 Jos. Goodwin 
 Isaiah Rogers 
 Isaac K. Wise 
 Nathl. Bryant 
 Levi Whitney 
 Geo. Dodge 
 Luke Baldwin 
 Lewis A. Lauriat 
 A. Steuart 
 Wm. Stewart 
 Wm. Bachellor 
 Jona. Parker 
 Benj. Wood, 2d 
 Jos. Goodwin 
 Jona. Whitney 
 John Gale 
 Thos. Holden 
 Thos. L. Chase 
 Samuel Cabot 
 Thomas W. Pliillips 
 Edward A. Raymond 
 Charles W. Moore 
 William Parker 
 S. C. Thwing 
 Jno. Kennedy 
 Chas. Henshaw 
 Abel Phelps 
 Joseph Cheney 
 Jacob Bacon 
 Edward Pescott 
 Seth Thaxter 
 John Vose 
 Josiah Stedmah 
 Charles Adams 
 Geo. W. Lloyd 
 John Rayner 
 Samuel Thaxter 
 John P. Bigelow 
 Winslow Lewis, Jr. 
 John Doak 
 PHny Clap 
 Thomas Simpson 
 D. Kimball 
 David Putnam 
 James Pierce 
 
 Enos Briggs 
 Warren Wild 
 BodweU Sargent 
 Geo. Bacon 
 Fred. Wentworth 
 J. W. Welch 
 Joseph F. HUl 
 Chas. W. Taylor 
 Alex. Parris 
 Henry H. Barton 
 Ebenr. Leman 
 Hazen Morse 
 Martin Wilder 
 Timothy Eaton 
 James Williamg 
 Wm. Reed 
 Chas. Lyon 
 Elijah T. Wetherbee 
 Jedediah Tuttle 
 (ReT.) S. Streeter 
 Chas. C. Nichols 
 Jared Lincoln 
 Augustus Reed 
 C. Gayton Pickman 
 John B. Hammett 
 Wm. Bittle 
 John Sowdon 
 Asa Adams 
 Ebenr. Waters 
 Joseph Grelee 
 Josiah Haskell 
 William Capen 
 Timothy Claxton 
 (Rev.) Samuel Barrett 
 Robert Bradford 
 Gardner Greenleaf 
 John Hewes 
 Gilbert Nurse 
 Nahum Capen 
 Nathl. Greenough 
 Prentiss Hobbs 
 Phineas Sprague 
 M. S. Parker 
 N. Daggett 
 Josiah Vose 
 
BANQUET, 
 
 29 
 
 Edwin Sevey 
 
 D. Moody 
 Enoch Hobart 
 Benj. B. Appleton 
 Silas Bullard 
 Benj. Smith, Jr. 
 Josiah Willard 
 James Barry, Jr. 
 Erancis R. Bigelow 
 Wm. Belknap 
 Martin Burr 
 Nathan Eoster 
 Geo. Carpenter 
 "Wm. W. "Wood 
 "Wm. H. Howard 
 George Page 
 Loring Newcomb 
 Daniel D. Brodhead 
 Ebenezer B. Eoster 
 Jerome V. C. Smith 
 John Eoster 
 Timothy Johnson 
 Nathl. Harris 
 Josiah Pierce 
 Elijah Trask, Jr. 
 Geo. Robinson 
 Wm. Shattuck 
 
 E. Parsons 
 Wm. Wilkins 
 John S. Tyler 
 Edwin Adams 
 Saml. Adams 
 John Hammond 
 Willard Clongh 
 Cornelius Hersey 
 Jacob Todd 
 John B. Andrews 
 Stephen Peabody 
 Wm. Parker 
 
 J. Smallidge 
 Wm. Loring 
 Jedediah Barker 
 Henry Bowen 
 Abel Bowen 
 Wm. Bell 
 
 Cornelius DriscoU 
 James H. Gavett 
 Bela Greenwood 
 J. E. Kimball 
 Saml. Smith 
 Wm. Wright 
 Wm. Barry 
 John White 
 Samuel Gragg 
 Nathan Eessenden 
 Joseph Wheeler 
 Samuel Millard 
 Dana Eay 
 Richard D. Tucker 
 Joel Shipley 
 C. Southworth 
 Amos Binney 
 Thos Jordan 
 Gurdon Steele 
 Joseph Bassett 
 Manuel Erancis 
 
 Oharlestown. 
 John Soley 
 Thomas J. Goodwin 
 Wm. Austin 
 John Harris 
 Joseph Phipps 
 Larkin Turner 
 Isaac Mead 
 Olirer Holden 
 Dexter Bowman 
 SamueVKidder 
 Leayitt Corbett 
 John M. Robertson 
 John Gregory 
 Wm. Lund 
 John B. Wilson 
 Lot Merriam, Jr. 
 Leonard Tufts 
 Asa Williams 
 Benj. Whipple 
 Archibald B. Babcock 
 Andrew Roulstone 
 Ebenezer Eord 
 
30 
 
 BAN QUE T . 
 
 E. Calder, Jr. 
 Caleb Drew 
 Joseph Souther 
 Harrison Wingate 
 John Badger 
 Wm. Hawes 
 Lot Merriam 
 Abraham C. Mace 
 Thos. R. Pierce 
 Jno. Mitchell 
 Chas. Emerson 
 Benj. Adams 
 Saml. C. Hunt 
 John Cheerer 
 Archibald Babcock 
 Abijah Goodrich 
 Paul Willard 
 Isaac Wetherbee 
 John ilcKim 
 Angus Wlieeler 
 Loammi Kendall 
 Saml. S. Reynolds 
 Phineas Rice 
 Ebener. P. Cutter 
 Peter Saivyer 
 J. J). Edmands 
 Nath. Holden, Sen. 
 Saml. Jaques 
 John Stephens 
 Eobt. Lovering 
 Seth Dewing 
 
 Camiridge. 
 (Rev.) Thos. P. Norris 
 Jona. Hyde 
 Nathl. Munro 
 E. "V7. Metcalf 
 Billings Smith 
 Nathan Russell, Jr. 
 Ebener. Tucker 
 John Chamberlin 
 Mark Nowell 
 Wm. J. Whipple 
 Clias. R. Metcalf 
 J. M. Wood 
 
 Wm. Hilliard 
 Daniel Maj or 
 Samuel P. P. Fay 
 Wm. HunneweU 
 Ralph Smith 
 Jacob H. Bates 
 Nathl. Livermore 
 Benj. Bigelow 
 Frederick Manson 
 Samuel Titus 
 Ebener. KimbaU 
 John Dodge 
 Benj. Gleason 
 Ephraim Bailey 
 Isaac LiTermore 
 Stephen Clubb 
 
 Roxhury. 
 Chas. Daniel 
 Abijah Draper 
 Adam Smith 
 Cornelius Cowing 
 Mayo Cook 
 Luther M. Harris 
 Thomas Alker 
 Saml. Knower 
 Alpheus M. Withington 
 Chester Guild 
 Chas. Senior 
 J. Webber 
 Willard Onion 
 Lewis Withington 
 A. Kingsbury 
 Saml. Jackson 
 
 Dorchester. 
 (Rev.) Thad. M. Harris 
 Edmund Baker 
 John Mears 
 Wm. Holden 
 NatlU. Minot 
 Aaron Nixon 
 Joseph Foster 
 James Davenport 
 James Pierce 
 
BANQUET. 
 
 31 
 
 Isaac Withington 
 Dean Willis 
 Cyrus Balkcom 
 Wm. Pope 
 Abraham Noyea 
 Stephen Hall 
 Daniel Withington 
 Timothy H. Blaokman 
 Nathl. Hill 
 Jona. Bridgham 
 Warren Glover 
 Amos Upham 
 Wm. M. Blackman 
 Jesse Bradshaw 
 Wm. Henley 
 Geo. Ksher 
 Edmund Tileston 
 Isaac Whiting 
 Francis Skinner 
 Caleb Jarris 
 Prancis Jarris 
 Jesse Lyon 
 Eben Wheeler 
 Lemuel Withington 
 Joseph Wales 
 Ebener. Withington 
 Jona. CoUyer 
 Amasa Stetson 
 Isaac Howe, Jr. 
 Saml. Payson 
 John D. Howard 
 Benj. Jacobs 
 J. F. Daniel 
 
 Milton. 
 Amos Holbrook 
 Alpheus T. French 
 Eobert Hinkley 
 Chas. Brack 
 Moses Gragg 
 Franklin Crombie 
 Thomas HoUis, Jr. 
 Jason W. Houghton 
 Thos. T. Wadsworth 
 Saml. Adams 
 
 John Swift 
 Isaac Sanderson 
 Saml. K. Glover 
 Zebadiah Williams 
 Samuel Wales 
 Charles Wales 
 Jona. Ware 
 Hiram French 
 Jona. Eussell 
 Mark HoUingsworth 
 Jarvis Fenno 
 
 BrigMon. 
 Joseph Warren 
 Otis Fay 
 
 Ebener. Fuller, Jr. 
 Wm. Fletcher 
 Benj. W. Hobart 
 Thos. J. Leverett 
 James FuUerton 
 Amos Wright 
 Wm. R. Champney 
 Stephen Stone 
 Thos. Park 
 Charles Heard 
 
 Newion. 
 Wm. Mills 
 Joseph Foster 
 Wm. Curtis 
 Nathl. Wales 
 Amos Lyon 
 Wm. B. White 
 Elijah Story 
 Royal Mcintosh 
 George W. Morse 
 Samuel B. Cheeney 
 Amos H. Morae 
 Richard Boynton 
 Joshua Gardner 
 Martin P. Sturtevant 
 George W. Winsor 
 Barney L. White 
 Jesse Winslow 
 (Rev.) Alfred L. Baury 
 
32 
 
 BANQUET. 
 
 Asa Kingsbury, Jr. 
 Jonas Barnard 
 Mieah M. Butter, Jr. 
 Geo. W. Hoogs 
 Pliny Eay 
 Jason Morse 
 Jona. 'WTieeler 
 Kingsley Allen 
 Walter McFarland 
 Samuel Eay 
 Joseph Barney 
 Levi Whipple 
 Paul Dewing 
 Cyrus Cunningham 
 
 Qiiincy. 
 (Eev.) 'William Morse 
 John Whitney 
 Daniel Spear 
 Lemuel Brackett 
 Oliver Jenkins 
 Josiah Bass 
 William Spear 
 Elisha Marsh 
 Jona. Marsh 
 Asa Pope 
 Elisha Turner 
 Samuel Savil 
 Josiah Savil 
 Ebenezer Adams 
 Josiah Brigham 
 Daniel French 
 Benjamin E. Downes 
 William Goodwin 
 Th. Phipps 
 Nathan Josselyn 
 John Spear 
 Euther Munn 
 Elisha Thayer 
 Benjamin Pyee 
 John Brieslcr, Jun. 
 Peter Turner 
 Elijah Baxter 
 Elilm Thayer 
 John Savil 
 
 BrooTcline. 
 Wm. H. Broson 
 Moses B. Mcintosh 
 Jeremiah Lyon 
 William Barnard 
 Ephm. W. Stone 
 William Jemerson 
 Enos Withington 
 Otis Withington 
 Simon EUlot 
 Timothy Corey. 
 Elijah Corey 
 Elijah Corey, Jr. 
 Joshua C. Clarke 
 Eeuben Hunting 
 John H. Pierce 
 Benjamin B. Davis 
 Charles Wild 
 
 Wolurtt. 
 Joel E. Thayer 
 Calvin Eichardson, 2d 
 Luke Eowle 
 
 B. Eichardson, Jr. 
 
 C. P. Hosraer 
 Franklin Smith 
 William Tidd 
 Simon Barnard 
 Marshall Tidd 
 Joseph Eichardson 
 Benj. F. Thompson 
 
 Andover. 
 Merrni PettingUl 
 Andrew L. Haskell 
 Justus Gleason 
 Benjamin Gleason 
 Jacob Shed 
 John Smith, 2d 
 Peter Smith 
 Ehjah Edson 
 Ephraim Evcrson 
 Eeuben Frye 
 Samuel Sawyer 
 Jonathan Kimball 
 
BANQUET- 
 
 SB 
 
 Calvin Thompson 
 Stephen Abbot 
 Benj. Herriok 
 E. L. Herrick 
 Calvin C. Damon 
 Jona. Merrill 
 David Rice 
 Isaiah MerriU 
 Solomon H. Higgins 
 Caleb S. Prince 
 Israel G. Johnson 
 Nathan Frye 
 John Gleason 
 Joseph Richardson 
 Samuel S. Valpey 
 
 Waltham. 
 (Rev.) Samuel Ripley 
 Lowell Adams 
 Ephraim Allen 
 Willard Adams 
 Micah Maynard 
 Isaac Parker 
 Joseph Hayt 
 Daniel Emerson 
 (Rev.) B. Whitman 
 Josiah Beard 
 Chauncy Newhall 
 EUsha Crehore 
 Leonard Smith 
 
 Framingham. 
 (Rev.) Chas. Train 
 L. Buckminster, Jr. 
 Jona. Greenwood 
 Loring Manson 
 Henry W. Coolidge 
 Jas. Fenno 
 Danl. Sanger 
 Geo. BuUard 
 Jas. B. Puffer 
 Ebener. Warren 
 Jonas Cloyes 
 Jesse Belknap, Jr. 
 5 
 
 Adam Hemenway, 2d 
 Ebener. Freeman 
 Enoch Belknap 
 Lawson Nurse 
 Chapiu Allen 
 Wm. Moulton 
 Amasa Kendall 
 Royal Stone 
 Jona. Rugg, Jr. 
 Cyrus BuUard 
 Josiah Adams 
 Joseph Ballou 
 John Wenzel 
 Saml. Warren 
 Wm. H. Dalrymple 
 Luther Horne 
 Jesse Haven 
 Luther Belknap 
 Ichabod Gaines 
 Jona. Flagg 
 Isaac Stevens 
 Josiah Abbott 
 Isaac Gibbs 
 Nathl. Steams 
 Geo. Wheeler 
 
 Sherhurne. 
 (Rev.) Amos Clarke 
 Uriel Cutler 
 Alpheus Ware 
 Joseph Sanger 
 Lemuel Leeland, 2d 
 Malachi Babcock 
 Micah Leland 
 Amos Perry 
 James Whitney 
 Silas Stone 
 Z. Hoaker 
 Jos. P. Leeland 
 John G. Blakp 
 Jeremiah Butler 
 Amory Babcock 
 Eli Leland 
 Calvin Sanger 
 
34 
 
 BANQUET. 
 
 Stoneham. 
 Jeremiah Nichols 
 Darius Sterens 
 Elbridge Geny 
 Warren Sweetser 
 
 Walpole. 
 Theodore Carlisle 
 G. W. Johnson 
 Isaac Hunt 
 Wm. Bacon, Jr. 
 Dupee Blake 
 Maynard B. Clapp 
 Horatio 'Wood 
 Truman Clarke 
 Osmin Smith 
 Harvey Clapp 
 Ebenezer Capen 
 John Baker, 2d 
 Jona. Messinger 
 Israel Wliitney 
 Jason Colburn 
 Elisha Lyon 
 
 Dedham. 
 Geo. Bird 
 Elisha Thayer 
 Simeon Smith 
 Jonathan H. Cobb 
 Ezra M. Taft 
 James Downing 
 Benj. E. Keyes 
 Jason Messenger 
 E. Gilmore 
 John Goulding 
 Hervy Partridge 
 Ebenezer Eisher, Jr. 
 T. P. Whitney 
 Jeremiah Myers 
 Timothy Phelps 
 Martin Marsh 
 George Dixon 
 Josiah il. Bird 
 Jolm K. Briggs 
 Francis Alden 
 
 Pearson Titcomb 
 
 Weymouth. 
 Levi Bates 
 Lovell Bicknell 
 Silas Canterbury 
 Alvah Eaymond 
 Abraham Thayer 
 Ezra W. Sampson 
 Timothy Gordon 
 
 Randolph. 
 Royal Turner 
 Simeon Alden 
 Jonathan Wales, Jr. 
 David Jacobs 
 John Wales 
 Apollus Wales 
 Aaron Prescott 
 Bradford L. Wales 
 Wilham Cole 
 H. N. Crooker 
 John Johnson 
 Horatio B. Alden 
 Isaac Spear 
 Jonathan W. Belcher 
 Robert Shankland 
 Jacob Niles 
 Benjamin E. Tower 
 Joshua ^files 
 Theophilus Thayer 
 Henry Thayer 
 Isaac Tower, Jr. 
 James Wait 
 Loring Thayer 
 Joshua Thayer 
 Eleazer Beals 
 Ezra S. Conant 
 John Alden 
 Hiram Aiden 
 Isaac Thayer 
 Alexander E. Dubois 
 Silas Alden, Jr. 
 WiUiam French 
 James Mcintosh 
 
BANQUET . 
 
 35 
 
 Euel Packard 
 Jonathan Belcher, Jr. 
 Thomas Howard 
 Joseph Tower, Jr. 
 WUliam H. Easty 
 Benjamin Dickerman 
 Amos Wilkins 
 Ephraim Spear 
 Miles McCarty 
 
 South Reading. 
 John Hart 
 Joshua Tweed 
 Nathan Richardson 
 John Bryant 
 Thos. Emerson 
 James Hartshorn 
 Nathaniel Cowdry 
 Jesse Pope 
 John Stow 
 John Sweetser 
 Isaac Green 
 Leonard Wiley 
 Sam. S. Viley 
 EU A. Yale 
 Frederick B. Eaton 
 Joel Winship 
 Ahraham Emerson 
 James Butler 
 John Eayner 
 Peter B. Wiley 
 Joseph Eaton, Jr. 
 Jeremiah Hartshorn, Jr. 
 Henry Knight 
 Oliver Swain 
 John B. Atwill 
 Joseph Hartshorn 
 James Slocomb 
 Wm. Parker 
 James Emerson 
 Jeremiah Bryant, Jr. 
 Archibald Sinith 
 Geo. Offat 
 Wm. Williams 
 Oliver Bryant 
 
 Timothy N. Brown 
 John Abbott 
 Aaron Burditt 
 M. Burditt 
 Eliakim Stowell 
 John Eayner, Jr. 
 
 Stoughton. 
 Saml. Tolman, Jr. 
 John Holbrook 
 Joel Talbot 
 Mather Holmes 
 Ezekiel Holmes 
 Simeon T. Drake 
 James Swan 
 Giles G. Leach 
 Azel Capen 
 Ansel Capen 
 William Wilson 
 Wm. S. Belcher 
 Abraham Capen, Jr. 
 John H. Wales 
 Peter Adams 
 Benjamin Capen 
 Coilsider Southworth 
 Eobert Swan 
 Jonathan Eeynolds 
 Leml. Gay 
 Abram. Capen 
 Enos Talbot 
 Leonard Hodges 
 Nathaniel Blake 
 David Gilmore 
 Jonathan Cobb 
 Benj. Eeynolds 
 Elijah Athertou 
 Elijah Belcher 
 C. A. Southworth 
 Luther Belcher 
 
 Medway. 
 Eliab Wright 
 Jas. B. Wilson 
 Jas. Fisher 
 Geo. Barber 
 
36 
 
 BANQUET. 
 
 W. l/overing 
 John E. Getting 
 Leri Adams 
 Joel Hunt 
 Alfred Daniels 
 
 Mendon. 
 Lewis Boyden 
 John G. Metcalf 
 "Wm. Green 
 E. W. Hayward 
 Jabez Aldrich 
 John Jennison 
 Peter Joyce 
 Washington Baker 
 
 Bellingham. 
 H. Barber 
 John Scammell 
 John 0. Sea Dniell 
 Pliny Holbrook 
 Ellas Thayer 
 Joseph Eockwood 
 
 ITollision. 
 Isaac Smith, Jr. 
 EMhu Cutler 
 
 Medfield. 
 Jno. W. Adams 
 William Eeltt 
 Wesley P. Balch , 
 John Balch, Jr. 
 Charles Onion 
 Sylvanus Adams 
 Amos Thayer 
 Uriah Brett- 
 Samuel Johnson 
 Caleb S. Hamant 
 Moses Wadsworth 
 
 Concord. 
 Lemuel Shattuck 
 (Eev.) Ezra Eipley 
 John Keyes 
 
 Isaac Hurd 
 William Whiting 
 W. Shepherd 
 Herman Atwill 
 Dudley Smith 
 Abel Moore 
 Alran Pratt 
 John Homer, Jr. 
 John Nelson 
 Ephm. H. Bellows 
 Thomas D. Wesson 
 N. W. Wright 
 James Weir 
 HeartweU Bigelow 
 Joseph Smith 
 John Brown 
 Cyrus Warren 
 James Adams 
 Henry Wright 
 Henry H. Merrill 
 
 Acton. 
 Simon Hosmer 
 Jonathan B. Davis 
 John Fletcher 
 Simon Hosmer, Jr. 
 Peter Tenny, Jr. 
 Luther B. Jones 
 Bradley Stone 
 Stephen Hayward 
 
 Lincoln. 
 Wm. Hayden 
 Charles A. Wheeler 
 
 Bridgewater. 
 Artemas Hale 
 Almarine Hayward 
 Jabez Harden 
 George Hooker 
 Silas Warren 
 Enoch Lathrop 
 Amos Hill 
 Nathan Mitchell 
 Daniel Mitchell 
 
BANQUET. 
 
 37 
 
 Philander Dean 
 Hiram Packard 
 George Clark 
 
 West Bridgewater. 
 Daniel Howard 
 Abial Ames 
 Thomas Ames 
 Austin Packard 
 Hosea "W. Wate 
 Jarvis D. Burrell 
 Henry E. Briggs 
 Daniel Hartwell 
 Nathaniel Edson 
 Barnabas Lothrop 
 Jona. Howard 
 Charles Southworth 
 Zopon Eield 
 
 Plymouth. 
 John Bartlett, 3d 
 Thos, Bartlett 
 Ezra Einney 
 Josiah Bobbins 
 Joseph Leeds 
 Seth Einney 
 Bartlett Ellis 
 Iieml. Bradford 
 John Allen 
 Martin L. Tillson 
 John Thomas 
 Jacob H. Loud 
 Anthony Morse 
 Thos. May 
 John Tribbel 
 Schuyler Sampson 
 Ephm. Morton 
 Geo. Wiswall 
 A. Brigham 
 Saml. Doten 
 Jas. Cox 
 Phineas Wells 
 Einney Leach 
 Thos. Torrey 
 Leander Lovell 
 
 I 
 
 Chas. May 
 Danl. Jackson 
 (Rev.) Jas. H. Bugbee 
 Ichabod Shaw 2d 
 Zacheus Barnes 
 Samuel Brown 
 Geo. W. Virgin 
 Chas. Bramhall 
 Thos. Adams 
 Bridgham Russell 
 Zaben Olney 
 Isaac Bartlett 
 Wm. M. Jackson 
 
 Haverhill. 
 Moses Wingate 
 Rufus Longley 
 Charles White 
 Thos. Newcomb 
 Ezra C. Ames 
 Wm. Hazeltine 
 David P. Harman 
 Wm. Greenleaf 
 Samuel Johnson 
 Leonard Whittier 
 Rufus Slocomb 
 Andrew Johnson 
 John Edwards 
 William Eoss 
 Elbridge G. Eaton 
 James Ayer 
 Isaac Harding 
 Rufus K. Knowles 
 Charles W. Dow 
 William Edwards, Jr. 
 Barnard Goodridge 
 Thomas Runnels 
 Joseph Haselton 
 Hiram Plummer 
 P. 0. Brovra 
 Theodore Ordway 
 Michael Carleton 
 Moses Ross 
 John Pingry 
 Ebenezer Noyes 
 
38 
 
 BANQUET. 
 
 Wesley Baloh 
 Nathaniel Currier, Jr. 
 
 Groton. 
 Jona. Loring 
 Amos Bancroft 
 Amos Alexander 
 Daniel Shattuck 
 Joseph Hoar 
 "Wm. F. Brazer 
 William Durant 
 William Livermore 
 Moses Day 
 Caleb Butler 
 Abel Tarbell 
 Nathaniel Stone 
 David Child 
 Jeremiah Kilburn 
 Joseph F. Hall 
 Dexter Blanchard 
 Wm. A. Bancroft 
 Loring Gates 
 George Brigham 
 Alpheus Hichardson 
 
 ^Yrent}lam. 
 Caleb Saylea 
 Calvin Fisher, Jr. 
 Eufus Bassett 
 Amos Archer 
 Daniel A. Cook 
 Saml. Druce 
 Jos. Cobb 
 Harvey Coleman 
 Silas P. Fisher 
 Enoch Brown 
 Ashbel Willard 
 Josiah J. Fiske 
 Simeon Tompson, Jr. 
 Jeremiah Blake 
 Daniel Blake 
 Lewis Harding 
 Aaron Hawes 
 
 Canton. 
 William Morse 
 Jephthah Crane 
 Thomas KoUock 
 Stephen Robinson 
 Thomas Tolman 
 Simeon Presbrey, Jr. 
 William Jenks 
 Abel Winthrop 
 Samuel Chandler 
 John Jlessenger 
 Elijah Crane 
 Samuel Capen 
 John Gay 
 James White 
 Samuel Leonard 
 Thomas French 
 Adam Kinsley 
 P. 51. Crane 
 Elisha Crane 
 Henry Derby 
 Zadoch Leonard 
 Silas Kinsley 
 Joel Baker 
 James Piatt 
 James Beaumont 
 Leonard Kinsley 
 Lemuel Tucker 
 Simeon Tucker 
 Amasa Jordan 
 
 S}iaron. 
 Samuel D. Hixon 
 Jonathan Cobb 
 Benjamin Reynolds 
 William Tolman 
 
 Wesiford. 
 John Abbott 
 Avery Prescott 
 John Cumings 
 Joseph Hildreth 
 John Leighton 
 
BANQUET. 
 
 39 
 
 Imla Goodhue 
 
 Newhuryport. 
 Nathaniel Knap 
 Richard S. Spofford 
 Moses Merrill 
 Abraham Perkins 
 Jos. Marquand 
 G. Giles 
 
 Jonathan G. Johnson 
 Samuel Phillips , 
 Joseph George 
 Joshua Greenleaf 
 Anthony S. Jones 
 Edward Bass 
 John HoUid'ay 
 David Hart 
 Enoch Stickney 
 John Dodge, Jr. 
 Austin George 
 Stephen S. Hodge 
 Eleazer Johnson 
 Jno. Porter 
 Benjamin Hall 
 Hector Coffin 
 (Kev.) James Morss 
 Samuel Boardman 
 John Dean 
 Thos. B. White 
 W. Woart 
 Joseph Hutching 
 J. W. Pierce 
 Atkinson Stanwood 
 John Andrews, Jr. 
 Esek Saunders 
 Samuel Huse 
 William Davis 
 William Currier 
 John Cook, Jr. 
 William Hervey 
 Stephen C. Parsons 
 W. H. Prince 
 Abraham Tappan 
 John Bradbury 
 John Holland 
 
 Ebenezer Bradbury 
 S. W. Marston 
 John Brickett 
 C. Cushing 
 E. Huse 
 George Emery 
 Samuel Soraerby, Jr. 
 Samuel E. Caldwell 
 Stephen Green 
 Nathaniel EoUansbee 
 William Davis, Jr. 
 Abraham Williams 
 Eliphalet Brown 
 Jos. Hooper 
 Joseph Young, Jr. 
 
 Lynn. 
 Edmund Monroe 
 Jona. Eichardson 
 Isaiah Hacker 
 John Lovejoy 
 Ewd. Carroll 
 Isaiah Wheeler 
 John Stimpson 
 Wm. Chadwell 
 Jabez Hitchings 
 Benj. Mudge 
 Henry A. Breed 
 E. H. Parker 
 Saml. T. Huse 
 Micajah Alley, Jr. 
 Lewis W. Ham 
 John Lakeman 
 Saml. J. Iresou 
 John D. Atwill 
 Enoch Curtin 
 Isaac Story 
 Isaac Gates 
 Danl. L. Mudge 
 Amh. Childs 
 E. W. Trevett 
 Cassius Clapp 
 Dyer H. Sanborn 
 Josiah Newhall 
 Saml. Brimblecom 
 
40 
 
 BANQUET , 
 
 Cory Libbey 
 Z. Atwell, Jr. 
 Saml. ViaU 
 J. N. Saunderson 
 Geo. Johnson 
 Jacob Newhall 
 Caleb Wiley 
 Alanson Bnrrill 
 Jesse li. Attwill 
 Amos Mower 
 "Williams Ingalls 
 Eichd. S. Ham 
 Joseph Johnson 
 Nathl. Richardson 
 Timo. Monroe, Jr. 
 Benj. H. Johnson 
 Abner Newhall 
 Horace Spalding 
 Thos. PhiDips 
 Theophilus Burrill, Jr. 
 John Lummus 
 Ephm. Sweetser 
 Edw. L. Coffin 
 Temple Cutler 
 Jas. Oliver 
 Amos Attwill 
 Oren Dalrimple 
 Jas. Pool 
 Henry Williams 
 Saml. Hallowell 
 Joseph Edwards, Jr. 
 Eobt. Rich 
 Jona. D. Phillips 
 Consider Orcutt 
 Benj. Oliver 
 Theoph. Hallowell, Jr. 
 David Dodge 
 
 Maiden. 
 Edward Wade 
 Charles Hill 
 (Rev.) Sylvanus Cobb 
 Benj. W. Dodge 
 
 Newbury. 
 John Merrill 
 Oliver Hale 
 Joseph Bartlett 
 
 Franklin. 
 Thos. Stanley Mann 
 Jona. F. Gridley 
 Dyar Clark 
 Cephas BuUard 
 Fisher Thayer 
 
 Taunton. 
 James W. Crossman 
 John Howard 
 Jona. Ingell 
 Jacob PhUlips 
 Shepard Fobes 
 Henry Washburn 
 Edward Foster 
 James Thurber 
 Wm. N. Spinney 
 Jacob L. Porter 
 Nathaniel Phillips 
 Ephraim Raymond 
 (Rev.) L. Hamilton 
 Alfred Baylies 
 John Baylies 
 Francis Baylies 
 WUliam Hodges 
 Nathaniel Crandell 
 Abijah Harkaus 
 Jesse Smith 
 Seth Presbrey, Jr. 
 Benj. Ingell 
 Thomas C. Brown 
 William Newcomb 
 James Ellis 
 John Seaver 
 John Presbrey, Jr. 
 Israel Dean, 2d 
 Abiathar AVillia'ms 
 Job Godfrey 
 
BANQUET, 
 
 41 
 
 Caleb Porter 
 C. R. Vickery 
 Learned Wilmarth, Jr. 
 Jonathan Ames, Jr. 
 Eichard Park 
 Wm. A. F. Sproat 
 Leonard Grossman 
 Wm. W. Grossman 
 A. L. Eddy 
 James Allen 
 Ebenezer Lee 
 
 New Bedford. 
 Geo. Eandall 
 James Moores 
 Lemuel HoUock 
 Silyanus Ames 
 James Tripp 
 Thos. Kiddell 
 Zachariah Hilman 
 Timothy G. Coffin 
 Thomas Cole 
 Zaccheus Gushman 
 Joseph Dunbar 
 Wm. E. Eotch 
 Benj. Thompson, Jr. 
 Henry Cannon 
 John Sargent 
 John Puller 
 Peleg Butts 
 Thomas Parker 
 Ephraim Kempton 
 Eobert Wait 
 Wm. H. Allen 
 Nathaniel Perry 
 Eichard A. Palmer 
 Wm. E. West 
 Wm. Hathaway 
 Dustin Shattuck 
 Joseph Howland 
 John C. Almy 
 Asa Wood 
 Edwin Sanford 
 James Coggshall 
 William Bain 
 G 
 
 Oliver Swain 
 Job Swift 
 John Bryant 
 Caleb Bryant 
 Charles V. Card 
 Shepard Doggett 
 MendeU Ellis 
 Eobert S. Smith 
 Charles Coggeshall 
 Wm. P. Grinnell 
 , Stephen Potter, 2d 
 Benjamin G. Fry 
 
 Fairhaven. 
 Philip Nye 
 
 Wm. Le Barron Gibbs 
 Wm. P. Jenny 
 Thomas Nye 
 Eowland Gibbs 
 Joshua Hitch 
 A. D. Stoddard 
 Hardy E. Hitch 
 Joseph Hooper 
 Joseph Tripp 
 Asa Swift, Jr. 
 Jeremiah Miller 
 Henry Huttleston 
 
 Oreenfleld. 
 Eichard E. Newoomb 
 Horace W. Taft 
 David Willard 
 Eichard Colton 
 Alanson Clarke 
 Franklin Eipley 
 James Drake 
 L. H. Long 
 Ambrose Ames 
 Samuel M. Humes 
 John Pinks 
 Elijah Alvord 
 Isaac Newton, 2d 
 Horatio G. Newcomb 
 Thomas Gilbert 
 William Wilson 
 
42 
 
 BANQUET. 
 
 Alpheus F. Stone 
 Thaddeus Coleman 
 John J. Pierce 
 
 Barnardston. 
 Henry "W". Cushman 
 Hatsell Purple 
 
 Duxbury. 
 George Loring 
 Thomas Peterson 
 Samuel E. Kipley 
 Joseph P. Bosworth 
 Eeuben Peterson, Jr. 
 Seth Brooks 
 Samuel A. Prazar, Jr. 
 Geo. P. Richardson 
 John Porter 
 Judah Alden 
 Seth Sprague, Jr. 
 
 Briggs Alden 
 G. B. Weston 
 
 Lexington. 
 Ahram French 
 Elias Dupee 
 Loammi Knight 
 Samuel Chandler 
 Amos Locke 
 James Russell 
 Wm. Whitemore 
 
 BoxborougJi. 
 (Rev.) J. R. Gushing 
 
 Carlisle. 
 Stephen Blood 
 
 Kalick. 
 Moses Eames 
 
 Note. — The names of the signers, though not read at the Banquet, are 
 here printed for information and convenience of reference. 
 
 The Grand Master. — Among the signers of this Declara- 
 tion, we have the pleasure of recognizing to-night one who, in 
 addition to having served the Masonic Fraternity in many 
 positions, has rendered valuable services to this community in 
 many other capacities. I refer to the founder of the Massa- 
 chusetts Horticultural Society. (Applause.) I have often 
 thought, in watching the daily beauty of his life, in listening to 
 the speeches which I have had the happiness to hear from him 
 on occasions of this kind, that it was not to Masonry alone 
 that he was indebted for the (dignity of his character ; that he 
 had acquired something of the richness and ripeness and 
 raciness of the fruits that he had produced, something of the 
 beauty and the fragrance of the flowers that he had cultivated. 
 Of the man and the Mason, as well as of the gardener, it 
 is true, "By their fruits ye shall know them."' Brethren, I 
 
BANQUET. 43 
 
 give you the health of our Past Deputy Grand Master E.W. 
 Marshall P. Wilder. In devotion to the interests of our Order, 
 few Masons can with him compare; he always acts on the 
 plumb; the principles of our Fraternity he keepeth as the apple 
 of his eye ; should it ever be again attacked,' he will be sure to 
 have " a little more grape " for the assailants ; and if its secrets 
 are demanded, he will be the last man to peacJi. Brethren, 
 I will not longer deprive you of the pleasu^te of listening to his 
 voice so cheery, for I am sure the sentiments he may utter will 
 pass current in this assembly. (Loud laughter and applause.) 
 
 SPEECH OF E.W. PAST DEPUTY GEAND MASTEE HON. 
 MAESHALL P. WILDEE. 
 
 Most "Worshipful Gkand Master : — I am indebted to you, 
 and I feel it sensibly from the bottom of my heart, for the very 
 kind manner in which j'ou have introduced me to my Brethren, 
 and for your appreciation of my labors ; but, sir, I am here to- 
 night at much personal inconvenience, and suffering from ill- 
 health, to be present on the fortieth year from the signing of 
 that memorable Declaration ; and if I could not have been here 
 without being borne on the bier which may carry me to my last 
 home, I would have asked some of my Masonic Brethren to 
 have borne me on their shoulders, so that I could at least by 
 the Masonic sign have testified, from the convictions of my 
 conscience, to the purity of this Institution. (Applause.) 
 But it is a privilege for an old man, — and, gentlemen, I cannot 
 longer claim to belong to the rising generation (Laughter), — 
 it is a. privilege for an old Mason to live to see this fortieth 
 year, and in the language of Scripture I may say, " These 
 forty years have I been with you." I well remember the time 
 when, as a young merchant in Boston, having everything at 
 stake, with a young family, and but little means, I was called 
 
44 BANQUET. 
 
 upon to encounter this anti-Masonic excitement; but I took 
 great pleasure in placing my name on that memorable record, 
 and it stands not far from such names as the Rev. Dr. Eaton, 
 the Eev. Dr. Harris, the Eev. Father Taylor, and my most 
 excellent friend whose absence from this board, although he has 
 been present with us during the evening, we regret, the Eev. 
 E. M. P. Wells. But oh, what a sensation it excites ! Of the 
 four hundred members in Boston who signed that Declaration, 
 how few are left ! Those glorious luminaries of Masonry 
 which shall shine while time shall last, have sunk below the 
 horizon forever, and we shall never meet again with so many 
 as have surrounded this board this evening. I could not, 
 therefore, deny myself the pleasure of being here to-night, 
 and, Most Worshipful Grand Master, I thank j'ou for giving 
 me this early opportunity to express these feelings, for I must 
 soon retire. I have always felt, next to my religion, if I have 
 any, the benign influences of Freemasonry. I have lived to 
 see great changes in the moral and political world ; I have 
 lived to see, as has been asserted this evening, the malign 
 influences spring up against Masonry, and I have lived to see 
 those apostates, like Judas, go down to infamy. (Applause.) 
 In relation to the benign influence of Masonry, I was never 
 more deeply impressed or more affected in my life than when I 
 appeared at the World's Convention of Masons, in Paris, as a 
 delegate of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, where seven 
 hundred and iifty members, from fourteen different nations, 
 had assembled in brotherly affection ; and when, without 
 regard to color or shade of complexion, they threw their, arms 
 round my neck, and with affectionate tears trickling down their 
 cheeks, I felt the benign influence of Masonry, I could not 
 but exclaim, " Masonry will proclaim peace on earth and good 
 will to men." (Applause.) 
 
BANQUET. 45 
 
 I thank you also, Most Worshipful Grand' Master, for 
 alluding so kindly to that art to which I have devoted my, 
 whole life. I have stolen from the pursuits of business and 
 from other duties, every moment that I could seize to promote 
 the beautiful art to which you have referred. It was born 
 with me. From the day when my mother first took me into 
 the garden to help dress and keep it, I can never remember the 
 hour when I did not love the cultivation of the soil. I love 
 everything that pertains to rural art and rural life. I love the 
 singing of the birds, the babbling of the brook, and the sigh- 
 ing of the breezes ; I love the vernal spring, odorous with the 
 fragrance of the garden and orchard ; I love the summer sol- 
 stice, rich with the verdure of the forest and the field ; I love 
 the mellow autumn, burnished with the golden harvests of the 
 year ; but my love for this Institution, and the enjoyment of 
 its social friendship, is equal to any which I have ever experi- 
 enced in any other pursuit of life. (Applause.) 
 
 But, sir, I must not further prolong these remarks. I have 
 said it was a privilege to be here this evening. I hope to meet 
 you again on some future occasion, but it must be confessed 
 that I have climbed the summit of the hill of life, and am de- 
 scending on the other side ; soon I shall reach the valley below, 
 and you will plant the acacia at the head of my grave ; but 
 while I do live, I will stand by the principles of Freemasonry, 
 under the belief that the better Mason a man is, the better 
 Christian he will be. (Applause.) 
 
 I must not omit to state the fact, as I am requested to do by 
 my friend Gen. Sutton, that there are several gentlemen here 
 from Salem and vicinity, of whom he is one, who signed the 
 previous Declaration to which reference has been made in the 
 paper which has been read. 
 
 Let me conclude with the expression of the hope that our In- 
 
46 BANQUET. 
 
 stitution may go on prospering and to prosper, rising higher 
 and higher in excellence and glory, until all the members of it, 
 of every nation, kindred and tongue, shall join in one grand 
 circle of life and love, to celebrate the Festival of the Saints 
 John in the kingdom of heaven. (Great applause.) 
 
 The Grand Master. — Brethren : I must for an instant re- 
 call your thoughts from the distant to the near past ; and in 
 order to give him longer opportunity to talk to you, I will, 
 without further preface, propose the health of our youngest Past 
 Grand Master, who, during the last three years, has done so 
 much to adorn and beautify the records of this Grand Lodge. 
 (Loud applause.) 
 
 SPEECH OF K.W. PAST GEAND MASTER WILLIAM S. 
 GAEDNEK. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren : — I 
 thank you most heartily for this cordial reception upon retiring 
 from the Grand East of our Grand Lodge. Time admonishes 
 me that 1 can say but a word or two more to you now. I had 
 occasion, some little time since, to investigate the whole history 
 of Massachusetts anti-Masonry, in connection with its history 
 in other States, and I found that the brethren here in Massachu- 
 setts were actually the bulwark which withstood the whole 
 current. JoUn Quincy Adams himself testified that in Massa- 
 chusetts he could make no headway ; that he could not be 
 elected Governor of Massachusetts as the candidate of the 
 anti-Masonic party, and could not go to Congress as the candi- 
 date of the anti-Masonic party. The whole feeling of Massachu- 
 setts was against anti-Masonry, and it stood, as I have already 
 said, as a bulwark against the current which was pressing against 
 our Institution ; and when, finally, the time came that the ques- 
 
BAJSTQUET. 47 
 
 tion was submitted to all the people of the United States, with 
 William Wirt of Maryland as the candidate for President by 
 the anti-Masonic party, and a gentleman of distinction from 
 Pennsylvania, as its candidate for Vice-President, they got 
 the seven electoral votes of Vermont, — and that was the end 
 of anti-Masonry. 
 
 Brethren, I claim the privilege of presenting to you a senti- 
 ment, and I request you to fill up your glasses and rise. I 
 propose, and I think I have the right, to give you, — " The 
 health and prosperity of our New Grand Master." (Loud and 
 prolonged applause, followed by three cheers for R.W. Past 
 Grand Master Gardner.) 
 
 The Grand Master. — There is at least one more of these 
 venerable brethren whose countenance I want you to see, and 
 in order that you may see him, I must get him up on his legs ; 
 therefore I will give " The health of our Past Deputy Grand 
 Master, R.W. Abraham A. Dame, another of the old Masons 
 of Massachus etts." 
 
 , SPEECH OF R.W. ABRAHAM A. DAME. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : — I will detain you but 
 a few moments in the observations I have to make. I agree 
 entirely with what our Right Worshipful Brother Moore has 
 said in relation to anti-Masonry, and I wish further to say that 
 I was a part of that matter. I had the honor to hold the oflSce 
 of Senior Grand Warden under Joseph Jenkins, and, sir, I had 
 upon me a large part of the labor of keeping him within due 
 bounds. It was during his administration that the communica- 
 tions came to us in regard to the state of things in New York. 
 Our Brother Moore has related the facts so fully, that it is not 
 necessary that I should detain you with any remarks in regard 
 
48 BANQUET. 
 
 to them. I was gratified by what he said with reference to the 
 Boston Encampment. I had the honor to be on the sub-Com- 
 mittee that framed this Declaration, and I had the honor of 
 presiding in the Boston Encampment some three or four years 
 before this period ; and I would say, that the Boston Encamp- 
 ment, from 1820 until after the anti-Masonic excitement, was as 
 live a body and did as much good work as it has ever done 
 since. It had at that time some very able members. I also, 
 sir, had the honor before that period, of presiding in the Grand 
 Commandery (" Encampment " it was then) of Massachusetts 
 and Rhode Island. I claim nothing except that when I was a 
 young man I put the ritual of all the degrees and orders of 
 Masonry in my head, and did not consult at all the monitors or 
 trestle-boards. I put them there when I was twenty-three or 
 twenty-four years old. I never thought of it until I went into 
 the Institution, and some of my Brethren know very well that 
 when I came into any Institution I was ready to fill up any 
 gap that should happen to occur, from entered apprentice in a 
 blue Lodge up to that of Knight Templar. I had the honor to 
 preside at the organization of the Ineffable Degrees in 1834 ; 
 and I will say, sir, with regard to the ritual of the different or- 
 ders and degrees, that I put them in my mind at that time, and 
 had them fully. 
 
 I will simply say, in coiiclusion, that I concur entirely .with 
 what Brother Moore has said in regard to the origin of the 
 anti-Masonic excitement. Our brethren in New York formed 
 themselves into two distinct Masonic bodies, and thus caused 
 a great deal of mischief and injury to the Institution. 
 
 TuE Grand Master. — Brethren : There is another of the 
 signers of that Declaration present, from whom I know you are 
 all anxious to hear. There was one family among the signers 
 
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 of that Declaration which was peculiarly distinguished, inas- 
 much as two generations were represented. It was signed by 
 Winslow Lewis and Winslow Lewis, Jr. Winslow Lewis was 
 a man near the close of life, who had been loved and honored 
 by his fellow-citizens for nearly eighty years, I thinlc, and 
 "Winslow Lewis, Jr., was just coming into the knowledge of his 
 neighbors and friends, and was just emerging to distinction in 
 his profession as a physician and a surgeon. No person can 
 have followed him from that period to the present without de- 
 light and admiration. He has won not only the respect, but 
 the love of his Brethren of the Masonic Fraternity, and, indeed, 
 of the profession. He is a beautiful illustration of the princi- 
 ples of Masonry. There are few men in Boston who have 
 more fully exemplified the virtue of charity, and at the same 
 time he is always genial and cheerful. Brethren, I give you 
 the health of our Past Grand Master E.W. Winslow Lewis. 
 
 Brother Moore : — I cannot allow that sentiment to be drank 
 just yet ; I happened to know both the father and the son. 
 Captain Winslow Lewis entered our Institution in England. He 
 became a Knight Templar in Liverpool ; but that is of no kind 
 of consequence ; he was in the country during the anti-Masonic 
 troubles, and there was no Mason among us more ardent, more 
 faithful, more ready with his means, than Captain Winslow 
 Lewis. He stood by the Institution in his old age, and went 
 down to the grave honored and respected and beloved by his 
 Brethren. It was my fortune (for so I consider it), to be pres- 
 ent at his funeral. His son I do not wish to say much about ; 
 but I must say one word. He received his first impressions of 
 Masonry of a strolling anti-Masonic lecturer, of the name of 
 Avery Allen, here at Boylston Hall ! He went in there out of 
 curiosity, saw what purported to be degrees of Masonry con- 
 
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50 BANQUET. 
 
 fernfed, made up his mind that if that was Masonry, then he 
 was in heart a Mason, and came forward and joined us. But 
 under what circumstances? He was a young man just rising 
 in his profession, standing in it second to none in the city of 
 Boston. It was a time, too, when to avow one's self a Mason 
 cost something. It was a strong nervous temperament that 
 brought that young man out. He threw the weight of his en- 
 tire character into the scale, hazarded his whole profession in 
 the cause of Freemasonry ; and he stands here to-night, as he 
 has stood with me for the last forty years, true as steel, and 
 ready to meet any emergency that may hereafter arise. 
 
 The Geand" Master. — I have no doubt that all that Right 
 Worshipful Brother Moore has said in regard to the father is 
 literally true, and of the son I speak of my own knowledge. 
 I have said that he was genial, jovial, cheerful and charitable. 
 In the words of the poet : — 
 
 "You hear that man laugh ? — You think he's all fun, 
 But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done ; 
 The children laugh loud, as they troop to his call, 
 And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all." 
 
 (Loud applause.) 
 
 SPEECH OF R.W. PAST GRAND MASTER WINSLOW LEWIS. 
 
 Most Worshipful : — I came to this assemblj' designing not 
 to say a single word. I have been so much overcome by the 
 spirit, whether of the occasion or of something else, I will not 
 say which, that I am really somewhat embarrassed, and there- 
 fore you will pardon me, and it will be gratefully received, 
 when I say that I will not speak perhaps more than forty or 
 fifty words. 
 
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 The occasion of my entrance into the Institution has been 
 well and truthfully stated, but my continuance in the Institution 
 I can narrate as a constant attendant of all the Masonic organ- 
 izations in Massachusetts. I think that pari passu with Brother 
 Moore (if I can use that phrase in regard to one whose long 
 stride oversteps me infinitely), it has been my almost daily 
 habit for forty years to visit the Grand Lodge apartments, 
 whether in a very humble place in School street, where the 
 Grand Secretary had no other accommodations than a broken, 
 three-legged stool, or in this beautiful Temple. I have never 
 professed any power of making a connected speech, but the 
 greatest satisfaction of my life has been derived from that Insti- 
 tution, which, on the present occasion, commemorates the rise 
 and the appropriate rise, of one of the members, and a Past 
 Master of the Lodge which bears my humble name. If I ever 
 generated anything in my whole life, except my own legitimate 
 children — • (Loud laughter) — speaking physiologically, I will 
 not say pathologically ; in short, if I had any power in my 
 productive capacity, it has exhibited itself most wonderfully in 
 the presentation of the present Grand Master of the Grand 
 Lodge of Massachusetts. In that respect, I confess my strong 
 procreative power (Laughter and applause) ; and when I see 
 this table, surrounded by the members of that Lodge as stew- 
 ards, the exponents of that humble name, I think it becomes 
 me to sit down satisfied. Truly, I am ready to relinquish life 
 from this very moment. I have fulfilled my task, and if my 
 life is spared any longer, it will be only to dwindle into an 
 expression of the infirmities of old age. My limbs are totter- 
 ino-, my brain flags, but my Masonic heart and soul will be 
 the last lingering remains of my existence, and when I die — 
 and that time must soon come — written on my heart will be 
 Masonry ! Freemasonry ! and the Lodge that bears my humble 
 
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 name ! This may be almost the last tribute that I shall pay to 
 Masonry ; an Institution which has developed in me kindly 
 feelings and charitable deeds. I hope and believe indeed all 
 that can be imputed to me of good in my social life, I derived 
 solely and wholly from the Masonic Institution. Let me say 
 as a parting, and it may be the last parting, word, — May that 
 Institution from which I have derived so much benefit con- 
 tinue to bless you all as I have been blessed. (Loud ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 Song, "We won't go home till morning." 
 
 The Grand Master. — I hope the Brethen will not go ; the 
 exercises of the evening have only just commenced. (Laugh- 
 ter.) I can only say, gentlemen, in reply t^ the remarks of 
 Et. Worshipful Brother Lewis, that the Masonic child of his 
 old age is wise enough to know its own father (Laughter) ; 
 and that it claims to be strictly legitimate. But, Brethren, I 
 will not interrupt your pleasure by any such private or per- 
 sonal considerations. I am reminded this evening of the 
 occasion when I was presented to the Most Worshipful Grand 
 Master, and introduced to him as the Grand Master elect. 
 That service was performed by the Senior Past Grand Master, 
 and for some inexplicable reason, — I suppose because I had 
 touched the hem of his garment and virtue had gone out of 
 him, — he applied to me a title which my Brethren recognized at 
 once as entirely undeserved, and consequently smiled audibly ; 
 but in respect to him, I am perfectly ready and willing to 
 acknowledge that the title is entirely appropriate. His Ma- 
 sonic Brethren have conferred upon him another title only 
 second to that which he bears as the represesentative of the 
 church ; they have distinguished him by the title of Eight 
 Worshipful. Brethren, I give you the health of our Senior 
 
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 Past Grand Master, Rt. "Worshipful and Et. Rev. George M. 
 Randall, Bishop of Colorado. 
 
 SPEECH OF E.W. GEORGE M. RANDALL. 
 
 I am truly obliged to you, Sir, for the sentiment which 
 you have offered, and to the Brethren, for the manner in 
 which they have received it. This is the first time, for many 
 years, that I have enjoyed the pleasure of jneeting with the 
 Grand Lodge at their Annual Communication. " The years of 
 our age " are rapidly passing away, and with them many of our 
 Brethren beloved, and " the places which once knew them know 
 them no more." I was not a little surprised to hear my name 
 called on the evening of the annual election, first on the list of 
 permanent members of the Grand Lodge, as the oldest Past 
 Grand Master living. I could hardly persuade myself, that 
 one who felt himself to be yet young should sustain this rela- 
 tive position in this venerable Body. But so it is. These 
 annual gatherings, while they exhibit the rapid growth of the 
 Brotherhood, remind us of the Fathers who have gone before ; 
 and while we rejoice in the progressive activities which indi- 
 cate increasing prosperity, we dwell with saddened love upon 
 the memory of those who " rest from their labors." 
 
 We have been reminded that this Festival commemorates the 
 fortieth year since the famous Declaration was signed and 
 published by the Freemasons of Boston, and its vicinity, in 
 vindication of the Institution against the assaults which the 
 frenzied spirit of anti-Masonry made upon it in 1831. I was 
 a boy in those darlj days, but I remember them well. My 
 father was a Mason, firm and unflinching. I was early inter- 
 ested in an Institution, of which I knew nothing except what 
 I saw refiected in the life and character of those whom I 
 
54 BANQUET. 
 
 revered. But I was old enough to know something of this 
 senseless crusade, and to appreciate the motives of many who 
 were engaged in it, in mj' native State. I saw its political 
 workings, and in them read the heartless hypocrisy of those 
 who were leaders of the movement. 
 
 So dismal was the day, that many true Masons verily 
 thought that the end had come. I remember to have heard a 
 very intelligent gentleman, a member of the Fraternity, remark 
 that this Institution had probably accomplished its mission, 
 and there was no more work for it to do, and so, like other 
 associations, it would now pass awa}'. , That person did not 
 understand the philosophy of Freemasonry ; he did not fully 
 comprehend the nature of its constitution, nor the character of 
 its great office in the world. 
 
 This Fraternity was primarily organized for the mutual 
 improvement and protection of its members in the building of 
 King Solomon's Temple. But when that structure was com- 
 pleted this Society did not cease to exist because it had 
 answered the end of its organization. There was for it other 
 work to do. Other generations were to be benefited. And so 
 it continued and reappeared in Christendom. The monuments 
 of its skill and labor are now seen throughout Europe. When 
 the great cathedrals were completed, and the Pope of Rome 
 had availed himself of the skill and labors of Freemasons to 
 make these grand contributions to the church, and he had no 
 further use for their services in the work of promoting the 
 aggrandizement of the Papal hierarchy, he ceased to be a 
 liberal patron and became a violent persecutor. 
 
 In 1717, the operative labor of this society ceased alto- 
 gether, but yet their work was not finished. The world had 
 need of just such an Institution for the amelioration of some of 
 the ills of mankind, and for the improvement of the mind and 
 
BANQUET. 55 
 
 morals of men, and so the light of Masonry followed the Star 
 of Empire, when " westward it took its course," and early- 
 shone upon this continent. We have to-night listened to the 
 just and eloquent eulogy of its First Grand Master in this 
 Western hemisphere. Masonry found its proper place and 
 office in the war of the Revolution, and thenceforth multiplying 
 its members and its charities, it contributed to the welfare of 
 the world. It was in the midst of its work when in 1831 that 
 tornado burst upon it, whose maddened violence threatened its 
 destruction. Then it was that the more timid ventured the 
 prediction, that good as it was and ever had been, it had out- 
 lived its usefulness, and must now be numbered among the 
 institutions which have been. 
 
 Out of this fiery furnace Freemasonry came forth purified 
 of much of its dross, demonstrating to the world that its work 
 was not yet finished ; it yet had a mission among men, and so 
 long as there was a work for it to do, no power of its ene- 
 mies could destroy its existence or hinder its ultimate prog- 
 ress. 
 
 This terrible trial proved that there is in the constitution of 
 this Ancient Fraternity a vitality which renders impotent the 
 assaults of its enemies. The intelligent man knows that this 
 indestructible life springs out of the fact that this Society, in 
 distinction from all other human institutions, requires faith in 
 God as a prerequisite of admission to its pale, — makes His 
 Holy Word its own Great Light, without which it cannot work, 
 — teaches a morality drawn from that Word, and enjoins that 
 charity which comes of the Divine Law of love. These consti- 
 tute the immortality of Freemasonry. No wonder, then, that 
 it still lives ; that the fires of anti-Masonry did not consume 
 it, and the follies of its members have not rent it in sunder. 
 
 Based on such principles, and designed for such purposes, it 
 
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 has not outlived its usefulness, and is not likely to for many- 
 generations to come. 
 
 Never in its history has this Brotherhood of olden time had 
 before it a nobler work than it has to-day. The tendencies of 
 the age, the signs of the times, the condition of society, all 
 indicate its work. Who that has an observing eye does not see 
 that iireverence is becoming more and more an evident feature 
 of the common mind, as manifested towards God and man? 
 Now a Society that recognizes the existence of God, and makes 
 His "Word the rule of life, and teaches the great doctrines of 
 the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body, 
 may do much in arresting this increasing tendency, and saving 
 society from the infinite mischiefs which are sure to swarm 
 from this popular evil. 
 
 Skepticism and a miscalled liberalism, which is only another 
 term for an ill-disguised infidelity, are doing much to lessen 
 the sanctitj' of the Bible in the eyes of the people. Contests are 
 now going on, as reported in the public prints, involving the 
 question of casting the Holy Writings out of the public schools. 
 This is a dark omen. On the mid-tide of such influences 
 stands this Fraternity, which claims Solomon as its first 
 Grand Master, which keeps this Inspired Book open on its 
 altars, a part of its constitution, and so necessary to its very 
 existence that a I^odge cannot be held without it. Who will 
 say what shall be the measure of the influence of Freemasonry 
 in resisting these tendencies, and in promoting that profound 
 reverence from man to the revelation of his Creator ? 
 
 Then, who that reads the newspaper does not see what is 
 the political drift of the world on both sides of the great water ; 
 that the tendencies are ever3'where, at home and abroad, 
 towards that extreme of libertj' which runs into licentiousness, 
 to the utter destruction of all regard for lawful authority or 
 
BANQUET. 57 
 
 rightful possessions ? The spirit of. agrarianism is abroad, and 
 doing fearful harm in the excitement of the worst passions, 
 creating false expectations, which, rising into demands, prompt 
 to violence and blood, therebj'^ sapping the foundations on 
 which rest the fabric of well-ordered society, and all true 
 liberty. Growing disrespect for all authority, disregard of 
 ancient usage, contempt of forms, are some of 'the minor 
 manifestations of this tendencj' to a levelling individualism, 
 which is showing itself in old lands and in new. Will any 
 man pretend to say, that a Society, which has come down from 
 a remote antiquity, far away beyond the record of any other 
 human institution, which symbolizes the authority of govern- 
 ment in its order, to a degree that a single blow of the Master's 
 gavel instantly brings order out of confusion ; where subor- 
 dination is not omjr symbolized, but taught and rigidly prac- 
 tised, as of the very essence of its first principles ; where liberty, 
 equality and fraternity are not only recognized, but illustrated 
 and realized ; where loyalty to the country and obedience to 
 its rightful government are duties enjoined, — that such a Fra- 
 ternity, in such an age as this, has not a mission among men? 
 The star of Freemasonry rose in the East ; its course has al- 
 ways been towards the West. It is so to-day. Civilization is 
 making its way across this great continent. Its swiftly flow- 
 ing tides are bearing , forward multitudes, who are to people 
 plains which have been known only as the great American des- 
 ert. Freemasonry has followed the adventuring emigrant, going 
 from his eastern home. In this new condition of things, this 
 ancient Institution finds a fresh field for the exercise of its 
 moral teachings and its active charities. You can scarcely con- 
 ceive of the vast extent of this newer portion of our country. 
 I have lately come from the frontier, and expect soon to return 
 to it. It is a long distance there, and it is a long distance after 
 
58 BANQUET. 
 
 jou get there. My residence is in Colorado. This one terri- 
 torjf is sixteen thousand square miles larger than all England, 
 Scotland and Wales. Its population is rapidly increasing, and 
 its prospects are brightening in every quarter. Large numbers 
 of enterprising young men are drawn thither from their distant 
 homes,Ju search of employment. Many of them are thus sud- 
 denly thrown into the whirlpool of frontier life, not only thou- 
 sands of miles from home, but without a single relative or friend 
 in the land, exposed to dangers and temptations and misfor- 
 tunes. He can claim neither the protection nor the counsel nor 
 the aid of any man among the multitudes whom he meets in the 
 crowded thoroughfares of his new home, and is constantly ex- 
 posed to cruel imposition. Now, in the absence of those who are 
 to him of blood-akin, it is surely a very great thing to have a 
 Brotherhood which will receive him into its pale, warn him of 
 danger, befriend him in trouble, keep him from the society of 
 the evil, supply his wants when he is destitute, visit him when 
 he is sick, and should he die, will bury his body and send his 
 dying message to bereaved friends far away. This is the mis- 
 sion of this Fraternity, along the frontier of our country. But 
 it does something more than this. Its Lodge-room becomes an 
 asylum, a retreat in the hours of leisure and darkness, where 
 the stranger may find trustworthy companions, and listen to 
 moral teachings, and so cultivate a taste for what is elevating, 
 while he is, in a measure at least, saved from the snares of the 
 destroyer, who walks in darkness, and through the fascination 
 of companionship effects the ruin of the unwary. 
 
 There are many Lodges scattered through that country. 
 Their influence will have much to do with the character of the 
 civilization that is to shape the destiny of great States which 
 are now in embryo ; a character which is to be potential for 
 good or for evil in the future of this mighty RepubUc. 
 
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 I am glad to know that the Lodges, some of them at least, 
 are careful in the admission of candidates. I was informed 
 that one Lodge in that region rejected nearly one-half of the 
 applications for the degrees ; and this, not because the community 
 were very immoral, but because the Fraternity were very partic- 
 ular. 
 
 I beg you to remember that the men whom you here make 
 Masons go there, and so give color and character to the Institu- 
 tion there, and they directly <jontribute to the woe or the wel- 
 fare of a coming people. Remember, then, when you are 
 casting the ball that makes a Mason in Massachusetts, you may 
 be doing that which when done will be irreparable in effecting 
 a civilization in an infant empire, whose giant powers in the 
 prime of its manhood may elevate or depress the civilization of 
 the world, 
 
 Christianity is yet to make these almost boundless " deserts 
 rejoice and blossom as the rose." Human societies can do much 
 in removing the obstacles to the advance of the Eedeemer's 
 kingdom. Their contribution in this direction is a noble one. 
 May this Fraternity never fail to fulfil its mission here and 
 everywhere. i 
 
 Allow me, Most Worshipful, to propose a sentiment : The 
 unbroken succession of Grand Masters ; may every future link 
 in this chain be as pure and as bright as that which has been 
 made to-night. 
 
 The Grand Master. — Brethren : We were taught when we 
 were young that children should be seen and not heard. 
 Masonry in Massachusetts had a period when it had at its 
 head a Brother who should be both seen and heard. I give you. 
 Brethren, without further preface, the health of our Past Grand 
 Master R.W. John T. Heard. 
 
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 SPEECH OF E.W. JOHN T. HEAED. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : — I thank 3'ou for the 
 complimentary manner in which 3'ou have brought me before 
 this assembly. I did not, and do not now, contemplate making 
 any extended remarks, on account of the lateness of the hour. 
 I have been highly gratified and edified by what has been said 
 relative to the past during the evening, but I have some of the 
 feeling expressed by our Senior Past Grand Master, relative to 
 the future. I should be glad to give you an account of a plan 
 which I have had in view for carrying out what you, Most Wor- 
 shipful Grand Master, have been laboring for so long a time to 
 accomplish, — I mean, the redemption of this Temple from debt. 
 I had hoped to have been able to have suggested this plan at 
 some time when we had a large representation of all the Lodges 
 in the Commonwealth, that I might say to the Masters and 
 Wardens that it was an easy thing for us to redeem this 
 Temple from its incumbrances. How? Here we are, affili- 
 ated Masons belonging to this jurisdiction, over twenty thou- 
 sand men. Ten dollars voluntarily given by each — not 
 looking back to the past, at the work that is already done — 
 will redeem this Temple in less than four years, securing it as 
 a Charity Fund to the Grand Lodge of the Commonwealth of 
 Massachusetts. Five dollars carried to the altar of Masonry 
 by each of these twenty thousand members, celebrating on the 
 24th day of June the festival of St. John the Baptist, will give 
 us one hundred thousand dollars ; and five dollars given on our 
 next anniversary of this festival of St. John the Evangelist 
 makes up another one hundred thousand dollars, and the work 
 is done. This fund, with the income which we have alread}', 
 and which from various sources can be derived from this 
 Temple, will enable you easily to accomplish this work, and 
 
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 thereafter to devote the whole income of this building to 
 benevolent purposes. Ten dollars each ! It is a very small 
 sum. In how many waj's, and how many times in the year, 
 ten dollars are spent for infinitely less pleasurable purposes ! 
 Ten dollars apiece, and what do we get in return for it ? It 
 enables this Grand Lodge, or the Trustees, if it should be 
 determined to place this edifice in charge of Trustees, to dis- 
 tribute through the Commonwealth twenty thousand or thirty 
 thousand dollars annually, — at least one dollar for every 
 member of the Association, for charitable purposes. Your ten 
 dollars are put into this building, invested here for charitable 
 purposes. I do not say that each member is to have a dollar 
 back every year, but the money is to go, according to my plan, 
 into the Treasury of each Lodge per capita; to be divided 
 equally among the Lodges, and to be forever devoted to 
 charitable purposes. I have not time to explain myself more 
 full};^ in regard to this plap. I think what I have said will be 
 sufficient as a suggestion of what might be very easily accom- 
 plished, if we would, at these two coming anniversaries, thus 
 proceed, disregarding the ordinary observance of those anni- 
 versaries, costing probably to the members engaged in them 
 much more than the amount I have suggested. 
 
 The most valuable historical address delivered by the 
 retiring Grand Master suggests to me the name of the indi- 
 vidual whose biography he has so fully given us, as one that 
 Masons should always remember and honor ; therefore, with your 
 permission. Most Worshipful, I would propose that we drink 
 standing, and in silence, to the memory of Henry Price. 
 
 The toast was drank, as suggested. 
 
 The Grand Master. — Some years ago, the^ Most Worship- 
 ful Grand Master was pleased to appoint me District Deputy 
 
62 BANQUET. 
 
 Grand Master for the First Masonic District. Soon after my 
 installation, the officers of one of the Lodges in the vicinity of 
 Boston applied to me to install their officers. I knew nothing 
 about the duty, and I was so terrified at the task they had 
 imposed upon me that I did not venture to undertake it my- 
 self, but I called to my assistance a Past Grand Master. He 
 complied with my request very cheerfully, and went out to 
 Pequossette Lodge, Watertown, and in my presence installed 
 the ofiicers of that body in a "(ery graceful manner. After- 
 wards, at the table, I was called upon for a speech, but 
 excused myself upon the ground that I was a j'oung and inex- 
 perienced Mason and did not know how to talk, but I said I 
 had brought with me a Past Grand Master, the very fact of 
 whose elevation to that oflSce showed that he could make a 
 speech, and he did make an admirable speech in my stead. I 
 have no doubt that he will perform the same duty to-'night. I 
 give you the health of R.W. Past Grand Master William D. 
 Coolidge. 
 
 SPEECH OF E.W. WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : — I thank you for in- 
 troducing me so pleasantly to the Brethren. I have sent my 
 mind back to the occasion which you have described, and I 
 saw there the germ that to-night has bloomed into a full 
 flower. (Loud applause.) I have watched it, — you, Brethren, 
 have appreciated it, — and to-night we have elevated him to his 
 place as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge. I am thankful and 
 grateful that Providence has raised up one on whom so much 
 reliance has been placed, and that the prospect is so auspicious 
 for the prosperity of the Grand Lodge under his administra- 
 tion. 
 
 I will not detain you long. We have heard to-night from 
 
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 the lips of our Past Grand Masters words that are like " apples 
 
 of gold in pictures of silver." Subordination ! Will not 
 
 every Mason treasure up that word in his heart — certainly 
 
 never more needed than at this time. From another Brother we 
 
 have heard the plan developed that shall clear this Temple 
 
 from debt, raising us to the very pinnacle of joy and gladness, 
 
 and making the income from this building a grand charity 
 
 fund for this jurisdiction. (Applause.) Why, sir, there never 
 
 was a better investment ever proposed than ten dollars from 
 
 this generation of Masons, to be sent down to the next. They 
 
 will say, " What a glorious set of men were our fathers ! let 
 
 us emulate their greatness and their virtues." 
 
 Now, sir, we have been over the past, let us say a word for 
 
 our own Grand Lodge. In the beautiful words of our poet, 
 
 Whittier : — 
 
 " Sail on, sail on, full freighted 
 With blessings and with hopes ; 
 The saints of old, with shadowy wings, 
 Are pulling at the ropes." 
 
 I will close, sir, with a sentiment. My heart is full of sym- 
 pathy and of hope for the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts ; may 
 its corn and its wine and its oil abound, and health, plenty 
 and peace be the fortune of every Brother among you. (Ap- 
 plause.) ' 
 
 The Grand Master. — Bkethren : I am going to give you 
 another little bit of personal Masonic history. Six years ago, 
 the Most Worshipful Grand Master was installed, and on the 
 day following his election. Brother Dame called at my office to 
 tender me the appointment of Deputy Grand Master. I was 
 astonished ; I had no expectation of any such honor, and I told 
 him that I supposed he knew that I had voted for another can- 
 
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 didate, and that although I had not electioneered against him, 
 — a thing which I scorn in a Masonic Bodj' (Applause), • — I had 
 voted against him, and so far as 1 had exercised any influence, 
 it had been unfavorable to him. He said he ^idn't care anj-- 
 thing about that, if I would accept the office he should be very- 
 glad. I accepted it ; but a very few months afterwards busi- 
 ness carried me abroad, and I was not able to render him any 
 assistance during that year. Late in the winter I informed him 
 that it was very uncertain when I should return, and that he 
 had better appoint some one else, although he had told me that 
 if I would retain the office during his administration lie would 
 be glad to have me. I came home soon after his second elec- 
 tion. The Boston Brethren know that he had the hardest 
 struggle a Mason ever had, I believe, during that year, in his 
 efforts to continue the erection of the Temple, " making bricks 
 without straw ; " for although the Grand Lodge had voted to 
 build the Temple, that the debt should be paid, and all that 
 sort of thing, it had not furnished him with any means to do 
 it ; but he went on until his own private resources and credit 
 were exhausted. Just before the election, when he would have 
 been a candidate for- the third time, I happened to meet him 
 and Brother Woodbury at the corner of the street. They 
 called me and wanted to know what was to be done. Brother 
 Dame said he had got to the end of his rope, and could not go 
 any further. He wanted to know who should be Grand Master, 
 and asked me if I would take the office. I told him no, I 
 would not deprive him of the honor of an election for the third 
 year, after all the service he had rendered the Grand Lodge, 
 and I could not, under any circumstances, take precedence of 
 the retiring Grand Master of this year ; that I would not take 
 the office of Grand Master ; I would not buy it ; I scorned to 
 place myself in a position where I should say, " I will carry 
 
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 you through, if 3-ou will elect me ; if you do not, you may take 
 • care of yourselves." I told Brother Dame the honor belonged 
 to him, and he ought to have it. He said he could not take it, 
 unless he could have some one on the Board of Directors who 
 should take care of the finances. Finally, I think upon the 
 spot, I consented to go into the Board. I did not realize the 
 duty that I should have to perform, or the burden that would 
 be imposed upon me thereby, but I consented to take the office. 
 He was elected for the third year, and immediately after the 
 election, when the Board of Directors was called together, he 
 announced that he washed his hands entireljr of the finances of 
 the Institution ; that we must elect a Finance Committee who 
 should take entire charge of that matter, and he would devote 
 his time to the duties of Grand Master. I had not expected 
 quite so broad a statement as that, but I submitted, and became 
 Chairman of the Finance Committee. I believed then, that if 
 an opportunity was afforded to the Brethren to learn the real 
 facts in the case, if time was given for the dispersion of the 
 slight personal feeling that had grown up from this and other 
 matters, the Brethren would come up as one man and pa^' otf 
 the debt, inasmuch as all that was asked to put this beautiful 
 building into the possession of the Grand Lodge was ten dol- 
 lars from each of the Brethren in this State. I have felt great 
 satisfaction in being able to render the service to Brother Dame 
 that I did, and if I have been able to render any service to the 
 Grand Lodge for the past four j-ears, you maj- give Brother 
 Dame the credit for it ; for I should never have undertaken it, 
 if it had not been for the trulj'' Masonic wa}' in which he treated 
 me after his first election. I had enjo5-ed all the Masonic 
 honors for which I had any ambition. I was Past Master of 
 my Lo-tge, and that was the height of my ambition. I never 
 dreamed of aspiring to hold the office of Grand Master and 
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 never desired it. If I have rendered any service to the Grand 
 Lodge in the past, or if I sliall render them any service in the 
 future, you may put it down to the credit of Right Worshipful 
 Brother Dame, and I give you his health. (Loud applause.) 
 
 SPEECH OE E.W. CHABLES C. DAME. 
 
 Most WoRSHiPFDL Gkand Master: — You have alluded, in 
 referring to me, to matters that carry me back to other days, 
 when I felt embarrassed in regard to the affairs of the Grand 
 Lodge and labored diligently early and late to promote its 
 interest. I saw, upon taking the office of Grand Master, that 
 a large amount of labor was before me, and it was for that very 
 reason that I called to my assistance your own services as 
 Deputy Grand Master, to assist me in the discharge of the 
 duties which devolVed upon me. I did not know you then so 
 well as I have known you since, but the impressions that I had 
 then have been more than realized in the connection which I 
 have had with you officially and in all the relations in which I 
 have been placed where you have been connected with me in 
 the conduct of the affairs of the Grand Lodge. There are very 
 few Brethren in the Fraternity who know the embarrassments 
 which existed at that time. The Grand Lodge had voted that 
 this Temple should be built, but no appropriations were made 
 by them for building it. Notwithstanding that, the Board of 
 Directors commenced their operations, and had their plans and 
 specifications made. The small sum of one hundred thousand 
 dollars was secured for the purpose of carrying on the work ; 
 the whole property, existing and prospective, of the Grand 
 Lodge, was pledged to the payment of that one hundred thou- 
 sand dollars, and the contracts were made. In that condition I 
 I found affairs, when I entered upon the duties of the office. 
 
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 The building, aftrr the expenditure of that one hundred thou- 
 sand dollars, was partlj- erected, the money was exhausted, and 
 no more funds could be obtained. I saw that the interests of 
 the Grand Lodge were all at stake ; that what little property 
 they had would be sacrificed, unless more funds could be 
 raised. Brother ^lickerson, your present Grand Master, was 
 then absent in Europe, and could not render the assistance 
 which I anticipated at the commencement of my ofHce ; the 
 Board of Directors had not at that time entered so devotedly 
 into their work as they liave done since. The second year the 
 Board was changed, rendering the m.atter unsettled, the Grand 
 Lodge without funds, the Temple partly erected, and what was 
 to be done was more tlian was in the power of any member of 
 that Board or myself to see. 1 found that money could not be 
 obtained to pay the bills of the workmen on Saturday night, 
 and that the work must cease unless tliey were paid; and I 
 knew full well, and so did other members of the Board of 
 Directors, that if the work ceased at that time the propert}' of 
 the Grand Lodge would be sacrificed. Under these circum- 
 stances I applied for assistance to mj- personal friends. My 
 -own credit had been exhausted, as has been stated ; mj' own 
 name was upon paper for the benefit of the Grand Lodge as 
 far as it would go. In this condition, as I say, I applied to 
 • personal friends, raising loans upon my own guaranty as best I 
 could, and the work was continued a few weeks longer, while 
 eflforts were being made to obtain funds by an additional mort- 
 gage. This additional mortgage could not be effected, as one 
 already existed upon the property. But personal friends 
 assisted me from time to time ; Brother Moore went in for 
 quite a sum ; Brother Sutton for more ; and in this waj' we 
 continued the work a year. Brother Sutton came to the relief 
 of the Grand Lodse, as well as to the relief of my own em- 
 
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 barrassment, by enclorsing the notes that were given by the 
 Treasuier of the Grand Lodge, endorsed by myself, to the 
 amount finally of sixty thousand dollars. This continued 
 until the mortgage that was existing could be changed and a 
 new mortgage obtained for one hundred and fifty thousand 
 dollars. This was found not to be sufficient for carrying on 
 the work, and bonds were then issued, and every effort made on 
 my part and on the part of those associated with me to pledge 
 those bonds with friends for temporary loans, or to sell them, 
 and work along as best we could. 
 
 It was under such circumstances that your Temple was built, 
 and you can well imagine the embarrassment and labor and 
 anxiety of your Grand Master at that time. I had a personal 
 pride that the work should not cease while I was in office, and 
 I had an interest in the Grand Lodge that its property should 
 not be sacrificed. I spent anxious days and sleepless nights, 
 until my own health suffered in endeavoring to protect 3'our 
 interests in this building, knowing full well that if the building 
 could be completed, the Brethren would get over their embar- 
 rassment after a while, and would come forward and redeem it 
 from the condition in which it was placed. This state of things 
 continued for two years. At the end of that time. Brother 
 Nickerson, as he has stated, came into the Board of Directors, 
 and entered upon the duties of financial manager of the Grand 
 Lodge. From that time I was relieved, and the condition 
 since then has been well laid before you and is better under- 
 stood ; but the embarrassments under which 1 labored for two 
 years never have been known by the Brethren of this jurisdic- 
 tion, and but by very few of the members of the Grand Lodge. 
 It is gratifying to me to-night to see the change that has come 
 over us ; that from these embarrassments and this critical con- 
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 of prosperity and progress, and that we to day see the good old 
 ship, that was laboring among the rocks and quicksands, freed 
 from her peril, with the pilot, who was ever watchful and alert 
 at the bow to look out for breakers and to give directions to 
 veer and haul as occasion might require, now promoted to the 
 quarter-deck, where he can give his orders and directions in a 
 way that shall be obeyed by a ready and willing crew, and I 
 trust that prosperous gales will continue to waft her on ia 
 smooth and tranquil waters. (A]jplause.) 
 
 The Grand Master. — Brethren : We have heard a great 
 deal to-night of the fight that was carried on by our Brethren 
 forty years ago in defence of Masonrj', but there is a fight 
 going on now in some parts of the country, and among some 
 denominations of Christians, which is dangerous, and which re- 
 quires the utmost exertions of Brethren in those seciions, to 
 defend our Order. Brethren, I give you the health ot Worshipful 
 Brother Quint, the Senior Chaplain of the Grand Lodge. 
 
 SPEECH OF W. EEV. ALONZO H. QUINT, D.D. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : ■ — I was never very timid, 
 but I must say it takes a bold man to say anything afterXyou 
 have heard from the men who, years ago, bore the heat and 
 burden of the day ; but I will say a word or two, because 
 Brother Moore referred to the ministers in that old fight, as 
 proving the worst foes. I was a little disturbed when he said 
 it, and could not help thinking of what the Irishman saicf, when 
 he was before the court. He appeared greatly frightened, 'and 
 the judge said to him, " Don't be aft'aid, you shall have justice 
 done you." — "Ah!" said he, "your Honor, that's what I'm 
 afraid of." (Laughter.) I honestly confess, there was a good 
 deal of truth in what Brother Moore said ; but then, our veuer- 
 
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 ated Brother Marshall P. Wilder spoke of some ministers who 
 were true, and that helped the matter a little the other way. 
 
 I -nill just sa}' here, by the way, that I thought, when you 
 alluded to the fact that the original warrant ordered that 
 the Grand Lodge should celebrate the feast of Saint John, 
 how lucky it was that it should be Saint John the Evangelist's 
 day, because Saint John the Baptist " came neither eating 
 nor drinking." (Loud laughter and applause.) And I remem- 
 bered when I used to belong to a conference of churches, — 
 thirty odd churches, — that used to meet in great numbers at 
 different places, that there was a servant girl at a house in the 
 town where we were to go, who had been elsewhere where the 
 Conference met, and when her mistress was cooking the cake 
 and pies, etc., she said to her, "You had better cook a good 
 deal more." — " Why ? " — " Well, I lived in a town where they 
 had one of them Conference*, and j'ou don't know how them 
 pious do eat ! " Perhaps there is something of that sort here. 
 (Laughter.) 
 
 M^' heart has been stirred to-night by the presence of these 
 veterans, and the reminiscences of the persecutions which they 
 bravely met. The past seems strange to us of a later genera- 
 tion. And yet, I begin to appreciate it. I have had some 
 little knowledge of this anti-Masonic business, and of its spirit. 
 I doubt if many of the Brethren know the fury against Free- 
 masons which exists in some parts of the West. There is an 
 anti-Masonic association, called, I believe, the " National Asso- 
 elation of Christians opposed to Secret Societies." I have seen 
 it stated that one of our senators has given in his adhesion to 
 it. I hope this is not so. The society has two objects : one, 
 to suppress secret societies by political action ; the other, to 
 secure the excommunication of all their members from Christian 
 churches. I think there will be some vacancies when the last 
 
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 is done ' But there are churches, a few in my own denomination, 
 which will not receive Freeniasons to membership. 
 
 There is a paper published in the interest of this crusade in 
 Chicago. I am almost ashamed to say that it is edited by a Con- 
 gregational minister. A very large share of his attacks have 
 been directed at me. I happened lately to .be chairman of a 
 committee appointed to call a council of all the churches of my 
 denomination in the United States, and to frame a constitution 
 for a permanent organization. Of course this added to his 
 alreadjr suflQcient wrath. " The editor opposed the whole move- 
 ment with all his might and main ; insisted that God would 
 never bless a meeting called by a committee of which the chair- 
 man was a Freemason, etc., etc. He came into Massachusetts 
 last summer, on his anti-Masonic business, held conventions 
 and made speeches. He went home disgusted. ' It had been a 
 gi'ief to him that I was Secretarj^ of our State Association of 
 Churches ; while he was here, I believe, I was re-chosen, with 
 but one dissenting vote. I was also placed first in the list of 
 delegates to the National Council, by unanimous vote, and 
 the poor brother complained in his paper that his efibrts were 
 useless, the Lodge was too strong in Massachusetts, — which 
 meant only that people minded their own business. The fact 
 was he could not raise the issue. His paper would be a curios- 
 ity anywhere, for helpless fury : of course it is full of untruths. 
 For bitter, unscrupulous malice, I don't know its equal. The 
 'editor complains sadly of my " haughty silence.'' There are 
 some reasons why we cannot answer sucli men. There was a 
 good woman in Brooklyn once, who had been taught Hopkins- 
 ianism, which was supposed to hold that a person must be will- 
 ing to be damned before he was fit to be saved. She was in 
 great distress about it. But one day she went to her' pastor. Dr. 
 Spencer, who had talked with her in vain, and said, " Doctor, 
 
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 I think I am now in a good condition, for I am willing to be 
 damned." — " Well," said the doctor, " if God is willing, I have 
 no doubt the devil is willing, and if you are willing, I don't see 
 that I ought to interfere ! " Now I am not sure that T ought to 
 be willing to see such men peril their souls ; but there is another 
 trouble. We cannot reply to such a man, with any self-respect. 
 Two or three years ago, this man was so abusive, to say noth- 
 ing more, that four Chicago ministers, including an editor and a 
 professor in the seminary, published a card, in which they said, 
 "We are compelled to pronounce him a reckless slandeter of 
 his brethren, or charitably to suppose that he is in a state of 
 mind which i-elieves him from moral responsibility for his acts 
 and deeds." These signers were all anti-Masons in sentiment. 
 He did not like it, and challenged an investigation before ref- 
 erees, which he got, and, as a result, his conviction. I have 
 been told that out of over fort}' allegations of untruth, he was 
 convicted on all but three ! Of course he is under a cloud, 
 and of course no honorable man can publicly reply to even the 
 most absolute falsehoods from such a man. So long as such 
 a man is the recognized head of the anti-Masonic movement 
 we can judge of its character, and need not trouble ourselves 
 about it. The practice of the principles of the Institution is 
 the best answer to those, who, in the words of Daniel Poor, 
 the noble veteran missionary, himself a member of our Order, 
 " affect to despise what they do not understand, or appear to 
 be angry because they are ignorant." 
 
 I spoke of a national organization of Congregational 
 churches. Pardon me if I refer to it again. It met at Oberlin, 
 a place noted for anti-MasonrJ^ One church there will not 
 receive Freemasons into the church. The editor denounced 
 us in advance. He expected, however, that that Council would 
 condemn Freemasonry. Brethren around there — where 
 
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 churches had been split to pieces — were anxiously awaiting 
 the result. I will do the people there the justice to say, that 
 the Brethren and myself were treated with Christian courtesy 
 even by persons who dislike our Institution. It is true that 
 some students came in, and wanted to have " that Freemason " 
 pointed out ! I suppose they thought a Freemason had horns 
 and hoofs! Somebody flooded the 'church with little tracts, 
 assailing me and this Grand Lodge. They called this Grand 
 Lodge "the beast"! I thought to-night, in the hall, that if 
 they had been there, they would have thought the beast was 
 pretty vigorous. As I looked around and saw the intelligence, 
 the integritj-, the abilitj", and the eminence there collected, I 
 felt that those opposers would know there was something their 
 fanaticism could not overthrow. When, last year, the then 
 Grand Master offered me the place of Chaplain, I replied that I 
 was glad to take it, and to stand openly against the fanaticism 
 of these people. Of course, being Chaplain, I came in for an 
 extra share of abuse. 
 
 But at Oberlin, the editor sent five hundred copies of 
 his paper for distribution. It was so scurrilous that anti- 
 Masons were disgusted, and suppressed the whole. I got a 
 copy, however ; I mean to keep it as a curiosity for future gener- 
 ations. They had a special pra3-er-meeting, also, in my behalf. 
 "Did you have a good meeting?"! asked one. "Tes." — •■ See 
 anv fruits?'' — "Well, no ! "' — "Ah, brother," said I, "you 
 don't pray in faith ! " But one good brother wrote me a letter 
 there. It was a real Christian letter! I have a file of letters, 
 in which I am informed that I have sworn allegiance to anti- 
 Christ, am in the gall of bitterness and boud of iniquity, am 
 doomed to hell, and all that sort of thing. But this letter was 
 a real Christian letter, and as it was the fii-st Christian letter I 
 had ever had on that side I got an introduction ! 
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74 BANQUET. 
 
 I am glad to say that that Council did nothing on the subject 
 of Masonry. Some foolish resolutions were brought to the 
 business committee, who, although mostly averse to Masonry, 
 sensibly suppressed them. The authors thought it useless to 
 appeal to the Council. That body did me the honor to elect 
 me its Secretary for a term of j-ears, a few anti-Masons making 
 a poor fight. I do not regard the silence of that bod}', or its 
 election, as any triumph of Freemasonrj'. It was simply a 
 matter of common sense, and a virtual refusal of a great de- 
 nomination to interfere with secular relations with which the 
 church has no concern. The issue was indeed never presented. 
 We do not wish to interfere with churches. We understand that 
 Freemasoniy reverences every man's religions convictions, and 
 never attempts to interfere with his conscience. On the other 
 hand, if anj' churches interfere with our liberty of conscience, 
 I saj- franklj' that I will endure no such tj'ranny ; not because 
 I love Freemasonry more than the church, but because I will 
 maintain liberty of conscience in this thing. 
 
 We know that all this persecution is ,an old thing. The 
 Popes began it. Brethren have been martyred for this. It has 
 seemed strange to me that these men who are afraid of 
 " Popery" (I am not) , cannot see that if there be flive hundred 
 thousand Freemasons in the land, they are all excommunicates 
 by the Pope ; and that these Lodges, all pledged to religious 
 liberty, and all with the Bible open, may possibly be a break- 
 water they j'et may need. 
 
 You will pardon me. Most Worshipful, if I mention two inci- 
 dents, because I have been repeatedly called a " traitor " for 
 them. It was my fortune to serve as chaplain in the late war. 
 Once, in Virginia, I went at half past eleven o'clock at night, 
 with a soldier sick with typhoid fever, to a crowded hotel. The 
 landlord (an old man who took no part in the war, but was 
 
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 probably southern in his feelings) said : " There is not a bed 
 in the house ; I can't take him in." The prospect of his l^ing 
 on the cold ground was bad. I thought, possibly this landlord 
 i^s a Mason. I tried him and found he was. He said : " Is 
 this man a Mason ?"— " No ; but I am." Said he, " I told you 
 the truth ; but there are two mattresses on the bed where my 
 wife and I sleep. He shall have the best, and I will take the 
 other into the entry, and we will sleep there, my wife and I." 
 He did. (Applause.) If that is treason, 1 glory in it. 
 
 On another occasion, after an affair in which the enemy were 
 driven back, I went along the line and found a southern officer 
 badly wounded. He stretched up his hand, and we met. He 
 looked up and smiled. He kept me wtlh him at the hospital, 
 and when he was to lose his leg, he would not take the ether 
 until I would promise to stay and keep hold of his hand during 
 the operation. And that some men call treason ! 
 
 One thing more. The people to whom I have referred scold 
 because the chaplain prays for a Grand Lodge, for Unitarians, 
 Uuiversalists, Deists, Spiritualists, and Come-outers ! Well, if 
 they do not need praying for, who does? (Laughter.) Once 
 I was in a body where I prepared a service largely from the 
 Episcopal forms, and in it occurred the phrase, " Deliver us not 
 unto the bitter pains of eternal death." A good Universalist 
 brother objected to it, and I said, " I am willing to strike that 
 out. If anybody don't want to be delivered from the pains, I 
 don't insist that he shall pray for it ! " But I must say that I 
 am proud of the position given to me. I have carefully studied 
 the philosopljy of Freemasonry, and there is more in it than 
 appears on the surface. I can also say that an Institution 
 which brings together men of diflferent politics and differing 
 creeds, cannot be perverted to party, or sectarian, or irreligious 
 purposes ; and that an Institution which brings these together, 
 
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 making them friends, -svliich softens the acerbities of sects and 
 parties, or unites us as citizens and as men, is an Institution 
 whicli we onglit to clierisli and defend. 
 
 The Grand Master. — • Brethren : I think you are already 
 satisfied that our Brother has the true spirit of Masonry in him. 
 There is one more member of the Grand Lodge, one of the signers 
 of the Declaration, who, I think, has a good deal of the same 
 sort of spirit. I think I have never attended a meeting of the 
 Grand Lodge when he was not present. He came to-day on 
 one foot ; he was bound to be here any way, I give 3'ou the 
 health of one of the signers of the Declaration, our Grand 
 Standard-bearer, Brother Bicknell. 
 
 SPEECH OF "W. BRO. LOVELL BICKNELL. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : — I cannot make a speecji. 
 When I was a j'oung man I saw the Masonic procession that 
 laid the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument. I think that 
 was in 1824, and I thought then that if I ever had a chance, I 
 should be a Mason. I saw those old fellows that I had known 
 ever since I was born nearly, in that procession, and a very 
 long procession it was. I stood down on the dock and saw 
 them all pass, and they looked so respectable that I could not 
 help noticing them. After that, in 1825, I applied to a Lodge 
 and was accepted and made a Mason, and I remember that it 
 was in a room in the upper part of the building, like this. 
 That was right in the heat of the anti-Masonic excitement. 
 We were all watched when we went in and when we came out. 
 Well, we stayed there for a time, and then we removed into a 
 hall in a school-house. There was an ante-room where we 
 packed away our trappings, etc. They broke in and set the 
 building on lire, stole the jewels, the Bible, and everything else, 
 
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 stuffed the lock full of oakum, so that we could not get in, and 
 subjected us to all manner of persecutions of that kind. At 
 last this anti-Masonic excitement became so violent that we 
 surrendered our Charter, and I took the trappings to my home. 
 " Now," said I, " you may come here and get them, but you 
 have got to walk over my body ; come, If you dare ! " and they 
 stayed there until we revived the Charter again. 
 
 Out in Norfolk County, anti-Masonry was rampant. In one 
 town, they would not have a man for field-driver because his 
 brother was a Mason ; they went as far as that. They would 
 not have a man on the School Committee who was a Mason. 
 It is not many years since there was a petition in that town to 
 keep a Mason out of the jury-box. I have got all the names 
 which were on that petition. I have always loved Masonry, 
 because I like the principles of the Institution, and the mem- 
 bers have always acted those principles right out. You go 
 into the church, and if you only say "Lord," it is all right; 
 you may do just what you have a mind to. Here it is a living 
 principle, and Masons talk it right out ; and, furthermore, I will 
 give this sentiment: Understand, all of you, that quality is 
 better than quantity. (Applause.) 
 
 The Geand Master. — I agree entirely with the sentiments 
 of the several Brethren who have spoken to-night with regard 
 to subordination in Masonry, and I can assure you tlia,t I in- 
 tend to enforce that duty to the very utmost. (Applause.) 
 I did not come in at the cabin-windows ; I have worked my way 
 up from the forecastle, and now I intend to be captain of the 
 ship. (Applause and cries of "Good.") I intend to be 
 obej'ed and respected as Grand Master. But I see one Brother 
 before me with whom I anticipate that I shall have some diffi- 
 culty ; he is no respecter of persons. I have often had occa- 
 
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 sion to reprove him for his irreverence. I have seen him to- 
 night smiling occasionally, and I thought he was on the point 
 of saying : — 
 
 "I know it is a sin, 
 !For me to sit and grin 
 
 At him here ; 
 But then, the old cocked hat 
 And the breeches, and all that. 
 Are so queer." 
 
 I told him a week ago, that if occasion occurred, 1 should 
 call upon him to respond to a sentiment in praise of the ladies ; 
 but it is too late to-night, and so many of the Brethren have 
 gone that the subject would not have proper justice done to it ; 
 and then there is another difficulty, — he has been so absorbed in 
 searching for more light in Masonry, that he has been blind to 
 " the light that lies in woman's eyes.'' Gentlemen, I am afraid 
 that if I should call him up on this subject he would say : — 
 
 " I've read no books but woman's looks, 
 And folly's all they've taught me." 
 
 If he should say that, I should answer, " You had better leave 
 such blasphemy to Tom Moore." But I will not give that 
 toast, because he does not know anything about it. I will 
 simply give you the health of our youngest Past Deputy Grand 
 Master, Charles Levi Woodbury. 
 
 SPEECH OF E.W. CHARLES LEVI WOODBUEY. 
 
 Most Worshipful Grand Master : — I mean to illustrate 
 the principle of subordination. We have met upon the level, 
 but you are determined to get me under. If you succeed, why, 
 I will submit ! (Laughter.) You have not accomplished it yet 
 by that declaration of yours. I feel as much alive as is Brother 
 
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 Sheppard, who addressed you just now in those burning words 
 of eloquence. Though you have not given a toast to the ladies, 
 that is no reason I should be cut out of my speech, especially 
 when there are so many present who have not j'et gone home to 
 their wives, though it is midnight. I have no reference to yours, 
 Most Worshipful, for I am informed you have none to go home 
 to, — and therefore shall not be open to the charge of any pos- 
 sible disi-espect to the Grand Master, whom as a Mason I 
 revere, and as a man esteem. I shall talk about the ladies. 
 I have often wondered why Freemasons opposed admitting 
 women into lodges. It struck me in my earlier days that it 
 would be a good thing to have a lot of pretty girls round, 
 dressed in neat Masonic aproils. I always thought the balls 
 of the Lodges and the Templars far pleasanter than simply at- 
 tending Lodge meetings, and I suspect the ladies think they 
 get the sunniest side of the peach, after all. But there are 
 tricks in all trades, and I believe it my duty to expose the 
 Masonic trick about women. It never was invented by a 
 bachelor. 
 
 Man is distinguished by two great qualities : first, his beard ; 
 second, his judgment. Women have also two great qualities : 
 first, want of beard ; second, her infinite and insatiable curiosity. 
 When a woman knows you thoroughly, knows all about you, 
 that problem is solved, and she seeks the resolution of another 
 masculine problem. It is like the thirst for knowledge in 
 a student ; it is like the aspiration in the soul of a mystic, — as 
 soon as one point is understood, he cares nothing about that, 
 but plunges into some deeper depths of the profundities or the 
 sublime. Now my discovery of the Masonic policy is, that 
 they keep one secret, in order to manage and control their 
 wives, and as women are curious so long as there is one secret 
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 cling round the Masonic tiusband, cooing dulcet melodj' into 
 his daily life in the fond hope that in sonae soft and unguarded 
 moment the portal of the lips shall be unbarred and the 
 paradise of a well-kept secret be exposed to the daughters of 
 her who first ate of the tree of knowledge. The old Quaker 
 induced his horse to pull up hill, by walking ahead holding an 
 ear of corn a few inches from his nose ; history does not record 
 that the horse ever got that ear of corn. So let it be in 
 Masonry. The Mason, like the Quaker, is morally strong in 
 the unsatisfied expectation ; but the intelligent woman earns a 
 life of happiness by the gentle tonic, while the horse only 
 ■worked. 
 
 Thus, as a means of happiness for the gentler sex. Free- 
 masonry performs a mission. Its secrets have a power that 
 the Olympic Gods never allowed to the shafts of Eros. It is 
 not because women are not good souls, — God knows thej' are ; 
 "one star differs from another star in glory;" but woman is 
 the most excellent thing in creation, there is not a man wlio 
 has ever gone through the trials of life who has not learned 
 how excellent woman is. As a mother, we love and respect 
 her, and delight in doing all in our power to smooth the 
 down-hill of her life ; as a sweetheart, e-verybody knows we 
 adore her, wliether properly or improperly, for that is the 
 relation where man is a fool, and woman an angel ; and as a 
 ■wife, Masons best know how to love them and to keep their 
 love. (Applause.) 
 
 You see, Most Worshipful, I was right ; all the married men 
 applaud this sentiment. 
 
 You may wonder that I do not except the Grand Master in 
 these remarks on the fair sex, but remember I told you that in 
 the deep profundities of the human heart thure are mysteries 
 beyond mysteries. The Grand Master declined to call on me 
 
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 to talk about the ladies. The fact is, that for tlie past three 
 years I have roamed over the State in my office as Deputy 
 Grand Master, attending especially those ceremonials at which 
 the ladies were admitted, lilce an olive-branch seeking for a 
 dove, but I have not got married yet. My term of office is 
 past, and the chance of time and opportunity passes with it. 
 Amid thq cold waters of single blessedness the Grand Master, 
 assuming his new honors, perchance has cherished the belief 
 that the gavel of his office would prove more attractive than the 
 olive-bi'anch to the bright-eyed maids who have sprung from the 
 Masonic stock. Like " Coalebs in search of a wife" he begins" 
 from this night his pilgrimage under the veil of his high office, 
 hoping to establish a Lodge, not in some vast wilderness, 
 where one fair spirit shall minister to him, and he always 
 remain Grand Master ad vitam. 
 
 I cannot say that the corner-stone of that Lodge has been 
 laid, but I know that the Lodge to which we belong, antici- 
 pating the fate that would befall him from the soft-voiced and 
 dainty-footed daughters in our Israel, have prepared some 
 fitting furniture for the occasion. , 
 
 Where is that cup? 
 
 The Geand Master. — It is at home, in the bosom of my 
 family. 
 
 Brethren, that cup, carved in the exact similitude, so far 
 as the artist's genius could effect it, of the cup that the roj'al 
 Huram presented to King Solomon on the birth of his first heir, 
 glittering in its burnished splendor, has been presented to the 
 Grand Master, and awaits inscription ! We heard the epithala- 
 miums which hymned his immediate predecessor into the ranks 
 of Hymen, while his official honors yet blossomed, and our 
 Lodge and this Grand Lodge now say to our estimable and 
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 ardent Chief, — now, while the bloom of youth is on his cheek 
 and the grasshopper is not a burden, — " Go thou and do like- 
 wise." 
 
 It is gratifying to see assembled so many worthies that con- 
 nect us with past generations. By the power of their virtues 
 we may be saved from the assaults of Brother Blanchard, as 
 backsliding Brethren. I had some things to say about Dr. 
 Lewis, the ever-blooming ; but, as he has left, I shall defer 
 them. So long as he shall continue to cherish these virtues of 
 toleration and charity toward all mankind, which have hereto- 
 fore distinguished him, his career on earth must be as happj' as 
 his hereafter will be glorified. 
 
 I thank you, most Worshipful Grand Master, for the occa- 
 sion you have offered me of paying my tribute of respect to 
 these heroes of a well-worn fight of auld \ang syne, and trust 
 this occasion is merely the precursor of many equally agree- 
 able to you and to the Grand Lodge. I have pointed out the 
 path of happiness for you, and shall rejoice to celebrate your 
 progress in that good old-fashioned way, — for I think it will, 
 if possible, make you, lilce your Brethren, esteem Masonry 
 more the further you follow it. 
 
 The Geand Master. — I want to say a word further. I am 
 very proud of the organization of the Grand Lodge this j-ear. 
 I believe every oiBcer is a Past Master ; but I am especially 
 proud of my Board of District Deputy Grand Masters. I 
 believe it is the best ever organized in this State. Several of 
 this Board I hoped and expected to hear from, and especially 
 one of the family whom we have met to celebrate to-night. 
 We have a District Deputy Grand Master, of the race of St. 
 John. He does not live in the wilderness, but dwells in 
 Worcester, and in the hearts of his Brethren thereabouts. 
 
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 I am very sorry he has gone, and that we shall not have the 
 opportunity of hearing from him. But we have still one left. 
 I give you the health of the District Deputy Grand Master for 
 the Sixteenth District. We have in R.W. Br. Edward A-very 
 good District Deputy. 
 
 SPEECH OE R.W. EDWARD AVERY. 
 
 Most Worshipful: — As you have already declared your 
 
 intention to be master of the ship during the period that you 
 
 shall have control of her, and expect obedience, it would not 
 
 be proper for me to decline answering your summons. But at 
 
 this hour of the morning, it" is hardly proper that I should 
 
 detain these Brethren here by any words of mine. I cannot, 
 
 • 
 however, Most Worshipful, forget that the great law of nature 
 
 seems to be, that we should all, indeed, every created thing, 
 bow to the rising sun.' Whatever may have been the glories 
 of the sun that has departed, in the rising sun, in every ray 
 and beam of its light, comes the germ of new light and of new 
 power, and I cannot, therefore, Most Worshipful, fail to bow 
 myself before that luminary which has arisen with such 
 brilliancy to-night in the East of the Grand Lodge of Massa- 
 chusetts ; and I beg leave. Most Worshipful, to utter a senti- 
 ment which I believe will find a response in the heart of every 
 man present,! and if my words were winged words, and 
 could reach the ears of every Mason in Massachusetts, I 
 believe it would" find a respohse in the heart of every one of our 
 Brethren throughout the jurisdiction. I beg leave. Brethren, 
 to give, — 
 
 The Health of our Most Worshipful Qrand Master. — May Peace strew 
 his path with flowers; may Prosperity pour upon him her golden showers; 
 may Happiness fold above him her downy wings ; may Honor crown his 
 
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 years ; and when at last he shall obey the summons of the Supreme Archi- 
 tect of the Universe, may he he received into the Grand Lodge with the 
 exclamation of angels, "Well done, good and faithful servant!" (Pro- 
 longed applause.) 
 
 Beo. Woodbury. — Allow me to add to that toast, — " And 
 may woman shower her sweetest smiles upon him." (Laughter 
 and applause.) 
 
 The Grand Master. — Brethren : I declare the Grttnd 
 
 Lodge closed in Ample Form. And now let us finish as we 
 
 began : — 
 
 "Be thou, God, exalted high." 
 
 , The company joined in singing the familiar hymn, and 
 at twelve and one-half o'clock on Thursday morning, the 
 festivities of this pleasant opcasiou were brought to a 
 close. 
 
 The following-named .Brethren participated in the 
 Feast : — 
 
 OFFICERS OF the GRAND LODGE. 
 
 M.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 E.W. 
 R.W. 
 E.W. 
 R.AV. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 E.W. 
 
 'Sekeno D. Nickekson 
 Pekcival L. Everett . 
 Chakles Kimball . . 
 Tkacy p. Cheevek . . 
 John McClellan . 
 Chakles H. Titus . . 
 Chaeles W. Mooke 
 Daniel W. Lawkence 
 Henkt W. Muzzet . . 
 Charles JT Danforth 
 Charles A. Welch . , 
 George H. Peirson 
 Joseph Sidney Howe . 
 Henry P. Perkins . . 
 Edward J. Sawy'er 
 Daniel Upton . . . 
 Eev. Thomas E. St. John 
 George E. Stacy . . 
 James Utley .... 
 
 Grand Master. 
 Deputy Grand Master. 
 Senior Grand Warden. 
 Junior Grand Warden. 
 Grand Treasurer. 
 Recording Grand Secretary. 
 Corresponding Grand Secretary. 
 D.D.G. Master, District No. 1. 
 
 No. 
 
 2 
 
 ' No. 
 
 3 
 
 No. 
 
 i 
 
 No. 
 
 5. 
 
 ' No. 
 
 G 
 
 No. 
 
 7 
 
 No. 
 
 8 
 
 ' No. 
 
 9 
 
 No. 
 
 11 
 
 ' No. 
 
 12 
 
 No. 
 
 13 
 
BANQUET. 
 
 85 
 
 R-W. Abraham H. Howiand, Jk, 
 K.W. Joseph K. Bakek . 
 E.W. Edwakd Aveet . . 
 R.W. William T. Grammee 
 W. Rev. Alonzo H. Quint 
 W. Rev. Joshua Young 
 W. William H. Chessman , 
 W. Moses G. Lyon .... 
 W. John Viall ..... 
 W. Geokge H. Folger . . 
 W. James H. Bouve j 
 W. Henry C. Willson > . . 
 W. Joseph B. IfNox 5 
 W. Jonathan P. Folsom . 
 
 W. LoVELL BlCKNELL . . 
 
 W. John M. Rodooanachi 
 W. Henry Augustus Brown 
 W. E. Dana Bancroft j 
 W. Cephas Brigham > 
 
 W. Alfred F. Chapman 5 
 Br. Frederick A. Pierce 
 Br. George 0. Carpentbr > 
 W. Henry Endicott 5 
 
 D.D.G. Master, District No. 14. 
 " " " No. 15. 
 
 " " " No. 16. 
 
 " " " No. 17. 
 
 Grand Chaplains. 
 
 Grand 
 Senior 
 Junior 
 Senior 
 
 Marshal. 
 Grand Deacon. 
 Grand Deacon. 
 Grand Steward. 
 
 Junior Grand Stewards. 
 
 Grand 
 Grand 
 
 Sword Bearer. 
 Standard Bearer. 
 
 Grand Pursuivants. 
 
 Grand Lecturers. 
 
 Grand Tyler. 
 
 Of the Board of Directors. 
 
 r:w. 
 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.AV. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 K.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 R.W. 
 
 PAST OFFICERS. 
 
 & Rt. Rev. Geo. M. Randall, D.D. Past Grand Master. 
 WiNSLOw Lewis, M.D. 
 John T. Heard . . . 
 
 William D. Cooudge 
 William Parkman . . 
 Charles C. Dame . . 
 William S. Gardner . 
 Abraham A. Dame . . 
 George G. Smith . . 
 Charles K. Train . . 
 G. Washington Warren 
 Marshall P. Wilder . 
 Ne-i^'ell a. Thompson . 
 Charles Levi Woodrury 
 Henry Chickering . . 
 William W. Baker . 
 William Sutton . . 
 Samuel P. Oliver . . 
 
 Past Deputy Grand Master. 
 
 Past Senior Grand Warden. 
 
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 E.W. William F. Salmon 
 
 E-W. Samuel C. Lawkence 
 R.W. John H. Sheppakd 
 K.W. Petek C. Jones . 
 R.W. Benjamin Dean . 
 E.W. Ivory H. Pope 
 R.W. E. Watees Buek 
 
 Past Senior Grand Warden and 
 Proxy for Ancient Landmark 
 Lodge of Shanghai, China. 
 
 Past Senior Grand Warden. 
 
 Past Junior Grand Warden. 
 
 PAST GRAND OFFICERS. 
 
 W. John A. Lee . ....... Past D.D.G. Master. 
 
 W. Benjamin Pope " " " 
 
 W. Andbew G. Smith •' " " 
 
 W. F. Lyman Winship " " " 
 
 W. John A. Goodwin Past Senior Grand Deacon. 
 
 W. William 'F. Davis Past Junior Grand Steward. 
 
 W. Lucius W. Lovell Past Senior Grand Steward. 
 
 SIGNERS OF THE "DECLARATION. 
 
 Bk. John Biselow 
 Bk. John T. Dingley 
 
 Be. E. B. Eostbe 
 Be. Samuel Millard 
 Be. William Paleeey 
 
 PAST MASTERS AND SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS. 
 
 W. Walter L. Gaednee Past Master of Aberdour Lodge. 
 
 W. Timothy Ingeaham " " " Eurelsa " 
 
 W. E. E. Whiting " " " Mt. HolUs " 
 
 W. Maeleoeough Williams ... " " " Eevere " 
 
 W. Chaeles E. Powers " " " Zetland " 
 
 Be. William W. Wheildon 
 
 Be. E. W. Tolman 
 
 Be. Charles W. Galloupe 
 
 Be. William W. Tuckee 
 
 Be. Andrew Torr 
 
 Br. Frank E. Jones / 
 
 Be. John Waeeen 
 
 Be. C. H. Webb 
 
BANQUET. 
 
 87 
 
 MASTERS AND WjCRDENS OF L#DGES. 
 
 W. "WoosTEK B. Mathew . 
 Bk. Henkt F. Ames . . . 
 Br. Chakles H. Johnson . 
 W. Samuel P. Adams . . 
 Bk. Leander M. Hannan . 
 Br. True Scales .... 
 W. Daniel J. Preston . . 
 Br. Stephen W. Leighton 
 W. Albert A. Haggett 
 Bk. Nathaniel C. Sanborn 
 Br. Edward Stockman 
 W. William Merchant 
 Br. John E. York . . . 
 Br. Eben G. Abbot, Jr. 
 W. N. G. Tucker . . . 
 W. Daniel W. Palmer . . 
 Br. William F. Webb . . 
 W. Henrt M. Haines . . 
 Br. Emerson A. Hooker . 
 W. Louis H. Adams . . . 
 Br. George B. Livermore 
 Br. S. T. p. Martin . . 
 W. George P. Homer . . 
 Br. B. p. Baker .... 
 Br. J. W. Edgerly . . . 
 W. Daniel T. V. Huntoon 
 Br. George H. Mansfield 
 W. Charles E. Bowers . 
 Br. Wm. T. E. Marvin . . 
 Br. G. T. Mansfield . . 
 Br. a. B. Wentworth . . 
 Be. T. E. Trampleasube . 
 
 W. L. B Poss 
 
 Br. Charles T. Eandall . 
 Br. p. B. Burtchaell . . 
 Br. Otis E. Weld . . . 
 Br. James L. Sherman . . 
 W. James Swords . . . 
 W. P. S. Churchill. . . 
 W. Charles W. Hinklet . 
 Br. a. G. Cash .... 
 W. Thomas H. Harding . 
 Bk. J. Q. A. Holbrook 
 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Master . . . 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Master . . . 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Junior Warden 
 
 > Aberdour of Boston. 
 
 > Amicable of Cambridge. 
 
 > Amity of Danvers. 
 
 > Ancient York of Lowell. 
 
 > Ashler of Eockport. 
 
 Athelstane of Worcester. 
 
 > Baalbeo of East Boston. 
 
 > Belmont of Belmont. 
 
 ■ Bethesda of Brighton. 
 
 ■ Beth-Horan of Brookline. 
 
 > Blue Hill ff Canton. 
 Charity of N. 'Cambridge. 
 • Columbian of Boston. 
 
 > Constellation of Dedham. 
 
 > Eliot of West Eoxbury. 
 
 Eleusis of Boston. 
 Eureka of New Bedford. 
 Paith of Charlestown. 
 Fellowship of Bridgewater. 
 
 > Fraternal of Hyannis. 
 
 ) Gate of the Temple of So. 
 3 Boston. 
 
88 
 
 BANQUET, 
 
 Bk. Otto Keamek ... . 
 W. Daniel E. Chase . . 
 W. Edward Stoker . . . 
 Bk. Geokge D. Tufts . . 
 W. Stephen Seaes . . . 
 Bk. Silas D. Presbukt . . 
 W. Charles Moore . 
 Br. Leroy Brown . . . 
 Br. John E. Whitcomb 
 Br. Frank S. Hartshorn . 
 W. Darius Pierce . . . 
 Bk. George W. Sawtek . 
 Be. Benjamin M. Hall 
 "W. Ambrose Woolson . . 
 Be. Oscar L. Brown . . 
 Bk. John W. Stevens . . 
 Br. Joseph Osborn . . . 
 Br. Asa Wellington . . 
 W. John E. Harden . . 
 Be. Chaeles R. Whitney 
 Bk. William H. Ckowell 
 W. W. Eeank Mullin . . 
 Bk. Frederic M. Briggs . 
 Br. Ambrose Davenport, Jk 
 W. Geoege J. Miller . . 
 W. Henry J. Parker . . 
 Br. Samuel A. B. Bragg . 
 Bk. Charles D. Annable . 
 W. Heney C. Burnham 
 Bk. William H. Weight . 
 Br. George E, Eydek . . 
 W. Albert T. Bacon . . 
 Br. Henry W. Haktwell 
 Be. Nathan S. Whitney . 
 W. Nelson R. Scott . . 
 W. Geoege Tapley . . . 
 W. Geoege H. Conn . . 
 Br. Nathan J. Simonds . 
 Br. a. V. Haynes . . . 
 W. H. E. Leland. . . . 
 Br. Oein Thompson . . 
 Br. Heney Wake . . . 
 Be. Geoege D. Mooee 
 Bk. Edward H. Morse 
 Bk. Martin M. Hancock . 
 
 Senior Warden Germania of Boston. 
 
 Mastejr . . . HenryPriceof Charles'wn. 
 
 MRStcr "1 
 
 Junior Warden 5 ^^'^''"^ °^ Arlington. 
 
 Master . . . Howard of So. Yarmouth. 
 
 Junior Warden Ionic of Taunton. 
 
 Master . . . ^ 
 
 Senior Warden ] 
 
 Junior Warden - 
 
 Senior Warden 
 
 Master . . . ■ 
 
 Senior Warden ! 
 
 Junior Warden J 
 
 Master . . ^ John Warren of Hopkin- 
 
 Junior Warden ) ton. 
 
 Senior Warden ^ 
 
 T . TIT J f Jordan of Peabody. 
 Junior Warden ) •' 
 
 Junior Warden Joseph Warren of Boston. 
 
 ■ Isaac Parker of Waltham. 
 
 John Abbot of Somerville. 
 
 > John Hancock of Metliuen. 
 
 Master . . . 
 
 Senior Warden 
 
 Junior Warden 
 
 Master . . . 
 
 Senior Warden 
 
 Junior Warden 
 
 Master . . . 
 
 Master . . . 
 
 Senior Warden 
 
 Junior Warden ^ 
 
 Master . • ■ f 
 
 Junior Warden ^eridian of Natiek. 
 
 ' King Solomon's of Charles- 
 , town. 
 
 ■ Lafayette of Boston H'lds. 
 Mariners of Cotuit Port. 
 
 ■ Massachusetts of Boston. 
 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . 
 Master . . 
 Master . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden 
 Master . . . 
 Senior Warden 
 Junior Warden J 
 
 Senior Warden Mt. Lebanon of Boston. 
 Senior Warden ) Mount Tabor of East Bos- 
 Junior Warden ' ton. 
 
 Mizpah of Cambridgeport. 
 
 • Monitor of Waltham. 
 
 Montacute of Worcester. 
 Mosaic of Danvers. 
 
 > Mount Horeb of Woburn. 
 
 • Mount Hollis of Hollist'n. 
 
BANQUET, 
 
 89 
 
 W. John P. Sodle . . . 
 Br. Theodore N. Foque . 
 Br. Henry E. Turner, Jr. 
 Br. Sampel a. Bates . . 
 W. Henry Stephenson 
 Br. Jason W. Whitney . 
 W. Enos Loring .... 
 W. George L. Rhoades . 
 Br. George K. Bird . . 
 Br. James A. Ehoades . . 
 Br. L. Bates . . . ... 
 
 W. George W. Pierce 
 Be. Charles D. Stearns . 
 Br. Alfred Tufts . 
 W. Albert B. Hall . . 
 W. Robert L. Davis . . 
 Bk. Charles T. Perkins . 
 Br. Charles Brigham . . 
 W. Josiah C. Puller 
 Br. Benj. E. Atwood . . 
 Br. George "W. Kingman . 
 W. Charles H. Bolles 
 Br. Samdel Wells . . 
 Br. Joseph B. Mason . . 
 W. John Edmands . 
 Br. William Shillaber . 
 Br. Nathan A. Bkiokett . 
 W. A. M. Vance . . 
 Br. William Parkman, Jr. 
 W. John Blair .... 
 Br. L. C. Newton . . . 
 W. William F. Peirce 
 Br. William H. Thomes . 
 W. John H. Flint . . . 
 Br. Joseph T. Allen . . 
 W. William PI. H. Soule 
 Br. Hollis R. Gray . . 
 W. John H. Cummings 
 W. James Taylor . 
 
 Master . . . •\ 
 
 Senior Warden > Mt. Vernon of Maiden. 
 Junior Warden J 
 
 Junior Warden Norfolk Union, Randolph. 
 Master . . j 
 
 Senior Warden > Old Colony of Hingliam. 
 Past Master . ) 
 Master . . . ■\ 
 
 Senior Warden > Orient of Dedham. 
 Junior -Warden ) 
 
 Senior Warden Orphan's Hope of Wey- 
 mouth. 
 Master . . . •\ 
 
 Senior Warden > Palestine of Everett. 
 Junior Warden ) 
 
 Master . . . Pentucket of Lowell. 
 Master . . . j 
 
 Senior Warden > Pequosette of Watertowu. 
 Junior Warden J 
 
 Master . . Plymouth of Plymouth. 
 
 Senior Warden Putnam of E. Cambridge. 
 Senior Warden Rabboni of South Boston. 
 Master . . . \ 
 
 Senior Warden > Revere of Boston. 
 Junior Warden 5 
 Master . . i 
 
 Senior Warden j ^°''^'^' ^^^'^ °^ ^^'^l'^^- 
 Junior Warden Rural of Quincy. 
 Master . . . Saggahew of Haverhill. 
 Senior Warden St. Andrew's of Boston. 
 Master . 
 Junior Warden 
 
 > St. John's of Boston. 
 Senior Warden ) 
 
 Master 
 
 Junior Warde 
 
 ■ ' ■ > St. Paul's of South Boston. 
 Junior Warden J 
 
 en ' 
 
 St. Bernard of Southboro. 
 
 St. Matthew's of Andover. 
 
 Br. Philip G. Ilsley 
 
 12 
 
 Master . . 
 Master . 
 
 Senior Warden 
 
 Siloam of Westboro. 
 
 Star in the East, New Bed- 
 ford. 
 
 Star of Bethlehem of Chel- 
 sea. 
 
90 
 
 BANQUET . 
 
 Vi'. AViLLiAM AYaters, Jr. . Master . . . 
 
 Br. Philander Nutter . Senior Warden 
 
 Br. Frank E. Sullivan . Junior AVarden 
 
 W. Robert E. Pears . . Master . . . 
 
 Br. Andrew Elwell . . Senior AVarden 
 
 W. Joseph S. Barney . . Master . . . 
 
 Be. Joel Seaterns . . . Senior Warden 
 
 W. Horace J. Joslin . . Master . . . 
 
 W. Atwill F. AVright . . Master . . . ■ 
 
 Br. Alonzo K. Lynch . . Senior AA'arden 
 
 Br. Wm. E. Livingston . Junior Warden - 
 
 W. R. Montgomery Field Master . . . - 
 
 Br. Joseph Winsor . . . Senior Warden ' 
 
 Br. Williaji H. Studley . Junior Warden - 
 
 yV. C. Henrt Mosely . . Master . . . - 
 
 Br. a. .W. Quimby . . . Senior Warden ] 
 
 Br. Chas. E. Follansbee . Junior Warden . 
 
 W. Everett H. NEwni-LL. Master . . . 
 
 Br. John Roach .... Senior Warden 
 
 ^y. Henry G. Fay . . . Master . . ■ 
 
 Bk. Thomas Waterman, Jr. Senior Warden 
 
 Br. George E. Rogers . Junior Warden . 
 
 > Temple of East Boston. 
 
 > Tyrian of Gloucester. 
 
 Union of Nantucket. 
 Washington of Roxbury. 
 AA^ebster of Webster. 
 
 William North of Lowell. 
 Winslow Lewis of Boston. 
 
 ' AA'illiam Parkman of Win- 
 I Chester. 
 
 > AA'illiam Sutton of Saugus. 
 
 Zetland of Boston. 
 
 MEMBERS OF WINSLOAV LEWIS LODGE ACTING AS 
 BY REQUEST OF THE GRAND MASTER. 
 I 
 
 STEWARDS 
 
 Br. William S. Baetlett, 
 Br. Thomas Cahill, 
 Br. John A. Conkey, 
 Br. John C. Farnham, 
 Br. Warren Fisher, Jr. 
 Bk. George G. Gove. 
 Br. Alonzo P. Jones, 
 Br. George W. Learnard, 
 Br. Joseph Lovejoy, 
 Br. Warren Mallard, 
 Br. John F. Mills, 
 Br. Edward G. Nickerson, 
 Br. John A. Warren. 
 
 Br. Benjamin F. Brown, 
 Be. Edward E. Clark, 
 Be. Gideon Currier, 
 Br. George D. Fenno. 
 Be. Joshua B. Fiske, 
 Br. George K. Guild, 
 Br. L. C. Kimball, 
 Be. William Heney Lord, 
 Br. Thomas Mack, 
 Br. George R. Marble, 
 Be. Richard A. Newell, 
 Be. Eeastus W. Sanboen, 
 
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