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Atrh-) nit.tJriot’ A'ltief.i 11, G-nenl
M insfieM alviimie i witli liis column aiiti
drove AftC.mfeiierates over the knoll.
They rallieil, however. Tue Vermont
brigade was tlien ordered to drive them
back. The Goiile leiate forces occupied
one side of a knoll, the Union forces the
other. On tile summit 0''that knoll was
a poor wounded rebel, who had fallen
as his regiment was retreating, and he
GREENSBORO, C., FRIDAY, MARCH 24,1876
NO 28..
ed Grand Master, and on the 21 of Mav,
1792. he was installed into the office.
He Was (dio,‘.en Grand Master ofScotland
in 1806, in order that the "stn test un
ion ami most intimate coinmnnion should
subs St between the Grand Lodges of
Eiigiaiid ami Scot land.
G and M i
Ljodges. and i ti i
powers f t he olHce con
lay so that it w,is almost impossible fora accept the title of Grand Patron of the
man to reach him without being shot to Order." His accession to the crown oc-
ptece.s. His leg was broken. He called ciirred in 1720.
for he p. It seemei certain death for | Edward, Duke of Kent, the gnndfath-
any one to atlempt his re.scne, Aiter er of the present Grand Master of Eng
calling several times in vain, he uttered land, was initiated into Ma,sonrv in the
some Mvstic wirds, when a soldier of the Union Lodge, at ueimva, in 179U, He
Vermont regiment rushed to the top of was tlie third brother ot George ]V.. and
the knoll,seizel the fallen soldier in liis | died in 1820 His daughter Queen
anna, hire hill to a pla.ie of sifrftv, when I Victoria, WHS born in 1819. On the
both fell fainting in each other",s arme. I re.'ignation of the Duke of Athol ; ,s
There waa exhiliite.l in some sense the Grand Master, in ISld. of the Ancietit
power of Masonry.—Hebrew L-ader. Grand Lodge, so called, he was e.ei-ted
wrillen Cotiai it ntioii or regiilatiuti oftlie thus empowered, decided that thencefor-
Grand Lodge: the averment being that ward Lodgp.s must have regnlar warrants
ster- existed belore Grand tmm and under it.a Hiitlioritv, and Lodges
t hence the inlieient tlieneeforward were subjects of law,
not be altereil M/ben the first Grand Master was elected
by lecislalion. Under this view it was to [ireside over the Gram) Lodge lie, too,
Wlieti, in 1811, held that ti.e Grand Master, by virtue I ecame subject to the law, and "by his
he liecame Regent ot the United King of I he liigli pna er and aul hority in him accemance of the office, gave lip all'claim
dom. he re.-igned as Grand Master; but vesied. iiiiglil, at bis pleasure, make any be may have iin,igin.-d Idimself pos.ses.sed
soon .after graciously conde-.^cemled to [uolene a Mason. In time this came to of to override or set aside the CoristitU-
iie imidified ti\' I he addil ion d.ihe words linn
' in a regiilai Lodge," and row it is dis- Lodges under dispensation are an
pilled altogetlier, for reasons which will American specialty, are ' he creat nres not
appear liiither on. : of ilie Grand Master, blit of the regiila-
Again.il !ms limg been held, ami to ' tions to I hat effect, made and provided
this dal is .still held in valiums Grand : i'V the Grand Lodges. The discretion o\
Lodge jiii isdiclions, that a Lodge under I the Grand Master ts, whether lie will or
not grant a dispensation apfdied for; if
—A suit has been brought in the Su
preme Court of New York by the Union
to tiiat station v\ivii the \iew to tiring
about a reconci>alio.u, or union, I'eiween
dis; en.-aiiuti is simp.V a coijiiiiittee a,-
oointeii by til-Grand Master, in hisdi.s.-,
crelion, to make Masons; that it cannot
have a seal, admit nieiiiliers, ' i- I'raine a
codeotlaus because the Grand Master
may, at ids pleasure, recall the dispensas
lion at any iiioiiie"t.
Assuming ti.is to be true, then a Grand
eon.solidated Mining Co , of
against Julims E. Raiii, its former super
intendent, charging him with defrauding
the company in tliecoiirse of 10 years
out of l,275,0O0 dollars and charging Ids
brother Gharle.s Ralit former Secretary
and John Tnomas who was Pre.sident
until last November with conniving at
and aiding in the frauds of the first nam
ed defendant; the metliol of alleged
fraiid.s is asserted to have bee-i through
what is known in England and to some
extent in this country as "The store sys
tem" by which claims are paid from the
compa-iy’s store in merchandise instead
of cash.
Tennessee Modern Grand Lodge, Master, desiring to make a .'i a,sun at sight,
so called whose Grand Master was the need only is.-^ue his di.spensation creating
Duke of Sussex. llie union of the two a new Lodge, siimiiion tile uieinl-ers, and
Bodies Was. happily, a'comidislied, and then, by a further exercise of the dispens
has existed to the pre.seiit lime, do tiie ing power set aside the mpiireinent for
Dukes ot Ketit and Sussex aie the
'ra- a pel ilion, investigat ion and ballot, and
terir.ty of Eti gland indebted for liar nun proceed to i. Older the degrees, or in other
niz:ng differences aiiioiig Masons which words, makea Mason at sigl,t.
shonid never have existed Once more—a. Grand Master ofanoth-
1 lie cuTisanguinity ot the pre.sent Gr. er jurisdiction, in his annual addr-ss he-
Master of England to the ditigiiishtd fore his Graiul Lodge last year iis.siiiiied —
brethren I have mimed, make.s him, ilso, ami still iiiainlaiiis—that the inherent
Masonic Ancestors of the
Prince of Wales.
Past Grand Master John T. Heard, of
Mas.sachusetts in a recent Grand Lodge
address, referred in the following lan
guage to three of th.e distinguished Ma
sonic aiioe.stora of the present Grand
M.ister of England, the Prince of Wales;
Frederick, Prince of Wales, who died
in 17 il, .V i.s tlie fattier of George 111.
He was initiated in 1736, "at an occa-
eiorial Lodge, convened for the purpose,
at the palace of Kew, over which Dr.
De.sag.iliers presided as Master." “His
Royal Highness wa.s advanced to the
Second Degree at tbe same Lo‘lge; and
at another Lodge, convened at the same
place soon after, was raised to the degree
of a .Master Mason.” The record does
not show that he ever held any office in
Masonry.
George Prince of Waie.s, and after
wards King George IV. He was born
August 12, 1762, and died June 26, 1830.
.He was the grand uncle of the present
Gratid Master of England. His Royal
Highness was made a Mason in 1787, at
an occasional Lodge, convened for the
purpose, at the Star and Garter Tavern,
Pall Mall, over which the Duke of Cnra-
i>erland presided. la 1790 be waselect-
their pioper representative.
Changes.
It i.s one of the onrio.sities of Nature,
that certain fruits and grains, w liirdi at
one time were the natural r.-soiirce of the
inhaliitants, !,ave either entirely died
out, or become so changed as to be
longer recugnizahle as their fornierselves.
Tims in some parts of New .Jersey, where
poweis .d'lii.s ufficp enable him. when in
his jiidgiuent ti el.igiier iniriests of tiie
Fratei nily .leniand it, to set a.side the
constitution and regulations and proceed
ofliisown wid, ami without regard to
tlieiii, the case ca'Iingfor those remarks
being uhere the nearest Lodge lefused to
give il.s comsenl to the e.s:alili.shuient of a
new Lodge
The foregoing are .simply different
I phases of one question w hich, it wdli be
in years gone by, rliere were ahiimlant | |•ol|Iul. turns on a verv simple ; ivot when
crops of peache,s. there is now on y here j i„op „,,o p
and there a tree ami those in a sickly, j Masonry ceitainlv existed previous to
dyingcondition. Some va.ieties of fruit ,pg reviva'l of 1717,’or en-e there conid
have entirely di.sappeared. We are not no reMval of that wl.iidi did
sufficiently learned ill such matters to previous to that
not exist ;
iindortake to state the can-e, nor do we Grand
imagine that oiir readers will expect ns
to vary this i1 partiueHt by a statement
of what we "know about farming ;" we
only tiiiuie a tact wdiich exisi.s both in the
[diysical ami mor.il world as set forth in
the old maxim : “The times change and
we change with them.”
Onr thoughts have been led in this di
rection by some discnssi-ins we have re
cently seen, in wdiich the views held by
Masoms as to the laws of our institution
have undergone sti iking change. Thus,
for instance, it was formerly lieM, with
out question that the Grand Master of
Masons in any jurisdiction, had certain
inalienable prerogatives belonging to hi.s
office and descending to him from his
predece-sors, which enabled him, in his
discretion, to so.ar above and beyond any
time
Lodge.s, noi
Warrant Lodges, nor Lodges under dis
pensation, Lodges certainly existed, but
they halt no element of periiianencv,
save, perhaps, the custom of meeting at
some designated place. V\ hen it was
deemed necest.ary to hold a Lodge, the
requisite iiumher of brethren having pie-
viously obtained the Sheritf a permission,
assembled, transacted their business, and
dissolved, so to speak, for when they left
tlie room tbe Lodge had ceased to exist,
and had not, nor could it have, any re
lation to the next one. But when the
first Grand Lodge was formed, all the
brethren, gentle and simple, snrrmide."ed
to It a portion of their personal rights in
that, as in all Governments, tUe general
interests of tiie whole Fraternity might
he due.- grant it he must fiist be convinc-
e-l thai all the requirements have been
fir,-t com[died with, or else the Grand
Lodge could not grant the subsequent
W'arrant wdihont it.sell hecoiiiirig a law
breaker. So tor*, the Gratid Master may,
in lii.s di.screli n, recall a disj.ensatioi;.
but it is evident that in so doing lie must
i.ave sufficient cause, or el-e be could
liardiy expect the Granu Lodge to ap
prove his act.
So also in the ca.«e of making a Mason
at sight. There is not a word of written
law to show that the Grand Master ever
had the power to take a profane into B
■oorn aiid declare him a Mason ; hence,
if tlie power is exercised at all, it must
he in a ’'egidar Lodge. But this involves
the setting asi-le of the positive law' re
quiring a petilioti, comuiitti e and ballot,
and as the Grani M-aster can otily es
tablish a Lodge in aci-otdince with the
provisionsot the law, so too he can onlv
woi-K or permit others o work in a Lodge
ni-.drr the .same .sanctions.
lliis leails ns to the conclusion that
the Grand Master, like all Masons under
111.-j 11 risdiction, is bound l.y the termsof
ine CuiiBtitntion, and except wdiere the
power is specially given him in the in-
btruuieiit itseil, has no piower whatever
to set aside the previsions. He may ex-
;uuiid the law, het he luaintaiii it.
The fallacies we have tniis explained
have lung fiuiirished in the Cralt, but
they are rapidly -Iwng out, and the time
Is iiui far distant when, looking hack at
the past, we can say with Molieie's
si..iaii in spile of Himsell," we
have changed all that.—A". Y. Uisjjutch.
— L. A. Allen, wriuiig to the Kansas
City Tunes, dciiies itiai Kit Uar.sua lies
oni ied in a cu_i ote palcu wuh nuluing tr-
mark his grave, and sa)S he "aUvnued
ta-n Laison wnilc tie was sick, heioie ne*
uied, and was at his burial, tie was
buried at Boggsville, Col., .n August,
1666, with military Honors, and in ivo-
vemoer tollowiiig, as soon as Ine weaiaer
waa cool euuugu, his. With, his wues
body, who died about a monlu Oelore he
did, were taken up, and taken to lacS
in JNew Mexico, wtiere he was huneo ov
the Masons, he being a memoer ot that
thereby be promoted. The Grand Lodgs | Grder. ’
ife