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 OF THE 
 
 Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General, Thirty- 
 third and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish 
 Bite, for the United States of America, their Terri- 
 tories and Dependencies. 
 
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Illustrious Brethren : 
 
 The Grand Architect of the TJniverse having been pleased to 
 continue to us life, health, and strength, we are again enabled to 
 assemble in Annual Session, for which we are, and ought to be, 
 most profoundly thankful. 
 
 extend to each of you a hearty welcome and greeting, and hope 
 and believe that our deliberations will be conducted with calm- 
 ness, firmness, and wisdom; the matters that will claim our atten- 
 tion and best judgement at this Session are of the greatest impor- 
 tance to the future welfare of this Supreme Council, its constituent 
 bodies, and individual members. 
 
 FRATERNAL DEAD. 
 
 Illustrious Brother CaenotCouetlaot) Mason, M.D., 33°, of Chico, 
 California, was removed from the scenes of his usefulness by death 
 July 15th, 1889, after a long and severe illness. 
 
 I had not the pleasure of his personal acquaintance, but learn, 
 from those who knew him well, that he was an honest man, a 
 loving husband, a kind and indulgent father, a zealous and char- 
 itable Freemason. 
 
 He was chosen Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery 
 of California, and installed in that ofQce at his residence, during 
 his last illness. 
 
 He was also Deputy Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter 
 Royal Arch Masons of California. 
 
 He was Past Master of Chico Lodge, F. & A. M., No. Ill ; Past 
 High Priest of Chico Chapter No. 42, Royal Arch Masons ; Past 
 Commander of Chico Commandery Knights Templar No. 12 ; Thrice 
 Potent Grand Master of Chico Lodge of Perfection, Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottish Rite, under the jurisdiction of this Supreme 
 Council ; he received the honorary grade of Sovereign Grand In- 
 spector-General 33° from this Supreme Council, February 14th, 
 1884 ; he was a leading citizen of California, beloved by all who 
 knew him. 
 
 His funeral took place July 18th. The services were conducted 
 
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 under the auspices of the Grand Commandery of California, and, 
 as a mark of respect, all the business houses in Chico closed during 
 the time of the funeral. 
 
 EVENTS. 
 
 The past year has teen to the Ancient and Accepted Rite an 
 eventful one. 
 
 Oiir Supreme Council and its members have gained the profound 
 respect and admiration of the Freemasons of this and other coun- 
 tries. Our advance in this particular has been truly marked, and 
 in a great measure attributable to the dignified manner with which 
 our brethren have met, discussed, and repelled the persecution of 
 the Northern and Southern Jurisdiction Brethren. Our Supreme 
 Council and its true history is now well known, understood, and 
 appreciated ; and while in submitting to such presecutions, we 
 have been temporarily annoyed, yet, the reaction in our favor has 
 been so great, we are well repaid for any temporary inconveniene 
 we may have been subjected to thereby. 
 
 Our brethren have been shamefully assailed and persecuted in 
 their Master Masons' Lodges. Edicts against us have been issued 
 by the Grand Masters of Ohio, Iowa, and Nebraska. 
 
 The Ohio Grand Lodge arrested the warrants of several Master 
 Masons' Lodges under its jurisdiction, simply, and only because the 
 members of said Lodges were not affiliated with the Scottish Rite 
 body, the Grand Lodge of Ohio wished them to be. 
 
 Almost the last act before closing, in 1888, it passed resolutions 
 against 6ur members that must be looked upon with surprise and 
 amazement by the Grand Lodges of the world. That a Grand Lodge 
 should persecute brethren of lodges under its own jurisdiction, who 
 are just, honest, truthful, loyal, fair-minded Master Masons, for 
 no other offence than that of affiliating with a Scottish Rite body 
 over which said Grand Lodge had no power, authority or control, 
 will in years to come, if it does not now, bring the blush of shame 
 to the cheek of Ohio Masons. I wrote a letter on the situation in 
 Ohio under date August 15th, 1889, a copy of which will be printed 
 as an Appendix to this address. 
 
 I reported to you at our last annual session that charges had 
 been preferred against thirty-flve of our members in Goodale Lodge 
 No. 372, at Columbus, Ohio, and that the members so charged 
 did, in compliance with decision 255, Grand Lodge of Ohio (which 
 
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 is : " It is not a Masonic offence to invoke the law for one's own 
 protection") apply to the Court of Common Pleas of Licking 
 County for an injunction, restraining Goodale Lodge and the then 
 Grand Master, S. Stacker "Williams, from carrying out their un- 
 lawful plans, and that a temporary injunction was granted. 
 
 The Northern Jurisdiction brethren sought to dissolve said in- 
 junction, and caused a notice to be served on the counsel for the 
 brethren of Goodale Lodge so under charges, that they would take 
 testimony, in the city of New York, on September 2d, 1889. The 
 counsel for our brethren in Ohio requested me to be present and 
 cross-examine witnesses, and I did so. 
 
 Eleven days were occupied in taking the testimony of Brothers 
 Daniel Sickels, Clinton P. Paige, Charles T. McClenachan, R. 
 McC. Graham, Albert P. Moriarty, Hopkins Thompson 33°, Eob- 
 ert B. Folger 33°, Edward W. Atwood 33", and John G. Barker 
 33° ; the testimony covered 369 pages of type-writing, written 
 from stenographic notes, and our case as we have always pre- 
 sented it, was most clearly proven. 
 
 We proved by Brothers Daniel Sickels, Hopkins Thompson, 
 Edward W. Atwood, and Eobert B. Folger that they had no know- 
 ledge of the resuscitation of 1866, until after it had taken place. 
 
 We proved by Brother Charles T. McClenachan, that it was 
 beyond question a resuscitation of the Raymond body, as it existed 
 previous to 1863, and not a continuation of the Hays, consoli- 
 dated Council. 
 
 We proved by the Assistant Grand Secretary Northern Jurisdic- 
 tion Brother Albert P. Moriarty, that the published Proceedings 
 Supreme Council Northern Masonic Jurisciction, familiarly known 
 as the "Eeprint" and prepared by Brothers JosiahH. Drummond, 
 Enoch T. Carson and Clinton E. Paige, was a correct transcript 
 of the manuscript record in posession of the Northern Jurisdiction 
 body. 
 
 We proved by Brother Charles T. McClenchan, that those par- 
 ticipating in the resuscitation of 1866, with Simon W. Robinson 
 to wit : 
 
 Simon W. Robinson, Peter Lawson, Lucius E. Paige, George 
 M. Randall, Aaron P. Hughes, Charles T. McClenachan, William 
 Field, took during their Scottish Rite membership from two to four 
 oaths of fealty ; first, those who received the degrees originally 
 from the Raymond body, took oath of fealty to it; next to the 
 
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 Hays Consolidated Council of 1863 ; next to Simon W. Robinson 
 in 1866 ; and again to Josiah H. Drummond in 1867. They did 
 not seem to think an oath of fealty was of much importance, as 
 they took oath when they received the 33d degree to support the 
 Constitution of 1786, and in 1863, took oath to support the Con- 
 stitution of 1862, and again in 1866, took oath to support the 
 Constitution of 1786, and again in 1867 took oath to support the 
 Constitution based on the Constitutions of 1762 and 1786. 
 
 It was also clearly proven by Brother Charles T. McClenachan, 
 that the Van Eensselaer body, which Enoch T. Carson was a mem- 
 ber of from 1860 until 1867, was an irregular, clandestine body, 
 so considered by him (McClenachan) and those associated with 
 him at that time. 
 
 Brother Daniel Sickels on his oath said, that the Constitution 
 and History of this Supreme Council published by Macoy and 
 Sickels, New York, 1862, and prepared by the Hays Supreme 
 Council in 1862, toas true and correct. 
 
 To the Edicts of the Grand Masters of Ohio and Nebraska I 
 replied by published letters, which will be printed as an Appendix 
 to this address. 
 
 We have in operation in eleven States one hundred and forty- 
 two bodies subordinate to this Supreme Council, and I am happy 
 to be able to say that peace, quietness and industry reign supreme 
 among them. 
 
 VISITATION. 
 
 My enormous correspondence and the calls upon my time as 
 Grand Commander has been so great that I have been able to visit 
 one only of our bodies beyond the city of New York during the 
 year. 
 
 On the invitation of Illustrious Brother Willard 0. Van Derlip, 
 Commander-in-Chief Grand Consistory of Massachusetts, I visited 
 DeWitt Clinton Chapter Rose Croix 18° Valley of Boston, on the 
 20th day of May last, and witnessed the conferring of the 18° in 
 full form, and I must say it was conferred in the most superb 
 manner. The meeting was a very large one ; a number of very 
 distinguished brethren were present, who made instructive and 
 eloquent addresses. I shall ever bear that meeting in grateful 
 remembrance, 
 
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 DISPENSATIONS. 
 
 During the year 1888 there were thirteen bodies organized in 
 the United States of America subordinate to this Supreme Coun- 
 cil ; during the year 1889 there were twenty bodies thus organ- 
 ized, being an increase over 1888 of fifty per cent ; this notwith- 
 standing the unfair, unmasonic action of the Northern and Southern 
 Jurisdiction brethren, through Grand Masters and Grand Lodges, 
 against our interests. 
 
 I most strenuously advise and recommend to our brethren that 
 they organize additional bodies in States where we now have or- 
 ganizations, so that brethren may not be subjected to the incon- 
 venience and expense of travelling long distances, paying railroad 
 fares and hotel bills to attend our meetings. 1 also advise that 
 bodies be organized in States adjoining those in which we have 
 bodies, if there be no bodies of our obedience in such States, 
 always, however, being extremely careful to get the best, most 
 intellectual, intelligent, influential brethren in new organizations. 
 With such, success is assured from the commencement. 
 
 Great care should be taken in the selection of oflScers in new 
 organizations ; they should be good ritualists, and should take a 
 lively interest in making the work (in setting and in ritual) most 
 effective and beautiful. This can only be accomplished by able, 
 discreet, zealous brethren. 
 
 Dispensations were issued and bodies instituted as follows 
 during 1889 : 
 
 Jan. 24tli. — Sioux City Lodge of Perfection, 14°, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 " " Sioux City Council of Princes, 16°, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 " " Sioax City Chapter of Kose Croix, 18°, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 " " Sioux City Council of Kadosh 30°, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 March 7th.— Council Bluffs Lodge of Perfection, 14°, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 " " Council Bluffs Council of Princes, 16°, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 " " Council Bluffs Chapter of Eose Croix, 18°, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 " " CouncU Bluffs Council of Kadosh, 30°, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 April 4th. — Storm Lake Lodge of Perfection, 14°, Storm Lake. Iowa. 
 
 '■ " Storm Lake Council of Princes, 16°, Storm Lake, Iowa. 
 April 19th. — Creston Lodge of Perfection, 14°, Creston, Iowa. 
 
 " " Creston Council of Princes, 16°, Creston. Iowa. 
 
 " " Creston Chapter of Kose Croix, 18°, Creston, Iowa. 
 
 " " Creston Council of Kadosh, 30°, Creston, Iowa. 
 May~ 15th. — Davenport Lodge of Perfection, 14°, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 " " Davenpo] t Council of Princes, 16°, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 " " Davenport Chapter of Eose Croix, 18°, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 " " Davenport Council of Kadosh, 30°, Davenport, Iowa 
 , June 6th. — Hartington Lodge of Perfection, 14°, Hartington, Nebraska, 
 
 " " Hartington Council of Princes, 16°, Hartington, Nebraska. 
 
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 33d DEGEEE. 
 
 The following S.-.P.-.of the R-.S.-., 32°, have been elevated 
 
 and proclaimed Sov.-.Gr.-.Insp.-.Gen.-.33d and last degree and 
 
 honorary members of this Supreme Council : 
 
 John Tannahill Bressler, Wayne, Neb February 22, 1889 
 
 Frederick Clark Hills, Sioux City, Iowa Maich 7, 1889 
 
 George Johnson Crane, Council Bluffs, Iowa March 7, 1889 
 
 JuUan C. MitcheU, Councn Bluffs, Iowa March 7, 1889 
 
 G. G. Wales, Sioux City March 7, 1889 
 
 John Augustus Shipman, Sioux City March 9, 1889 
 
 Harrison A. Tucker, Brooklyn, N. Y May IS, 1889 
 
 Monroe Ebi, Davenport, Iowa June 5, 1889 
 
 Ai^fustus Carl Osterman, Omaha, Neb June, 1889 
 
 Milo Cook Wilson, Omaha, Neb June, 1889 
 
 J. W. Warren, Storm Lake, Iowa July 23, 1889 
 
 E. J. Babcook, Davenport, Iowa July 23, 1889 
 
 Charles Frederick Goodman, Omaha, Neb July, 1889 
 
 Jerome Keiley Coulter, Omaha, Neb July, 1889 
 
 Homer A. Miller, Hartington, Neb July, 1889 
 
 BryoeMars, New York, N. T. October 16, 1889 
 
 Alden Joseph Blithen, Minneapolis, Minn October, 1889 
 
 FOREIGN RELATIONS. 
 
 Our relations with the National Grand Orient and Supreme 
 Council of Spain still continue undisturbed, despite the machina- 
 tions of our enemies, who, I am informed, have despatched to 
 Spain and elsewhere private communications assailing our in- 
 tegrity. 
 
 Ton will be pleased to learn that ' such reprehensible measures 
 have produced quite a contrary effect, inasmuch as not only has 
 the National Grand Orient of Spain continued in harmonious rela- 
 tions with us, but several of the most prominent symbolic lodges 
 in that country have done us direct honor through election of Illus- 
 trious Brothers John Haigh, 33°, Past Sovereign Grand Com- 
 mander of this Supreme Council ; John G. Barker, 33°, our Grand 
 Secretary-General, H. B., and myself, to be honorary members of 
 said distinguished bodies. 
 
 In this connection I may acknowledge the receipt of four vol- 
 umes containing their rituals, with the History of Freemasomry by 
 Brother E. C. de Puga, 33°, Grand Secretary-General and repre- 
 sentative of this Supreme Council near the Grand Orient and Su- 
 preme Council of Spain, which have been placed in our archives. 
 
 From other quarters we have assurances of friendship and of 
 
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 esteem, betokening an appreciation of our labors, as the knowledge 
 of our existence becomes widely diffused ; and the prospect of our 
 universal recognition as a representative or national body at no 
 distant day. 
 
 The writers of pamphlets in opposition to our Supreme Council 
 failing to find anything against our regularity, legality, Masonic 
 standing or respectablity that will stand the test of sound argu- 
 ment or truth, resort to the ridiculously foolish and undignified 
 practice of saying or intimating that we confer degrees for small 
 fees, and thus make the Scottish Eite common. 
 
 While it is no concern of any other organization what fees we 
 decide to accept for our degrees, and while we think it very un- 
 dignified to be forced to allude to such matters at all, we must 
 notwithstanding meet; each and every charge made against us, 
 and dispose of them at once and forever ; the revenues, dues, and 
 minimum fees exacted from those who receive our degrees have 
 been published to the world since 1884, see Articles 16, 17, 18 
 and 19, of our Constitution ; and they are perfectly satisfactory 
 to this Supreme Council. 
 
 Brother Chas. T. McClenachan, Grand Master General of Cere- 
 monies Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, on cross-examination, 
 under oath, testified in September, 1889, as follows : 
 
 Question, No. 2. — Wliat was the fee charged for conferring the 
 33d degree in the Consolidated Council, from 1863 to 1866. 
 
 Ansiver. — My impression is it was ten dollars, and I have cer- 
 tain matters fixed in my mind that give me that impression. 
 
 Brother Clinton F. Paige, Grand Secretary General H. -.B. -. 
 Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, being cross-examined under oath, 
 testified as follows, September, 1889 : 
 
 Quention, No. 129. — Turn to the Proceedings of 1866, of the 
 meeting held June 6th, and read the resolution ofifered by Clinton 
 F. Paige. 
 
 Answer (reading). — "Brother Clinton F. Paige moved, and it 
 was seconded, that the fee of $50.00 for the 33d degree be here- 
 after remitted, and the regulation requiring such fee be re- 
 scinded. 
 
 "Alter some considerable discussion, the motion was carried." 
 
 After the union with the Van Rensalaer body in 1867, the 
 Northern Juc^sdiction had a monopoly, and then advanced the 
 fee for their degrees. 
 
 If, however, the test for fitness to receive the 33d degree consists 
 n the ability of the candidate to pay a large sum of money there 
 
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 for, it then becomes a pure matter of merchandise. This Supreme 
 Council does not now, nor has it ever taken that view ; we simply 
 require revenue sufficient to make our Supreme Council and con- 
 stituent bodies able to dispense charities and meet their current 
 expenses with fair economy. 
 
 It is also impudently asserted that some of our brethren are 
 supported, make a living, by their connection with our Eite. 
 This is a great mistake ; we have only two persons under pay in 
 our Supreme Council, our Grand Secretary General receives six 
 hundred dollars per annum while for the same service the Noi'th- 
 ern Jurisdiction pay eigliteen hundred dollars per annum ; we pay 
 our Corresponding Secretary also six hundred dollars, which is all 
 the money paid to any individual by our Supreme Council ; every 
 dollar of cash we have ever received is shown in our printed pro- 
 ceedings each year, also the disposition of every dollar so received. 
 
 Indiscreet, thoughtless brethren say and write the silly, hack- 
 neyed expression that we ' ' peddle degrees for gain." 
 
 I assert, without fear of successful contradiction, that the mem- 
 bers of this Supreme Council are in as good condition, financially, 
 and have as large a share of this world's goods, as the membgrs 
 of either the Northern or Southern Jurisdiction Councils, and do 
 not need to peddle Scottish Eite degrees for gain, and do not 
 wish, need or accept money from the Supi'eme Council or any 
 other Masonic body for any purpose whatever. 
 
 If the Northern or Southern Jurisdiction choose to absolutely 
 support any members of their Supreme Council, that is their con- 
 cern ; certainly not ours, any fiirtlier than that we are pleased to 
 know that they not only have the ability to do so, but that they 
 have the disposition to do so ; nor 'would we sa> they peddle de- 
 grees on tliat account. 
 
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 PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Right Worshipful Past Grand Master Eichbaum, a 33° Mason 
 of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, gave tlie following title 
 to his Official Circular of August 1st, 1888: 
 
 The Masonic Commonweal 
 
 vs. 
 
 Cbrneauism. 
 
 Inasmuch as the Southern Jui-isdictioti Supreme Council received 
 original authority for their existence from the Grand Orient of 
 Paris and Bordeaux through Stephen Morin, and that the North- 
 ern Jurisdiction was unlawfully created by one of the Southern 
 Jurisdiction members, Emanuel De La Motta, and the fact that 
 Joseph Cerneau received his authority from and through the 
 Grand Orient of Paris and Bordeaux and Stephen Morin, I can- 
 not readily understand the distinctive term Cerneauism any more 
 than I could Morinism. If he had said, 'what he probably intend- 
 ed, to wit : 
 
 The Masonic Com onweal 
 
 vs. 
 
 "The Cernaeu Rite," 
 
 we would all have understood it as meaning the Harry J. Sey- 
 mour-Peckham-Gorgas spurious "Cerneau Rite," of 1879. 
 
 But if I am in error as to what he probably intended, and that 
 he intended to speak of Cerneauism reproachfully, and have it 
 understood that Joseph Cerneau and his acts were censurable, 
 odious and against the well-being of Freemasonry in Pennsylvania 
 in 1888, many years after his death ; it would be well to examine 
 and learn what the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania thought of 
 Joseph Cerneau in his lifetime, when he was an active Master 
 Mason, and able to speak for himself. 
 
 Joseph Cerneau was first brought into prominence by the Grand 
 Lodge of Pennsylvania in January, 1802 ; he was Junior Grand 
 Warden of the Provincial Grand Lodge of St. Domingo under the 
 jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. 
 
 In 1804, he was the first Worshipful Master of the Lodge Le 
 Temple des Vertus Theologales, No. 103, under Jurisdiction of the 
 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, held at the City of Havana, on the 
 Island of Cuba, the Warrant having been granted by the Grand 
 Lodge of Pennsylvania, December 17th, 1804 : 
 
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 THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 "Adjourned Grand Quarterly Communication. 
 Philadelphia, Monday, 17th December, A.D., 1804. 
 A petition was read from divers Bretliren, praying for a War- 
 rant for liolding a Lodge at the City of Havana, in the Island of 
 of Cuba, to be called "Le Temple des Yertus Theologales," and 
 that Bro. Joseph Cerneau might be named Master, Bro. Pierre 
 Courroy, S.-.W.-., and Bro. Pierre Vauchey, J. -.W. -.of the same ; 
 which petition being duly recommended, according to the regula- 
 tions of this Grand Lodge, on motion, resolved, that the prayer of 
 the petitioners be granted, and that Bro. Grand Secretary make 
 out a Warrant accordingly, and that the same be numbered 103." 
 
 "Adjourned Grand Quarterly Communication, 
 
 Philadelphia, Monday, 5th January, A.D., 1807. 
 Present: Bro. James Milnor, Esq., R.-.W. -.Grand Master. 
 
 Bro. P.LeBarbier Duplesis presented a commission in due form 
 from Lodge, No. 103, held at Havana, appointing him their 
 proxy, and he was recognized as such. 
 
 He then presented sundry papers from said Lodge and their 
 late W,-. Master, Bro. Cerneau; also returns of the present 
 oflBcers and Members of the said Lodge, fourteen in number. 
 
 It appears from the said papers that difficulties ol the highest 
 importance had happened in that Lodge. 
 
 That unwortliy Brethren had denounced the Lodge to the Gov- 
 ernor of Havana, and Brother Cerneau had been ordered to 
 quit the Island, and was arrived at New York in the beginning of 
 November last with his family. 
 
 That the worthy Brethren of said Lodge, No. 103, had pro- 
 ceeded to the choice of new officers, agreeably to the communica- 
 tions and returns aforesaid, and were obliged to use the greatest 
 caution in their works, etc. 
 
 That the Lodge had lost above three thousand dollars by the 
 unfortunate circumstances aforesaid, and our worthy Bro. '.Cer- 
 neau had also met with a iieavy loss by his being obliged to re- 
 move with his family, though he had received from the Governor 
 every mark of regard that couhl be expected by the most respect- 
 able character: etc., and that the said Bro -.Cerneau had, pre- 
 vious to his departure given the Brethren the most wholesome ad- 
 vice, and assisted them in reoganizing the said Lodge, which now 
 consists of the most respectable characters of the Island." 
 
 "Adjourned Grand Quarterly Communication, 
 
 Philadelphia, Monday, 6th April, A.D., 1807. 
 Present: Brother Robert Louis, R. -. W.- .S. -.G. -.W. -.,in the Chair. 
 On motion made and seconded — 
 Resolved, That the (yommittee of Correspondence be directed to 
 
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 write a letter to the late and present Worshipful Masters 
 and Worthy Brethren of Lodge, No. 103, La Temple des Vertua 
 Theologales, expressive of the high sense the R.-.W.-. Grand 
 Lodge entertain of their truly Masonic conduct in the unfortunate 
 event lately happened to the said Lodge, and to assure them that 
 all the members of the R.-.W. -.(Trand Lodge most sincerely 
 sympathize in the distress they must have experienced on the 
 occasion, etc." 
 
 It is very clear that the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania had the 
 greatest respect for Brother Cerneau in his lifetime, when he was 
 lawfully under its jurisdiction. 
 
 It is peculiar that after a lapse of eighty-two years Pennsyl- 
 vania, or its Grand Master, should speak reproachfully of Joseph 
 Cerneau or his acts by giving the following title to an Official 
 document in 1888: 
 
 The Masonic Commonweal 
 
 vs. 
 
 Cebneauism. 
 
 Grand Master Eichbaum did on the first of August 1888 issue 
 an Edict as follows : 
 
 "THE MASONIC COMMONWEAL 
 vs. 
 CEKNEAUISM. 
 
 Office of the 
 K. '.W. ■. THE Geand Masteb or Feeb and Accepted Masons 
 OF Pennsylvania. Etc. 
 To Lodge No 
 
 Accompanying tWs is ihe report of the Committee of Past Grand Masters on 
 the constituting of bodies in this Masonic jurisdiction known as the '' Cemean 
 Rite," with the resolutions thereon adopted by the Grand Lodge at its quar- 
 terly communication held June 6th, 1888 (5888). 
 
 Haying lawful Masonic information that the organization known as the 
 " Cerneau Rite " not only claims, but has exercised, the power or authority or 
 right to confer the three degrees of Ancient Freemasonry, and recognizes as 
 Masonic and is in correspondence with bodies that this Grand Lodge has 
 declared clandestine ; 
 
 Now, therefore, we, Joseph Eichbaum, Esquire, Right Worshipful Grand 
 Master of Masons in and for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Masonic 
 Jurisdiction thereunto belonging, by virtue of the powers and authorities in us 
 vested, and in the performance of the duties of our office, do hereby declare it 
 is not consistent with the duty of any brother under the jurisdiction of the 
 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania to seek or retain membership in that organiza- 
 tion, and that any brother who has or may have association therewith will be 
 Uable to the penalties prescribed by the action ot the Grand Lodge, adopted 
 March 5th, 1866. 
 
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 And we do also prohibit any of our Lodges granting the use of their place of 
 meeting for the practice of the " Cerneau Rite," or from occupying as a place 
 of meeting any room or rooms occupied by any body known as the " Cemeau 
 Rite " of Scottish Masonry. 
 
 You are direcf ed to have this letter read in open lodge, and copied in full in 
 the minutes. 
 
 Given under our hand and seal, at the city of Philadelphia, in the Common- 
 wealth of Pennsylvania, this first day of August, A.D. 1888, A.L. 5888. 
 
 JOSEPH EICHBAUM, Grand Master. 
 
 Inasmuch as this Edict (except in its caption) referred exclu- 
 sively to the " Cerneau Rite," so advertised ; which is a spurious 
 body created in 1879, by Harry J. Seymour, in New York, after 
 he had been lawfully expelled from Scottisli Rite Masonry, and 
 we not being of that rite ; we being the Supreme Council Ancient 
 and Accepted Scottish Rite for tlie United States of America, their 
 Territories and Dependencies, instituted by authority from the 
 Grand Orient of Paris and Bordeaux, tlirough Stephen Morin, 
 Antoine MathewDupotet and Joseph Cerneau, organized in the 
 city of New York in 1807, and continued by Grand Commander 
 Joseph Cerneau ; DeWitt Clinton, Governor and Grand Master 
 State of New York; Gadwalader D. Golden, Mayor of the Gity 
 of New York and Senior Grand Warden Grand Lodge of the 
 State of New York; Edmund B. Hays, Hopkins Thompson, and 
 their successors in office; and inasmuch as we never have claimed 
 nor exercised any power or authority to confer the three degrees 
 of Ancient Freemasonry — meaning Entered Apprentice, Fellow 
 Craft and Master Mason ; and inasmuch as we are not in cor- 
 respondence with bodies that the Grand Lodge of Tennsylvania 
 has declared to be clandestine — meaning the Grand Orient of 
 France ; and inasmuch as we have no bodies of our obedience in 
 Pennsylvania, I did not think it necessary to take any notice of 
 said Edict in my last Annual Address to you, as I did not con- 
 sider nor did I believe it in any way referred to this Supreme 
 Council or to the brethren in obedience to it. I did, however, 
 denounce the " Cerneau Rite," so advertised, otherwise known as 
 the Harry J. Seymour-Peckham-Gorgas organization of 1879 — 
 see Proceedings Supreme Council for 1888, pp. 44-66. 
 
 Grand Master Eichbaum, in his Annual Address, calls attention 
 to the report of the committee of five Past Grand Masters ap- 
 pointed December, 1887, to consider Cerneau Scottish Rite Ma- 
 sonry as introduced in Pennsylvania. 
 
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 On June 6th, 1888, they present a long, liberal and fair report, 
 and present the following resolutions, which were unanimously 
 approved : 
 
 Resolved, That if, as alleged, the organization known as the Consistory of 
 the Cemeau Kite claims the power or authority or right to confer the three 
 degrees of Ancient Freemasonry, it is not consistent with the duty of member^ 
 of lodges subordinate to this Grand Lodge to seek or retain membership in that 
 organization. 
 
 Resolved, That the permission by a subordinate lodge for the use of its place 
 of meeting for the practice of the Oerneau Eite, or for any other purpose than 
 the one recognized as Masonic, is unauthorized and improper. 
 
 Resolved, That this Grand Lodge expressly declines to enter upon any dis- 
 cussion of the history, use or legitimacy of any body claiming to confer what 
 is known as the high degrees in Freemasonry, or to be committed to the recog- 
 nitiou of any such body as being Masonic, or as identified with or part of 
 Ancient Craft Masonry. 
 
 The report and Eesolutions were signed by Richard Vaux, 
 R. A. Lamberton, Sam'l C. Perkins, Samuel B. Dick, Conrad B. 
 Day. 
 
 Right "Worshipful Brother MacCalla was installed as Grand 
 Master December 28th, 1888, and on the 21st of January, 1889, 
 in less than one month after his installation, he issued the follow- 
 ing Edict : 
 
 Office of the 
 
 R. ".W. •.THE Gband Masteb op Fbee and Accepted Masons 
 OF Pennsttltakia, etc. 
 To ihe W. : M. -.of Lodge Mo 
 
 Whbkeas, AU bodies in the Masonic jurisdiction of the Right Worshipful 
 Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted,. Masons of Pennsylvania, and Masonic 
 jurisdiction thereunto belonging, appertaining to, or constituting, or derived 
 from, the so-called "Cemeau Rite," have been authoritatively ascertained and 
 officially declared to be clandestine ["When ? and by whom ?] ; and 
 
 Whebeas, We have reason to believe that some Master Masons in our juris- 
 diction have connected themselves with said bodies of the so-called "Cemeau 
 Rite," inforgetfulness of their Masonic obligations, and require only to be 
 distinctly and authoritatively informed of the clandestine character of these 
 bodies, and fraternally admonished to sunder their connection with them : 
 
 Now, Thbeefoeb, We, Clifford P. MacCalla, Esquire, Right Worshipful 
 Grand Master of Masons in and for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and 
 Masonic jurisdiction thereunto belonging, by virtue of the powers and author- 
 ities in us vested, and in the performance of the duties of our office, do hereby 
 fraternally admonish every brother Free and Accepted Mason in this Masonic 
 jurisdiction who is now connected with any body appertaining to, or constitut- 
 ing or derived from the said so-called "Cemeau Rite," to sever his connection 
 therewith within ninety days from the twenty-sixth day of January, A.D. 1889 
 (A L. 5889). 
 
 And we do hereby notify all brethren. Free and Accepted Masons, in our 
 jurisdiction who may be found to be and remain members of any of the said 
 
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 olaudestine bodies after the said mentioned date, that they will thereupon 
 forthwith be liable to Masonic trial and punishment, in conformity with the 
 Masonic law in such case made and provided. 
 
 And in order that all brethren who are now members of any body apper- 
 taining to, constituting, or derived from said BO-oaUed "Cerneau Kite," may 
 have fuU opportunity to prove their loyalty to this Grand Lodge of Free and 
 Accepted Masons, we do hereby direct all proceedings and trials which may 
 have already been commenced against any member of the said "Cerneau Kite' 
 to be stayed until immediately after the date above mentioned, when, if such 
 brethren have not informed the Masonic lodge of which they are members that 
 they have severed their connection with said clandeBtine Kite, such proceedings 
 and trials shaU.be resumed and concluded according to Masonic law. 
 
 You wiU have this Edict audibly read in open Lodge at the first stated 
 meeting after it is received, copied in full on the minutes, and cause a copy 
 thereof to be sent to each of the members. 
 
 Given under our hand and seal, at the city, of Philadelphia, in the Common 
 wealth of Pennsylvania, the twenty-first day of January, A.D. 1889 (A.L. 5889) 
 (Signed) CI,IPFOKD P. MacGALLA, 
 
 Grand Master. 
 
 I would not now take any notice of R. •. W. ".Brother MacCalla's 
 edict but for a letter written, explaining said edict, dated March 
 22d, 1889, to Brotiier Asa B. Stevens, Past Master of Lodge, No. 
 339, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, nor would I have taken any not. 
 Ice of said letter but for the fact that is has been printed and cir- 
 culated broadcast. 
 
 He makes a statement therein which I cannot let pass un- 
 noticed, because it ingeniously, by implication, connects this 
 Supreme Council with the Spurious "Cerneau Rite," of 1819, and 
 also because it is so thoroughly incorrect ; it is as follows : 
 
 "And just here I would disabuse your mind of the idea that my 
 action as Grand Master was determined solely by the prior action 
 of Grand Master Eichbaum." 
 
 — "It was not — " 
 
 ^' I thoroughly investigated the question myself, and found that 
 various bodies of the so-called ' Cerneau Rite, ' without and against 
 authority have assumed to warrant Symbolic Lodges which assum- 
 ed to confer the three degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry." 
 
 ' ' This has been repeatedly done both in New York and Louis- 
 iana." 
 
 " In 1 853 the Cerneau Gouncil in New York chartered a lodge, 
 called John the Forerunner and another called La Sincerite. 
 You may And a reference to this in Folger's History, page 253, 
 one at least of these Lodges is still assuming to work the three 
 degrees La Sincerite." 
 
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 While I believe Brother Folger's History to be substantially 
 correct, it is not infallible. Illustrious Brother Folger said, under 
 oath, September lOtli, 1889, in answer to question 40, cross- 
 «xamiuation : 
 
 " I am willing to acknowledge all the errors I have made, and 
 they are a great many ; they are very numerous, but at the same 
 time a great many of them can be corrected as time passes 
 along. " 
 
 Dr. Folger says in his history, pages 253, 254 : 
 
 "In 1853 the Sovereign Chapter of Rose Croix, under tlie 
 definitive title of 'La Sincerite,' chartered by the Supreme Coun- 
 cil of New Orleans, came under the Jurisdiction of the Supreme 
 Council here. On the eightii day of March, a petition was re- 
 ceived from a number of Brethren, asking for a Scottish Lodge in 
 the symbolic degrees, under the definitive title of ' John the Fore- 
 runner,' the Ritual to be performed in tlie English language. 
 Sjtid petition was acted upon, and the prayer of the petitioners 
 was granted unanimously." 
 
 "Also a petition from a constitutional number of Brethren 
 f French), asking for a Lodge in the Symbolic degrees, under the 
 definitive title of ' La Sincerite, ' Ancient and Accepted Rite, the 
 Ritual to be performed in the Fi-ench language." 
 
 "Said petition was unanimously granted, and the Lodge sub- 
 sequently constituted in due form." 
 
 Brother MacCalla knew the "Cerneau Rite," against which he 
 issued said edict, was Harry J. Seymour's spurious creation of 
 1879 ; he says he thoroughly investigated the question himself, 
 and I personally sent him the proof thereof in December, 
 1888, in the printed copy of my annual address for 1888, 
 pages 44 to 64 ; notwithstanding this he has ingeniously coupled 
 this Supreme Council with the spurious "Cerneau Rite" of 18t9, 
 by quoting from Illustrious Brother Folger's history, acts of the 
 Supreme Council, Ancient and accepted Rite reported as having 
 taken place in 1853, twenty-six years before the existence of the 
 spurious "Cerneau Bite" of 1879, to wit: That two Lodges were 
 chartered in 1853 by the Supreme Council, and that one at least 
 of these Lodges is still assuming to work the three degrees, "La 
 Sincerite," 
 
 He, having thoroughly investigated, etc., must have known the 
 Supreme Council, never in the whole course of its existence issued 
 a Charter or Warrant to any body or Lodge to confer the degrees 
 of Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft or Master Mason. 
 
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 The so-called Lodge John the Forerunner, mentioned in Brother 
 Polger's history, never had a dispensation or Warrant from any 
 source, and never had an existence. 
 
 Most Worshipful Joseph D. Evans, Grand Master of Masons 
 in New York granted a dispensation to ' La Sincerite ' Lodge in 
 1854 (not 1853), and the Grand Lodge granted it a Warrant June 
 6th, 1855, as La Sincerite Lodge, No. 373, and it is now, and has 
 been continously since 1855, under the Jurisdiction of and on the 
 Roll of Lodges, Grand Lodge of New York. 
 
 If he had thoroughly investigated, he would have learned [this 
 from the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of New York. 
 
 So much for that ingenious perversion implying that La Since- 
 rite Lodge was Warranted by this Supreme Council in 1853, and 
 is still conferring the degrees of Entered Apprentice Fellow-Craft 
 and Master Mason, by authority of such Warrant, and also coup- 
 ling this Supreme Council with the " Cerneau Rite," of 1879. 
 
 There is no Masonic history, nor is there any person who can 
 truthfully say that this Supreme Council ever granted a Charter 
 or Warrant to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice Fellow- 
 Craft or Master Mason from its institution in 1807 until the pres 
 ent time. 
 
 But what is the fact on the other hand. They haye tolerated 
 for years, without threat or murmur, the subordinate bodies Sup- 
 reme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, in the State of 
 Pennsylvania, conferring their degrees with, I presume, a full 
 knowledge that when said Northern Masonic Jurisdiction came 
 into existence, its creator, Emanuel De La Motta, did, in 1814, 
 publish to the world the following : 
 
 "I have nothing further to say except that althongh Sublime Masons have 
 not, in this country, initiated into the Blue or Symbolic degrees, yet their 
 Councils possess the indefensable right of granting Warrants for that pur- 
 pose. It is common on the coutinent of Europe, and may be ihe case here, 
 should circumstances render the exercise of that power necessary. The legality of 
 this right is derived from the highest Masonic authority in ihe world, (however 
 ready Mr. Cerneau and his gentlemen have been to relinquish it at once, and 
 in ioio, which is another strong corroborative proof of his irregvlaritg, or else they 
 never could lawfully alienate their rights as Sublime Masons), as can be demon- 
 strated to the perfect satisfaction of every Masonic, judioial and legislative 
 body. " 
 
 Thus proving that Cerneau did not claim to have any authority 
 over Ancient Fremasonry, and that De La Motta, who created 
 
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 the Nonlierri Jurisdiction, did claim tiie right to issue Warrants, 
 giving power to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice Fel. 
 low-Craft and Master Mason wherever he wished. 
 
 Tlie following will show the feeling, opinion and action of this 
 Supreme Council, from time to time, in relation to the Entered 
 Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master Mason degrees. 
 
 Ill 1807 they sent a communication to the Grand Lodge of New 
 York, disclaiming any power or authority inconsistent with the 
 supremacy of that Grand Lodge. 
 
 February 28tli, 1814, in the reply of this Supreme Council to 
 Emanuel De La Motta's circular, they say, referring to the 
 Charleston body : 
 
 "Betraying the greatest ignorance of the Masonic system in 
 the United States, it usurps Jurisdiction over the degrees of what 
 is usually denominated Ancient Masonry ; it is well known that 
 the three first degrees are under the exclusive superintendence of 
 independent Grand Lodges." 
 
 In 1820 this Supreme Council expelled Joseph De Glock De 
 Obernay, or De Obernay De Glock, and denounced him, by edict, 
 for attempting to confer the first three degrees of Ancient 
 Masonry. 
 
 On the 27th of October, 1846, the members of this Supreme 
 Council withdrew from and abrogated the treaty which had 
 brought into existence the Supreme Council Western Hemisphere 
 in consequence of an attempt by some of the constituents of that 
 boily to confer the degrees of Ancient Masonry. 
 
 In June, 1851, an Edict of this Supreme Council, signed by 
 John W. Simons 33°, Grand Secretary, forbid any body or 
 brother from conferring the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fel- 
 low-Craft or Master Mason on any person, under any pretense what- 
 soever. 
 
 The Committee of Fast Grand Masters of Pennsylvania, appoint- 
 ed Sept. 5th, 1888, in the case of charges against the Worshipful 
 Master of Lodge No. 823, — one of the charges being that said 
 Worshipl'ul Master was a member of the " Cerneau Rite " and 
 <iecline(l to withdraw from the same. 
 
 This Coinniii.iee made an elaborate report. See page 86, Pro- 
 ceedings Grand Lodge, Pennsylvania, 1888 ; and among other 
 things said : 
 
 " This Grand Lodge can have nothing to do with any contro- 
 versy or differences between any bodies whatsoever, ae to the 
 
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 rights of Jurisdiction within their own proper spheres, so long as 
 no Jurisdiction over the right to confer the degrees of Ancient 
 Freemasonry as repeatedly clearly defined by this Right Wor- 
 shipful Grand Lodge is either claimed or exercised by such 
 bodies. 
 
 ' ' If such right is exercised by any such body, either within or 
 without the Territorial Jurisdiction of the Right Worshipful 
 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, such body brings itself within the 
 terms of the prohibition of non-intercourse, non-recognition and 
 and non-affiliation by the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Penn- 
 sylvania, and all of its subordinate bodies and their members. 
 
 " If the right is claimed, whether within or without the Terri- 
 torial Jurisdiction of the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Penn- 
 sylvania, or both within or without, whether exercised or not, 
 such claim involves the same consequences of non-intercourse, 
 non-recognition and non-afflliation. 
 
 "The offence is a grave one, and any interference with the 
 degrees of Ancient Masonry cannot be tolerated. 
 
 "Any attempt to claim or exercise the power, right, or author- 
 ity to confer such degrees, unless under the Jurisdiction of a 
 Sovereign Independent Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted 
 Ancient Masons, is an offence against the power, dignity, sup- 
 remacy, and sovereignty of every Grand Lodge of Free and 
 Accepted Masons throughout the world." 
 
 The Supreme Council Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, which 
 has its subordinates in Pennsylvania, is in fraternal accord and 
 correspondence, and consequently fully agrees with and indorses 
 the laws, rules and practices of the Supreme Council, Southern 
 Masonic Jurisdiction, who sell, for cash, to their active members, 
 Deputies and Lodges of Perfection, the Secret Rituals of the 
 degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft and Master Mason, 
 and who, previous to 1811, did claim the right and authority to 
 confer the degrees of Ancient Freemasonry, and the right to 
 create and govern symbolic lodges, but simply refrained from it 
 for the sake of harmony, as will be seen by the following, from 
 Memoranda, by J. J. J. Gourgas, published in the reprint of Pro- 
 ceedings of the N.'.M. '.J.*., Vol. I., part 1, page 39: 
 
 " The Grand Counoil of tlie Princes of JernBalem at CharleBton, S. C, 
 granted, July 5, 5801, a warrant of Constitution ' to open a Master Masons 
 Lodge and to form and eonstitnte a Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Lodee 
 of Perfect Masons, to initiate Brethren into the Superior degrees, as far as the 
 Sublime degree of Perfection, inclusive, [Signed as follows :] 
 
 'John Mitchell, KH., S.-.P.-,R.-.S.-., S.-.G.-.I.-.G.-. 33° 
 "T. B. Bowen, K..H, S.-.P.-.K.-.s.-., S.-.G.-.I.-.G.-., 33° 
 "E. De La Motta.K.H.. S.-.P.-.E.-.S.-., S.-.G.-.I-.G.-.. 33* 
 "Abraham Alexander, K.H., S.-.P.-.K.-.S.-., S.-.G.-.L .G.-., 33° 
 
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 "Fred Daloho, K.H., S.-.P.-.E.-.S.'., S.-.G.-.I.-.G.-., 33" 
 "Heuj. Cudswoith, Prince of Jerusalem. 
 "Joseph Bee, Prince of Jenisalem, Knight of E. and W. 
 " S. Hiirdy, Prince of Jerusiilem. 
 "Israel d'e Leibeu, K.H., S.-.P.-.B.-.S.-. 
 "Isaac Auld, Prince of Jerusalem . 
 ' ' EnoB Reeves, Knight of the E. and P. -.1. •. 
 "Peter Smith, R.-.X 
 " Abraham Snsportaz, K.H. 
 "James Allison, S.-.P. -.K -.X 
 "E. Elizer, S.-.G.-.S,-., K.H., S.'.P.-.K/.S.-." 
 
 Also in "Transactions,'' 1857 to 1866, p. 347, Brother Pike 
 states : 
 
 "Undoubtedly we have ample power to commission a Deputy Inspector- 
 General to confer the Blue degrees, and to create symbolic Lodges in any un- 
 occupied foreign country. Beyond a question, one of us as Sovereign Grand 
 Inspector General could do so. We are shorn of none of our ancient powers. 
 To avoid pryudice and quairels we r^rainfrom the exerclie HEUE of our powers 
 over the Blue degrees, with, on the whole, very beneficial results." 
 
 Also in "Transactions," I860, p. 49, speaking of the Latin Con- 
 stitutions of 1786, Brother Pike states : 
 
 "The assertion of our Illustrious Brother that these Constitutions 'disclaim 
 all control over the first three degrees, wherever organizations of those de- 
 grees exist ;' that the framers of these Constitutions 'prohibit their successors 
 irom meddling with the Symbolic Degrees ;' and that 'their action was to be 
 confined to the Lodges of Perfection, and to the degrees above and including 
 the 4th or Secret Master, ' are strangely incorred. 
 
 "It is true that Art. XI (I provides that the Sovereign Grand Inspectors, Dep- 
 uties of the Supreme Council, may delegate to Deputy Inspectors of at least 
 the 30th degree, so much of their powers as may enable them to establish, reg- 
 ulate and superintend Lodges and Councils in any of the degrees, from the 
 4th to the 20th inclusive. But this is a mere affirmative provision, that does not 
 at all negatitx or surrender the power of the Supreme Authority of the Eite over the 
 first three degrees." 
 
 Also in "Official Bulletin, August, 1870, p. 106, Brother Pike 
 states : 
 
 "On the 2l3t of December, 1860, the Illustrious Brother Charles Laffon de 
 Landebat, Active Member of, and with plenary authority from, the Supreme 
 Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, established in the 
 Valley of Vera Cruz, in Mexico, the Supreme Council of the 33d degree for 
 Mexico and the Siates of Central America, of which Illustrious Brother Gtn. 
 Iguaclo Comonfort became the Sovereign Grand Comminder." Again, refer- 
 ring to this matter in "Ofaoial Bulletin," April, 1871' p. 223, he states : " Con- 
 tinued disturbances and dissensions scattered the members of the Grand 
 Council shortly after the commencement of their labors; they chartered a few . 
 IfOdges, however, among them, one in Tamaulipas." 
 
 Again in " Official Bulletin," December, 1871, p. 451, Brother 
 Pike states : 
 
 "Tamaulipas Lodge was regularly chartered by the Supreme Council for 
 Mexico and Central America, at Vera Cruz, of which the Illustrious Brother 
 Comonfort was Sovereign Grand Commander. That Supreme Council was 
 regular and legitimate, being established by the Supreme Council for the 
 Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, and having ample power andpeifecl 
 right to establish Blue Lodges of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite. The 
 Lodge in question was, and is, as regular a Lodge as any in Texas," 
 
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 In a letter written to the Supreme Council at Peru, February 
 Tth, 181 T, Brother Albert Pike writes : 
 
 "And when, in 1801, vitality and operation was given to the Grand Con- 
 stitntions by the organization of the Supreme Council at Charleston, jurisdic- 
 tion over the symbolic degrees were expressly toaived in favor of the Grand 
 Lodge, but was not entirely ceded or relinquished ; and we have always held 
 our right to administer them to be undiminished, and that if necessity should 
 require, it could be resumed. * • » • » 
 
 "The doctrine of exclusive Grand Lodge jurisdiction has grown up in the 
 United States, and been accepted here as politic and in the interest of harmony 
 and unity. It does not prevail in Europe, and is not a part of Musonic or- 
 ganic law ; and its zeaJots here have not been content to stop when they had 
 pushed it to the verge of absurdity." 
 
 The report of the Committee of Past Grand Masters heretofore 
 mentioned, in case of charges against the Worshipful Master of 
 Lodge, No. 323, among other things say : 
 
 " If the right is claimed to confer the degrees of Ancient Free- 
 masonry, whether within or without the Territorial Jurisdiction of 
 the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, or both 
 within or without, whether exercised or not, such claim involves 
 the same consequences of non-intercourse, non-recognition, and 
 non-afBliation." 
 
 Brother Albert Pike did, preyious to 1871, claim the right to 
 establish Master Mason Lodges and confer the degrees of Enter- 
 ed Apprentice, Fellow-Craft and Master Mason. 
 
 He, however, in 1811, changed his opinion and announced the 
 following: 
 
 "Until recently we believed that the Supreme Council had the 
 right to create and govern Symbolic Lodges from tlie beginning, 
 and that where they did not exercise it, they simply refrained 
 for the sake of harmony ; but being called upon to carefully con- 
 sider the question, we are of the clear opinion that upon the face 
 of the Grand Constitutions, these give no such power." — Pike. 
 
 I will here repeat an extract from a letter written by me to the 
 Brethren of Iowa last July : 
 
 "All regular Grand Lodges have full, exclusive and absolute 
 power and authority over the degrees of Entered Apprentice, 
 Fellow-Craft and Master Mason, in their several territorial juris- 
 dictions ; also power to make just and equal laios, rules and reg' 
 ulations for the government of Grand and Subordinate Lodges and 
 individual Brethren, that will not conflict with the high and ex- 
 alted duties they owe to God, their neighbor, their country and 
 themselves ; and such that will not interfere with their moral, 
 social or civil duties and privileges, be they what they may ; 
 always having in mind, in making and administering said laws, 
 rules and regulations, that it is their highest duty to constantly 
 view their Brother's interest as inseparable from their ow n. 
 
a? 
 
 This is the well-settled fundamental principle of the Supreme 
 Council Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite for ttie United States 
 of America, their Territories and Dependencies, founded in 1807, 
 in tlie City of New York, liy Illustrious Brother Joseph Cerneau, 
 Grand Commander ; DeWitt Clinton, Governor of the State of 
 New York ; Cadwalader D. Colden, Mayor of the City of New 
 York, and tiiose associated with them. 
 
 "As early as 1807 they sent a communication to the Grand 
 Lodge of New York, disclaiming any power or authority over 
 the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master 
 Mason ; and neitlier since that time, nor at any time during their 
 entire existence, iiave they in any way interlered with or con- 
 ferred either of the said degrees. They have not now, nor have 
 tliey ever had, any power, right or control over either of the said 
 degrees ; they do not now, and never have exercised, attempted, 
 or desired to exercise any power or control over said degrees in 
 any way or manner ; nor have they ever had priiited, or caused 
 to be printed, any of the work or Ritual of the degrees of Entered 
 Apprentice, Fellow Craft, or Master Mason, either Secret or 
 Monitorial ; nor have they anything to do with the said degrees, 
 except to require that any Brother receiving the degrees of our 
 Rite shall present positive evidence that he is a member in good 
 and regular standing in a lodge of Master Masons under the 
 jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge in fraternal correspondence with 
 the Grand Lodges in the United States of America. 
 
 " We bow in humble submission to the will of the Grand Master 
 and Grand Lodge in his or its constitutional rights, powers and 
 prerogatives, over the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow 
 Craft, and Master Mason, in its Territorial Jurisdiction, they be- 
 ing degrees lawfully and exclusively in its control and keeping ; 
 and agree tliat all are bound to obey tiie Edicts of the Grand 
 Master, and Grand Lodge, when such Edicts are kept within the 
 constitutional power of the Grand Lodge ; but if they arbitrarily 
 and without power to do so interfere to the detriment of our 
 business, pleasure, family, or social relations, we are not bound 
 by tliem ; if tlie Grand Lodge should pass a resolution, or the 
 Grand Master issue an edict setting forth that we must surrender 
 to it our property, or sever our family relations, or discontinue 
 our church membership, or our membership in any lawful organ- 
 ization with which we are or may become members, we are not 
 bound to nor would we obey it. 
 
 "Tlie Grand Master and the Grand Lo(ige have their bounds, 
 which they cannot pass ; they are well defined by tlie Constitution 
 and Ancient Landmarks, and are well understood." 
 
 And now, inasmuch as Brother Albert Pike learned in 1877 
 tlia't the Constitution by which the Southern Jurisdiction Supreme 
 Council Ancient and Accepted Rite was governed, gave no power 
 
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 to that body to organize Lodges of Master Masons, nor to confer 
 or grant power to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fel- 
 low Craft or Master Mason, and inasmuch as the Northern Juris- 
 diction Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite always sneeze wlien 
 Brother Albert Pike talies snuff, there is now no danger of either 
 the Northern or Southern Jurisdictions Ancient and Accepted 
 Rite assuming jurisdiction or autliority OTcr the degrees of En- 
 tered Apprentice, Fellow Craft or Master Mason. 
 
 And inasmuch as the Supreme Council, United States of Amer- 
 ica, tlieir Territories and Dependencies, have not now, and 
 never have had, nor never claimed to have had any power or 
 authority over the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, 
 or Master Mason, the alleged cause for alarm and for the edict 
 of ADMONITION by the Grand Master of Pennsylvania is removed ; 
 he may now withdraw his edict of admonition and sleep soundly, 
 there being no danger of any interference with the degrees of Enter- 
 ed Apprentice, Fellow Craft or Master Mason in Pennsylvania or 
 elsewhere by those claiming to be Scottish Rite Masons in the 
 United States of America. 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 I will now present to you a synopsis of the history of the higher 
 grades in the United States of America, compiled and presented 
 with a view to teach brethren of our subordinate bodies its outline 
 without being compelled to collect and delve into the great mass 
 of history on this subject published to the world, some of which 
 is now difficult to obtain. 
 
 It is acknowledged by all Scottish Rite Masons — and not dis- 
 puted, as far as I know, by any Masonic writer— that all power 
 and authority to establish bodies and confer the degrees of what 
 is now known as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in 
 America was derived from the power and authority given to and 
 vested in Brother Stephen Morin by the Sovereign Grand Sublime 
 Council of the Sublime Princesof the Royal Secret, Orient of Paris 
 and Bordeaux, on the 27th day of August, 1761, who, by a patent 
 granted and given to him (see copy Morin's patent, as Appendix) 
 was appointed as Grand Inspector, and Grand Master Inspector, 
 loithfull power to establish Perfect and Sublime Masonry in every 
 part of tJie luorld. With this authority he sailed from France to 
 propagate the rite in America, and in lT62 the Constitutions and 
 
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 regulations for his government, and for the government of the rite 
 wherever established, were furnished and transmitted to him. 
 
 " Said Constitutions and regulations were dra-jvn up by nine com- 
 missioners appointed by the Grand Council of the Sovereign Princes 
 of the Royal Secret, at the Grand Orient of Paris and Bordeaux, 
 by virtue of the resolution of the 5th day of the third week of the 
 seventh month of the Hebrew Era 5562, and of the Christian Era 
 1762 ; to be ratified and observed by the Grand Councils of the 
 Sublime Knights and Princes of Masonry as by the particular 
 Councils and Grand Inspectors regularly constituted in the two 
 hemispheres." 
 
 The constitution adopted comprised thirty-five articles, and on 
 its adoption the following proclamation was made : 
 
 " We, Sovereign of the Sovereign Sublime Princes of the Eoyal 
 Secret of the Eoyal and Military Order of the Most Worshipful 
 Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, have determined and 
 do resolve that these present statutes, regulations and constitu- 
 tions shall be observed. 
 
 " And we do order our Grand Inspectors and their deputies to 
 cause them to be read and received as well in all particular 
 Councils, Chapters, and Eoyal Lodges. " 
 
 After Stephen Morin's arrival in Jamaica, West Indies, he con- 
 ferred degrees on such persons as he wished, giving them patents 
 and the title of Deputy Grand Inspectors General, with power to 
 confer the degrees and establish bodies. 
 
 In 1766 it was voted by the Grand body in France that Brother 
 Martin, Master of St. Frederick's Lodge, should replace Brother 
 Morin as its representative in America ; but I cannot learn that 
 Brother Martin ever did any act in America as such representative. 
 
 That Brother Stephen Morin had knowledge of and power to 
 confer more than twenty-five degrees is beyond question, as we 
 have the following from a copy of Patent given by Brother Henry 
 Andrew Franckin, to a Lodge of Perfection in the City of Albany, 
 State of New York, December 20, 1167. 
 
 ' By virtue of a full power and authority, committed to me by 
 the most r^pectable and most sublime Brother Stephen Morin, 
 Grand Inspector of all Lodges relative to the Superior degrees of 
 Masonry from Secret Master, to the tweedy-ninth degree, etc. 
 
 See copy of the Patent as Appendix. 
 
 Brother Henry Andrew Francken was appointed a Deputy 
 Grand Inspector General in 1762, by Stephen Morin, at the 
 Island of Jamaica. See page 4, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1781, to 1851, 
 reprint proceedings, northern jurisdiction. 
 
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 I have no doubt that Brother Stephen Morin, had full knowledge 
 of the thirty-third degree at that time, as on February 19, 1768, 
 less than two months after the date of the patent above men- 
 tioned, he verified a paper on which were the names of several 
 brethern as thirty-third degree masons, a^ will be seen by the 
 following. 
 
 Brother Albert Pike has published, in his oflBcial bulletin, Vol. 
 IX., No. 1, April 1889, pages 167 and 168, copies of some old 
 Scottish Kite and other manuscript sent to him by Brother Enoch 
 T. Carson, of Ohio, the following : 
 
 Page 65 begins — "Grandes Constitutions Secretes ou Rdgle- 
 ments des Souverains Grands Inspecteurs Geaeraux du 33me 
 Degrd, Grands Commandeurs a Vie, de la Franche Magonnerie, "etc. 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 Page 65 begins — "Grand Secret Constitutions or Eegulations 
 of the Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General of the Thirty-third 
 degree, Grand Commanders for life of Free Masonry," In thirty- 
 thi'ee articles, verified and signed as follows : 
 
 Chaillon de Joinvillb, Grand Commander thirty-third degree. 
 
 Count de Choiseul, Grand Commander thirty-third degree. 
 
 Maximilien de St. Simon, Souv. G.-. Insp.-. G., thirty-thu-d 
 degree. 
 
 TopiN, Grand Ambassadeur Prince MaQon Thirty-third Degree. 
 
 Le Prince de Rohan, Prince Ma^on, thirty-third. 
 
 Brest de la Chaussee, Prince Sovereign du thirty-third. 
 
 Boucher de Limoncourt, Prince Ma9on. 
 
 Daubertin, Prince Magon, date 27th August, 1761. 
 
 VERIFIED BY MORIN", February 19, 1768. 
 
 This verified by Auguste ori Grasse, Sov. G. Insp. G., thirty- 
 third degree, etc., July 8th, 1802. 
 
 Thus showing that the thirty third degree existed and had been 
 conferred previous to 1768. 
 
 We also learn from Kaufman's History of Freemasonry in 
 France " that the Scottish Rite in thirty-three degrees was estab- 
 lished at Namur, a province of Beljrium, in 1770." 
 
 We have, in the Supreme Council Library, a copy of the ritual 
 of the Order of Christ, established in Portugal, giving the thirty- 
 three degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Rite about this time. 
 
 We learn from Chemin Duponte's Encyclopedic Magonnique, 
 Vol. III., page 390, edition of 1823, the following :— 
 
 "We have seen, handled, and copied precisely a patent of the 
 Thirty-third Degree delivered by a consistory in Geneva, in 1791, 
 to Worshipful Brother Vile, an active officer of the Grand Orient 
 of France." 
 
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 That the thirty third degree was in existence in America as 
 early as 1768 will not now be doubted. 
 
 brother Henry Andrew Francken or Steplien Morin con- 
 ferred the degrees on Brother Moses Michael Hays not later 
 than 1763; Brother Hays conferred them on Brotlier Berand 
 Moses Spitzer June 26th, 1781; Brother Spitzer conferred them 
 on Brother John Mitchell of Charleston, South Carolina, August 
 2nd, 1795; Brother Mitchell conferred them on Brother Frederick 
 Dalcho, May 24th, 1801, and they conferred them on Isaac Auld 
 and Emanuel De La Motta. 
 
 The evils attendant upon conferring degrees indiscriminately 
 by individual Sovereign and Deputy Grand Inspectors General 
 without organization in the United States of America must have 
 been keenly felt; each Sovereign and Deputy Grand Inspector 
 General kept, or ought to have kept, a register of his acts as 
 such, but few of them, however, were preserved. This eventually 
 caused confusion. 
 
 An attempt was made to correct this evil in 1801, by organizing 
 a Supreme governing body at Charleston, South Carolina, by 
 Brother John Mitchell, Frederick Dalcho, Isaac Auld and Emanuel 
 De La Motta, but the organization proved to be a failure and was 
 practically useless and dormant for fifty-eight years thereafter, 
 until 1859, when it came into active existence as the Supreme 
 Council Southern Jurisdiction under the so-called 1786 Constitu- 
 tion of Frederick the 2nd of Prussia, with Brother Albert Pike 
 as Grand Commander. 
 
 Tlie first successful eflbrt to correct the evil of conferring the 
 degi'ees by individuals and to properly organize a Supreme 
 governing body in the United States of America was made by 
 Illustrious Brother Joseph Cerneau in the city of New York in 
 1807, 
 
 Ragon says, page 328, Orthodox Masonique: 
 
 "Joseph Cerneau, having established himself at St. Domingo, 
 where lie was initiated in the Rite of Perfection by the Jew, Stephen 
 Morin, which rite Morin had brought there, he was forced to quit 
 this island on account of the insurrection of the blacks there. He 
 travelled over the Spanish Antilles and the United States and 
 finally fixed his residence in New York City, where he founded 
 the Supreme Council in 1806. 
 
 Soon after his arrival in New York he made the acquaintance 
 of the most distinguished Free Masons residing there, consisting 
 
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 of the officers of the Grand Lodge of the State, the mayor of the 
 city and other distinguished bretliren; he conferred on them the 
 highest degrees of JMasonry (see copy of his Patent from Du- 
 potet as appendix) after which they organized tlie Supreme gov- 
 erning body for the United States of America, their Territories 
 and Dependencies, under the Constitution of 1Y62, and gave notice 
 thereof to the world both Masonic and Profane, in the public 
 newspapers and by special communication. 
 
 After this organization was perfected in 1807, all power of in- 
 dividual Sovereign or Deputy Grand Inspectors General to con- 
 fer degrees or establish bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Rite 
 in the United States of America ceased forever, and any such 
 individual act performed thereafter was unlawful, null and void 
 and of no force or effect whatever, unless previously ordered by 
 the duly and lawfully organized supreme governing body. 
 
 This organization continued in active, successful existence and 
 was acknowledged as a lawful and i-egular body by the Grand 
 Orient of France, with which it was in fraternal correspondence, 
 having exchanged representatives with that body ; and were sub- 
 sequently in fraternal correspondence witli all or nearly all the 
 supreme governing bodies then in existence. 
 
 Was Orand Commander from 
 
 111. Joseph Cebneau, 33° 1807 to 1821 
 
 HI. John W. Mulligan, 33° - - - - 1821 to 1823 
 HI. DeWitt Clinton, 33° .... 1823 to 1825 
 The 111. Marquis Gen._ De LaFatbtte, - - 1825 
 
 HI. DeWitt Clinton, 33° . . - . i825 to 1828 
 
 On the death of Governor DeWitt Clinton, which sad event 
 occurred February llth, 1828, Illustrious Elias Hicks, 33°, by 
 virtue of his office as Lieutenant Commander, then became Grand 
 Commander ; and for thirty years thereafter Freemasonry was in 
 a chaotic and turbulent state, particularly so at the Grand East 
 of this Supreme Council in New York. 
 
 The anti-Masonic excitement at this time became most vio- 
 lent in the Middle and Eastern States ; all Freemasonry, from 
 necessity, was practically dormant, and remained so until 1834, 
 during which time the pei'secution was so great that to remain an 
 acknowledged Free Mason meant loss of business, excommunica- 
 tion from churclies, going even so far as to sever family ties; the 
 
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 rule was ostracism generally from all society of those who 
 would not publicly renounce it. 
 
 In several of the states laws were enacted making the adminis- 
 tering of extra judicial oaths a penal offence, consequently all 
 Masonic work ceased except in a few instances wliere it was 
 secretly done ; but few, however, had the temerity to withstand 
 the dreadful storm. 
 
 During this excitement Grand Commander Ellas Hicks re- 
 ceived a dispatch addressed to him from the Grand Orient of 
 France under date of March 2nd, 1830, and at a meeting of the 
 Supreme Council of the United States of America their territories 
 and dependencies held in December, 1831, he presented said dis- 
 patch for consideration. 
 
 They, at the same time, had a dispatch from Count St. Lau- 
 rent proposing to unite by treaty, the Ancient Supreme Council of 
 Mexico, Terra Flrma, South America, the Canary Islands, etc., 
 etc. with this Supreme Council; whereupon Grand Commander 
 Hicks appointed three commissioners with full power in behalf of 
 this Supreme Council to treat with commissioners to be appointed 
 by the Supreme Council of France, together with those of Terra 
 Firma, New Spain etc., etc. 
 
 Brother Hicks appointed Jonathan Sheffellin, 33°, the Marquis 
 De St. Angelo, 33° and George Smith 33°, Grand Secretary Gen- 
 eral H. E. as such commissioners. 
 
 The commissioners representing the several Supreme Councils 
 made treaty bringing into existence the United Supreme Council 
 for the Western Hemisphere of the Potent Sovereign Grand In- 
 spectors General, Thirty-third and last degree of the Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottish Rite; Sublime Chiefs of Exalted Masonry; with 
 Illustrious Elias Hicks as Grand Commander and Grand East 
 located in the City of New York. 
 
 The treaty was signed on the 5th day of April 1832. 
 
 Another treaty was subsequently entered into between the 
 Supreme Council Western Hemisphere, the Supreme Council of 
 France, the Supreme Council of Brazil and the Supreme Council 
 of Belgium, signed in behalf of France by the Marquis General De 
 LaFayette and the Count De St. Laurent at Brussels March 5th, 
 1835, and ratified by Grand Commander Hicks by, proclamation 
 October 26th, 1836. 
 
 In 1837 a new diflSculty arose among the New York City Free- 
 
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 Masons, some of whom felt that the Anti-Masonic excitement 
 which had existed for the past ten years had ended forever, and 
 they desired to celebrate that event and hold a Masonic proces- 
 sion and other exercises in honor of St. John's day. 
 
 After all arrangements had been made and the fact that the 
 procession was to take place had been well advertised in the 
 daily newspapers, the Deputy Grand Master, Brother Van 
 Benschoten, did on the morning of the procession, June 24th, 
 1837, and after the brethren had all assembled to participate 
 therein, come upon the ground and in person officially forbid the 
 procession and exercises; but inasmuch as all preparations had 
 been made and completed and the brethren were assembled with 
 their aprons, jewels, rods, banners, colors, bands of music, &c., 
 <fcc. , ready to march, they decided to proceed with the procession 
 and exercises. 
 
 This act led to the formation of the body known as the St. 
 John's Grand Lodge ; and as members of the Supreme Council 
 were both for and against St. John's Grand Lodge, it was an im- 
 pediment to the prosperity of the Supreme Council; its annual 
 meetings, however, were held and tlie necessary routine business 
 transacted until the 16th of April, 1844, when the Illustrious and 
 most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander Elias Hicks died. 
 
 Immediately on his decease a meeting of the Supreme Council 
 was held, when Illustrious and most Puissant Past Sovereign 
 Grand Commander John W. M ulligan succeeded to the vacancy. 
 
 During the year 1845 Grand Commander John W. Mulligan 
 was appointed by the President of the United States to be Con- 
 sul-General to Greece and left this country to discharge that duty 
 on October 4th, 1845. Illustrious Brother Henry C. At wood 
 then became Grand Commander. 
 
 On the 27th of October, 1846, the treaty by which the United 
 Supreme Council for the Western Hemisphere was brought into 
 existence, was abrogated, and the Supreme Council resumed 
 its previous distinctive title as the Supreme Council for the 
 United States of America its Territories and Dependencies. This 
 was donie because some of the parties to this treaty wished the 
 Supreme Council Western Hemisphere to issue warrants for the 
 formation of Master Masons' Lodges in violation of the well-settled 
 policy wliich had governed this body since 1807. This they re- 
 fused to do, and consequently withdrew from and abrogated this 
 treaty. 
 
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 In 1850 the St. John's Grand Lodge united with the Grand 
 Lodge of New York, from which time the Supreme Council made 
 marked progress. In this year Illustrious Brother Daniel Sickels 
 became Grand Secretary General H. E. and Illustrious Brother 
 Edmund B. Hays became Grand Minister of State. 
 The oflBcers in 1850 were : 
 
 Henry C. Atwood, 33° George E. Marshall, 33" 
 
 John W. Timpson, 33° Thomas Hyatt, 33" 
 
 Edmund B, Hays, 33° A. Colo Voloni, 33° 
 
 Daniel Sickels, 33° David Cochrane, 33° 
 
 John W. Simons, 33° 
 
 In June, 1851, at the request of Illustrious Henry C. Atwood 
 and the above named officers, Illustrious Brother Robert B. Fol- 
 ger, M.D. , 33° called on Illustrious Brother Jeremy L. Cross, 
 then a resident of the City of New York, and invited him to accept 
 the office of Sovereign Grand Commander. He accepted 
 the invitation and was chosen Grand Commander. 
 
 In the following September (1851), Illustrious John W. Mulli- 
 gan returned to New York. He immediately attended a meeting 
 of the Supreme Council, inspected the record of proceedings had 
 during his absence, and ratified, confirmed and subscribed to all 
 that had been done during his official residence abroad. 
 
 The following distinguished Brethren were officers with Illus- 
 trious Grand Commander Jeremy L. Cross : • 
 
 Minister of State, William H. Ellis, 33° Past Grand Master of 
 Connecticut. 
 
 Keeper of Seals, Rev. Salem Town, 33° Grand Chaplain Grand 
 Lodge of New York. 
 
 Grand Secretary, John W. Simons, 33° subsequently Grand Mas- 
 ter, Grand Lodge, New York. 
 
 Grand Treasurer, Robert B. Folger M.D., 33° Masonic His- 
 torian. 
 
 Grand Master of Ceremonies, Henry C. Atwood, 33°. 
 
 Grand Standard Bearer, William H. Jones, 33° Grand Secre- 
 tary Grand Lodge, Connecticut. 
 
 Grand Captain of the Guard, John S. Darcy M.D., 33° Past 
 Grand Master Grand Lodge, New Jersey. 
 
 In 1852, in consequence of ill health, Grand Commander 
 Jeremy L. Cross determined to remove to his country home in 
 New Hamsphire and in his declining years have that peace so 
 necessary to the comfort of old age. 
 
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 He decided to and did resign his oflSce as Grand Commander 
 whereupon Illustrious Brother Henry C. Atwood was chosen to 
 succeed him and was installed and proclaimed Sovereign Grand 
 Commander by both Past Grand Commander John W. Mulligan 
 33° and Jeremy L. Cross 33° individually and jointly. 
 
 In the year 1849 another diflacnlty sprung up in the Grand 
 Lodge of the State of New York on account of a difference of 
 opinion as to the right of the Grand Lodge to vote that past 
 masters who had always been voting members o£ that Grand 
 Lodge should not thereafter be members or be entitled to a vote at 
 the meetings thereof. Brother Isaac Phillips, Deputy Grand 
 Master, and a large number of Brethren left the Grand Lodge 
 and formed what was familiarly known as the Phillips Grand 
 Lodge which existed until June, 1858, when after a satisfactory 
 adjustment of their differences they returned to their former al- 
 legiance in the Grand Lodge of New York. 
 
 Another schism occurred in 1853 on account of differences of 
 opinion in relation to the election of a Grand Master, growing out 
 of the old Anti-Masonic troubles ; St. John's Grand Lodge was 
 again brought into existence but continued only a few years, when 
 they returned to their allegiance in the Grand Lodge of New York 
 since which time peace and unity has reigned supreme in that 
 Grand Lodge, but while divisions existed in the Grand Lodge 
 Scottish Rite Masonry suffered and was not what it should have 
 been. Meetings of the subordinate bodies, however, were con- 
 tinuously held ; the Supreme Council had always held its annual 
 meetings at the regular time. 
 
 In 1855 Edmund B. Hays became Lieutenant Commander, and 
 Hopkins Tliompson became Grand Keeper of the Seals. 
 
 In September, 1860, Illustrious Brother Henry C. Atwood died 
 at his residence in the State of Connecticut. 
 
 In October, 1860, a meeting of the Supreme Council was held 
 when Illustrious Edmund B. Hays, 33° became Grand Comman- 
 der and Hopkins Thompson, 33° became Lieutenant Grand 
 Commander and at the commencement of the year 1862 the fol- 
 lowing were the officers of the Supreme Council : 
 
 111. Edmund B. Hays, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander. 
 
 111. Hopkins Thompson, 33°, Lieutenant Grand Commander. 
 
 111. Benjamin C. Lkveeidge, 33°, Minister of State. 
 
 111. Daniel Sickels, 33*, Grand Secretary General, H. E. 
 
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 111. Robert E. Robeets, 33°, Grand Treasurer General, H. E. 
 
 III. Henry C. Banks, 33°, Grand Marshal. 
 
 111. Harry J. Seymour, 33°, Grand Master of Ceremonies. 
 
 111. John Innes, 33°, Grand Standard Bearer. 
 
 111. William H. Jaevis, 33°, Grand Captain of the Guard. 
 
 At this time the Supreme Council United States of America, 
 their Territories and Dependencies was the most prosperous Su- 
 preme Council in the world. January l7th, 1862 John W. Mulli- 
 gan died. 
 
 Extracts from the Proceedings of the Supreme Council for the 
 United States of America. 
 
 New York, January 19, 1863. 
 
 The Supreme Grand Council met this day and was opened in 
 tlie usual form by theM. ".P.". Sov.\ Grand Commander, Edmund 
 B. Hays, assisted by 
 
 111. '.Hopkins Thompson, P.'.Lieut. -.Grand Commander, 
 
 Benjamin C. Leveridge, Grand Orator, Minister of State, 
 
 Daniel Sickels, Grand Chancellor, Gr.-.Sec. -.Gen.'.H. ".E. •. 
 
 Robert E. Roberts, Grand Treasurer General, 
 
 Henry C. Banks, Grand Marshal General. 
 
 Harry J. Seymour, Grand Master of Ceremonies, 
 
 John Innes, Grand Standard Bearer. 
 
 The balustre, from September 18, 1861, to December 22, 1862, 
 inclusive, was read and approved. 
 
 The committee on the condition of the A.'.& A. ".Rite, made the 
 following report : 
 
 " The Committee on the Condition of the A. •.and A.-.Eite would most re- 
 speotfuUy beg leave to report, — 
 
 That the party known as the Raymond Body, of Boston, have lately pro- 
 posed, in meir individual capacities and by ofSoial resolution, suggestions 
 looking to the merging in, and association, with, this Supreme Council, bring- 
 ing with them documents, properties and everything appertaining to their or- 
 ganization. 
 
 Your Committee, on invitation, met these gentlemen in social and friendly 
 converse on these important subjects, and were treated in the most cordial 
 and hospitable manner, and have arrived at the conclusion, that the best in- 
 terests of this Supreme Council would be subserved by an immediate solution 
 of the matters in question, which shall be alike just to the original authority 
 of this Supreme Council, and the dignity of the gentlemen with whom the 
 conference has been had. 
 
 Tour Committee therefore recommend that they, or some other Committee, 
 be empowered to act in the premises. 
 
 All of which is most respectfully submilted, 
 
 Edmund B. Hats | r, ..,„„ 
 
 DANIEI.SIOKBI.S [Committee. 
 
 Which was on motion, received, and the recommendation ad- 
 opted, and 111. ".Bro. ".Henry C. Banks added to said Committee, 
 
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 making the Committee to consist of M. -.P. •.Edmund B. Hays, 
 III. '.Daniel Sickels and Henry C. Banks. 
 
 Daniel Sickels, 
 Approved Sept. 2iid, 1863. Gr. -.Sec. -.Gren. ".H. -.B. •. 
 
 New York, April 15, 1863. 
 
 Tiie Supreme Grand Council met this day, and was opened in 
 tlie usual form by the M.-. P. -.Grand Commander, Edmund B. 
 Hays, assisted by 
 
 111. -.Daniel Sickels, Gr.-.Sec.-.Gen.-.H.-.E.-. 
 
 Robert B. Roberts, Grand Treasurer General H. -.B. •- 
 
 Henry C. Banks, Grand Marshal General H. '.E.-. 
 
 John Bnnis, Grand Standard Beai'er. 
 
 The reading of the Balustre of the last session was dispensed 
 with by the M.-. P. .So v. -.Grand Commander. 
 
 The Committee appointed at the last session to act in the pre- 
 mises of negotiating a union with tlie body known as the Su- 
 preme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States 
 made the following report, which was unanimously adopted ; that 
 tliey had conferred with the body before mentioned, and agreed 
 upon the following : 
 
 "Articles of Consolidation." 
 
 "Adopted and consummated by and between the Sup. -.Council 33d and last 
 degree, for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, sitting 
 at Boston, Mass., of the one part, and the Sup.'.Grand Council 33d and 
 last degree, Anc. -.& Ace. -.Scottish Bite for the United States of America, their 
 Territories and Dependencies, sitting at New York, of the other part. 
 
 " Whereas. The same parties, in their individual and sovereign capacities, 
 being mutually desirous of advancing the interests of Masonry within the 
 jurisdiction, and wishing to consolidate the authorities therein under one gov- 
 erning head, have clothed their representatives with full and perfect powers to 
 that end, who, in the name of said parties, have ^reed, consented, provided, 
 and ordained, and do by these presents, agree, consent, provide, and or- 
 dain as follows : 
 
 "1st. The said Sup. •.Councils are, by virtue hereof co?isoMa<e(J under the 
 name of the "Supreme Grand Oouricil, S3d and last degree cf the Anc.:& Ace.: 
 Scottish Bile for the United Stales of America, their Territories and Difpendencies, 
 sitting in New York. 
 
 '"2d. HI.- Sov.-.Gr. -.Ins. -.Gen. -.heretofore created by either of the parties 
 hereto, shall be recognized upon taking the oath of fealty to the Sup. -.G. •. 
 Council for the United States of America, <fec 
 
 "3d. All subordinate bodies hailing under either of the parties hereto are 
 to be duly acknowledged and recognized upon taking the oath of fealty to tiie 
 said Sup. : Council for the United States of America <fec., new warrants may be 
 granted, or the existing ones properly endorsed, as the said bodies respectively 
 may elect. 
 
 "4th All properties, of whatever name, kind and description, belonging to 
 the parties hereto, or either of them, are hereby declared to be vested in the 
 said Sap. : Or. : Council for the United States of America <tc. and will be delivered 
 accordingly to the Gr. -.Sec. .Gen -.thereof. 
 
 * '5th. Until otherwise ordered, the constitutions and general regulations of 
 
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 the second party hereto, are hereby adopted, and declared in full force for the 
 government of the consolidaied body herein provided for." 
 
 "6th. The number of active members of said Council is hereby increased to 
 seventeen,' (creating eight nevf offices) and the officers of the said consolidated 
 Council, ad vitam, shall be as follows : 
 
 Sov.'. Grand Commander Edmund B. Hays 
 
 Sov. -.Assist. -.Grand Commander Edward A. Eaymond 
 
 1st Lieut. -.Grand Commander S. W. Robinson 
 
 2d Lieut. -.Grand Commander H. Thompson 
 
 Grand Orator B. C. Leveridge 
 
 Grand Ministerof State G M. Randall 
 
 Grand Chancellor Lucius E. Page 
 
 Grand Secretary General ; Daniel Siokels ■ 
 
 Grand Treasurer General iiobert E. Roberts 
 
 Grand Marshal General : . , Henry C. Banks 
 
 Grand Sword Bearer Aaron P. Hughes 
 
 1st Grand Master of Ceremonies H. J Seymour 
 
 2ud Grand Master of Ceremonies C. T MoClenachan 
 
 Grand Expert Litroducer : Peter Lawson 
 
 Grand Standard Bearer "John Innis 
 
 ist Captain of Guard Wm. Field 
 
 2nd Captain of Guard Wm. H. Jarvis 
 
 "7th. The emeritus position of Sov. -Asst. -.Gr. -.Commanderis convened on 
 HI. -.Edward A. Raymond in recognition of his long and distinguished services 
 in the Rite.". 
 
 In testimony of all of which, Edward A. Raymond, G. M. Randall and 
 Lucius E. Paige, on behalf of tiie first of said party, and Edmund B. Hays, 
 Daniel Siokels and Henry C. Banks, on behalf of said second party, have here- 
 unto set their hands and seals, interchangeably, for the use and purposes 
 hereinbefore e^xpressed. 
 
 Done at the City of Boston, this seventh day of February, a. d. 1863. 
 
 [Signed, d'c. d"c.] 
 
 Edwaiid a. Raymond. [L. S.] 
 
 Geobge M Randall, [L. S.] 
 
 Lxrcins E. Paige, [L- S. 
 
 Edmund B. Hats, [L. S.^ 
 
 Dahibii Siokels, [L. S." 
 
 Hbney C. Bauks, - [L. S.' 
 
 The following Illuf-trious Brethern were then introduced : 
 Simon W. Robinson, Geo. M. Randall, Aaron P. Hughes, Peter 
 Lawson and William Field. 
 
 TiieM.-.P.-.Sov.- Grand Commander, Edmund B. Hays, then 
 installed the oflacers of the Supreme Council as follows : 
 
 HI.'.Edwaed A, Raymond, Asst, -.Sov. -.G. -.Commander. 
 
 " StMON W. Robinson 1st Lieut. -.G. '.Commander. 
 
 " Hopkins Thompson, 2nd Lieut. -.G. -.Commander. 
 
 " Benjamin C. Leveridge, Grand Orator. 
 
 " George M. Randall, Grand Minister of State. 
 
 " Lucius R. Paige, Grand Ciiancellor. 
 
 " Daniel Siokels, G. -.Sec-General H.-.E.-. 
 
 ' ' Robert E. Roberts, G. -.Treas. -.General H. •. E. -. 
 
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 III.*. Henry C. Ba«ks, Grand Marshal Crenerat. 
 " Aaron P. Hughe?, Grand Sword Bearer. 
 ■' H. J. Seymour, Ist G. -.Master of Ceremonies. 
 " Charles T. McClenachan, 2d G. -.M. -.of Ceremonies. 
 " Peter Lawson, Grand Expert Introducer. 
 " John Innis/ Grand Standard Bearer. 
 " William Field, 1st G. '.Captain of the Guard, 
 " William H. Jarvis, 2nd G. -.Captain of the Guard. 
 111. -.BcQtIier Henry C. Banks, as Grand Orator, then wadfi a 
 brief but eloquent address on the liistory and usefulness of tiie 
 Ancient and Accepted Rite. 
 
 On motion, a committee was then appointed to take into con- 
 sideraticm alterations and amendments to constitution, consisting 
 of 111. -.Bros. -.E. B. Hays, A. P. Hughes, Peter Lawson, Henry 
 C. Banks and Daniel Sickels. 
 
 On motion, the Supreme Council iidjourned until Tliursday the 
 sixteenth instant, at a o'clock p. m. 
 
 Danisl Sicki;ls, G.r.-.Sec.-.Gen.-.H.-.3!i.-. 
 
 It will be seen by the Articles qI' Ct^isojidation that the Ed- 
 ward A- Kayrnond Council went out of existence absolutely ; 
 their members coming under obedience to the Cerneau Hays Su- 
 preme Council under the Cerneau-Hays Constitution of 1862, 
 taking the name Supreme Council United States of America their 
 Territories and Depeiidencies, surreiidering to said Hays Council 
 all t^he^ir properly of wli_atever name, kind and description, each 
 taking oath of fealty to Edmund B. Hays Grand Commander, and 
 the Supreme Council United States ol America their Territories 
 and Dependencies, thus making the absorption of the Raymond 
 Council by the Cerneau-Hays Council complete. 
 
 In 1864 Bro. Kdward A. Raymond died. 
 
 On December 14, 1865, 111. Bio. Edmund B. Hsiys resigned his 
 oflSce as Grand Commander. Bio. Simon W. Robinson, who came 
 in as first Lieutenant Commander with Bro. Edward A. Raymond 
 was elected Grand Commander in place of III. Bro. Edmund li. 
 Hays, resigned. 
 
 He (Bro. Simon W. Robinson) desired to be in fraternal cor- 
 respondence with Bro. Albert Pi^e and the Southern Jurisdiction 
 Council ; Committees had cont'err^d with Bro. Pike on that sub- 
 ject with luit pool' success. He rjefused to accept their overtuies 
 
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 notwithstanding their change of name, October 21, 1865, as they 
 were tlie Hays Council, they liaving abandoned the De La Motta- 
 Gourgas Council in 1863. 
 
 He advised them to resuscitate the defunct De La Molta- 
 Gourgas-llaymond Council. This they decided to do, but a dif- 
 ficulty arose as to how it might be accomplished, and at the same 
 time prevent a continuation of tiie Hays Supreme Council by its 
 older members,' who they well knew would never consent to its 
 abandonment, t'his could only be done by an ingenious decep- 
 tion, and comparatively secret movement. 
 
 On December 13, 1866, Bro. Simon W. Robinson called a 
 meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, not, however, of the consoli- 
 dated Council of which he had been elected Grand Commander 
 one year before, but of the defmict Raymond Council, of which lie 
 had been Lieutenant Commander previous to April 15, 1883, five 
 only of its former members attended. 
 
 By his order six membefs of the Consolidated Council were sub- 
 sequently admitted, and took oath of fealty TO HIM as successor 
 of Bro. Edward A. Raymond. At that meeting so constituted, 
 Bro. Simon W. Robinson declared the Raymond Council resus- 
 citated, and in an unlawful and revolutionary manner declared 
 the Hays Consolidated Supreme Council dissolved and its mein- 
 bers absolved from their oath of fealty to it. 
 
 The only person present, consulted, or participating in the 
 resuscitation of the Raymond Council, December IBth, 1866, who 
 had been an active member of the Hays Supreme Council at the 
 consolidation of 1863, was Bro. Henry C. Banks, notwithstanding 
 each and every such active member was living and well, and, at 
 that time residing within ten miles from the New York City Hall ; 
 all in good standing except Bro. Harry J. Seymour who had pre- 
 viously been lawfully expelled. 
 
 Those who were present wlicn this revolutionary proceeding 
 took place, said in a careless manner, when subsequently spoken 
 to on the subject, that it was all right, and for the best interest 
 of all concerned. That was all that could be learned in relation 
 to it. By advice and importunity of trusted friends, some mem- 
 bers of the old Hays Supreme Council were innocently induced to 
 sign oath of fealty, having been informed it was, and believing it 
 to be, a continuation of the Hays Consolidated Supreme Council. 
 
 Bro. Robinson's ingenious and revolutionai'y action was for a 
 
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 long time kept a secret frojn the world, ami no doubt would have 
 so continued, but on May 17, 1867, they formed a union with ihe 
 Van Uenssalacr Council, some of whose members were anxious to 
 familiarize themselves with the entire histoiy of the Rite, but 
 more particularly from 1860 to 1867. They could not do so, as 
 some of the proceedings had not been printed, and the few that 
 had been were now out of print and could not be obtained. 
 
 In 1872 a committee was appointed, consisting of Bros. Josiah 
 H. Druinmond, Clinton F. Paige and Enoch T. Carson, who col- 
 lated and published said proceedings now familiarly known us 
 the "Reprint." 
 
 They were circulated in 1881, from which the members of the 
 Hays Supreme Council of 1862 first learned that they had affiliated 
 with the De La Motla-Gourgas-Rayraond Council, and that the 
 Consolidated Hays Supreme Council had lain dormant since 
 December 13, 1866. 
 
 111. Bro. Hopkins Tiiompson, who had been Lieutenant Com- 
 mander under 111. Bro. Edmund B. Hays, having learned that 
 the existing Northern Jurisdiction Council, under command of 
 Bro. Henry L. Palmer, was not a continuation of the Hays 
 Supreme Council, as he had always been led to believe it was, 
 conferred with some of the officers of the De La Motta-Gourgas- 
 Rayraond-Palmer Northern Jurisdiction Council, who frankly 
 admitted to him lliat the Hays Supreme Council had been aban- 
 doned and was now dorm;int. 
 
 He at once consulted with the following named 111. Brethren, 
 who were his former associates and members of the Hays Supreme 
 Council previous to the consolidation and absorption of April 13, 
 1863: 
 
 Robert B. Folger, M.D. {';,''r,„"mi'»,"} 
 
 Hopkins Thompson, " " 
 
 Robert E. Roberts, " " 
 
 Wm. H. Jarvis, " " 
 
 Andrew J. Fisher, " " 
 
 Edward W. Atwood, " " 
 
 Eli 1'hompson, " " 
 
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 They exchanged views, and arrived at the conclusion that their 
 oath of fealty to the Hays Supreme Council was binding on all 
 who had assumed it, and at once decided to resuscitate the Hays 
 Supreme Council. They " breathed into it the breath of life and 
 restored all the vital energies with which it was originally in 
 vested," and so announced to the world by printed proclamation 
 on September 21, 1881. 
 
 Since which time the Supreme Council Sovereign Grand In- 
 spectors General of the Thirty-third and last degree of the Ancient 
 and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the United States 
 of America, their Territories and Dependencies, is and has been 
 regular, legitimate, and Masonic, and the peer of any Supreme 
 Council in the world. 
 
 The following named Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General re- 
 ceived the 33° between the dates set opposite their names in 
 the Supreme Council United States of America, their Ter- 
 ritories and Dependencies, organized in 1 807 by Illustrious 
 brother Joseph Cerneau. 
 
 1806. 111. Joseph Ceenbau, 
 
 Merchant, Past Master, Past Junior Grand Warden, Grand Com- 
 mander Supreme Council United States of America, their Territories 
 and Dependencies. 
 
 1807. His Excellency Most Worshipful and Illustrions DbWitt 
 
 Clinton, 
 
 United States Senator, 1808 ; Mayor City of New York, 1803 to 
 1815; Governor State of New York, 1817 to 1820 i Governor State 
 of New York, 1824 to 1827 ; Grand Master of Masons, State of New 
 York, 1806 to 1819 ; Grand High Priest State of New York, 1798 to 
 1801 ; Grand Master and Grand Commander Knights Templar, 
 General Grand High Priest, General Grand Chapter, Boyal Arch 
 Masons, United States of America, from 1816 to the time of his 
 "death, February 11, 1828 ; Illustrious Sovereign Grand Commander 
 of this Supreme Council, from 1823 until his death occurred. 
 
 1807. Illustrious John W. Mulligan, 
 
 Illustrious Sovereign Grand Commander of this Supreme Council 
 from 1821 to 1823 ; Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of 
 New York, in 1820 ; United States Minister to Greece in 1845. 
 1807. Illustrious Maetin Hoffman, 
 
 Deputy Grand Master Grand Lodge of New York, from 1804 to 
 . 1819 ; and its Grand Master from 1823 to 1825. 
 
 1807. Cadwalladee D. Colden, 
 
 Mayor of the City of New York, and Senior Grand Warden of 
 
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 Grand Lodge of New York, from 1801 to 1805, and agmnfrom 1810 
 
 to 1819. 
 1807. Illustrious Elias Hicks, 
 
 Grand Secretary Grand Lodge of New York, from 1817 to 1823 ; 
 
 Grand Commander of this Supreme Gotmcil, from 1828 to 1844, 
 
 when his death occurred. 
 1807 to 1811. Joseph Bouchard. 
 1807 to 1811. J. P. Berard. 
 1807 to 1811. Francis Dubuar. 
 1807 to 1811. Casper W. Eddy. 
 1807 to 1811. Joseph Gouin. 
 1807 to 1811. Charles Guerin. 
 1807 to 1811. Touissant Midy. 
 1807 to 1811. Thomas Lownds, 
 
 Police Justice. 
 1807 to 1811. John B. Pouzolz. 
 1807 to 1811. John B. Provost, 
 
 Recorder New York City from 1800 to 1803. 
 1807 to 1811. Anthony Rainteaux. 
 1807 to 1811. Jacob Scheiffelin, druggist. 
 1807 to 1811. J. R. Subran. 
 1807 to 1811. Jonathan Scheiffelin, druggist. 
 1811. John Bleecker. 
 1811. Charles Clinton. 
 1813. J. Assemonti. 
 1813. John A. Shaw. 
 1815. T. W. Bacot, 
 
 Grand Master Grand Lo^e, South Carolina. 
 1815. George Clinton. 
 1815. Isaac M. Wilson. 
 1815. Jeremy L. Cross, 
 
 Grand Lecturer, and Sovereign Grand Commander, 1851, 
 1815. Peter Javain. 
 1815. Thomas Smith Webb, 
 
 Author, Deputy Grand High Priest. 
 1815 to 1820. Barthelmy Brunetaux. 
 1815 to 1820. A. J. Blaquerst. 
 1815 to 1820. John S. Cogdell. 
 1815 to 1820. Pierre Chaman. 
 1815 to 1820. W. Davis. 
 1815 to 1820. D. D. Desessarts, 
 1815 to 1820. P. Despores. 
 
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 1815 to 1820. P. Duler. 
 
 1815 to 1820. James B. Durand. 
 
 1815 to 1820. J. Dumaine. 
 
 1815 to 1820. Emanuel Gigand. 
 
 1815 to 1820. James Gelston. 
 
 1815 to 1820. J. F. Hurtell. 
 
 1815 to 1820. John Huard. 
 
 1815 to 1820. John B. Le Febre. 
 
 1815 to 1820. J. J. Itter. 
 
 1815 to 1820. Louis Larbourdette. 
 
 1815 to 1820. John A. Lamorous. 
 
 1815 to 1820. Abraham Lott. 
 
 1816.to 1820. Lalung Montrop. 
 
 1815 to 1820. Aaron H. Palmer, 
 
 1815 to 1820. R. Merrill. 
 
 1815 to 1820. Joseph Toirac, 
 
 1820. Thomas Longworth, 
 
 Editoi Longworth's Directory. 
 
 1822. Seth Driggs. 
 
 1822. George Scriba, Jr. 
 
 1824. In 1824, the Marquis, General De Lafayette 
 
 Was made Sovereign Grand Inspector General, 33° and last degree 
 of Freemasonry in this Supreme Council, by. his Excellency Illus- 
 trious DeWitt Clinton, then Grand Commander. 
 
 1824. Alexander 8. Glass, 
 
 1824. William T. Hunter. 
 
 1824. Oliver. M. Lowndes, 
 
 Grand Secretary Grand Lodge of New York, 1826 and 1827 ; Sheriff 
 City of New York, from 1826 to 1829. 
 
 1824. Garrett Morgan. 
 
 1824. Henry Marsh, 
 
 Grand Steward, Grand Lodge of New York. 
 
 1824. Louis Timolat. 
 
 1824. William H. Wetmore. 
 
 1825. Hampton Dunham. 
 1820 to 1825. William H. Ellis, 
 
 Past Grand Master, Connecticut. 
 1820 to 1825. William'H. Jones, 
 
 Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge, State of 'Connecticut. 
 1820 to 1825. Rer. Salem Town, 
 
 Grand Chaplin, Grand Lodge, State of New York ; Grand Chaplia, 
 
 Grand Chapter, State of New York. 
 
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 1820 to 1825. John S. Darcy, M.D., 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Lodge, State of New Jersey. 
 1825. John P. Schisano. 
 1825. David Jewett. 
 1825. Daret Senac. 
 
 1825. Richard S. SpofTord, M.D., 
 
 Senior Grand Warden, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. 
 
 1826. M. N. De La Cadena. 
 1826. Jose Alguetta. 
 
 1826. J. D. Rosha Golvio. 
 
 1827. Henry C. Attwood, 
 
 Sovereign Grand Commander ; 1852 to 1860, Surveyor of the Port 
 
 of New York, under President Tyler. 
 1827. Roberts. Folger, M.D., 
 
 Historian; Grand Secretary - General, H. E., Supreme Council, 
 
 United States of America, their Territories and Dependencies. 
 1827. Orazio de Attelio de Santangelo. 
 1830. W. Wright Hawlies. 
 
 Grand Secretary Supreme Council. 
 1830. James Herring, 
 
 Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of New York. 
 1830. John W. Timson, 
 
 Grand Steward, Grand Lodge of New York. 
 1832. Henry Dupbnt Franlilin, 
 
 Attomey-at-Law ; Representative at HaytL 
 1832. John R. Bailey. 
 1832. David Naar, 
 
 Mayor, City of Elizabeth, New Jersey. 
 1832, T. W. Satterthwaite. 
 1830 to 1836. Alph. Delaflechelle. 
 1830 to 1835. Elisha W. King, 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Lodge of New York, 1826. 
 1830 to 1835. G. de Loynes. 
 1830 to 1835. J. Melam Sussarilli. 
 1830 to 1835. John E. Mitchell. 
 1830 to 1835. LeBlanc de Marconnay. 
 1830 to 1835. Joseph Michard. 
 1830 to 1835. Miguel Cabera de Navares. 
 1830 to 1835. William Phipps. 
 1830 to 1835, P. Remy. 
 1830 to 1885. George Smith. 
 1830 to 1835. John Satterthwaite. 
 
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 1830 to 1835. John Telfair. 
 
 1830 to 1835. Charles S. Tucker. 
 
 1830 to 1835. Aaron Thompson. 
 
 1830 to 1835. Harman C. Westervelt, 
 
 Lawyer ; Alderman, City of New Xork. 
 
 1848. Edmund B. Hays, 
 
 SoTereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council, United States of 
 America, their Territories and Dependencies. 
 
 1849. John B, Ewing. 
 1849. David Cochrane. 
 1849. John Innes. 
 1849. Daniel Sickels, 
 
 Junior Grand Warden, Grand Lodge of New York ; Grand Secretary 
 General, H. E. Supreme Council ; Editor Ahiman Bezon, 
 
 1849. John W. Simons, 
 
 Grand Master Grand Lodge of New Tork ; Grand Treasurer Grand 
 Lodge of New York; Grand High Priest Grand Chapter of New 
 York; Grand Master Knights Templar, United States; Masonic 
 Editor. 
 
 1849. John Vanderbeck, Sr. 
 
 1849. George E. Marshall. 
 
 1849. Thomas Hyatt. 
 
 1850. Wm. H. Jones. 
 
 1849. Athanasius Colo Veloni, 
 
 Grand Lecturer, Grand Lodge of New York. 
 
 1849. Alfred Woodham. 
 
 1850. Elijah H. Purdy. 
 1850. Charles Willets. 
 1850. Charles W. Atwood. 
 1650. Charles G. Waterbury. 
 1850. James G. Kent. 
 
 1852. Andreas Cassard. 
 
 Junior Grand Deacon Grand Lodge of New York. 
 
 1852. William Work. 
 
 1852. Eugene Vatet. 
 
 1852. Edward Unkart. 
 
 1853. Gustav Coutant. 
 1853. Andrew J. Fisher. 
 1853. William H. Jarvis, 
 
 Captain of the Grand Supreme Council, United States of America 
 their Territories and Dependencies, I860 to 1867. 
 1853. George L. Osborne, 
 
 Grand Secretary, General H, E. Supreme Council, United States of 
 America, their Territories and Dependencies. 
 
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 1853. Gilbert M, Piatt, 
 
 Alderman New York City in 1860. 
 1853. Henry Rilliet. 
 1853. Robert E. Roberts, 
 
 Grand Treasurer, General H. E. Supreme CounoU, United States of 
 
 America, their Xenitoiiea and Dependencies. 
 1853. Hopkins Thompson, 
 
 Grand Commander, Supreme Council, United States of America, 
 
 their Territories and Dependencies. 
 1858. Marcus C. Allen. 
 1858. Edward W. Atwood, 
 
 Grand Commander, Supreme Council, United States of America, 
 
 their Territories and Dependencies. 
 1858. John C. Blackman. 
 1858. Cyrus W. Burton. 
 1858. Ward S. Beebe. 
 1858. John W. Clark. 
 1858. William R. Higby. 
 1858. Edward A. Holden. 
 1858. Thomas Hutchens. 
 1858. William Lum. 
 1858. George P. Sanborn. 
 1868. Eli Thompson. 
 1858. David W. Thompson. 
 
 1858. Charles W. Webb. 
 
 1859. William W. Narramore. 
 
 1860. Charles C. J. Beck. 
 
 1860. John A. Lefferts, Merchant, 
 
 Grand Commander of Grand Commandery, Knights Templar of the 
 
 State of New York. 
 ] 860. Clement Ferguson. 
 1860. George P. Hopper. 
 1860. Harry J. Seymour, 
 
 Expelled by the Hays Consolidated Council, December Uth, 1865. 
 1860. James E. L, Wadsworth. 
 1860. Leander Ransom. 
 1860. John W. Tucker. 
 1860. John F. Miller. 
 I860. William Norris. 
 1860. N. W. Leonard. 
 ^1860. Thomas M. Wood. 
 'l861. James C. Bullen. 
 
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 1 861. Henry 0. Banks, Attorney-at-Law, 
 
 District Deputy Grand Master, Grand Lodge, 17ew York. 
 1861. John Cameron. 
 1861. John J. Crane, M.D., 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Lodge, State of New York. 
 1861. William Filmer. 
 1861. James R. Gardner. 
 1861. Stephen H. Harriman. 
 1861. John B. Harris, 
 
 Grand Commander, Supreme Council, United States of America, 
 their Territories and Dependencies. 
 1861. Robert D. Holmes, 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Lodge, State of New York. 
 1861. Joseph J. Jennings. 
 1861. Abraham G. Levy. 
 1861. P. M. Langton. 
 1861. Benjamin C. Leveridge, Attorney-at-law, 
 
 Minister of State Supreme Council, United States of America, their 
 Territories and Dependencies, 1860 to 1863. 
 1861. John C. Mc Arthur. 
 1861. Royal G. Millard, Merchant, 
 
 District Deputy Grand Master, Grand Lodge, State of New York. 
 1861. William Board Newman. 
 1861. Peter W. Neefua. 
 1861. Nehemiah Peck. 
 1861. John Sheville, 
 
 Grand High Priest, Grand Chapter of New Jersey, 1864. 
 
 1861. George Tucker. 
 
 1862. William Armstrong. 
 1862. R. M. Barker. 
 1862. James R. Bugbee. 
 1862. Weare D. Bickford. 
 1862. Elihu C. Baker, 
 
 President Senate State of Massachusetts. 
 
 1862. John F. Currier. 
 
 1862. Thomas Johnson Carson, M.D., 
 
 Senior Grand Warden, Grand Lodge, New Jersey ; Grand Secretary, 
 Grand Lodge, New Jersey ; Grand Commander, Knights Templar, 
 New Jersey. 
 
 1862. Robert L. Davis. 
 1862. George B. Edwards, 
 
 Grand Secretary, Grand Chapter of New Jersey. 
 
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 1862. William Ellison, 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Hassschusstts. 
 
 1862. James E. Emerson. 
 
 1862. John H. Hough. 
 
 1862. A. P. Howell. 
 
 1862. Nicholas Hathaway. 
 
 1862. John D. Jenning . 
 
 1862. Adelmour W. King. 
 
 1862. William F. Knowles. 
 
 1862. Reuben Lighthall. 
 
 1862. John Moon. 
 
 1862. John Monroe. 
 
 1862. ohn P. Nelson. 
 
 1862. W. G. Nicholson. 
 
 1862. Gilbert Nurse. 
 
 1862. Benjamin F. Nurse. 
 
 1862. Jotham Post, M.D. 
 
 1862. Clinton F. Paige. 
 
 Grand Master Grand Lodge, State of New York; Grand Secretary- 
 General, H. E., Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction. 
 
 1862. Robert George Remson. 
 
 1862. Charles A. Rappallo, 
 
 Judge Court of Appeals State, of New York; 
 
 1862. William E. Stagg. 
 1862. R. S. Spoflford, Jr. 
 1862. S. R. Terrell. 
 1862. Horace S. Taylor, banker, 
 
 Grand Master Grand Lodge, State of New York; Grand High Priest, 
 Grand Chapter, State of New York. 
 1862. Reuben S. Van Tassell. 
 1862. Harrison L. Vining. 
 1862. John Tanderbeck, Jr. 
 1862. George F. Woodward. 
 1862. Albion K. P. Welch, 
 
 Grand Master Grand Lodge, State of Massachusetts. 
 
 1862. John Wolverton. 
 
 1863. Alvin B. Alden. 
 
 Grand Master, Grand Lodge, State of Wisconsin ; Grand High 
 Priest, Grand Chapter of Wisconsin, 1863 ; Grand Commander, 
 Knights Templar of Wisconsin, 1866. 
 
 1863. Edwin C. Bailey. 
 
 1863. William B. Blanding. 
 
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 1863. Jared W. Crippen. 
 1863. Thomas A, Doyle, 
 
 Mayor of Providence, Bhode Island ; Grand Master Grand Lodge 
 
 State of Bhode' Island. 
 1863. Edward Eddy, 
 
 Tragedian. 
 1863. Jolin H. Endicott, 
 
 .GrandMaster Grand Lodge, State of Massachusetts. 
 1863. Joseph A. Gilmore, 
 
 Governor State of New Hampshire. 
 1863. Samuel F. Greeley. 
 1863. Edward W. Harrington. 
 1863. Nathaniel Head. 
 1863. John K. Hull. 
 1863. Samuel C. Lawrence, 
 
 Grand Master Grand Lodge, State of Massachusetts; Grand High 
 
 Priest Grand Chapter, State of Massachusetts. 
 1863. John L. Lewis, 
 
 Attorney-at-Law; County Judge; Grand Master Grand Lodge, State 
 
 of New York; Grand High Priest Grand Chapter, State of New 
 
 York; General Grand High Priest General Grand Chapter, of the 
 
 United States of America. 
 
 1863. William J. B. McCleod Moore, 
 Grand Prior of Canada. 
 
 1863. Niciiolas Mickles. 
 
 1863. Henry L. Palmer, 
 
 Governor State of Michigan; Grand Master Grand Lodge, State of 
 Michigan; Grand Commander Supreme CouncU Northern Jurisdic- 
 tion. 
 
 1863. Zenas C. Priest, 
 
 Grand Master Grand Encampment of the State of New York. 
 
 1863. General J. H. Robert Ward. 
 
 1863. Orrin Welch, 
 
 Grand Commander Knights Templar, State of New York; District 
 Deputy Grand Master Grand Lodge, New York. "^ 
 
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 NORTHERN JURISDICTIOJST. 
 
 Tlie Supreme Gouacil Northern Jurisdiction (so-called) has 
 been an unlawful body since tlie first act of its existence or 
 organization, and at each change of its character, with one 
 exception, i.e., the consolidation, in 1863, with tlie Supreme 
 Council of the United States of America, their TerritQ.ries and 
 Dependencies, it has continued to be and act, unlawfully and as a 
 usurper, up to the present moment. 
 
 It came into existence by tlie unlawful act of Emanuel De La 
 Motta in 1814. ■ 
 
 On the 28th of March, 1860, Brother Albert Pike said : "Illus- 
 trious Brotlier De La Motta was induced, in 1814, to violate the 
 Constitution of 1786, and organize a Supreme Council in New 
 York." 
 
 De La Motta had not, and did not claim to have liad, any 
 power or authority from the Supreme governing body of which 
 he was a member, at Charleston, South Carolina, empowering 
 him to do any act as a Sovereign Grand Inspector-General ; the 
 subsequent act of tlie Supreme Couiicil at Charleston, in confirm- 
 ing the unlawful act of De La Motta, in 1814, by proclamation 
 in 1816, shows this very clearly ; in fact, De La Motta disclaimed 
 coming to New York on ANY Masonic business, but says he came 
 
 search of healtii, and learned lor the first time, after his arrival 
 there, that Illustrious Brother Cerneau and those associated with 
 him had organized a Supreme Governing Body in New York. 
 
 Brother John Mitchell, Predeffck Dalcho, Isaac Auld, Emanuel 
 De La Motta, and those associated with them, sm-rendered all 
 their individual power and authority as Sovereign Grand Inspec- 
 tors-General to confer degrees or organize bodies without first 
 getting the consent of the supreme governing body, tlie moment 
 they had completed its organization at Charleston, South Caro- 
 lina, and as De La Motta had no special authority to do any act 
 in New York from the supreme governing body at Charleston, his 
 every act of conferring degrees or organizing bodies was unlaw- 
 ful, irregular, null and void, and of no force or effect whatever. 
 He had no more right, power, or authority to confer degrees, or 
 establish bodies of the higher degrees at that time in New York 
 than would any member of the Northern or Southern Jurisdiction 
 have now to confer the 33°, or any degree, or establish bodies in 
 
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 any part of, the United States, without first liaviiig obtained 
 special power from the Supreme Council to do so. 
 
 Brother John James Joseph Qourgas was initiated an entered 
 apprentice in Lodge La Union Prancaise, New York, June 19th, 
 1806, and was raised a Master Mason in 1808, and withdrew from 
 his lodge in 1808. 
 
 Brother Gourga^ was made a Sovereign Inspector-General 
 unlawfully by Emanuel -De La Motta in 1813, in the City of New 
 York. 
 
 On the first day of May, 1814, Emanuel De La Motta invited 
 Brother Sampson Simpson and J. J. J. Gourgas to meet him • 
 they. did so ; he ijUfornied them that " he had taken the resolution 
 ofestablishingtiie second grand -and Supreme Council 3^d degree,'' 
 and in consequence thereof made both Sovereign Grand Jn^pec- 
 tors-General. They three formed a provisional Supreme Council 
 and inU'oduced separaj^^ly Daniel D. Tompkins, (?j B,ichard Rrkor, 
 John G. Tardy, and Moses Levi Maduro Peixolto, and mad« eacli 
 of them a Sovereign Grand Inspector-Get(eral pf the 33d degree, 
 and ^irganized a Suprenie Council \)y IJmanuel De La Motta 
 appointing yie Ibliowing brethren to Uie office set opposite his 
 nai^ie : 
 
 Daniel D. Toi^npkii.is, Grand Conimander. 
 
 Sampson Simpson, Lieutenant Commander. 
 
 Jo^n G. Tardy, Grand 'LVeaaurer-General. H. E. 
 
 J. J. J. Gourgas, 'Gi'^ndSecretary-Geueral, H. E. 
 
 Richard Riker, Gran^AIa^ter-of ^Ceretnofties. 
 
 Moses L. M. Peixotto, Grand Captain of the Guard. 
 
 'flie proceedings of this meeting was signed by all tlie oflBcers 
 ea^cept Brother Daniel D. Tompkins yho, it is said, was not 
 present, nor did he ever attend a meeting of that body. 
 
 The next meeting was reported as held thirty years after\vards, 
 on tlie fifteenth day of June, 1844, and was atteipded by Brother 
 J. J. J. Gourgas and Giles Fonda Yates only. 
 
 Betjyecn tlie meeting at whicii they organized and June, 1844, 
 while it appears that no meetings were held, the following bieth- 
 rcn were made Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General 33d degree 
 at the date set opposite theii' names : 
 
 Brother Jacob De La Motta June 24lh, 1814. 
 
 " Cornelius Bogarl June 20th, 1815. 
 
 " Augustus Gartan Campagne . .November 14th, 1826. 
 
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 Brother John L. Lawrence December 13tli, 1826. 
 
 " William James Macneven December IStli, 1826. 
 
 Giles Fonda 
 
 Yates f October 24th, 1825. 
 
 (July 5th, 1828. 
 
 It does not appear that either of them ever took an active 
 interest, except Giles Fonda Yates. 
 
 Tiie next meeting was heUr September Titii, 1844, G-ourgas and 
 Yates alone being present, 
 
 The next meeting, October Isl, 1844, Gourgas an<I Yates alone 
 being present. 
 
 Tiie next meeting was lieM November 13t.h, 1844, by Gourgas 
 and Yates. At this meeting Edward A. Raymond, lleuel Baker, 
 and Charles W. Moore, ol Boston, were made Sovereign Grand 
 Inspectors-General 33d degree. 
 
 Meetings were iicld December 9tii, 1844, and December 2Tth, 
 1844, to each of wliicli all five names are printed, but they were 
 iield by Gourgas and Yate.-^ as heretofore. 
 
 In 1845, they made Joiin Christie, Killian H. Van Kensselear, 
 and Archibald Bull, Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General. On 
 Sept. 4th, 1851, they made one additional, A. B. Young, making 
 in all nine Sovereign Grand Inspectors-Generai who were taking 
 an active part. 
 
 On August 25tli, 1851, J. J. J. G)urg.is resigned as Grand 
 Commander. He appointed. Giles Fonda Yates his successor. 
 In tun days afterward; September 4th, 1851, Brother Giles Fonda 
 Yates resigned, and Edward A. Raymond was appointed by 
 Yates as his successor. 
 
 In 1857, one Sovereign Grand Inspector-General, Charles R. 
 Starkweather, was admitted. In June, 1860, another Sovereign 
 Grand Inspector-General, Peter Lawson, was admitted. 
 
 On August 24th, 1860, Brother Edward A. Raymond opened 
 tiie Supreme Council, and after the minutes of the proceedings of 
 ■the day before had been read, he abruptly closed the Supreme 
 Council, sine die. In consequence of this and other arbitrary 
 acts the famous split took place, and — 
 
 On the 25th of August, 1860, the Van Renssalaer body was 
 organized ; they subsequently taking the name Supreme Council 
 'Nortiierii Masonic Jurisdiction, thus making two bodies of that 
 na'n(\ 
 
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 December 15tli, 1860, Charles T. McClenachan received the 33d 
 degree. 
 
 lu 1862, the Van Renssalaer Council did by vote expel Edward 
 A. Raymond and Simon W. Robinson, William Field, Peter Law- 
 son, G-eorgo M. Randall, Charles S. Westcott and John A. Foster, 
 ' ' I'rom all the rights and privileges which heretofore have apper- 
 tained to them as Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General of the 
 thirty-third and last degree, and that their powers as such be and 
 are hereby rescinded and annulled ; and, furthermore, that they 
 be and are hereby expelled from all the rights and privileges of 
 tiie ancient and accepted Rite.' Edward A. Raymond died while 
 under said expulsion. 
 
 A meeting of the Raymond Council was held at Boston, January 
 9lli, 1861, at whicli William Field received the 33d degree. 
 
 March 20th, 1861, Simon W. Robinson was appointed Lieuten- 
 aiit. Grand Commander. 
 
 January 22nd, 1862, the Supreme Council assembled at 10 
 o'clock A.M. in tlie city of Boston, the following being present : 
 
 .M. -.P. -.Edward A. Raymond, Sovereign Grand Comander. 
 
 P. -.Simon W. Robinson, Lieut. -.Grand Commander. 
 
 III. ".Peter Lawson, Grand Treasurer-General H. '.E.-. 
 
 111. -.Lucius R. Paige, D.D., Grand Secretary-General H--.E.'. 
 
 111. -.George M. Randall, D.D., Grand Minister of State. 
 
 111. -.William Field, Grand Captain of L. -.G. •. 
 
 111. -.Aaron P. Hugiies, S.-.G.-. I. •-&.-. Deputy for New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Tiie special subject assigned for consideration at this meeting 
 was taken up, and the following charges against 111. -.K. H. Van 
 Rensselaer, together with the summons and certificate, were read 
 by the Grand Secretary-General : 
 
 " To the Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors 
 General of the thirty-third degree for the Norlliern Jurisdiction 
 of North America. 
 
 The undersigned prays that your Illustrious Body will investi- 
 guiethe following charges against Killian H. Van Rensselaer, 
 33°, and tliat such action may be taken in regard to the same as 
 m:iy seem proper. 
 
 CHARGES. 
 
 :;^rst. — That 4^illian H. Van Rensselaer has attempted to de- 
 stroy the Supreme Council, and to establish a spnrious and clan- 
 
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 destine Supreme Council, arrogating to itself the name and 
 powers of tliis Supreme Council. 
 
 Second. — That he lias assumed the name and attempted to 
 exercise the powers and functions of Lieutenant Grand Com- 
 mander ol the H. •.£.-. 
 
 Third. — Tliat he has presided over the said spurious Supreme 
 Council, pretending to assume the powers of this Supreme 
 Council. 
 
 Fourth. — That, wuile presiding ovei- said spurious Council, he 
 has assisted in creating sovereign grand inspectors-general 33°, 
 in an unlawlul and unconstitutional manner. 
 
 Fifth. — Tliat wiiile presiding in said spurious Council, he lias, 
 in a most unconstitutional, insolent and outrageous manner, pre- 
 sumed to try and depose the Soyereign Grand Commander of this 
 Supreme Council, and the Grand Treasurer-General of the 
 H. -.B. ■., and proceeded to fill their places. 
 
 Sixth. — That he iias granted dispensations to Inefiable Bodies, 
 empowering them to work, in a clandestine manner, tliereliy 
 assuming the powers of the Sovereign Grand Commander. 
 
 Seventh. — That lie has caused to be published, and has cir- 
 culated, the Proceedings oi such spurious Council, declaring it to 
 be the Supreme Grand Council of this Jurisdiction. 
 
 Eighth. — Tiiat after his removal from tiie position of Deputy of 
 Ohio, he has continued to exercise all his former powers. 
 
 Ninth. — That he has received the sum of five hundred and 
 twenty-five dollars from 111. Bro. Lawson, employing him, as his 
 agent, to pur(;hase certain books, papers and pamphlets, from 
 111. Bro. J. -.J. •.J.-.Gourgas, Most Puissant Past Grand Com- 
 mander ; that he purchased said papers and documents from 
 111. Bro. Gouigas, but that he lias relused to deliver up. to Bro. 
 LawsoM said papers and documents, and has fraudulently appro- 
 priated them to ills own use and possession. 
 
 Tenth. — That he lias collecteil money from Inetfable Masons 
 and Ineffable Masonic Bodies as Deputy, which money he has 
 appropriated to his own use, and has never made return of the 
 same to this Supreme Council. 
 
 Eleventh.— Th&t he has used his OfiBcial position as a means of 
 raising and ol)taining money for his own use, to the great scandal 
 of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in this Jurisdiction. 
 
 Twelfth — 'I'hat his character has always been bad and dis- 
 reputable ; and that it was by the concealment ol'such character 
 that he was enabled to obtain the Ineffuble degrees. 
 
 John A. Foster. 
 Kt. .R.-.C.-., K-D-H., S.-.P.-.R.-.t^.' 
 
 New York, July 11th, 1861. 
 
 "On motion of the P. -.Lieut. -.Grand Commander, the lollowing 
 preamble and decree were unanimously adopted, the same form 
 in voting being observed : 
 
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 Whereas, 111. K. H. Van Hensselaer, of Cambridge, Ohio, has 
 been adjudged guilty of tlie several offenses set forth in the first, 
 second, third, fourth, flflh, sixth, seventh and ninth charges 
 presented by 111. John A. Foster, it is therefore unanimously 
 
 Resolved and Decreed, That said K. H. Van Rensselaer be and 
 he is hereby expelled from all ihe rights and privileges of the 
 A.-, and A.*. Rite. 
 
 The following charges against 111. Cliarles W. Moore, together 
 witii the summons and certificate, were I'ead by the Gi'and 
 Secretary General : 
 
 To the Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors 
 General 33°, Ancient and Accepted Rite, for the Northern 
 Jurisdiction of the United States. 
 I do hereby prefer charges against Bro. Charles W. Moore, a 
 
 Sovereign Grand Inspector General ;i3'', and pray that tiie same 
 
 may be investigated, and he he dealt witli as required by our 
 
 Ancient Constitution and Regulations. 
 
 CHARGES. 
 
 First. — Said Charles W. Moore did conspire with Killian II. 
 Van Rensselaer (a Deputy Grand Inspector General), and with 
 others, to organize toestal)lish a spurious and clandestine Body, 
 which called itself the Supreme Grand Council for the Northern 
 Masonic Jurisdiction ol tlie United States of America. 
 
 Second — That said Cliarles W. Moore did conspire with said 
 Van Rensselaer and others to elect Officers of their said spurious 
 Body, and claimed tliat such Officers were the Officers of the Con- 
 stitutional Supreme Grand Council. 
 
 Third — That said Cliarles W. Moore did conspire with said 
 Van Rensselaer and others, to publish two documents purporting 
 to be the Proceedings of the Supreme Grand Council for the 
 Northern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, when they 
 were in fact the Proceedings of said clandestine and spurious 
 Body. 
 
 Fourth. — That said Charles W. Moore did conspire with said 
 Van Rensselaer and others to use, and did use, the Seal of the 
 Supreme Grand Council (surreptitiously in their possession), upon 
 documents emaudiiiig from said spurious and clandestine Body. 
 
 fifth. — That said Charles W. Moore, with said Killian H. Van 
 llensselair and others, did in a clandestine and unlawful manner, 
 confer the degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General on 
 various persons, namely, A. B. Thompson, W. S. Gardner, 
 Winslow Lewis, N. H. Gould, A. E. Stocker, H. A. Johnson, 
 George W. Deering, and William Parkman, as in the printed 
 Proceedings of said spurious Body is more fully set forth. 
 
 Sixth. — That Charles W. Moore, conspiring with said Van 
 Rensselaer and others, did uidawfully and illegally detain and 
 
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 appropriate to the use of said spurious Body, certain documents 
 and archives which are in fact the property ol the Supreme Grand 
 Council. 
 
 Sevent?i.— That in all tlie aforesaid acts the said Charles W. 
 Moore has violated his obligations as a Sovereign Grand Inspector 
 General. 
 
 John A. Foster, Sov.-.Gr.'.Ins..-.Gen.-.33°, 
 Deputy for the State of New Jersey. " 
 New York, Nov. 20th, 1861. 
 
 "On motion of P. -.Lieut. -.Grand Commander, the following 
 preamble and decree were unanimously adopted, the same form 
 in voting being observed : 
 
 Wiiereas, 111. -.Charles W. Moore, of Boston, has been adjudged 
 guilty of the several offences set foi-th in the charges presented by 
 III. -.John A. Foster, it is therefore unanimously 
 
 Resolved and Decreed, That said Charles W. Moore, be and he 
 is hereby, expelled Ironi all the rights and privileges of the 
 Ancient and AcccptPd Rite. 
 
 Resolved and Decreed, 'riuit a circular, under the Seal of this 
 Supreme Grand Council, and attested by the signatures of its 
 Officers, be (orwarded to all sister Supreme Grand Councils over 
 the surface of tiie two Hemispheres, and to the Subordinate Bodies 
 under tiiis Jurisdiction. 
 
 July 31st, 1862. 
 
 The Supreme Grand Council assembled this day, at Ten o'clock 
 A.M., in the Grand Cotincil Ciiamber, at the Winthrop House, 
 Boston, according to adjournment and according to special notice 
 issued by order of the M. -.P. -.Sov.'.Grand Commander. 
 
 Present : 
 
 M. -.P.-. Edward A. Raymond, Sov. Grand Commander, ad 
 vilam. 
 
 P. -.Simon W. Robinson, Lieut. Grand Commander. 
 
 III. -.Peter La wson, Grand Treasurer General H. --E. -. 
 
 111. '.Lucius R. Paige, D.D. Grand Secretary General H. -.E. -. 
 
 III. -.George M. Randall, D.D. Grand Minister of State. 
 
 III. -.William Field, Grand Captain L.-.G.-. 
 
 The Supreme Grand Council was opened in ample form, the 
 M.-.P.-. Sov. -.Grand Commander presiding. 
 
 The special subject assigned for action at this meeting was 
 
 taken up, and the following charges, summons and certificate 
 
 thereon were read by the Grand Secretary General : 
 
 To the Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign G-rand Inspectors 
 
 General of the thirty thii'd and last degree of the Ancient 
 
 and Accepted Rite for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United 
 
 States of America. 
 
 I hereby prefer charges against the following named Inspectors 
 
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 General to wit: 111. -.Cliarles R. Starkweatliev, of Chicago, III., 
 111.-. John Christie, of Portsmouth, N.H., and 111. -.Albert Case, 
 of Boston, Mass., and pray tiuit said charges may be investigated 
 and such action be had thereon as justice and our ancient regu- 
 lations may require. 
 
 CHARGES, 
 
 First.— Tlmt the said Charles H. Starkweather, John Christie, 
 and Albert Case, in August 1860, did conspire with Killian H. 
 Van Rensselaer and Charles W. Moore, to organize a spurious 
 and clandestine body, styled a Supreme Grand Council, which 
 usurped the name and pretended to exercise the powers of tliis 
 Supreme Grand Council. 
 
 Second. — That the said Starkweather, Christie, and Case, in 
 May 1861, did conspire with said Van Rensselaer and Moore io 
 elect oflScers of said spurious council, and in an illegal and clan- 
 destine manner, to confer the thirty-third degree on Winslow 
 Lewis, "William S. Gardner, William Parkman and otiiers — eight 
 persons in all — as in their printed proceedings is fully set forth. 
 
 Third. — That the said Starkweather, Christie, and Case, in 
 May, 1862, did conspire with said Van Rensselaer, Moore and 
 others, (said Van Rensselaer and Moore having been previously 
 expelled by this Supreme Grand Council), and did elect the said 
 Van Rensslaer and Moore, with others, as officers of said spurious 
 council, and in an illegal and clandestine manner, did confer the 
 thirty-third degree on Josiah H. Drummojd, P. G. Tisdall, Ben- 
 jamin Dean and others — fourteen persons in all — as is fully set 
 forth in their printed proceedings. 
 
 Fourth. — That the said Starkweather, Christie, and Case, not- 
 withstanding the forbearance of this Supreme Grand Council, still 
 persist in their disloyalty and rebellion, and still -adhere to the 
 said spurious council and hold oflBce therein. 
 
 Boston, July 18th, 1862. S. W. ROBINSON. 
 
 The three following preambles and decrees were unanimously 
 adopted in the Ancient form : 
 
 Whereas, 111. Charles R. Starkweather, of Chicago, 111., has 
 been adjudged guilty of the several offenses set forth in the 
 charges presented by P. -.Simon W. Robinson, it is therefore un- 
 animously 
 
 Resolved and Decreed, Tliatthe said Charles R. Starkweather 
 be, and he is hereby expelled from all the rights and privileges of 
 the Ancient and Accepted Rite. 
 
 Whereas, 111. .John Christie, of Portsmouth, N. H., has been 
 adjudged guilty of the several offenses set forth in the charges 
 presented by 111. "and P.-. Simon W. Robinson, it is therefore un- 
 animously 
 
 Resolved and Decreed, That the said John Christie be, and he 
 
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 is hereby expelled from all the rights and privileges of the An- 
 cient and Accepted Rite. 
 
 WJiereas, III.-. Albert Caseof Boston, Mas.s., has been adjudged 
 guilty of the several offenses set fortli in the charges presented by 
 111. -.and P. -.Simon W. Robinson, it is hereby unanimously 
 
 Resolved and Decreed, That the said Albert Case be, and he is 
 hereby expelled Crom all the rights and privileges of the Ancient 
 and accepted Rite. 
 
 January 28th, 1863. 
 The Supreme Grand Council assembled this diiy, January 28t.h, 
 1863, at ten o'clock a. m., in the Grand Council Chamber, at the 
 Winthrop House, Boston, by order of the M. -.P. -.So v. -.Grand 
 Commander. 
 
 Present : 
 M.-. P. -.Edward A. Raymond, Sov.'.G.-. Commander ad vitam. 
 III. -.Peter Lawson, Grand Treasurer General H.-.E.-. 
 " Lucius R. Paige D. D., Gr. -.Sec. -.General H.-.E.-. 
 " George M. Randall D. D., Grand Minister of State. 
 " Aaron P. Hughes, Grand Marshall. 
 Also present 
 111. -.Gardner Greeiileaf, S.-.G.-.I. -.G.-. 
 " Abraham A. Dame, S.-.G.-.I.'.G.-. 
 
 Whereas, The Illustrious Body, styled the Supreme Grand 
 Council for the United States, their Territories and Dependencies 
 has expressed a disposition to unite with this Supreme Grand 
 Council in one consolidate body, and has appointed a Committee 
 with full powerfor that purpose. 
 
 Decreed, That the Committee heretofore appointed, namely: 
 M,-.P. -.Edward A. Raymond Esq,. III. .Lucius R. Paige D. D. , 
 and 111. -.George M. Randall D. D. be now fully empowered to 
 agree upon the terms of such a union, on a basis which shall be 
 just and right, honorable to both the Illustrious contracting Bodies, 
 and according to the spirit and landmarks of Ineffable Masonry. 
 
 Emergent Session, February, 1863. 
 
 February I8tli, 1863. 
 The Supreme Grand Council assembled this day Wednesday, 
 February I8th, 1863, at ten o'clock A. M. in the Grand Council 
 Chamber, at the Winthrop House, Boston, by order of the M.-. 
 P. -.Sov.-. Grand Commander. 
 Present : 
 M. -.P. -.Edward A. Raymond, Sov. .Gr. -.Commander advltam. 
 P. -.Simon W. Robinson, Lieut. -.Grand Commander. 
 III. -.Peter Lawson, Grand Treasurer General H.-.E.-. 
 " Lucius R. Paige, D.D. Gr. -.Sec. -.General, H.-.E. . 
 " William Field, Grand Captain, L. -.G.-. 
 " Aaron P. Hughes, Grand Marshal. 
 
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 The Supreme Grand Council was opened in ample form, the 
 M. '.P. '.Sov. -.Grand Commander presiding. 
 
 The Committee appointed on the second day of April, A.D., 
 1862, and fully empowered on the twenty-eighth day of January 
 A. D., 1863, reported that they had attended to the duty assigned 
 to them, and negotiated and signed and sealed a Treaty of Union, 
 of which the following is a copy to wit : 
 
 Articles of Consolidation whicii were subsequently ratified 
 April 15th, 1863. 
 
 After the transaction of sundry matters, rendered necessary by 
 the approaching change in its organization, so that all of its 
 Masonic duties may be fully performed, and after mutual con- 
 gratulations upon the successful issue of efforts to iieal a divi- 
 sion which has existed for the last half century, and to unite the 
 two Bodies into one Supreme Grand Council, upon just and honor- 
 able terms, the businessof the meeting having been accomplished, 
 the M.-.P.-.Sov. -.Grand Commnnder pronounced the Supreme 
 CouncU closed sine die. 
 
 Deus Meumque Jus. 
 Attest: Lucius R. Paige, 
 
 Gr.-.Sec-.Gen.-.H.-.E.-. 
 
 The consolidation was consummated April 15th, 1863, and the 
 Consolidated Supreme Council was a complete success. 
 
 Brother Simon W. Eobinson subsequently became its Grand 
 Commander, in consequence of the. resignation of Illustrious 
 Brother Edmund B. Hays, December ]4th, 1865, and one year 
 thereafter he did, in a revolutionary manner, withdraw from the 
 Articles of Consolidation of 1863, and revive, resuscitate the 
 Raymond Council (December 13th, 1886), as heretofore explained. 
 
 Within six months thereafter, the resuscitated Raymond Coun- 
 cil united with the clandestine Van Rensselaer body under articles 
 of agreement, and consummated said union on May l7th, 1867, thus 
 creating the present Northern Jurisdiction Council, with Brother 
 Josiah H. Drummond as Grand Commander, who held that office 
 until 1879, whenthepresentincumbent,BrotherHenryL. Palmer, 
 became Grand Commander. 
 
 Emanuel De La Motta's unlawful creation and the subsequent 
 attempt to force the so-called 1786 Constitution of Frederick the 
 Second, of Prussia, has kept the Masons of the higher degrees 
 in constant turmoil for over seventy years. 
 
 Those who became the Simon W. Robinson party in 1866, 
 having the fear of Albert Pike before their eyes, notwithstanding 
 
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 their discontent, submitted to the 1786 Constitution with all its 
 attendant evils. 
 
 " Not CONSENTING ; they consented." 
 
 Raymond-Qourgas Council. 
 
 Tlie following are the names of members Supreme Council 
 
 Northern Jurisdiction from its institution in 1814, until its 
 
 absorption by the Cerneau Hays Supreme Council on April 1 5th, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Emanuel De La Motta, at Charleston, S.C, June 15tli, 1801. 
 
 Daniel D. Tompkins May 1st, 1814. 
 
 Sampson Simpson " 
 
 John James Joseph Gourgas " 
 
 Richard Riker " 
 
 John Gabriel Tardy : " 
 
 Moses Levi Maduro Peixotto " 
 
 Jacob De La Motta 24th June, 1814. 
 
 Cornelius Bogert 20th June, 1815. 
 
 August Gaetan Carapagne 14th November, 1826. 
 
 John L. Lawrence December 13th, 1826. 
 
 William James Macneven " 
 
 G. F. Yates ^9T\l': ^±'o ^^^^■ 
 
 (July 5th, 1828. 
 
 Reuel Baker Nov. 13th, 1844. 
 
 Edward A. Raymond " 
 
 Charles W. Moore " 
 
 John Christie April 3rd, 1845. 
 
 K. H. Van Rensselaer June ITth, 1845. 
 
 Archibald Bull June 20th, 1845. 
 
 A.B.Young September 4th, 1851. 
 
 Charles R. Starkweather May 15th, 1857. 
 
 Charles T. McClenachan .December 15th, 1860. 
 
 William Field January 9th, 1861. 
 
 Lucius R. Paige, D.D March 20th, 1861. 
 
 George M. Randall. D.D May lOlh, 1861. 
 
 Aaron P. Hughes July 12th, 1861. 
 
 John A. Foster ; August 30th, 1861. 
 
 Charles S. Westcott November 19th, 1861. 
 
 Timothy Bigelow Lawrence July 18th, 1862. 
 
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 Gardner Greenleaf .January 6th, 1863, 
 
 Abraham A. Dame " 
 
 Wyseman Marshall " 
 
 Albert H. Kelsey 
 
 George W. Bentley January 28th, 1863. 
 
 Van Rensselaer Council. 
 
 The following named Brethren received the 33d degree from 
 the clandestine Van Eensselaer body from 1860 to 1867: 
 
 Enoch T. Carson August 25th, 1860. 
 
 Anthony E.Stocker May 16th, 1861. 
 
 N. H. Gould 
 
 William S. Gardner 
 
 William Parkman 
 
 Winslow Lewis 
 
 A. B. Thompson 
 
 H. A. Johnson 
 
 Geo. W. Deering 
 
 Josiah H. Drummond May 21st, 1 862. 
 
 Charles A. Davis 
 
 David B. Tracey 
 
 N. A. Thompson 
 
 F. G. Tisdall 
 
 John McLellan 
 
 Joseph D. Evans 
 
 William Sutton 
 
 Nath. B. Shurtleff '. 
 
 William P. Preble 
 
 Edward P. Burnham May 22nd, 1862. 
 
 Theodore Eoss 
 
 Charles Doe 
 
 Joel Spalding 
 
 Benj. Dean 
 
 Heman Ely 
 
 Robert H. Foss 
 
 Eobert B. Hall May 22nd, 1863. 
 
 Jos. H. Hough 
 
 Jonathan Tyler Spalding 
 
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 F. A. Blades May 22nd, 1863. 
 
 J. M. Arnold " 
 
 Charles Levi Woodbury 
 
 Francis Darrow " 
 
 Charles Chase Dame " 
 
 Rufus Wharton Landon " 
 
 Moses Dodge " 
 
 Charles L. Church " 
 
 Charles Bingley Hall " 
 
 Samuel Knox Hutchinson " 
 
 Marshall Pinckney Wilder " 
 
 Wendell Thornton Davis " 
 
 Herman Gansevoort Reynolds May 18th, 1865. 
 
 Vincent Lumbard Hurlbut " 
 
 Gilbert Richard Smith 
 
 William Harbron Turner " 
 
 Marquis Fayette King 
 
 William Corbin " 
 
 John Darius Dennis " 
 
 John Hatch George " 
 
 Albert Ruyter Hatch " 
 
 Silas Chipman Newton " 
 
 William Francis Salmon " 
 
 Homer Stanley Goodwin " 
 
 Charles Henry Titus " 
 
 Joseph Curren Butler " 
 
 Joseph Kellogg Wheeler " 
 
 Alexander McCandless Pollock " 
 
 John Edwin Bell " 
 
 Charles Brown " 
 
 Joseph Addison Montgomery " 
 
 Henry Lester Parker " 
 
 Charles William Carter : " 
 
 William Wilson Baker May 19th, 1865. 
 
 Alfred Creigh 
 
 Edmund Dana Bancroft " 
 
 James Washington Hess " 
 
 William Henry Gale " 
 
 William Adam Richardson May 20th, 1 865. 
 
 William Moore Cunningham " 
 
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 Edward Stearns May 20th, 1865. 
 
 George Warren Pettee May 16tli, 1 866. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Patriclr ." " 
 
 Otis Henry Tiffany 
 
 Henry Collings Eanney " 
 
 James Eastman Johnson , " 
 
 Edwin Augustine Davis May 18th, 1866. 
 
 George Hoadiey ' ' 
 
 Enoch Bunlcer Stevens " 
 
 William Power Innes " 
 
 John Caven May 19th, 1866. 
 
 Charles Eugene Meyer " 
 
 Jolui Vallerchamp '• 
 
 Isaac Whittier , 
 
 Otis Cole " 
 
 Frederick Henry Dorr September 28th, 1866. 
 
 Charles Hiram Putnam May 17th, 1867. 
 
 James Van Zandt Blaney " 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 A COPY OP THE POWER OR PATENT OF 
 STEPHEN MORIN, 
 
 T. -.T. -.G. -.0. -.T. -.a. -.A. -.0. -.T. -.U. •. 
 
 And in accordance with the mil and pleasure of his Most Sovereign Highness, 
 • Dlnstrious Brother Louis of Bourbon, Count of Clermont, Prince of the 
 Blood, Grand Master and Protector of the Lodges. 
 
 At the Bast, in a place well lighted, and where dwell Peace, Silence, Concord, 
 Anno Lucis, 5761, and according to the Christian Era, August 27th, 
 1761. 
 
 Lux EX TEHtEBSlS, TEBITAS, CONCOBDIA rBATKXJM. 
 
 We, the undersigned, Substitutes General of the Eoyal Art, Grand Wardens 
 and Officers of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John, established at the 
 Grand East, of Paris. 
 
 And we. Sovereign Grand Master of the Grand Council of the Lodges of 
 France, under the Protection of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, under the sacred 
 and mysterious numbers, do hereby declare, certify and ordain to all Brethren 
 Knights and Princes, spread throughout both Hemispheres, that having 
 assembled by order of the Deputy General, President of the Grand Council, a 
 request to us communicated was read at our sitting. 
 
 That our dear Brother Stephen Morin, Grand Elect, Perfect, formerly Sub- 
 lime Master, Prince Mason, Knight, and Sublime Prince of all the Orders of 
 the Masonry of Perfection, Member of the Trinity Koyal Lodge, etc., being 
 about to leave for America, and wishing to be enabled to work regularly to the 
 advantage and improvement of the Boyal Art in aU its perfection, may it 
 
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 please the Sovereign Grand Council and the Grand Lodge to grant him Letters 
 Patent for Constitution, 
 
 A report having been made to us, and being acquainted ■with the eminent 
 qualities of Brother Stephen Morin, we have, without hesitation, granted this 
 satisfaction, for the services which he has always rendered to the Order, and 
 the continuation of which is to us guaranteed by his zeal. 
 
 'Wherefore, and for other good reasons, after approving and confirming dear 
 Brother Morin in his designs, and wishing to give him testimonies of our 
 gratitude, we have unanimously constituted and instituted him, and by these 
 presents do constitute and institute him, and we do give him full power and 
 authority to said Brother Stephen Morin, the signature of whom stands in the 
 margin of these presents, to form and establish a Lodge for the purpose of 
 receiving and multiplying the Koyal Order of Freemasons in all the perfect 
 and sublime degrees, to take due care that the general and particular statutes 
 and regulations of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge be kept and observed, and 
 to admit therein none but true and legitimate Brethren of Sublime Masonry. 
 
 To regulate and govern all the members which may compose his said Lodge 
 which he is authorized to establish in the four parts of the world, whither he 
 may arrive, or where he may dwell, under the title of "Lodge of St. John," 
 and by surname " The Perfect Harmony." 
 
 Power is hereby to him granted to select such officers as he may think pro- 
 per to help him in the government of his Lodge, and to whom we command 
 and enjoin to obey and respect him. 
 
 We do command and ordain to all Masters of regular Lodges spread all over 
 the earth, and of whatsoever dignity they might be, we reqtiest and enjoin them, 
 in the name of the Boyal Order, and in the presence of our Illustrious Grand 
 Master, to recognize, as we do ourselves hereby recognize, our dear Brother 
 Stephen Moiin as "Worshipful Master of the Perfect Harmony Lodge, and we 
 commission him as our Grand Inspector in every part of the new world, to 
 rectify the observance of oui' laws in general, etc., and by these presents we 
 do institute our dearest Brother Stephen Morin, our Grand Master Inspector, 
 authorizing him and giving him full power to establish Perfect and Sublime 
 Masonry in every part of the world, etc. 
 
 We therefore request the Brethren in general to grant to said Stephen Moiin 
 such aid and assistance as may be in their power, and we do require him to 
 act in a similar manner toward all the Brethren, members of the Lodge, or such 
 as he might have admitted or constituted, or whom he might hereafter admit 
 and constitute in the Sublime Degree of Perfection, which we grant him, with 
 full power and authority to make Inspectors wherever the Sublime Degrees 
 have not been established, as we are well satisfied with his great information 
 and capacity. 
 
 In testimony whereof, we have delivered him these presents, signed by the 
 Deputy General of the Order, Grand Commander of the White and Black 
 Eagle, Sublime Prince of the Koyal Secret, and by us. Grand Inspectors, Sub- 
 lime Oflcers of the Grand Council and of the Grand Lodge, estabUshed in this 
 capital, and we have hereunto afBxed the Grand Seal of our Hlustrious Grand 
 
APPENDIX. 71 
 
 Master, His Eoyal Highness, Louis of Bourbon, Count of Clermont, Prince of 
 the Blood, etc. , and that of our Grand Lodge and Sovereign Grand Council. 
 
 At the Grand Bast of Paris, A. L. S761, or of the Christian Era, August 29th, 
 1761. 
 
 [Signed. Manu propria.] 
 
 Chaelon de Joinvillb, 
 Deputy General of the Order, Worshipful Master of the first Lodge in 
 France, calledBr. -.P. •.Thomas, Chief of the Eminent Degrees, Com- 
 mander and Sublime Prince of th&Boyal Secret. 
 
 Pbinob db Rohan, 
 Master of the Grand Lodge "The Intelligence," Sovereign Prince of 
 Masonry. 
 
 Lacobne, 
 Deputy Grand Master, Master of Trinity Lodge, Grand, Elect, Perfect, 
 Knight and Prince Mason. 
 
 SaiiVAIiEtte de Buckolat, 
 Grand Keeper of the Seals, Grand Elect, Grand Kiiight and Prince 
 Mason. 
 
 Taupdj, Prince Mason. 
 BbEST de I;A Chaussee, 
 
 Grand Elect Prince Mason. 
 CouHT DE Choisbtjl, Prince Mason. 
 Chbvaube de Lbnoncotjbt, Prince Mason. 
 By order of the Grand Lodge, 
 [Signed.] 
 
 D'AUBBETIN, 
 
 Grand Elect, Perfect Master and Sovereign Prince Mason, Master of the 
 St. Alphonso Lodge, and of the Sublime Council of Perfect Masons of 
 France. 
 
 List of DEanEEs Attached. 
 Degrees agreed upon and instituted at Paris in 1758, and practiced by the late 
 Council of Emperors of the East and West, confirmed by the Commis- 
 sioners of said Council, and by the Princes of the Eoyal Secret, at Bor- 
 deaux, and hereby granted to Stephen Morin. 
 
 1. Entered Apprentice. 16. Prince of Jerusalem. 
 
 2. Companion or Fellow-Craft. 17. Knight of the East and West. 
 
 3. Master Mason. 18. Knight Rose Croix. 
 
 4. Secret Master. 19. Grand PontifE. 
 
 5. Perfect Master. 20. Grand Patriarch. 
 
 6. Intimate Secretary. 21. Grand Master of the Key of Ma- 
 
 7. Intendant of the Buildings. sonry. 
 
 8. Provost and Judge. 22. Prince of libanus, or Enight of 
 
 9. Elect of Nine. Royal Arch. 
 
 10. Elect of Fifteen. 23. Sovereign Prince Adept, Chief of 
 
 11. Illustrious Elect, Chief of the the Grand Consistory. 
 
 12 Tribes. 24 Illustrious Knight, Commander of 
 
 12. Grand Master Architect. the White and Black Eagle. 
 
 13. Eoyal Arch. 25. Most Illustrious Sovereign Prince 
 
 14. Grand Elect, Senior Perfect Ma- of Masonry, Grand Knight Sub- 
 son, lime, Commander of the Eoyal 
 
 15. Knight of the Sword. Secret. 
 
72 APPENDIX. 
 
 The following is a copy of the original Warrant, given by Henry Andrew 
 Franckin for Lodge of Perfection at Albany, New York, 1767. 
 
 It was made part of the Address of the Hon. Josiah H. Dmmmond to the 
 Supreme Council, Northern Jurisdiction, at Boston, June 16th, 1869, and pre- 
 sented here so that our younger members may be familiar with it. 
 
 [l, s.] [illuminatbd teiahgee.] 
 
 By the Globt of the Gkand Abchitect or the Univeesb. 
 
 LUX EX TENEBKIS, 
 
 XJNITAS CONCORDIA FRATKUM. 
 
 At the East, where shines the Great Light, and where reigns Silence, Concord 
 
 and Peace, the 29th of the Ninth month, called Kislen, 7767, A. M. 
 
 5528, equal to 20 December, 1767. 
 
 By virtue of a full power and authority committed to me by the Most Bespect- 
 
 able and Most Sublime Brother Stephen Morin, Grand Inspector of all 
 
 Lodges relative to the Superior Degrees of Masonry, from Secret Master 
 
 to the 29th Degree, and confirmed by the Grand Council of Princes of 
 
 Masons, in the Island of Jamaica, etc., etc., etc.. 
 
 We, Hen. -.And'w Franckin, Dep'y Ins'r Gen'l of all the Superior Degrees of 
 
 Masons in the West Indies and North America, have duly examined and found 
 
 worthy our dear Brethren William Gamble, Francis Joseph Von Pfister, 
 
 Thomas Swords, Thomas Lynott, Kichard Cartwright, and find them weU 
 
 qualified in the mysteries of Masonry, to the 14th Degree, known by us to be 
 
 the highest Degree of Ancient Masonry, by the name of Perfection of 
 
 Masonry. 
 
 Now, know ye that in consequence of such power we have constituted, and 
 by these presents we do constitute our said worthy Brethren William Gamble, 
 Francis Joseph Yon Pfister, Thomas Swords, Thomas Lynott, and Bichard 
 Cartwright, into a regular Lodge of Perfection, by the name of Ineffable, to be 
 held at the City of Albany, in the Province of New York ; whereof by these pre- 
 sent we appoint {pro iem.) our worthy Brother William Gamble to officiate as 
 Master, with power to appoint his ofScers until another Master shall be appointed 
 by virtue of an instrument in writing, \mder our hand and Seal for that purpose 
 to precede to initiate the younger Brethren into every Degree of said h^h 
 Degrees, as they shall be found worthy, to the 14th Degree, or perfection, hav- 
 ing a due care and regard never tq give more than one Degree at a time ; to 
 regulate themselves according to their well-calculated laws and regulations, 
 to be approved of and signed by me, their founder ; taking a special care to 
 admit none who have not been, or are Officers of a regularly constituted 
 Lodge, and that their number never exceed 27 members in all ; who shall be 
 residents in their Province, but with a power to keep said number up, pro- 
 vided death, absence from the Province, or a removal of 25 leagues shall ren- 
 der it impracticable for any particular member or members to give due 
 attendance. 
 That in case of our removal from this Province we authorize the said mem- 
 
APPENDIX. T3 
 
 bers of said Lodge of Perfection, named, the Ineffable, to choose every year 
 their own Master (and his Officers) bv a majority of votes. 
 
 Further, that said Lodge of Perfection at all times shall pay due obedience 
 to our mandates and the mandates of the Grand Council of Princes of Masons 
 (if any established in the Province), and transmit quarterly to us a list of the 
 members and their qualities, with every transaction of note ; and in case they 
 do find and should conclude on any articles for the benefit of paid Lodge, 
 such articles are to be sent to us by petition, and if found beneficial, shall be 
 granted under our hand and Seal. 
 
 And further, that the above-named Lodge, the Ineffable, shall fully confirm 
 and behave themselves to this our Constitution and Patent, to which I have 
 set my hand and Seal at arms, with the Grand Seal of the Perfection of 
 Masonry, in the place where the greatest of treasures are deposited, the 
 beholding of which fills us with comfort, joy and acknowle^ement of all that 
 is good and great. 
 
 Done near the B.B. at New York, the day and year above-written. 
 Hen'y And'w Fbanokin, 
 Sov'n Pr'noe of Masons, Dep'y Insp'r Gen'l. 
 
 JOSEPH CEENEAU'S PATENT. 
 
 To THE Glory of thb [Gbbat Aeohiebct op the Untveese]. 
 LUX EX TENEBBIS. 
 Prom the Orient of the Very Great and Very Puissant Council of the Sublime 
 Princes [of the Koyal Secret], Chiefs of Masonry, under the 0.0. of the 
 Zenith [which responds] to the 20 deg. 25 min. N. Lat. 
 
 To our 111. •. and Very VaUant Knights and Princes, Masons of aU the Degrees 
 - over the surface of the two Hemispheres. 
 
 HEALTH,! 
 
 We, Antoine Mathieu Dupotet, Grand Master of all the Lodges, Colleges, 
 Chapters, Councils, Consistories, of the higher degrees of Masonry, Deputy 
 Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Pennsylvania, in the United States of 
 America ; and of the Grand Lodge and Sovereign Provincial Grand Chapter of 
 Heredom of Kilwinning, of Edinburgh, for America, under the distinctive title 
 of the Holy Ghost, Grand Proviacial of San Domingo in the Ancient Kite, 
 Grand Commander or Sovereign President of the Th. '.Puissant Grand Council 
 of the Sublime Princes of the Eoyal Secret, established at Port au Prince, 
 Island of St. Domingo, by constitutive Patent of 16th of January and 19th of 
 April, 1801, under the distinctive title of the Triple Unity ; transferred to Ba- 
 racoa. Island of Cuba, on account of the events of War. 
 
 Do declare in the name of the Sublime and Th. '.Puissant Grand CounoU, do 
 certify and attest that the Very Hasp.-. Gr.-. Elect Knight of the White and 
 Black Eagle, Joseph Cemeau, Ancient Dignitary of the Lodge, No. 47, Orient 
 of Port au Prince, Grand Warden of the Provincial Lodge, same Orient, Vener- 
 able founder of the Lodge of the Ancient Constitution of York, No. 103, under 
 
74 APPENDIX. 
 
 the distinctive title of the Theological Virtues, Orient of Habana, Island of 
 Cuba, has been regularly iuitiated in all the Degrees of the Sublime Masonry, 
 from that of Secret Master to and including that of Grand Elect Knight of 
 the White and Black Eagle ; and -wishing to give the strongest proofs of our 
 sincere friendship for our said Very Dear Brother JOSEPH CERNE ATI in recog- 
 nition of the services which he has rendered to the Eoyal Art, and which he is 
 rendering daily, we have initiated him in the highest, in the most eminent and 
 final Degree of Masonry ; we create him our Deputy Grand Inspector, for the 
 Northern part of the Island of Cuba, with all the powers that are attached 
 thereto, giving him full and entire power to initiate the Bros. -.Masons, whom 
 he may judge [worthy?] to promote to the Sublime Degrees, from the ith up 
 to and including the 24th ; pro-vided, however, that these Masons shall have 
 been Officers of a Lodge regularly constituted and recognized, and in places 
 only where they may not be found Sacred and Sublime and regularly consti- 
 tuted Asyla ; from which Brothers he -will receive the obligation required and 
 authentic submission to the Decrees of the Sublime Princes ; consulting, how- 
 ever, and calling to his aid the B.-.B. -.whom he shall know to be decorated 
 with the Sublime Degrees ; we give him full and entire power to confer in the 
 name of our aforesaid Grand CouncU the HIGHEST DEGREES of MASONET 
 on a Knight Prince Mason, one only each year, whose virtues he shall recog- 
 nize, and the qualities required to deserve this favor ; and to the end that our 
 dear Brother Joseph Cemeau, so decorated, may enj oy in this quality the honors, 
 rights and prerogatives which he has justly deserved, by his arduous labors in 
 the Royal Art, we have delivered to him these presents, in the margin whereof 
 he has placed his signature, that it may avail him everywhere, and be useful to 
 him alone. 
 
 We pray our Eesp.'.BB. '., regularly constituted, spread over the two Hemi- 
 spheres, -with whatever Degree they may be decorated, whether in Lodge, 
 
 Ch. •., Col.'., Sovereign Council Sublime, to recognize and receive 
 
 our dear Brother, the Very Illustrious Sov.-.and Sublime Prince, JOSEPH 
 CERNEAU inaU the Degrees above mentioned; promising to pay the same at- 
 tention to those who, in our Orients, shall present themselves at the doors of 
 our Sacred Asyla, furnished with like authentic titles. 
 
 Given by us S.-. Sublime Princes, G. -.C.'.G.-.L'.G'al -.of our aforesaid 
 Grand and Perfect Council, under our Mysterious Seal, and the Grand Seal of 
 the Princes of Masonry, in a place where are deposited the greatest treasures, 
 the sight whereof fills us -with consolation, joy and gratitude for all that is 
 great and good. 
 
 At Baraooa, Island of Cuba, Anno 5806, under the sign of the Lion, the ISth 
 day of the Fifth month, called Ab, 7806, of the creation, 5566, and according 
 to the common style, the 15th July, 1806. 
 
 [Signed.] Matkeeu Dupotbt, 
 
 President. Sov. •. . . . G'al.*. 
 
 A true copy. [Signed.] 
 
 Mathbeu Dupotbt, 
 
 President, S.-.G.-.L-.G'al.-. 
 
 I certify what is transmitted above and herein elsewhere, conformable 
 to my Register. 
 
 TiPHAINE. 
 
 S.-.P. -.E. -.S. •., D, •.!. -.Ga'l. -.G. -.Comn. ■. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 75 
 
 OPTHK 
 
 SUPREME COUNCIL, 33° 
 
 For the U. S. A., their Territories and 
 Dependencies. 
 
 To the Glory of the Grand Architett of the Universe. 
 
 UHION — CONTENTMENT — WISDOM. 
 
 From the Gr.-.East of the Sup.: Ccmncil of Sov.:Qi:: Tn.ip.: Gen.:33d and last 
 degree Anc.-.and Acc.-.ScoUish Bite for the United Stales of America, thtir 
 Territories and Dependencies— under the 0. 0. of Ihe Z, near the B. B,, ans- 
 wering to the iOlh deg. 42 min. 40 sec. N. L., and 2 deg. 51 min. sec. E. X., 
 meridian of Washington City, 
 
 ORDO AB CHAOS. 
 
 OFFICE OF THE GEAND COMMAJifDEE, 
 
 No. 2 "West Fotjktebnth Stbkbt, 
 
 New Yobk, July 15th, 1889. 
 
 IOWA. 
 
 Enctclioai,. 
 Beethken : 
 
 I have had placed in my hands a pamphlet being an extract from the 
 Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, June 4-6, 1889, signed ofBcially by 
 Brother T. S. Parvin, Grand Secretary, who is also a 33 d degree Mason of tte 
 Ancient and Accepted Eite for the Southern Jurisdiction, United States 
 of America, and the head of that body in Iowa. ' 
 
 I learn from said pamphlet that the Grand Master, in his address said : 
 " I know nothing whatever about Scottish Eite Masonry, having never taken 
 those degrees." He further says : "It is not my purpose to argue the legit- 
 imacy of either of the bodies." 
 
 The Committee, in their report, say : ' ' We are not called upon, neither do 
 we assume to determine, the legitimacy of either of the Ancient and Accepted 
 Eite bodies, now occupying the Territorial Jurisdiction of the State of Iowa." 
 This is not in keeping with the title of their pamphlet, which is, 
 
 Lbgitimatb 
 
 vs. 
 
 Clandestine Scottish Eite Masonry." 
 
 The consistency of the title of their pamphlet, with the address of the 
 Grand Master, and report of Committee as above set forth, is fully in keeping 
 
76 APPENDIX. 
 
 witli the inconsistency of the full report of the Committee, and the subsequent 
 action of the Grand Lodge thereon. 
 
 It is very evident that the Grand Master of Iowa knew nothing (as he says) 
 of Scottish Kite Masonry or its history ; if he had, he, as a conscientious Free 
 Mason, would have taken a very different coiirse of action. No person should 
 discuss a question until he fully xmderstands both sides of it. 
 
 I will endeavor to show some of the mistakes made in this connection. 
 
 The Grand Lodge, by the adoption of the first resolution, recognizes the 
 Southern Jurisdiction Supreme Council as legitimate, and say it is now entit- 
 led to exclusive jurisdiction in this State (Iowa ) By their second resolution 
 they refuse to recognize ilds Supreme CouncU as legitimate, and deny to it and 
 its Consistories or other subordinate bodies the right to occupy the Jurisdic- 
 tion of the State of Iowa — they refuse tnat which they have not been asked to 
 grant. — They have no right or power to grant, or refuse to grant, permission 
 to any Scottish Kite body to confer Scottish Eite degrees from the 4th to the 
 33d, inclusive. As well might they take upon themselves the right to permit, 
 or refuse to permit, Master Masons of Iowa joining or organizing bodies of the 
 Mystic Shrine, Knights of Pythias, or Odd Fellows, etc., etc. Therefore the 
 third and fourth resolutions adopted by them is visurping a power over which 
 they have no right nor control, except the right of usurpation, the right of 
 might. 
 
 Usurpation of power to oppress the weak, or for any purpose, is not what 
 Masonry teaches. We are taught, at the threshold of Masonry, that Justice 
 is that standard or boundary of right which gives to every man his just due 
 without distinction. 
 
 The Committee report, that the Grand Lodge of Iowa adopted a resolution 
 in 1852, and reaffirmed it in 1866 ; and further report that in 1888 it was the 
 unwritten law of the Grand Lodge, and as such it is still in full force and 
 effect as follows : 
 
 Eesolution of 1852. — "The Grand Lodge of Iowa recognizes the Superior 
 hodies in the United States and foreign countries having in charge Masonic 
 degrees as the Supreme Councils of the Ancient and Accepted Rite and their 
 Consistories, the General Grand Chapter, and the Grand Encampment, and 
 their constituent bodies, grand and subordinate, " etc , etc 
 
 Webster defines the word Superior as higher; greater; more exalted; preferable. 
 
 While it is preposterous, and ridiculous, for the Grand Lodge of Free and 
 Accepted Masons of Iowa to recognize any body oj Masonn as superior to it, in 
 its territorial jurisdiction, or any degrees superior to the degrees over which it has 
 lawful control, they do, by the terms of this resolution and by their unwritten 
 law, fully recognize our Subordinate bodies, we heiag a Supreme CouncU "hav- 
 ing in charge Masonic degrees " of the Ancient and Accepted Eite in this State 
 from 1885 to 1889. 
 
 They have recognized the Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction as a 
 Supet ior hody. 
 
 Superior to what ? 
 
 Superior to the Grand Lodge of Iowa ? 
 
 For shame, Iowa. 
 
 There is no Masonic body superior to the Grand Lodge of Iowa in that State. 
 
APPENDIX. 11 
 
 The reports of bodies subordinate to the Supreme Council Southern Juris- 
 diction, printed in the " Transactions " of meeting held October 15th, 1888, 
 show that there were at that time only 267 Scottish Kite Masons of their obe- 
 dience in Iowa- That subordinate bodies existed in two places only, i. e., Lyons 
 and Cedar Eapids, each of which has a Consistory, Council of Kadosh, Chapter 
 of Eose Croix, and Lodge of Perfection. The two Consistories jointly return 
 267 members. The two Councils of Kadosh return fifty members jointly. 
 Only one Chapter of Rose Croix (Lyons) makes return which shows a total of 
 28 members. Only one Lodge of Perfection makes return (Lyons) which 
 shows a total of 27 members. They are a small body, with large pretensions ; 
 useful only to make trouble among Master Masons, and to make themselves 
 ridiculous. 
 
 The Supreme Council United States of America, their Territories and Depen- 
 dencies, have in Iowa thirty-one bodies, with a membership of over 600, 
 located as follows ; 
 
 IOWA. 
 Grand Consistory of lown, 3'i", C. E. Barnes, Comr. ■.-in-Chief. 
 
 Cedak Rapids. 
 Cedar Bapids Lodge of Perfection, 14*, G. E. FuUertou, T. -.P.-.G.-.M. •. 
 Cedar Kapids Council of Princes of Jeru.s., 16°, Geo.T. Hedges, S. -.P. -.G. ".M.". 
 Cedar Rapids Chapter of Rose Croix, 18°, H. C. Moore, M.-.W.-. 
 Cedar Rapids Council of Kadosh, 30°, B. M. Soule, 111. -.Commander. 
 
 FOBT DODGB. 
 
 Fort Dodge Lodge of Perfection, 14°, H. A. Bliss, T. -.P.-.G.-.M.-. 
 
 Fort Dodge Council of Princes of Jerusalem, 16°, S. B. Wilkinson, S. •. P. -.G. -. M. •■ 
 
 Fort Dodge Chapter of Ro.se Croix, 18°, E. D. Nicksoii, M.-.W.-. 
 
 Fort Dodge Council of Kadosh, 30°, N. B. Evarts, 111. -.Commander. 
 
 BuBIilNaxON. 
 
 Burlington Lodge of Perfeoti 311, 14°, W. C. Cross, T.-. P.-.G.-.M. -. 
 Burlington Couacil of Princes of Jerusalem. 16°, B. F. Brown, S.'. P.-.G.-.M.' 
 Burlington Chapter Ro<e Croix, 18°, Wm. D. Inglirnm, M.-.W.-. 
 Burlington Council of Kadosh, 30°, W. C. Cro.ss, 111. -.Commander. 
 
 Sioux City, v. d. 
 Sioux City Lodge of Perfection, 14°, Fred. C. Hills, T.-.P.-.G.-.M.-. 
 Sioux City Council of Princes, 16°, C. 0. Wales, S. -.P.-.G.-.M.-. 
 Sioux City Ch'.pter Rose Croix, 18", C. C. Sedgewiok, M.-.W.-. 
 Sioux City Council Kadosh, 30°, J. A. Shipman, III. -.Commander. 
 
 Council BiiUffs. 
 Council Bluffs Lod.;e of Perfection, 14°, u. n. Fiiiley Bmke,T.- .P.-.G.-.M.-. 
 Council Bluffs Council of Princes, 16°, u.d. A. J. Br.>wn, S.- P. -.G. -.M.-. 
 Council Bluffs C:iapter of Rise Croix. 18°, u. d, F. A. Sprague, M.-.W.-. 
 Council Bluffs Council of Kidosh, 30°, u.d. J. J. SteadmaD,Ill.-.Commander. 
 
 Stobm Lake. 
 Storm Like Lodge of Perfection, 14°, u. D. J. N. Warren, T. -.P. -.G. -.M,-. 
 Storm Lake Council of Princes, 16°, u. d. E. E. Mack, S, -.P. -.G. -.M. -. 
 
 Ceeston. 
 Oreston Lodge of Perfection, 14°, u. d. Geo. P. Wilson, T. -.P. -.G. -.M. -. 
 Creston Council of Princes, 16°, u. d. Davirl- A, Porter, S.- .P.-.G.-.M.'. 
 Creston Chapter of Rose Croix. 18°, u. d. Rev. F. W. Eason, M.'..W-. 
 Cieston Council of Kadosh, 30°, u. d. Wm. A. Christie, III .-.Commander. 
 
 Davekpobt. 
 Davenport Lodge of Perfection, 14°, u. D. E. J. Baboook, T.-.P.-.G. -.M.-. 
 Davenport Council of Princes, 16°, v. d. J. B. Morgan, S.-.P.-.G.-.M.-. 
 Davenport Chapter of Rose Croix, 18°, u. D. H. G. Sedgwick, M.-.W.-. 
 Davenport Council of Kadosh, 30°, u. d. Monroe Ebi, III. -.Commander. 
 
T8 APPENDIX. 
 
 There are in Iowa aboutj22,000 affiliated Master Masons. 
 
 The Supreme Council United States of America have over 600 Scottish Bite 
 Masons of their obedience in Iowa. 
 
 The Southern Jurisdiction Ancient and Accepted Kite have 267 members of 
 their obedience in Iowa. 
 
 The representatives of the 267 Scottish Bite Masons Southern Jurisdiction 
 have caused the representatives of 22,000 Master Masons in Iowa to make a 
 most egregious mistake, placing them in a very unenviable position before the 
 Masonic world in consequence thereof. 
 
 The thirty-one bodies subordinate to Supreme Council United States of 
 America, their Territories and Dependencies, in Iowa, are all in active opera- 
 tion ; not interfering with, or giving trouble to, any organization or individual, 
 except in the fact of their existance and phenomenal success. They have 
 among their members the most able, distinguished, andirespectcd Free Masons 
 in Iowa, all of whom know and admit that the Grand Lodge of Iowa and all 
 other regular Grand Lodges have full, exclusive and absolute power and 
 authority over the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master 
 Mason, in their several territorial jurisdiction ; also power to make jvst and 
 equal laws, rules and regulations for the government of Grand and Subordinate 
 Lodges and i7}dmdual Brethren, that will not conflict with the high and exalted 
 duties they owe to God, their neighbor, their country, and themselves ; and 
 such that will not interfere with their moral, social or civil duties and privi- 
 leges, be they what they may ; always having in mind, in making and admin- 
 istering said laws, rules and regulations , that it is their higesl duty to constantly 
 view their Brother's interest as inseparable from their own. 
 
 This is the weU-settled fundamental principle of the Supreme Council 
 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite for the United States of America, their 
 Territories and Dependencies, founded in 1807, in the city of New York, by 
 Illustrious Brother Joseph Cemeau, Grand Commander ; De Witt Clinton, 
 Governor of the State of New York ; Cadwalader D. Colden, Mayor of the city 
 of New York, and those associated with them. 
 
 As early as 1808 they sent a communication to the Grand Lodge of New 
 York, disclaiming any power or authority over the degrees of Entered Appren- 
 tice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason ; and neither since that time, nor at any 
 time during their entire existence, have they in any way interfered with or 
 conferred either of the said degrees. They have not now, nor have they ever 
 had, any power, right or control over either of the said degrees ; they do not 
 now and never have exercised, attempted or desired to exercise any power or 
 control over said degrees in any way or manner ; nor have they ever had 
 printed, or caused to be printed, any of the work or ritual of the degrees of 
 Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft or Master Mason, either secret or monitorial ; 
 nor h ive they anything to do with the said degrees, except to require that any 
 Brother receiving the degrees of our Kite shall present positive evidence that 
 he is a member in good and regular standing in a lodge of Master Masons under 
 the jurisdiction of a Grand Lpdge in fraternal correspondence with the Grand 
 Lodges in the United States of America. 
 
 The Grand Lodge of Iowa, by its first resolution, recognizes the Supreme 
 Council Southern Jurisdiction, and sa,y that it is now entitled to exclusive juris* 
 
APPENDIX. 79 
 
 diction in Iowa. In doing so they must of course recognize all the rights the 
 Southern Jurisdiction claim under their constitution and statutes. 
 
 Do they recognize the right of the Southern Jurisdiction, or any person, 
 Mason or profane, to print, publish or sell the Secret Kitual of the degrees of 
 Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft or Master Mason, in Iowa or elsewhere ? 
 
 Do they recognize the right of the Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction 
 to open any of their Scottish Rite bodies on the 1st, or Entered Apprentice 
 degree, or on the 3d, or Master's Masons degree? , 
 
 Do they recognize their right, as a Supreme Council Ancient and Accepted 
 Bite, to establish lodges and to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice, 
 Fellow Craft or Master Mason in any part of the globe ? 
 
 Would they, in recognizing exclusively the Supreme Council Southern Juris- 
 diction, admit as a visitor to one of their lodges a person claiming to be a 
 Master Mason by virtue of having received the degrees of Entered Apprentice, 
 Fell )W Craft and Master Mason in a Scottish Rite body only ? 
 
 The Supreme Council Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite Southern Juris- 
 diction claim power and authority to, and actually do, all the foregoings acts ; 
 and the Grand Lodge of Iowa, in recognizing them, recognize their every act — 
 their recognition being full, complete, exclusive and unqualified. 
 
 By article 12, section 11, of the Statutes of the Supreme CbuncU Southern 
 Jiirisdiction of 1884 (the latest I have), a Brother is not required to be a meu^- 
 ber of a Master Masons' Lodge to make him eligible to their Scottish Kite 
 degrees. This is an incentive to the non-affiliation of Master Masons — a sub- 
 ject now being discussed in Grand Lodges with a view to arresting that great 
 eviL 
 
 Do they recognize the right of the Southern Jurisdiction Supreme Council, 
 or any person. Mason or profane, to print, publish or sell the Secret Bitual .of 
 the degree of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, in the 
 State of Iowa, and elsewhere? The Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction 
 Ancient and Accepted Bite does print, publish and sell the SecVet Bitual of 
 Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason (Blue degrees) in Iowa 
 and elsewhere. 
 
 I am informed that Brother Albert Pike is net affiliated with any Lodge of 
 Master Masons ; if that be true, any Lodge of Master Masons has jurisdiction 
 to try him for a Masonic offence, by him committed. Suppose some Master 
 Mason affiliated with the Grand Lodge of Iowa should prefer charges against 
 Brother Albert Pike in his Master Masons Lodge in Iowa, for violating his 
 obligation as an entered ap^entice, in writing, printing, publishing, and selling 
 the (Blue Lodge) Bitual, and the charge be clearly proven, as it certainly would 
 be— as I have no doubt Brother Albert Pike would admit its truth at oucOt- 
 would not the Grand Lodge of Iowa be compelled to confirm an act of expul- 
 sion by said Lodge, notwithstanding its unqualified recognition of the South- 
 em Supreme Council. 
 
 Brother T. S. Parvin, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge and head of the 
 Subordinate bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite, Southern Juris- 
 diction in Iowa, is in the same situation as Brother Pike, except as to non-afflli- 
 tion ; does he not sell and collect the money for Bituals sold under article 13, 
 Section 13, Statutes of the Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction Ancient and 
 Accepted Eite to the Subordinate Scottish Bite bodies and brethern, in Iowa ? 
 
80 APPENDIX. 
 
 Article 13, Section 2, Statutes Southern Jurisdiction is as follows : — "Each 
 Inspector Greneral, Active member, and each Deputy of the Supreme Council, 
 or of an Inspector General shall have issued to him one copy of each Eitual of 
 the degeees /rom one to Ihirty-lwo." 
 
 Article 13, section 4, Statutes of Southern Jueisdiction : '-Every Lodge of 
 Perfection mustliaue one of the Siluals of the Blue degrees with the secret work, 
 and may have four copies of that Bitual." 
 
 Article 13, section 13, Statutes of the Southern Jurisdiction : "No body of 
 
 the Bite shall be established untU it has paid for, or made arrangements to 
 
 have at once sent to it, and pay for, the books which bodies are required to 
 
 have, that is to say : 
 
 '• Lodge of Perfeclion." 
 
 " 4 Rituals of the degrees conferred by it. 
 
 " 1 Ritual of the Blue degrees for instruction. 
 
 " 1 Secret work of the degrees conferred by it. 
 
 " 1 Secret work of the Blue degrees, etc.'' 
 
 Does any Grand Lodge of Master Masons in the world, except Iowa, sanction 
 this ? or recognize any body as Masonic who would do this, or permit it to be 
 done by another if in their power to prevent ? What says the Grand Lodge 
 of Kentucky, Utah, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, to this ? 
 
 The Grand Lodge of Iowa recognizes the Southern Supreme Council and 
 gives it exclusive jurisdiction in Iowa. 
 
 Exclusive jurisdiction to do what? — to organize Scottish Rite bodies, and 
 "disseminate printed copies of the Secret Ritual of the degrees of Entered 
 Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason in that jurisdiction. Do they 
 recognize the right of the Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction to open any 
 of their Scottish Rite bodies on the 1st or Entered Apprentice degree or on the 
 3d or Master Mason's degree ? 
 
 On February 15th. 1857, Brother Albert G. Mackey, acting as Sovereign 
 Grand CommaUtler of the Supreme Council, 33d degree Southern Jurisdiction, 
 , opened said Supreme Council on the 1st or Entered Apprentice degree of 
 Masonry without a warrant, dispensation, or lawful authority from any regular 
 Grand Lodge of Master Masons for that purpose. The transactions of Supreme 
 Council Southern Jurisdiction for 1860, page 64, show that the Snpreme 
 Council resumed labor on the 3d or Master Mason's degree according to the 
 Ancient and Accepted Rite without a warrant, dispensation, or lawful authority 
 from any Grand Lodge for that purpose. They had no more right to open 
 their Scottish Rite body on either of the first three degrees than would the 
 Mystic Shrine have had to do so. 
 
 Do they recognize their right as Supreme CouncU Ancient and Accepted Rite 
 Southern Jurisdiction, to establish "Blue," or Master Masons' Lodges, and to 
 confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft or Master Mason in any 
 part of the world? The Southern Jurisdiction Ancient and Accepted Rite 
 claim to have the right to do so, as will be seen by the following from Memo- 
 randa by J. J. J. Gourgas, published in the reprint of Proceedings of the N. •. 
 M. '.J. •., vol. i., part 1, page 39 : 
 
 '', " The Graud Couuo.il of tbe Priuces of Jerusalem at Chnrlfslou, S. C, 
 granted, July 5, 5801, ft warraut of Constitution ' to open a Master Masons 
 Lodge nud to form ami coostitute a Graud Elect Perfect auil Sublime Lodge 
 
APPENDIX. 81 
 
 of Perfect Masous, to iuiliate Brethren into the Superior degrees, ns far as the 
 Sublime degree of Perfection, inoluuiTe. [Signed a3 follows ;] 
 
 John Mitchell, K H., S.-.P.-,E.-.S.-., S.-.G.-. I. •.&.-., 33' 
 
 "T. B. Bowen, K..H, S.-.P.-.K.-.-.-., S.-.G.-.I.-.G.-.. 33° 
 
 "E. DeLaMott;i.,K.H., S. -.P.-.K.-.S. •., S.-.G.-.I-.'G.-., 33" 
 
 " Abraham Alexander, K.H., S. -.P.-.E.-.S.-., S.-.G.-.I. .G.'., 33° 
 
 "FredDalcho, K.tf., S.-.P.-.E.-.S.'., S.-.G. •.!.•.&.•., 33" 
 
 "Benj. Cudswoith, Prince of Jerusalem. 
 
 "Joseph bee, Prince of Jenisalem, Knight of E. and W. 
 
 "S. Hiirdy, Prince of Jerusalem. 
 
 ' ' Israel de Jjeibeu , K. H., S. -.P. •. R. •. S. •. 
 
 "Isaac Auld, Prince of Jerusalem. 
 
 ' ' Enos Keeves, Knight of the E. and P. -.1. ■. 
 
 "Peter Smith, E.-.X 
 
 '' Abraham Sasportaz, K.H. 
 
 " James Allison, S. -.P. -.E. -.X 
 
 "E. Elizer, S.-.G.-.S,-., K.H., S.-.P.-.E.-.S.-.- 
 
 E. de la Motta in his denunciation of Joseph Cerneau in the year 1814, 
 openly published the following : 
 
 "I have nothing further to' say except that althoDgh Sublime Masons have 
 not, in this country, initiated into the Blue or Symbolic degrees, yet their 
 Councils possess the indefeasable right of granting Warrants for that pur- 
 pose. It is common on the continent of Europe, and may be the case here, 
 should circumstances vender the exercise of that power necessary. The legality of 
 this right is derived Jrom the highest Masonic authority in the world, (however 
 ready Mr. Cerneau and his gentlemen have been to relinquish it at once, and 
 irt toto, which is another strong corroborative proof of his irregulariiy, or else they 
 never could lawfuUy alienate their rights as Sublime Masons), as can be demon- 
 strated to the perfect satisfaction of every Masonic, judieial and legislative 
 body. " 
 
 In "Transactions," 1857 to 1866, p. 357, Brother Pike states : 
 
 "Undoubtedly we have ample power to commission a Deputy Inspector- 
 General to confer the Blue degrees, and to create symbolic Lodges in any un- 
 occupied foreign country. Beyond a question, one of us as Sovereign Grand 
 Inspector General could do so. We are shorn of none of our ancient powers. 
 2b avoid prejudice and quarrels we refrainfrom the exercise HEEE of our powers 
 over the Blue degrees, with, on the whale, very beneficial results." 
 
 "Transactions," 1860, p. 49, speaking of the Latin Constitutions of 1786 
 Brother Pike states : 
 
 "The asserliuu of our lUusti-ions Brother that these Constitutions 'disclaim 
 all control over the first three degreei*, wherever organizations of those de- 
 grees exist ;' that the framers of these Constitulionb 'prohibit their successors 
 from meddling with the Symbolic Degrees ;' and that 'their action was to be 
 confined to the Lodges of Perfection, and to the dt grees above and including 
 the 4th or Secret Master,' are strangely incorrect. 
 
 "It is true that Art. XI(I providesthatiheSovereia;n Grand Inspectors, Dep- 
 uties of the Supreme Council, may dehgaleto Deputy Inspectorsof at least 
 the 30th degree, so much of their powers as may eLal)l ' tlum to establish, reg- 
 ulate and superintend Lodg'^s ami Councils in any of the degrees, from the 
 4th to the 20th inclusivp. But this is a mere affirmative provision, that does not 
 at all negative or surrender the power of the Supreme Authority of the Bite over the 
 first three degrees." 
 
 "Official Bulletin," August, 1870, p. 106, Brother Kke states : 
 
 "On (he 21st of December, 1860, the Illastrious Brother Charles Laffon de 
 Landebat, Active Member of, and with plenary authority from, the Supreme 
 Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, established in the 
 Valley of Vera Cruz, in Mexico, the Supreme Council of the 33d degree for 
 
82 APPENDIX. 
 
 Mexico and the S:ates of Central America, of which Illustrious Brother Gen. 
 Ignacio Oomonfort became the Sovereign Grand Comminder." Agiiiu, refer- 
 ring to this matter iu "Official Bulletin," April, 1871' p. 223, he states : "Con- 
 tinued disturbances and dissensions scattered the members of the Grand 
 Council shortly after the commencement of their 'abors; ihey cliartered a few 
 Lodges, however, among them, one iu Tamaulipas." 
 
 " Official Bulletin," December, 1871, p 451, Brother Pike states : 
 
 "Tamaulipas Lodge was regularly chartered by the Supreme Council for 
 Mexico aud Central America, at Veni Cruz, of which the Illustrious Brother 
 Comonfort was Sovereign Grand Commiinder. Thnt Supreme Council was 
 regular and legitimate, being established by the Supreme Council for the 
 Southern JuiisdioUou of the United St Lies, and having amplepower andperfect 
 right lo establish Blue Lodges of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite. The 
 Lodge in question wa'^, and is, as regular a Lodge as any in Texas." 
 
 In a letter written to the Supreme Council at Peru, February 17ih, 1887, 
 Brother Albert Pike writes - 
 
 "Aud when, in 1801, vitality and operation was given to the Grand Con- 
 stitulions by the orgauiaaiion of the Supreme Council at Charleston, jurisdic- 
 tion over the symbolic degrees was expressly waived in favor of the Grand 
 Lodg*", but was not entiiely ceded or relinquished ; and we have always held 
 our ri^ht to administer them to be undiminished, and that if necessity should 
 require, it could be resumed. * * * * « 
 
 "Tlie doctrine of exclusive Grand Lodge jurisdiction has grown up in the 
 United States, and been accepted here as politic and in the interest of harmony 
 and unity. It does not prevail in Europe, and is not a part of Masonic or- 
 ganic law ; and its zealoLs here have not been oonteut to stop when they had 
 pushed it to the verge of absurdity." 
 
 Does the Grand Lodge of Iowa, in unqualifiedly recognizing and giving ex- 
 clusive jurisdiction to the Southern Jurisdiction Ancient and Accepted Rite, 
 subscribe to this monstrous doctrine as Masonic ? Would the Grand Lodge of 
 Iowa, in recognizing the Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction, admit as a 
 visitor to one of its Lodges a person claiming to be a Master Mason by virture 
 of having received the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master 
 Mason iu a Scottish Eite body only ? ' 
 
 Brother Albert Pike, Grand Commander Supreme Council Southern Juris- 
 diction Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite, says, in "Foulhouzeism," page 
 108: "1st, That a person who has received the three SymboUo degrees in a 
 regular Lodge of either the English, French or Scottish Kite is a regular Master 
 Mason, and every regular body of Masons in the world is bound to consider, 
 recognize and receive him as such. "2d, That a Master Mason who has regu- 
 larly received the third degree in one Kite, does not need to receive it in another 
 in order to be admitted to visit in lodges of that order." 
 
 Brother Albert Pike, holding the views he does of his power and liglit over 
 the "Blue degrees " to confer them if he shall decide to do so ; also to print, 
 publish and sell the Secret Kituals of the ' ' Blue degrees, " was looking Well into 
 the future when he said, in 1884 : "If we admit the right of a Grand Lodge to 
 decide our Supreme Council legitimate this would admit its power to decide us 
 illegitimate, if it should so arrive at that conclusion. The power to recognize 
 and tolerate, implies the power to con-demn and prohibit. I think it is due 
 to our self-respect that we should advise the brethren of our obedience not to 
 seek anywhere in our jurisdiction to have action taken by the Grand- Lodges. " 
 
 Will not the Grand Lodges of the United States of America inquire into the 
 peculiar position now occupied by the Grand Lodge of Iowa, in its hasty. 
 
APPENDIX. 83 , 
 
 inconsiderate action in fully and unqualifiedly recognizing the.Supreme Council 
 Ancient and Accepted Kite Southern Jurisdiction ; or any other body than a 
 just and duly-constituted Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons having 
 jurisdiction only over the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and 
 Master Mason ? 
 
 The recognition by the Grand Lodge of Iov?a of the Supreme Council Ancient 
 and Accepted Bite of the Southern Jurisdiction means that they recognize the 
 full power claimed by said Supreme Council, i c, to make Masons, print and 
 sell secret rituals of the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and 
 Master Mason, and organize bodies thereof, if they desire to do so. 
 
 Would the Grand Lodge of Iowa have adopted that report and resolution if 
 they had known what appears to be the full effect of their action? Probably 
 not. 
 
 Grand Lodges or Grand Masters have no constitutional nor inherent right 
 to interfere vfith, or power over, a Chapter of Eoyal Arch Masons, Council of 
 Royal and Select Masters, Commandery of Knights Templar, Temple of Mys- 
 tic Shrine, Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite, the 
 Eoyal Masonic Kite, or their constituent bodies, notwithstanding none hut 
 Master Masons are eligible for the several orders named Nor have they any 
 right, constitutional or inherent, to say what bodies or organizations, Masonic 
 or other, that any Master Mason of its obedience, shall or shall not, join or 
 become a member of ; nor have they any right to demand any information 
 from such Master Masons as to who are members of the Temple of the Mystic 
 Shrine, Chapter of Rose Croix, Lodge of Perfection, Consistory, or the Odd 
 Fellows' Lodge, or Brotherhood of Engineers, or Knights of Pythias, or the 
 Church, or their political organization, nor any organizations of which they 
 may be members, as to who are or may become members thereof ; nor have 
 they any constitutional or inherent right to ask or demand that said Master 
 Masons shall sever their connections with any such organizations. 
 
 The fact that a Grand Lodge adopts a resolution, or report of a Committee, 
 which is clearly beyond its constitutional power to do, regardless of consequ- 
 ences, and that such resolution or report interferes with the vested right of any 
 Master Mason, it cannot be expected that such Master Mason will stand idly 
 by and permit, without resistance, his rights to be taken from him, any more 
 than he would submit to have his property taken from him by force unlaw- 
 fuUy. 
 
 When the weak are oppressed by the strong, the weak are forced — compelled 
 — to resist for their own personal safety. 
 
 I. bow, in humble submission, to the wUl of the Grand Master and Grand 
 Lodge in his or its constitutional rights, powers and prerogatives over the 
 degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, in its Terri- 
 torial Jurisdiction ; they being degrees lawfully and exclusively in its control 
 and keeping ; and all are bound to obey the Edicts of the Grand Master, and 
 Grand Lodge, when such Edicts are kept vrithia the constitutional power of 
 the Grand Lodge ; but if they arbitrarily and without power to do so interfere 
 to the detriment of our business, pleasure, family, or social relations, we are 
 not bound by them ; if the Grand Lodge passed a resolution, or the Grand 
 Master issued an Edict that we must surrender to it our property, or sever our 
 
84 APPENDIX. 
 
 family relations, or discontinue oui ohuroli membership, or our membership 
 in any lawful organization which we are or may become members of, we are 
 not bound to, nor would we, obey it. 
 
 The Grand Master and the Grand Lodge have their bounds which they can- 
 not pass, they are well defined by the Constitution and Ancient Landmarks, 
 and are well understood. 
 
 In the report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence of the Grand 
 Lodge of New York in 1874, written by its Chairman, Most Worshipful James 
 Gibson, past Grand Master, reviewing the proceedings of Iowa, for 1873, he 
 says : 
 
 "The Grand Lodge of Iowa is Supreme within the Jurisdiction of Iowa, but 
 not infallible. It is composed of men, who though Masons, are of like pass- 
 ions as other men, and as liable to error. We are believers in non-interference 
 with the exercise of that jurisdiction in any other way, or for any other pur- 
 pose than the general benefit, protection or safety of the Craft. 
 
 "Grand Lodges are not possessed of absolute unquestioned and despotic 
 power. There never was u time in Ancitnt Craft Masonry, when even a 
 Grand Master had any such authority as that — and his power is older and 
 greater than that of the Grand Lodge. The Craft are Free Masons. They 
 are not, and never were slaves. Indeed, the bondman could never be a Crafts- 
 man, as he was not free-bom. The Institution is cosmopolitan in its charac- 
 ter, and embraces in its membership many different nationalities, creeds, 
 races and conditions ***** 
 
 "If the Grsnd Lodge of Kew York ghoul, at its next Annual Communica- 
 tion, order the esoteric (secret) work of Masonry, or any part of it, to be 
 printed, and a copy put in the custody of each Lodge, she would thereby 
 violate a landmark, and her offence, instead of being lessened in its criminality 
 by the fact of her being a Grand Lodge, would, on the contrary, be greatly 
 increased, as the evil consequences of the crime, and the distinguished station 
 she occupies, would magnify her guilt. " 
 
 When a Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons so far forgets its dignity 
 that it will lend itself to the npholding the falling fortunes of a body or oi^an- 
 ization over which it has not, and never had, control or authority, it is not 
 speaking harsh of it, to say that it occupies a very peculiar position as a Grand 
 Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. 
 
 The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite of the Southern and Northern Juris- 
 diction is weak and helpless, indeed if they are compelled to call upon the 
 Grand Lodges and say : 
 
 •'Help me, or I sink." 
 
 We ask no such help ; and being in the right, we will not surrender our 
 manhood at the command or caprice of any one. 
 
 We fear no intimidation, persecution nor danger. 
 
 We are entirely self-reliant, and abundantly able to take care of ourselves in 
 all emergencies. 
 
 Fraternally and Courteously submitted, 
 
 JOHN J. GOKMAN, 33°, 
 
 Grand Commander. 
 
APPENDIX. 86 
 
 I received from M.W. Brother Harrison Dingman, Grand Mas- 
 ter of Masons, District of Columbia, tlie following Edict, to 
 which I replied by letter, hereto appended : 
 
 Edict No. 1. 
 
 Office of the Grand Master, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, of the District of Columbia. 
 
 Masonic Temple, 
 Washington, D. C, July 25, 1889. 
 To the W. Master, Wardens and 
 
 Brethren of Lodge No ; 
 
 Whereas, The Grand Lodge of Masons of the District of 
 Columbia, at a Stated Communication, held under date of 
 January 11, 1870, passed the following resolution reported from 
 the Committee on Jurisprudence, viz. :. 
 
 Resolved, By the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, 
 that, until the G-rand Orient of Prance annuls all its decrees, 
 edicts, and resolutions, recognizing the spurious Grand Council 
 of the State of Louisiana, all Masonic intercourse between that 
 Grand Orient and this Grand Lodge be, and is hereby dissolved ; 
 and all Freemasons owing allegiance to this Giand Lodge are for- 
 bidden to receive as visitors, or hold Masonic intercourse with, 
 any Freemason owing allegiance to said Grand Orient of France, 
 or any Masonic body under its jurisdiction. 
 
 This Committee consisted of M. W, Brother Benj. B. French, 
 M. W. Brother Ohas. F. Stansbury, and R. W. Brother John 
 Lockie. 
 
 And Whereas, Competent and lawful Masonic information 
 having reached me that the organization known as the Gorgas- 
 Cerneau Scottish Rite has entered into and holds fraternal rela- 
 tions with the Grand Orient of France and Masonic bodies under 
 its jurisdiction, and is in communication with Masonic bodies 
 that this Grand Lodge has declared unlawful and forbidden inter- 
 course with. 
 
 Now, therefore, we, Harrison Dingman, Most Worshipful 
 Grand Master of Masons in and for the District of Columbia, and 
 . Masonic Jurisdiction thereunto belonging, by virtue of the powers 
 and authorities in us vested, and in performance of the duties of 
 our office, do hereby declare that it is not consistent with the 
 duty of any brother under the Grand Lodge-of the District of 
 Columbia to seek or retain membership in the said Gorgas-Cerneau 
 organization, and any brother of this Jurisdiction continuing his 
 membership in any said Gorgas-Cerneau body after the reading 
 of this Edict in the Masonic Lodge of which he may be a 
 member, renders himself liable to suspension from ail the rights 
 and privileges of Masonry for continued disobedience of the 
 
86 APPENDIX. 
 
 resolution of llie Grand Lodge of date of January 11, 1870, above 
 cited. 
 
 And we do also prohibit any of tlie Lodges of this Jurisdiction 
 granting the use of their place of meeting for the practice of the 
 said Gorgas-Cerneau Rite, or for holding any Communication in 
 any room or rooms occupied by any body known as the Gorgas- 
 Cerneau Rite of Scottish Masonry 
 
 And we do furtiier direct all Masters of Lodges under our 
 authority not to admit as a visitor to their Lodges any person 
 claiming to be a Free and Accepted Mason who is a member of 
 any body of the said G-orgas-Cerneau Rite, either in this or any 
 other Masonic Jurisdiction, and to include in the recognized and 
 imperative -test to be administered to persons examined as visitors 
 to their Lodges the statement by such visitors that he is not a 
 member of any body acknowledging allegiance to the said Gorgas- 
 Cerneau Rite, and whose members are hereby refused admissiou 
 into any Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons within the District 
 of Columbia, the same being in strict accordance with the resolu- 
 tion of this Grand Lodge, heretofore cited. 
 
 As obedience and loyalty to duly constituted authority is one 
 of the great characteristics of the brethren of this Jurisdiction, 
 I shall expect prompt action on the part of any and all brethren 
 of the Lodges of this District affected by this Edict. 
 
 Secretaries of Lodges are directed to promptly notify the R.W. 
 Grand Secretary of the date this Edict and accompanying copy 
 of decision were read in their Lodges. 
 
 Given under our hand and seal, at the City of Washington, 
 District of Columbia, the twenty-fll'th day of July, A. D., 1889, 
 A. L., 5889. 
 
 Harrison Dingman, 
 
 Grand Master. 
 
 Office of the Ch-and Commander, 
 
 No. 2, West Uth Street, 
 
 New York, August bth, 1889. 
 
 Most Worshipful Harrison Dingman, 
 
 Grand Master of Masons, District of Golvmbia. 
 Most Worshipful and Dear Brother : 
 
 I have received your printed Edict, No. 1, of July 25th, 1889, 
 for which I thank /on. 
 
 I also thank you for the honest, fraternal and Masonic manner 
 with which you treat the subject. 
 
 " You put the saddle on the right horse." 
 
 Some of the Grand Masters, particularly Kentucky and Penn- 
 sylvania, who have issued Edicts based on the Seymour-Peckham- 
 
APPENDIX. 87 
 
 Grorgas frailties, liave so written tliem tiuit by inipHcation the 
 Supi'eme Council Ancient and Accepted Kite, of wliicli I am Ihe 
 Grand Coininander, has been ingeniously made to appear as con- 
 nected with that spurious body by the unsparing use of the term 
 " Cerneau Eite." We are not the " Cerneau Rite," so Called qnd 
 advertised 
 
 We are the Supreme Council Ancient and Accepted Rite for the 
 United States ol America, their Territories and B'ependeiici'^s, 
 with power and authority emanating from the Grand Orients pt 
 Paris and Bordeaux, in lf61, through Stephen Morii|,~Antoine, 
 Mathieu, Dupotet, Joseph Cerneau, DeWitt Clinton, Edmund \i. 
 flays, Hopkins Thompson, and tlieir successors in office. 
 
 I am very much pleased to know that you have isgiied this 
 Edict in the form you have, and for several other reasons, to 
 wit : 
 
 1st. The Grand Orient of Trance, since 1810, lias been very 
 properly declared clandestine by everyl Grand Lodge of Fi-ee- 
 masons in the United States of America. 
 
 2nii. Every Master Mason inust.and does agree that he will not 
 sit in a clandestine Lodge of Freemasons, iior will lie hold 
 Masonic intercourse with a clandestine made Mason. If he does 
 so he violates his agreement as aMasori, and consequently is liable 
 to reprimand, suspension, or "expulsion after a liiir and iniparlial 
 trial and conviction. 
 
 3rd. Each aiid every Master Mason in the Seymour, Peckliain, 
 Gorgas body, Is represented and in fraternal correspondence with 
 the clandestine Grand Orient of France, through Alpha 0. 
 Munro, their duly accredited Representative, near that Grand 
 Orient, in violation of his agreement as a Master Msison ; and his 
 memhership in said Peckiiam-Gorgas body should at once and in 
 writing be discontinued, as there can be na question as to your 
 constitutional i-ight to issue Edict No. 1, of July^ 1889. 
 
 4th. A Freemason ought not to object to any act of a Grand 
 Master or a Grand Lodge when he or it does not exceed the 
 power given them by the Constitution and Ancient Landmarks of 
 Freemasonry, which are clearly defined and well understood. 
 
 Again thanking you for the manly honorable fraternnl and 
 Masonic manner in which you place your very proper Edict before 
 the Masonic world. 
 
 I am, with great respect. 
 
 Yours truly, courteously, and fraternally, 
 John J. Gorman, 33°, 
 '' Grand Commander. 
 
88 
 
 AEPK.NDIX. 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SUPREME COUNCIL, 33° 
 
 For tlie-U. S. A., '4lieir TerritorieSrand 
 Deppiideiirips. 
 
 Tootle &lory of tie Graim ArcWect of tie Uniyerse. 
 
 UHION-CONTENTMENT-WISDOM. 
 
 From the Qrr.Eist of Sap. •.Council of Sov.:Gi::Insp.-/Cfen.:S'id and laxl 
 degree Anc.-.mvd Acc.^SeoUlsh Biti for the Dai/aJ iStotes of America, their 
 'I eerUories and D pendencifs underthe C. C. of the Z., near the B. B., ans- 
 viering to the AO deg. 42 min. 40 sec. S.L., iind2deg. 51 min. sec. E.L., 
 meridiion of Wti.ih'mglnv City. 
 
 ORDO AB CHAOS. 
 
 Office of the Gkand CoMiatNDKB, No. 2 West i'DTJUTEKNiH St., 
 
 ■New Yoke, August 15th, 18t9. 
 
 OHIO. 
 
 Encyclical. 
 Brethijkn : 
 
 1'lie peculiar contKoversy between the Ohio Grand 
 Lodge, its snbordinat&' and jjwJividftal members, on account of 
 the Scottisli Eite affiliation, still exists. 
 
 It will be observed, however, that it is now entirely confined to 
 bodies of the York Rite in Ohio and elsewhere ; that Scottish 
 Rite bodies, as such, both Grand and subordinate, are going on 
 in the even teuor of their way, each attending to their own affairs, 
 paying no further attention to each other than if they did not 
 exist — regretting, however; the foolish actions of Grand Lodges, 
 Grand Masters and officious brethren, madly chasing a,ii igiiis 
 fatuus and quarrelling with each other because they cannot clutch 
 'it. 
 
 There are now in Ohio two thousand Master Masons who are 
 affiliated with the Northern Jurisdiction Scottish Rite — the 
 aggressors, and about twenty-nine thousand Master Masons who 
 are not connected in any way with the Scottish Eite — the 
 afflicted. Well might this large afflicted majority exclaim, with 
 the poet, Brother Robert Burns : 
 
 ' ' wad some power the gif tie gi'e us 
 To see oursels as others see us." 
 
APPENDIX. 89 
 
 The cause of the controversy in Ohio is as follows : On the 
 13th of August, 1884, twenty-two brethren of the city of Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, who were members in good and i-egular standing in 
 their Master Masons' Lodge, also in the bodies subordinate to the 
 Supreme Council Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, did in a manly 
 and Masonic manner withdraw from the Northern Jurisdiction 
 bodies, of which they had been members, in the presence of a 
 large number of members of said body then assembled, for causes 
 which to them seemed right and proper, and on the 37th day of 
 August, 1884, affiliated with this Supreme Council, organized 
 bodies and quietly proceeded with their work, not giving any 
 cause, other than the fact of their existence, for offence, annoy- 
 ance, dispute or argument ; doing all in their power to prevent 
 controversy, and to make all with whom they came in contact 
 happy. Notwithstanding this a controversy was inconsiderately 
 precipitated in 1886, by the Grand Master of Ohio, a Northern 
 Jurisdiction 33d, the practical result of which was to cause the 
 Master Masons in that jurisdiction to be unhappy — setting bro- 
 ther against brother, making its theretofore harmonious Grand 
 Lodge a divided body, the minority being oppressed with such 
 severity and unfairness that they were compelled to inroke the 
 aid of the law for protection. 
 
 See decision No. 355, Grand Lodge of/ Ohio, which is: "It is' 
 not a Masonic offence to invoke the law for one's protection." 
 
 The ill-advised and hasty action of the Grand Lodge in confirm- 
 ing the deceptive, ridiculous, unwise and unnecessary decisions 
 of the Grand Master made this state of affairs possible. He evi- 
 dently forgot the usual parting admonition to Masons: "Let 
 brotherly love prevail, and every moral and social virtue cement 
 us.'/ 
 
 The course pursued by the Grand Master was to make a de- 
 cision on a question that he reported as having been asked him, 
 then ask the Grand Lodge to sustain him in said decision. 
 
 He made two such decisions, each of which was confirmed by 
 the Grand Lodge. The first was March 31st, 1886, in which he 
 said :" The question comes to me from so many sources as : 
 " to the propriety of lodges in this jurisdiction occupying halls, 
 jointly with such organizations" (meaning bodies in obedience to: 
 this Supreme Council), "that I have decided, and now hold, tha-t 
 rule 79 of our Code of Masonic Jurisprudence bars lodges in this 
 jurisdiction from occupying halls jointly with such organiz- 
 ations." 
 
 At that time we had bodies in three places only in the State of 
 Ohio, neither of which, as I am informed, asked permission, or 
 desired, to occupy rooms jointly with any other organization. 
 
 Kule 79, Code of Masonic Jurisprudence: "No subordinate 
 lodge in this jurisdiction shall permit its lodge-room to be used 
 by any other society or order whatsoever, nor shall it occupy any 
 hall or room jointly with any other society or order, except by 
 special permission of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master ; but 
 
90 APPENDIX. 
 
 nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prohibit a sub- 
 ordinate lodge from using rooms jointly with a Chapter of Eoyal 
 Arch Masons, a Masonic Council or Commandery, OK a Masonic 
 
 BODY." 
 
 It will be noticed that the last clause in rule 79, Code of Ma- 
 sonic Jurisprudence, is in these words : '• or a Masonic body." 
 
 What is a Masonic body ? 
 
 It is a congregation or organization of a body composed exclu- 
 sively of lawful and regular Free and Accepted Masons. 
 
 The Grand Lodge of Ohio very properly rule thab the Northern 
 Jurisdicbion is a Masonic body. It very improperly rules that we 
 are unmasonic — meaning not Masonic; not a Masonic body. 
 
 N"o mabter how Grand Lodges may rule, the fact remains ; if 
 they r«led white was black, it would nob be a facb, nor wpuld it 
 be believed. We are a Masonic body, because brethren of our 
 obedience must all be Master Masons in good and regular stand- 
 ing in just and duly-constituted lodges of Free and Accepted 
 Masons under obedience to a Grand Lodge in fraternal corre- 
 spondence with the Grand Lodges of the United States of Amer- 
 ica, before advancement to our degree. 
 
 I might give many other reasons why we are a Masonic body, 
 not known to the Mason who has not advanced beyond the Master 
 Mason's degree, but I am of the opinion that what I have said is 
 sufficient. 
 
 I will now show you Grand Master Williams' inconsistency 
 and the bhoughtlessness of the members of the Grand Lodge in 
 their hasty and inconsiderate action in relation to joint occupancy 
 of meeting or lodge rooms. 
 
 In his address to the Grand Lodge, ab ibs meeting October 35th, 
 
 1887, he said that between Ocbober, 1886, and October, 1887, he 
 had issued dispensations to Argus Lodge, No. 545, Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, to permit the Order of Odd Fellows to meet 
 jointly in said Argus Lod^e rooms ; also to Geneva Lodge, No. 
 335, Free and Accepted Masons, to accommodate a lodge of 
 Knights of Pythias to meet in lodge-rooms jointly with Geneva 
 Lodge ; and that Winchester Lodge, No. 336, were meeting in 
 the room jointly with an Odd Fellows' lodge ; and further re- 
 ported three old cases, to wit : Xenia Lodge No. 49, Ashley 
 Lodge No. 407, and Roome Lodge No. 535. 
 
 At the next meeting of the Ohio Grand Lodge, October 23d, 
 
 1888, he reported that he had granted the request of Lawrence 
 Lodge. No. 198, Free and Accepted Masons, to jointly occupy 
 hall with Knights of Pythias ; also that he had permitted Sharon- 
 ville Lodge, No. 204, to occupy hall jointly with Knights of 
 Pythias, and that the same privilege was granted West Union 
 Lodge, No. 43, also Xenia Lodge, No. 49. 
 
 It is perhaps unnecessary to say that neither Odd Fellows nor 
 Knights of Pythias require their members to be Master Masons. 
 
 The Grand Lodge failed, in each year, to take any notice of 
 these joint meetings. 
 
APPENDIX. 91 
 
 The Grand Master and Grand. Lodge forbid lodges of Master 
 Masons to meet in rooms with our bodies,' whose members must 
 be Master Masons, but permit them to meet with bodies of the 
 profane. — How inconsistent, and unlike Masons ! 
 
 When Grand Master Williams, in October, 1887, reported to 
 the Grand Lodge his second decision that bodies in obedience to 
 the Supreme Council United Sta,tes of America, their Territories 
 and Dependencies, were irregular, illegal and unmasonic, he 
 again showed his inconsistency, and he wilfully deceived the 
 Grand Lodge and the Masons of Ohio. He well knew his decision 
 was deceptive, and not correct, because he had said, two years 
 previously, that we were right, and advised brethren who were 
 about to affiliate with us to go ahead — that he was with them at 
 heart — and further said that if it were not for the fear of jeop- 
 ardising his chances for election as Grand Master he would go 
 with them. 
 
 I will now ask your attention to the question of our regularity 
 and legality as a Supreme Council Ancient and Accepted Scottish 
 Rite. Let us see what Brother Henry L. Palmer, Grand Com- 
 mander, and Brother Oliiiton F. Paige, Grand Secretary-General 
 of the Northern Jurisdiction Supreme Council, have to say about 
 regularity and legality. 
 
 Prom page 156, Proceedings Supreme Council Northern Ma- 
 sonic Jurisdiction for 1882, I copy the following, being a circular 
 letter issued by Brother Henry L. Palmer, Grand Commander, 
 and Brother tilinton F. Paige, Grand Secretary-General: "On 
 the 7th of February, 1863, a solemn Treaty of iJnion was entered 
 into, without a dissenting voice, between the Supreme Councils 
 commanded by Edward A. Eaymond and Edmund B. Hays, and 
 a new Council was evolved under the name of the Supreme Coun- 
 cil of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the United 
 States of America, its Territories and Dependencies, Illustrious 
 Brother Edmund B. Hays becoming the Grand Commander, and 
 Illustrious Brother Edward A. Raymond Deputy Grand Com- 
 mander ;— thus all there ever was of either of the bodies known 
 as the Cerneau Supreme Council or the Raymond Supreme Coun- 
 cil were merged into the new and united organization, beyond the 
 power of any combination of Inspectors-General to again revive 
 either of the former ones." 
 
 In 1864 Brother Edward A. Raymond died. December lith, 
 1865. Grand Commander Edmund B. Hays resigned his office, 
 and Brother Simon W. Robinson was elected Grand Commander 
 in his place and stead. 
 
 December 13th. 1866, Brother Simon W. Robinson, who was 
 Grand Commander of the Union Council, declared the Raymond 
 Council resuscitated and the Union Council dissolved ; and also 
 declared that " the Union Council being dissolved, its members are 
 consequently absolved from the oath of fealty, and may lawfully 
 resuscitate the Raymond Council, and exercise all the rights, 
 
92 APPENDIX. 
 
 privileges and functions to which it was entitled previous to its 
 union with the Hays Council." 
 
 And by this act of usurpation it was so resuscitated. 
 
 This resuscitation is the act which Brother Henry L. Palmer, 
 Grand Commander, and Brother Clinton F. Paige, Grand Secre- 
 tary-General Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction, say offici- 
 ally over their signatures, was not in the power of any combina- 
 nation of Inspectors-General to again revive either of the former 
 ones — Hays. or Eaymond. 
 
 Brother Simon W. Kobinson and his associates having so re- 
 vived the Eaymond Council in 1866. it is consequently from ille- 
 gitimate, unlawf nl, usurped origin— it being beyond the power of 
 any combination of Inspectors- General to honestly or lawfully 
 resuscitate it. 
 
 Now, it being irregular, unlawful, and dishonestly brought into 
 existence in 1866, it could not possibly have been made regular 
 and legitimate in 1867 by its union with the Van Eenssalaer body, 
 which was positively an illegitimate, irregular, unlawful, clan- 
 destine body during the entire time of its existence [this is the 
 body that Enoch T. Carson, of Ohio, was a member of], and so 
 publicly branded by Brothers Albert Pike, Edward A. Eaymond, 
 Simon W. Eobinson, Edmund B. Hays, Hopkins Thompson, 
 John W. Simons, Daniel Sickels, Henry L. Palmer, Clinton E. 
 Paige, Charles T. McClenachan and others north and south, 
 many of them under the ban of expulsion, and were only restored 
 to membership by the terms of the Union of 1867. Therefore, 
 the Northern Jurisdiction body that the Ohio Grand Lodge recog- 
 nizes as regular, legal and Masonic, is, by the showing of Brothers 
 Henry L. Palmer (its Grand Commander) and Clinton F. Paige 
 (Grand Secretary-General), irregular, illegitimate and illegal be- 
 yond question or doubt. 
 
 Brothers Henry L. Palmer and Clinton F. Paige each received 
 the thirty-third and last degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish 
 Eite from and by authority of Illustrious Brother Edmund B 
 Hays, Grand Commander, and Hopkins Thompson, Lieutenant- 
 Commander, of the Supreme Council United States of America, 
 their Territories and Dependencies, and at that time both were 
 proud to be known as " Cerneau men." The only change that 
 has since taken place with them is their taking the oath of fealty 
 to the irregular, illegal Northern Jurisdiction body, which is now 
 a rival of their old Mother Supreme Council. 
 
 Does this new oath of fealty maiie them regular, legal and Ma- 
 sonic in the opinion of the Ohio Grand Lodge — said oath of fealty 
 being the only difference existing between them as " Cernean 
 men" and Northern Jurisdiction men? 
 
 What a peculiar position Ohio occupies on the Scottish EJte 
 question. 
 
 What, then, was the position of the Cemeau Hays Council ? 
 
 The Eaymond Council having withdrawn from the Articles oj 
 Consolidation and their agreement with the Hays Council of 1863, 
 
APPENDIX. 93 
 
 and Kaving left it without an organization or head, and "kept its 
 members in ignorance of the fact until they learned of their con- 
 dition and how they had been deceived from the '-Eeprint" of 
 the Proceedings of the Northern Jurisdiction published in 1881, 
 tliey were in honor bound to resuscitate and continue the Hays 
 Con iicil and the Consolidated Council of 1863. All the bad faith 
 and irregularity was with those who unlawfully resuscitated the 
 former Eaymond Council and ruthlessly abandoned the Hays 
 Council in 1866 — for full history of which see my annual address 
 f()r]888. 
 
 Hopkins Thompson, who was Lieutenant-Commander under 
 Grand Commander Edmund B. Hays, and ten Sovereign Grand 
 Inspectors- General^all of whom were members of the Hays 
 Council previous to the union or consolidation of 1863 — revived' 
 and reorganized the Hays Council in 1881. and are now the reg- 
 ular, lawful, legitimate Supreme Council of the Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottish Rite for the United States of America, their 
 Territories and Dependencies. ' 
 
 We have no affiliation nor connection, directly nor indirectly, 
 with the organization who advertise themselves as the "Cerneau 
 Rite," who are in fraternal correspondence with the Grand Orient 
 of France, which is repudiated by this and all regular Masonic 
 bodies in the United States of America, and is now presided over 
 by Brother F. J. S. Gorgas, of Baltimore, Maryland, and has its 
 headquarters in the city of New York. 
 
 We are not the " Cerneau Rite;" we are the Ancient and Ac- 
 cepted Scottish Rite for the United States of America, their 
 Territories and Dependencies. 
 
 At Dayton, Ohio, the Grand Lodge affirmed the improper de- 
 cision of Grand Master Williams by a vote, as I am informed and 
 believe, obtained by members influential in the Ancient and Ac- 
 cepted Rite Northern Jurisdiction personally importuning voters 
 to vote in their interest as a matter of personal favor to them ; 
 also by promise of preferment to those ambitious for Masonic 
 honors, and by threatening and intimidating others — thus ob- 
 taining votes on a vital question under false pretence, the vote 
 being on the question of sustaining the report of Committee on 
 Masonic Jurisprudence. 
 
 This committee was composed entirely of Northern Jurisdic- 
 tion brethren, to wit : Brothers Allen Andrews, J. W. Chamber- 
 lin, C. A. Woodward, C. C. Kiefer, W. M. Cunningham. Fair- 
 ness ought to have suggested that the committee who were to 
 have this important matter committed to them should have had 
 at least a minority representation. But not so : the Grand 
 Master named a committee who he well knew — as I am informed 
 — would unanimously recommend the confirmation of his unwise 
 decisions, evidently fearful of the result of a minority report. 
 
 All who are familiar with Grand Lodge legislation know that 
 the unanimous report of a committee on any subject has the sym- 
 pathy of the Grand Lodge ; but when a minority report is pre- 
 
94 APPENDIX. 
 
 sented, the discussion thereon will bring out the full history and 
 facts, and, when proper to do so, will negative the majority 
 report. 
 
 In consequence of the adoption of this report. Grand Master 
 Williams was guilty of a series of outrages unheard of before in 
 Freemasonry— to wit : refusing to permit brethren to be installed 
 as lodge ofBcers after they had been regularly elected to said office 
 and against whom there were no charges preferred or pending, 
 they being members of their lodges in good and regular standing, 
 he declaring such elections null and void on the ground simply 
 and only because they were Scottish Kite Masons, but not of the 
 same branch of which he was a member. 
 
 He informed the lodge members that if they did not cast their 
 votes for lodge officers in favor of those who were not ot the Su- 
 preme Council of the United States of America he would declare 
 the lodge in contempt and treat her accordingly." 
 
 He refused the officers elect the right to speak in their own 
 behalf, in their own lodge, at a regular communication thereof ; . 
 nor would he permit any other brother to speak for them or to 
 ask any question concerning his action in this matter, but arbi- 
 trarily said in answer to all that "he was the law." 
 
 I am informed that early in the session of the Grand Lodge in 
 1888, a leading member of the Northern Jurisdiction '"passed 
 the word to let all who wish get their pay at once and go home," 
 and when the time was propitious, next to the last act before 
 closing the Grand Lodge, a very large number of the representa- 
 tives having left for their homes, the following resolutions were 
 sprung on the few who remained to its close, and were 
 adopted. 
 
 I here give the resolutions in full to show how Masonic broth- 
 erly love and affection is understood by the Northern Jurisdiction 
 Scottish Kite brethren in Ohio. Well might the Master Mason 
 say: "If this is brotherly love as taught in Scottish Rite Ma- 
 sonry, I want none of it ! " 
 
 Permit me to digress here to say that we do not teach that kind 
 of brotherly love in the Supreme Council United States of Amer- 
 ica, their Territories and Dependencies. We teiich and practice 
 what we were early in our Masonic career taught, i.e., to view our 
 brother's interest as inseparable from our own. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 "Whereaa, TMs Grand Lodge, at its annual communication in October, 1887,. 
 declared the bodies calling tbemselves ' The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite for 
 the United States of America, their Territories and Dependencies, ' and com- 
 monly called the 'Cerneau Rite,' to be 'irregular, illegal and un-Masonic, ' and 
 that tiiey ought not to be countenanced or recognized in any manner by breth- 
 ren under obedience to this Grand Lodge ; 
 
 And whereas. Brethren subordinate to the authority of this Grand Lodge are 
 stiU selling and conferring the Cerneau and other degrees, pronounced to be 
 irregular, to Master Masons in this jurisdiction, and are hereby -violating the 
 laws of this Grand body ; therefore it be 
 
 "Resolved, That any Mason, subordinate to the authority of this Grand 
 
APPENDIX. 95 
 
 Lodge, who shall hereafter take, or receive, or oommunioate or be present at, 
 or assist any one to take or apply for said degrees, or any of them, shall be 
 subject, after due trial under the code, to expulsion from all the rights and 
 privileges of Masonry." 
 
 The resolutions having been held back until almost the close 
 of the Grand Lodge, I am informed that a large number of the 
 Freemasons in Ohio — Masters, Past Masters, Wardens and lodge 
 ofiBcers, and those who are not officials — regard their adoption 
 purely as a trick of legislation, such as is often attempted in 
 legislative bodies during the closing hours — sometimes, as in this 
 case, with success — binding, however, when adopted, and must 
 be submitted to until repealed or until a ease is brought for trial 
 under and by virtue of them, and the finding approved by the 
 Grand Lodge. 
 
 The bad effect of the adoption of these resolutions, and the 
 continued persecution by the Grand Lodge of Ohio of Master 
 Masons under its jurisdiction, is shown by thirty-six brethren at 
 Zanesville, who were active, zealous, honest affiliated Master Ma- 
 sons, renouncing their allegiance to the Grand Lodge of Ohio ; 
 one of them — Worshipful Brother William M. Shinnick, Sr. — 
 has been a Mason for forty-four years, nineteen years of which 
 he was Master of Amity Lodge, No. 5, and for the past thirteen 
 years its Treasurer. Their action, on June Idth, 1889, was as 
 follows : 
 
 At a meeting of Master Masons, members in good standing of 
 Amity Lodge, No. 5. and Lafayette Lodge, No. 79, Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, in Zanesville, and of brethren affiliated with' 
 lodges situate elsewhere in Ohio, said lodges being constituent 
 to the Grand Ludge of Masons of the York Rite in Ohio, the 
 following was unanimously voted : 
 
 " Wherea<:, a demand has been made to a number of our brethren forrentm- 
 ciation or af&liation with and allegiance and obedience to, the Supreme Council 
 of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite of Masonry for the United States of 
 America, its Territories and Dependencies, said demand emanating from the 
 aforesaid Grand Lodge of the York Kite in the State of Ohio ; and, wtierean, it 
 is believed a similar demand will be made of each of us ; and, whereas, the said 
 Grand Lodge of Master Masons for the State of Ohio, as set out in its publish- 
 ed proceedings for the years 1886, 1887 and 1888, a copy of which last has been 
 denied us, did declare and proclaim the Supreme Council of said Ancient and 
 Accepted Rite of Masonry for the United States," its Territories and Dependen- 
 cies, and all bodies of said rite subordinate thereto in Ohio, ' irregular, clan- 
 destine and un-Masonic'; and whereas, we believe that this declaration was 
 obtained from thci members of said Grand Lodge by misrepresentation and 
 intimidation, and for the purpose of controlling said body for the benefit of a 
 branch of Scottish Eite Masonry, known as the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction 
 of the United States, of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite, the same being 
 disconnected from and foreign to said Grand Lodge, but whose avowed pur- 
 pose is to control every branch of Freemasonry not heretofore of its obedience; 
 and whereas, said legislation is opposed to a free constitu ional form of gov- 
 ernment, is subversive of personal liberty and disregards the rights of con- 
 science, interferes witb free thought and social choice, and seeks to establish 
 on the ruins of Freemasonry a system of vassalage to an absolute despotism ; 
 and whereas, imder that despotism the right of a free, separate and impartial 
 trial of each person accused is denied, the right of defense and of representation 
 by coimsel refused, the power to question the constitutionality of its laws 
 
96 APPENDIX. 
 
 nullified, thus rendering an accusation tantamount to conviction ; and whereas, 
 the right of casting an untrammeled ballot for the acquittal or con-riotion of one 
 charged with an ofiense is denied, and we are commanded to deposit our ballots 
 for conviction regardless of the evidence produced at trial, thus reducing a trial 
 to an idle ceremony in which even the appearance of impartiality is not observ- 
 ed ; and whereas, some of us have been denied, while in good standing in our 
 lodges, the right of holding office therein, although legally elected thereto, and 
 have been refused installation into such offices without trial or opportunity to 
 defend or justify ourselves ; and whereas, without any charge involving conduct 
 unbecoming a worthy citizen having been made against us, we are denied rights 
 of visitation, affiliation and recognition by our brethren ; and wherto-s, the 
 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite of Freemasonry for the United States, its 
 Territories and Dependencies, is a branch of Freemasonry independent of and 
 separate from the system of Masonry known as York Kite Masonry, and the 
 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of 
 the United States is likewise a body separate and distinct from said York Kite 
 Masonry, by reason of which, a York Rite Mason as such, can have no know- 
 ledge of either of said branches of Scottish Bite Masonry; and wherens, the 
 said Northern Jurisdiction has obtained control of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, 
 York Bite, and is using the same as a means in an attempt to crush what it 
 considers a rival in Scottish Bite Masonry ; and whereas, it is using the means 
 above mentioned iu utter disregard of the welfare of York Bite Masonry and 
 with fuU knowledge of the great injury which is being daily worked upon that 
 rite ; and whereas, the said Northern Jurisdiction has by such acts engendered 
 dissension and discord, and has undermiued and is destroying that fraternal 
 sympathy which should underlie true Freemasonry ; and whereas, an ' irregu- 
 lar ' Masonic body is a body of Masons working without due form of Masonic 
 law and therefore not entitied to recognition ; and a 'clandestine' Masonic body 
 is a body of Masons having no warrant or charter empowering it to work ; and 
 ah ' un-Masonic ' body is a body of persons not Masons, and therefore, as a 
 body, not amenable to Masonic discipline, but entitled, under the Constitution 
 and laws of the commonwealth of Ohio, to the enjoyment of the privileges of 
 citzenship without molestation, threat, hindrance, aspersion or disgrace ; and 
 whereas, the aforesaid Grand Lodge of Ohio, Free and Accepted Masons, a 
 body deriving its just powers solely from constituent lodges within the State 
 of Ohio, has formally declared and proclaimed as above and has ordered that 
 a Master Mason in good standing in a constituent lodge of the Grand Lodge of 
 Ohio, and being also a member of the aforesaid Ancient and Accepted Scottish 
 Kite for the United States of America, its Territories and Dependencies, declared 
 not Masonic by said Grand Lodge, and therefore not amenable to said body, 
 shaU forth «-ith renounce his allegiance and obedience to the aforesaid Scottish 
 Kite, or, refusing, shall be expelled from his Master M ason lodge ; 
 
 "Now, Theeefoke, reaffirming our love for Freemasonry in its true and 
 nobler sense, with full confidence in the justice of our cause, with a decent re- 
 spect for ourselves, our brethren and the cause of civil and masonic liberty, 
 we, the undersigned. Master Masons in good standing in our respective lodges, 
 within the jurisdiction of the aforesaid Grand Lodge of Master Masons in 
 Ohio, and being charged with no offense other than t£at of membership in the 
 aforesaid Ancient and Accepted Scoi tish Kite for the United States of America 
 its Territories and Dependencies, do hereby renounce our allegiance and obe- 
 dience to the aforesaid Grand Lodge of Ohio, as now constituted, and this we 
 do hereby publish and proclaim. " 
 
 The renunciation was signed by W. H. Shinnick, C. C. Wiles, 
 G. F. Little, H. Culbertson, E. C. Wortman, W. M. Bateman, 
 T. P. Wiles, R. S. Mershon. H. A. Sharpe, K. M. Bausli, John 
 H. Crooks. X. S. Chandler, George R. Clements, William E. 
 Matthews, E. L. Roe. John K. Arnold, Samuel A. Thomas, 
 George Fox. W. J. Chandler. W. S. Fi-azier, Edward Spencer, 
 John B. Gurley. I. H. Stanton. John J. Thomas, Joshua Butler, 
 William M. Shinnick, jr., Henry C. Lindsay, D. G. Willey, G. 
 
APPENDIX. 97 
 
 A. Allen, Cyrus L. Atkinson, S. P. Edgar, E. P. Moorehead, T. 
 P. Spangler, T. C. Berkshire, Henry E. Stanberry. 
 
 While I am of opinion that this act was ill timed and hasty, it 
 clearly proves what must be the inevitable result of this unjust, 
 unwise, unmasonic persecution of. sincere and energetic Master 
 Masons. If the ZanesviUe brethren should carry this defection 
 further — which I sincerely hope they will not — it is almost im- 
 possible to foreshadow what the result would be. It certainly 
 would bode no good to Freemasonry in Ohio. 
 
 An old Scotch saying is: "It's easy to raise the deil, but 
 michty hard to lay 'im." 
 
 The history of all divisions among Masons has been a long, 
 unwise, unnecessary conflict and a lasting injury to Preemasonry, 
 making all unhappy while it lasts — subsequently a reconciliation 
 and uniting with a general agreement that all concerned had 
 acted foolishly. 
 
 The brethren of Ohio should present their grievances in print- 
 er's ink to every Master M^son in the State through the inail, re- 
 questing from each an expression of opinion in writing. I am 
 quite sure the result would show a great majority in their favor ; 
 and when Masonic public opinion is aroused and asserts itself for 
 right, it will sweep to one side all Masonic persecutors holding 
 temporary power in a Grand Lodge, controlling its legislation by 
 trick and device, and put forward and in power in their place 
 and stead brethren with broader views, who, are pure in motive 
 and action; who will not persecute a brother Mason fqr his 
 opinion on any subject ; who are Freemasons in principle and at 
 heart ; who have a decent respect for the opinions of others, and 
 who will always view their brother's interest as inseparable from 
 their own. 
 
 Prom the foregoing it will be observed that the situation in 
 Ohio is this: The brethren of the Scottish Kite Northern Juris- 
 diction have control of the machinery of the (Grrand Lodge ; they 
 elect a Grand Master who "will be subservient to their wishes; 
 he makes an unjust, improper and untruthful decision (decision 
 No. 4, of 188?) ; the Grand Lodge arbitrarily aflBrms it through 
 the members of the Scottish Kite Northern Jurisdiction persoii- 
 ally importuning brethren to so vote as a matter of personal favor 
 to them ; having thus affirmed such decision they then say it is 
 now the law of the Grand Lodge, and must be submitted to, right, 
 or wrong; and in consequence thereof the Grand Master and 
 Grand Lodge commence a series of acts of persecution, and when 
 such acts of injustice and persecution have become intolerable 
 they apply, under decision No. 255, Grand Lodge of Ohio, to the 
 Courts for redress ; they not being able to get it from the Grand 
 Lodge, they are further persecuted for that act by having the 
 warrant of their lodge arrested and the lodge disbanded. 
 
 Surely reason will soon return to the Grand Lodge of Ohio. 
 It certainly will if brethren will read and learn for themselves. 
 
98 APPENDIX. 
 
 The Grand Master and the Grand Lodge have their bounds 
 which they cannot pass, they are well defined by the Constitution 
 and Ancient Landmarks, and are well understood. 
 
 All are bound to obey the Edicts of the Grand Master, and Grand 
 Lodge, when such Edicts are kept within the constitutional 
 power of the Grand Lodge, but if they arbitrarily and without 
 power to do so interfere to the detriment of our business, pleasure, 
 family, or social relations, we are not bound by them ; if the 
 Grand Lodge should pass a resolution or the Grand Master issue an 
 edict that we must surrender to it our property, or sever our 
 family relations, or discontinue our church membership, or our 
 membership in any lawful organization which we are or may be- 
 come members of, we are not bound to nor would we obey it. 
 
 I here repeat my assertions from a former letter : 
 
 " Grand Lodges or Grand Masters have no constitutional nor in- 
 herent right to interfere with, or power over, a Chapter of Eoyal 
 Arch Masons. Council of Eoyal and Select Masters, Commandery 
 of Knights Templar, Temple of Mystic Shrine, Supreme Council 
 of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite. the Eoyal Masonic 
 Eite, or their constituent bodies, notwithstanding none but Master 
 Masons are eligible for the several orders named. Nor have they 
 any right, constitutional or inherent, to say what bodies or or- 
 ganizations, Masonic or other, that any Master Mason of its 
 ■ obedience shall or shall not join or become a member of ; nor 
 have they any right to demand any information from such Master 
 Masons as to who are members of the Temple of the Mystic 
 Shrine, Chapter of Eose Croix, J^odge of Perfection, Consistory, 
 or the Odd Fellows' Lodge, or Brotherhood of Engineers, or 
 Knights of Pythias, or the Church, or their political organiza- 
 tion, nor any organizations of which they may be members, as to 
 who are or may become members thereof; nor have they any 
 constitutional or inherent right to ask or demand that said Master 
 Masons shall sever their connections with any such organizations. 
 
 "The fact that a Grand Lodge adopts a resolution, or report of 
 a Committee, which is clearly beyond its constitutional power to 
 do, regardless of consequences, and that such resolution or report 
 interferes with the vested right of any Master Mason, it cannot 
 be expected that such Master Mason will stand idly by and per- 
 mit without resistance his rights to be taken from him, any more 
 than he would submit to have his property taken from him by 
 force unlawfully. 
 
 " When the weak are oppressed by the strong, the weak are forced 
 — compelled, to resist for their own personal safety. 
 
 Fraternally and courteously submitted, 
 
 JOHN J. GORMAN, 33°, 
 
 Grand Commaiider, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 99 
 
 0ff ieii^l 6oh|l(KmK)le^fIoiffs 
 
 J OF THK 
 
 SUPREME COUNCIL, 33". 
 
 For the IJ. S. A., their Territories and 
 Dependencies. 
 
 To the GI017 of the Gi&od Architect of the UiiiTeise. 
 
 UNION —CONTENTMENT — WISDOM. 
 
 From the Gr.-.Easi of the Sup.-.CouncU ff Sov.-.Gr.-.Infip.-.Qm.-.SSd and last 
 degree Anc.-.and Acc.-.Scottish Rile for the United Stales of Amerv-.n, their 
 Territories and Dependencies —under the 0. 0. of the Z, near the B. B., ans- 
 wering to the 40lh deg. 42 min. 40 sec. K L., and 2 deg. 51 mtn. sec. E. X., 
 meridUin of Washington City. 
 
 "ORDO AB CHAOS." 
 
 OFFICE OF THE GEAND COMMANDER, 
 
 No. 2 West FouBTEENin Stbeet, 
 
 New Yokk, August 25th, 1889. 
 
 NEBRASKA. 
 
 [bNCYCIJCAI/.] 
 
 Brethren : 
 
 I received the following printed circular by mail, and present 
 it in full except the name of a brother Master Mason which I 
 omit for obvious reasons. 
 
 EDICT No. 1. 
 
 GRAND LODGE OF NEBRASKA, 
 
 Anc. Free and Acc. Masons. 
 
 Ghahi> Mastee's Office, Omaha, Nebraska, July 20th, 5889. 
 To the Masters, Wardens and Brethren of all Lodges, A. F. & A.M. in Nebraska: 
 Whebeas : The Most Worshipful the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and 
 Accepted Masons of Nebraska, at its 32d annual communication held in the 
 city of Omaha for the year A.L. 5889, and on the 20th day of June, A.L. 5889, 
 without a dissenting voice adopted the following preamble and resolutions re- 
 ported to the Grand Lodge by the committee on Jurisprudence, consisting of 
 
100 APPENDIX. 
 
 the Past Grand Masters of the jurisdiction in attendance on such commnnica 
 tion, to wit : 
 
 ' ' Wheibeas : A Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons is an independent 
 and sovereign body, recognizing and having supreme jurisdiction over no other 
 degrees than those of Entered Apprentice, FeUow Craft and Master Mason, as 
 illustrated and taught by the rituals and secret work adopted by such Grand 
 Lodge : therefore be it 
 
 "Eesolvbd : That this Grand Lodge expressly declines to enter upon aiiy 
 discussion of the history, use or legitimacy of any bodies claiming to confer 
 what is known as the Scottish Bite degi-ees, or to be epmmitted to the recog- 
 nition of any such body, or to the recognition of any body conferring any de- 
 grees over which thjs Grand Lodge has no control, as being Masonic, or as 
 being a part of Ancient Craft JVIasonry. 
 
 " That we cordially endorse the law as recognized and promulgated by our 
 Grand Master. 
 
 •' 1st.— That two bodies claiming to be Masonic, of the. same grgde, cannot 
 lawfully exist in the same State at the same time. 
 
 "2d.— That the first lawfully constituted authority established in a State 
 thereby obtains exclusive jurisdiction in such territory ; and that any other 
 body of the same grade or rite entering later witliin sueh territory is in itself 
 unlawful." 
 
 And Whbkeas : It is an undisputed and indisputable historical fact that Sie 
 Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, Ancient 
 and Accepted Scottish Eite, introduced said Kite into the State of Nebraska in 
 the year 1867, and established a Lodge of Perfection at Omaha, Nebraska, at 
 that time ; that in the year 1870 the said Supreme Council organized bodies of 
 the higher degrees of the said Kite, and has claimed and exercised jurisdiction 
 over the said Bite, in the State of Nebraska from that date to the present time; 
 that no bodies of the Scottish Kite of any other allegiance organized, or 
 attempted to organize, bodies of the said Rite in the State of Nebraska prior to 
 the year 1888, when bodies of the so-called " Cemeau Kite " were established 
 in this State ; and 
 
 Whekbas : Without entering into any discussion of the history, use or 
 legitimacy of either of the two so-called " Cerneau " bodies, or of those gov- 
 erned by the said Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United 
 States, it is sufficient to say that the several bodies of the so-called ' ' Cemeau 
 Rite," presided over by either * * * * *« * or by 
 John J. Gorman (and which are hostile to each other) are, by the resolutions of 
 the Grand Lodge of Nebraska aforesaid, declared unlawful, because the terri- 
 tory in which tSiey claim to exercise jurisdiction had been occupied long prior 
 to their coming, by bodies of the same Rite under the authority of the Soutiiem. 
 Jurisdiction for the United States, presided over by Bro. Albert Pike, and 
 which is recognized as regulai- and lawful by all its peers, the several Supreme 
 Councils of the world. And 
 
 Whekeas : It has come to our knowledge that certain evilly-disposed and 
 designing members of the so-caUed " Cemeau Rite," with the intention of de- 
 ceiving the brethren of our obedience as to the action of our Grand Lodge, are 
 circulating in our midst and among the brethren garbled, inaccurate, false and 
 forged reports of such action, in writing and printing, wherein the resolutions 
 aforesaid are entirely, or in part omitted, or their language changed and 
 garbled ; and that they and certain others, iU-informed brethren, have ex- 
 pressed the determination to propagate the error of "Cerneauism," and to 
 esstablish bodies of an irregular and clandestine Kite which the Grand Lodge 
 of Nebraska has Tinequivocally pronounced unlawful. 
 
 Now Theeefobe, we, John J. Mercer, Grand Master of Masons in Nebraska? 
 in the interest of peace and harmony among the Craft in the State, and in 
 order that the uninformed may know the action of the Grand Lodge and its 
 declarations respecting the status of ' ' Cerneauism '' and of the bodies of its 
 obedience, clo hereby 
 
APPENDIX. 101 
 
 ■ OFFICIALLY DECLAEE AND MAKE KNOWN TO YOU 
 'that the oiii^ legitimate mid lawfully constituted Masonic auHioriiy of the Ancient 
 aad'AcoQpted-Sootlish Kitewithin the State of Nebraska.is that of JheSantherai 
 : Jurisdioiiion for the United States presided over by Bro. Albert Pike ; that all 
 others not acknowledging, allegiance to .the said Southern Jurisdiction are 
 
 UNLAWFUL AND CLANDESTINE, 
 «nd th^r creation and mtdnteniance is a menace to the peace, tranc^uilittyrAnd 
 harmony of the Craft in ihis Jurisdiction. 
 
 And r«re earnestlyjexhort and enjoin all brethren within our Jurisdiction to 
 refrain from joinihg any bodies of the so-called "Cerneau Rite"; andif any 
 have already become members thereof, to withdraw from such membership'Knd 
 association, tothe end that peace andiiaxmony may prevailwithin ourborders 
 And we, John J. Mercer, (Jrand Master of Masons as aforesaid, do. hereby 
 {direct and OBDEB that a copy of these presents be posted up on the anie- 
 ..roorn of e ch. Lodge of our Jurisdiction and allowed to remain .so posted ; that 
 these presents be read in open lodge at three consecutive regular meetings im- 
 mediately after the receipt of the same, to the end that all may have knowledge 
 of 'its contents; and that the same be spread at length upon the minutes of 
 each subordinate lodge ui this Jurisdiction. 
 
 And we 'do further .DIRECT and OBDEB that the Master and Secretary of 
 eat^ subordinate-lodge make due return to our Grand Secretary of the action 
 taken by each lodge in the premises, and of the full compliance herewith. 
 
 Given under our hand and our private seal as Grand Master, at Omaha, 
 'Nebraska, this 20th day of July, 5885. 
 
 JOHN J. MEK'-EB, 
 [l. s.] Grand Master. 
 
 Attbst : 
 
 WM. B. BOWEN, • [h. 8.] 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 
 Yq a observe in the Preamble .that the Grand Lo4ge of Ne- 
 braska haye decided, that they have jurisdiction over no other 
 degrees .than those of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and 
 Master Mason,. and by the Resolution, that they decline to discuss 
 the history, nse or legitimacy of the Scottish Bite degrees, or to be 
 committed to .the recognition of any body conferring degrees 
 over which the Grand Lodge have no control, and make no dis- 
 tinction between the bodies claiming to be of the Scottish Rite. 
 
 The committee on Jurisprudence reports, in addition to the 
 preamble and resolution adopted by the Grand Lodge, the 
 following : 
 
 " We cordially endorse the law as recognized and promulgated 
 by our Grand Master." 
 
 This endorsement'by the committee does not appear, however, 
 to have been acted upon ; the Grand Lodge, presumably, would 
 not so stultify itself. 
 
 1st. — That two bodies claiming to be Masonic of the same 
 grade cannot lawfully exist in the same State at the same time. 
 
 2d. — That the first lawfully constituted authority established 
 in a State thereby obtains exclusive jurisdiction in such territory, 
 and that any other body of the same grade or rite entering later 
 within such territorv, is in itself unlawful. 
 
102 APPENDIX. 
 
 If two bodies claiming to be Masonic, with power and right to 
 confer or control the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow 
 Craft or Master Mason, neither of them would be lawful, nor 
 could either of them exist lawfully one hour in Nebraska] but if 
 they do not claim the power or right to control or confer the de- 
 grees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Graf t or Master Mason, then 
 the Grand Lodge, by its vote, has "declined to recognize or 
 claim jurisdiction over any such body ; as they recognize and 
 have jurisdiction over no other degrees than those of Entered 
 Apprentice, Fellow Graft or Master Mason." Therefore the first 
 endorsement of the committee is useless and without force or 
 effect. They having no jurisdiction over such bodies, and the 
 Grand Master of Nebraska deriving all his power and auiihority 
 from, and having no power as Grand Master other than that 
 which he receives from the Grand Lodge, has issued Edict No. 1 
 of July 20th, 1889, without authority and in direct opposition to 
 the expressed will and action of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska. 
 
 Why does the Grand Master put himself in such a peculiar 
 position before the Masonic world? Is he alarmed least we, by 
 our popularity as a representative body in opposition to the 
 Southern Jurisdiction Autocratic System, absorb the greater 
 number of the eight thousand Master Masons subordinate to the 
 Grand Lodge of Nebraska, and thereby lose his popularity as a 
 32° Mason, also his chance to receive the 33d degree in conse- 
 quence thereof ? 
 
 Existing a little more than one year in Nebraska, we have one 
 hundred and ninety 14th degree brethren in that State ! ' 
 
 The bodies subordinate to the Southern Jurisdiction Scottish 
 Kite were organized in Nebraska in 1870, and after nineteen 
 years' labor have only one hundred and fifty 14th degi'ee breth- 
 ren on their rolls in that State. We synfpathize with them in 
 their un-American, Autocratic unpopularity, and invite them 
 and all Scottish Kite Masons in Nebraska to come with us, where 
 the will of the majority make the laws we are governed by. 
 
 As to No. 2, endorsed by the committee, this is also the law of 
 the Grand Master ; not of the Grand Lodge, and it falls with 
 No.l. 
 
 If, however, it is good law, the 32d degree Southern Jurisdic- 
 tion Scottish Eite Grand Master of Nebraska, would at one fell 
 swoop — by his edict — squelch and stamp out the Northern Juris- 
 diction Scottish Eite Supreme Council, so-called, as 111. Joseph 
 Cerneau, De Witt Clinton, Cadwalader D. Golden, and those as- 
 sociated with them organized it in 1807. 
 
 Emanuel De La Motta, the creator of the Northern Jurisdic- 
 tion, did not organize until 1814, seven years after Cerneau's or- 
 ganization. 
 
 If the G.-.M.-. is not more ca,reful in making, recognizing and pro- 
 mulgating Masonic law on his own personal account, he will have 
 
APPENDIX. 103 
 
 Brother Henry L. Palmer's party and Brother Albert Pike's party 
 in a Killkenny cat controversy, and compel them to call upon us 
 to settle it. He should at least wait until he is rewarded with 
 the 33d degree before he attempts to bring additional trouble in 
 the Scottish Eite. 
 
 What is his present position ? 
 
 Brother John J. Mercer, a 33° Mason of the Southern Juris- 
 diction Scottish Rite, with bombast equal to "The three tailors 
 of Tooley Street," announces to the world by a printed circular, 
 that the Supreme Council of the 33d and last degree of the An-, 
 cient and Accepted Scottish Eite for the United States of America, 
 their territories and dependencies, of which I am the Grand Com- 
 mander, is unlawful and clandestine. What nonsense ! What 
 assurance from one having no knowledge of the Scottish Eite be- 
 yond receiving the 32d degree ! 
 
 He also announces in said circular, and uses my name in full 
 in that connection, " that certaist evilly-disposed astd db- 
 
 " SIGNING MEMBERS, WITH ISTTEN-TION OF DECEIVING BRETHEEN 
 " AND CIRCULATING FOEGED REPOETS, &C., &C." 
 
 Said circular is sent by mail throughout the United States, and 
 particularly in the State and City of New York, where I reside 
 and am well known, having lived there among my neighbors, 
 respected and respectable, for over sixty years, and for thirty- 
 five years a Master Mason, always in good and regular standing.; 
 
 How silly 1 How ridiculous ! How criminal ! How untruth- 
 ful so far as I am concerned ! How undignified for a Grand 
 Master to issue, print and circulate such a paper ! 
 
 It is a criminal libel to circulate or cause to be circulated, such 
 a paper in the State of New York ; punishable by fine or impris- 
 onment or both. I do not propose, however, to proceed against 
 him criminally at this time, unless he particularly desires it. 
 
 But is it not time to discontinue this vile, cowardly sort of 
 Freemasonry, used in place of sound, discreet Masonic knowledge 
 and argument among Masons ? 
 
 Our Supreme Council is in full sympathy and accord with the 
 Grand Lodge of Nebraska, and agrees that it and all regular 
 Grand Lodges have full, exclusive and absolute power and 
 authority over the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft 
 and Master Mason, in their several territoi-ial jurisdictions ; also, 
 power to make just and equal laws, rules and regulations for the 
 government of Grand and subordinate Lodges and individual 
 Brethren, that will not conflict with the high and exalted duties 
 they owe to God, their neighbor, their country, and themselves ; 
 and such that will not interfere with their moral, social or civil 
 duties and privileges, be they what they may ; always having in 
 mind, in making and administering said laws, rules and regula- 
 tions, that it is their Ugliest duty to constantly view their Brother's 
 interest ai inseparable from their own. 
 
104 APPENDIX. 
 
 ■ This is the well-settled fundamental principle of the Supreme 
 Council Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite for the United States 
 of America, their Territories and Dependencies, founded in 1807, 
 in the city of New York,' by Illustrious Brother Joseph Oerneau. 
 Grand Commander ; D'eWitt Clinton, Governor of the State of 
 New York; Cadwalader D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New 
 York, and those associated with them, and successfully continued 
 from Joseph Oerneau, SS**, through De Witt Clinton, 33"; Elias 
 Hicks, 33°; Edmund B. Hays, 33°; Hopkins Thompson, 33°, to 
 John J. Gorman, 33°. 
 
 As early as 1808 it sent a communication to the Grand Lodge of 
 New York, disclaiming any power or authority over the degrees of 
 llntered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason ; and neither 
 since that time, nor at any time during their entire existence, 
 have they in any way interfered with or confei"red either of the 
 S£|,id degrees. They have not now, nor have they ever had, any 
 power, right or control over either of the said degrees ; they do 
 not now and never have exercised, alitempted or desired to exer- 
 cise any power or control over said degrees in any way or manner; 
 nor have they anything to do with the said degrees, except to re- 
 quire that any Brother receiving the degrees of our Rite shall pre- 
 sent positive evidence that he is a member in good and regular 
 standing in a lodge of Master Masons under the jurisdiction of a 
 Grand Lodge in fraternal correspondence with the Grand Lodges 
 in the United States'of America. 
 
 , I have thus clearly shown that this Supreme Council has no 
 control, nor does it claim to control, any of the degrees under 
 the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska. 
 
 I will now show that the Southern Jurisdiction Scottish Rite 
 body, of which the Grand! Master of Nebraska is a 3^d degree 
 member, does claim to have control and the right to exercise it, 
 if they wish, over the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow 
 Craft and Master Mason, to wit : 
 
 The Supreme Council Ancjient and Accepted Rite Southern 
 Jurisdiction, claim to have the right to establish Master Masons' 
 Lodges, and to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow 
 Craft or Master Mason in any part of the world, as will be seen 
 By the following. 
 
 From memoranda by J. J. J. Gourgas, published in the reprint 
 of Proceedings of the N.-.M. -.J. •., vol. i., patt 1, page 39 : 
 
 " The Grand Council of the Princes of Jerusalem at Charleston, S. 0., 
 granted, July 5, 5801, a warrant of Constitution ' to open a Master Masons 
 Lodge and to form and constitute a Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Iiodge 
 of Perfect Masons, to initiate Brethren into the Superior degrees, as far as the 
 Sublime degree of Perfection, inclusive. [Signed as follows :] ' 
 
 John Mitchell, K H., S.-.P.- R.-.S.-.. S.-.G.-.I.-.G.-., 33° 
 "T. B. Bowen, K..H, S.-.P.-.R.-.S.-., S.-.G.-.I.-.G.-., 33° 
 "E. DeLaMottii,K.H., S. -.P.-.K.-.S. -., S.-.G.-.I-.-G.-., 33* 
 "Abraham Alexauder, K.H., S.-.P.-.R.-.S.-., S.-.G.-.I. .G - 33* 
 "Fred Dalcho. K.H., S.-.P.-.R.-.S.-., S.-.G.-.I.-.G.-., 33* 
 
APPENDIX. 105 
 
 " Penj. Cudsworth, I'rinoe of Jerusalem, 
 
 "Joseph, Bee, Prince of, Jerusalem, Knight of E. and W. 
 
 " S. Hardy, Prince of Jerusajtem. 
 
 ' ' Israel de Leiben , K. H. , S. •. P. -. R. •. S. •. 
 
 "Isaac Aul'd, Prince of Jerusalem. 
 
 ' iEnos Reeves, Knight of the B. and P. •.!.:. , , 
 
 "Peter Snfith,,E,-.X , 
 
 " Abraham Sasportaz, KM. 
 
 "James Allison, S. '.P. '.R. -.x 
 
 "E. Elizer, S.-.G.-.S,-., K.H., S.-.P.-.R.-.S.-." 
 
 E. de la Motta, in his denunciations of Joseph Cerneau in the 
 year 1814, opeaiy phblished the' following : 
 
 "I have nothing further to gay except that althongh Sublime Masons havQ 
 not, in this country, initiated into the Blue or SyoiboUc degrees, yet. th^ir 
 Oonnoils possess the indefeasabl« ,pght of grf^uting Warrants for tbat pur- 
 pose. It is common on the continent of Europe, and may be the case here, 
 'should circumstances render the exercise of that power necessary. The legality of 
 this right is derived Jrom the highest Masonic authority in the world, (however 
 ready Mr. Cferneeiu and his geutWmen have been tb relinquish it at once, and 
 in toto, which is another strong corroborative proof of his irregvlaritt), or else they 
 never could lawfully alienaie their lights as Sublime Masons), as eau be demon- 
 strated to the perfect satisfaction, of eyery Masonic, judioial and legislative 
 body. " 
 
 ■ In "Transactions," 1851'tQ 1866, p. 347, Brother Pilie states : 
 "Undoubtedly we have ample power to commission a Deputy Inspector- 
 General to confer the Blue degrees, and to create symbolic Lodges in any un- 
 occupied foreign country. .Beyondia question, one of us as Sovereign Grand 
 Inspector General could do so. We are shorn of none of our ancient powers. 
 
 To avoid prejudice and, quarrels we refrain from the Exercise 'HERE of our powers 
 over the Blue degrees, with, on the whole, very beneficial results." 
 
 ■ "Transactions," 1860, pi 49, spealdng ofthe Latin Constitu- 
 tions of 1786, Brother Pike states : 
 
 "The assertion of our Illustrious Brother that these Constitutions 'disclaim 
 all control over the first three degrees, wherever organizations of , those de- 
 grees exist ;' that the framers of these Constitutions 'prohibit their successors 
 trom meddling with the Symbolic Degrees ;' and that 'their action was to be 
 confined to the Lodges of Pe^feption, and to thp degi;ees above ancj including 
 the 4th or Secret Master, ' ^re strangely jmeorred. 
 
 II "It is true ,that Art. XIII provides that the Sovereign Grand Inspectors, Dep- 
 uties of the Supreme Council, may delegate to Deputy Inspectors of at least 
 the 30th degree, so much of their powers as may enable them to establish,, reg- 
 ulate and superintend Lodges ^nd Councils in, any of the degrees, from the 
 4:th to the 20th| inclusive.' But this is a merf a^irmaiive provision, that does not 
 at all negative or s^rrender the power of the Supreme Au^hority of^the kite over the 
 ^rst three degrees," , , , , 
 
 " Official Bulletin, August, 1870, p. 106, Brother Pike states: 
 "On the 21st of December, 1860, the Illustrious Brother Charles Laffou de 
 Landebat, Active Member of, and with plenary authority from, the Supreme 
 Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, established, in thp 
 yalley of Y^fa Cruz, in Mexico, the Supj;enie Council of the 33d degree for 
 Mexico and the Slates of Central America, of which Illustriouis Brother Gen. 
 Ignacio Comonfort became the Sovereign Grand Comminder." Again, refer- 
 ring to this matter in "Official Bulletin," April, 1871' p. 223, he states : "Con- 
 tinued disturbances and dissensions scattered the members ofthe Grand 
 Council shortly after the commencement of their labors; they chartered a few 
 Lodges, however, among them, one in Tamaulipas," 
 
] 06 APPENDIX. 
 
 "Official Bulletin, 'December, 18tl, p, 451, Brother Pike states: 
 "Tamaulipas Lodge was regularly chartered by the Supreme Council for 
 Mexico and Central America, at Vera Cruz, of which the Illustrious Brother 
 Comonfort was Sovereign Grand Commander. That Supreme Council was 
 regular and legitimate, being established by the Supreme Council for the 
 Southern Jurisdiction of the Uttited States, and having ample power andpeifect 
 right to establish Blue liodges of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite. The 
 Lodge in question was, and is, as regular a Lodge as any in Texas," 
 
 In a letter written to the Supreme Council at Peru, February 
 7th, 1877, Brother Albert Pike writes : 
 
 "And when, in 1801, vitality and operation was given to the Grand Con- 
 stitutions by the organization of the Snpreine Council at Charleston, jurisdic- 
 tion over the symbolic degrees was expressly waived in favor of the Grand 
 Lodge, but was not entirely ceded or relinquished ; and we have always held 
 our right to administer them to be undiminished, and that if necessity should 
 require, it could be resumed. * * * * • 
 
 "The doctrine of exclusive Grand Lodge jurisdiction has grown up in the 
 United States, and been accepted here as politic and in the interest of harmony ' 
 and unity. It does not prevail in Europe, and is not a part of Masonic or- 
 ganic law ; and its zealots here have not been content to stop when they had 
 pushed it to the verge of absurdity." 
 
 Brother Albert Pike, Grand Commander Supreme Council 
 Southern Jurisdiction. Ancient and Accepted Kite, says, in 
 "Poulhouzeism," page 108: "1st, That a person who has re- 
 ceived the three Symbolic degrees in a regular lodge of either the 
 English, French or Scottish Rite is a regular Master Mason, and 
 every regular body of. Masons in the world is bound to consider, 
 recognize and receive him as such. " 2d, That a Master Mason 
 who has regularly received the third degree in one Eite, does not 
 need to receive it in another in order to be admitted to visit in 
 lodges of that order." 
 
 Hoping that by this letter I have placed our position as a 
 Supreme Council Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite properly, 
 fully and clearly before the Brethren of our Obedience in Ne- 
 braska, I am, Courteously and Fraternally, 
 
 John J. GoRMAir, 33", 
 
 Grand Commander,