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EDUCATOR SATURDAY, JULY 17,1875. »..n... VIMELL & SMITH Editors aid Piblishm. Our (Hcmls will see that our terms are Cash. We hope they will govern them aalves accordingly. r<» t.ill . COUUaSPOIDKNCE. mm not be understood that the Xmcatob eodones the sentiments of Us correspondents In every instance. Its columns ate open to the friend? of (he party, end their communications orfU be given to the public ae contain* tag the views and sentiments of the writers, ig@rS«B9CßlßElw receiving their Paper with' a fik’t Cross Mark on it, arc thus notched that the term of their Sußst\uimox has expired, and unless they renew, wo will he compelled to discontinue tlic paper. PROSPECTUS OF , im mwinj ■■■ • tty THE.EDUCATO 11. A weekly nfewepaper published every Saturday in Fayetteville X. C. TUK EDUCATOR, a journal ot mor al And intellectual advancement, will be , f. *•) .mat *da» mm’ T especially devoted to liie interests of (he Colored youth of Xorth < ’airilina; and will be the untiring advocate ol eve ry nieasure calculated to benefit that class of our citiaeus who must feed the need of education and an organ. While not strictly u party pa|ier. I’ilE EDUCATOR will earnestly defend (lie! r. i Republican principles and policy, believ ing tbem to tie necessary to tiie peace. pros)>eri!y and happiness of the Amcri canpeeplo. Religion, literature. Agriculture and New* mill lee made special features ot XT UK EDUCATOR. Terms ot Scbscrittiok : <One year In advance. - - - - #2 00 Six months in advance, 100 Three months in advance .50 HAfIBILL A SMITH, Editor «d PuMUken Fayetteville X. C. nmmmitmißJVns , I ToWELIA I —HESM&N I A V. Aq?n(S. I HI® I*s * CHrSTNI - S T S .ST i ouis M ; ■ ,Ah J£iect*mfor Itdeyate* to hum her Ome Hundred and Twenty’ to amend the Constitution of the State, will be held on Thursday, the sth ot August, 1875. T/te Convention will meet at Raleigh, on the 6th of the fallowing September. The Omm-wsmtiom Qnem mo«s. Immediately after the general e lection off over the Stale, on the G(A of Ufst August, the Gazette, among the first paper* of Xorth Caroli ncL took its position AND SQUARELY against the call of a Convention to aniQid the ' prliini ConsfUnlion of the Static. » * * ♦ * * * The Convention question was not . animus iii the August catnjtanpi; 1 ue do euj./mxe any candidate or' any put Lie speaker i acr broached the subject any olu-re on the slump ; the i people raitUiputed no such issue —| and, t rhqt is more, thousands tchu voted utidi our party for t he first I time l would never have done eo liad\ they seenjiny reason to expert a call\ fora Convention, should it be foie d\ upon them they triil have Voted re it!, j us for Use LAST time. In short, the citizens — the voters of'. Xorth Carolina DON'T WANT A CONVENTION; Huy are not in clined and iu>l able to eiulnre the •necessary outlay of mutiny which would be incurred- and they prefer ■relying upon J.eyishUive e mu. flimit for the correction of what, ccr Con stitutional abuses may note rest h. an il upon l!u m.~ Xinth Caroli.ut fla zrltr n / Ulli fifuveluhrr to t Things to be Remem bered. Remember That yon can not vote for “no con vention” direotly. Remember That every Democrat in the Leg islature voted against leaving the convention call to the people) Know ing that the people were oppoeed to a convention, they, the Democrats, in the legislature, would not trust the people, hot called the conven tion themselves anyhow. Remember That the only way yon can vote convention down is to vote for MO convention candidates, that is for men who are opposed to changing our Constitution. Remember That tills same Legislature is to be called back again to Raicigh this winter if the Demoorats get a ma jority of the delegates over the State. Remember That if the Democrats get the convention in their own hands that they will upset many of its best and most popular provissious because they as a party have always fought and opposed our constitution as a whole from the very first and have dow twice attempted to make a new —“old constitution like they had be fore the war.” Remember That our present Constitution o bolislie? imprisonment for debt; pro claims a homestead against old debts which weighed heavily on onr peo ple because of Democrtic war of secession; provides for a tiling never known before in this rich man's country —a laborers and mechanics lieu law; protects aud enlarges the rights of married women; places an equitable and just ratio of taxation between property and [mils, thus preventing onerous and intollerable poll taxis on the poor as we had right after the war under Democrat ic rule; give TO THE PEOPLE instead j of the politicians the right to elect their judges and magistrates and j provides that if a bad selection should be made, for a chance by popular vote to change; provides for cheaper local government in the township system as against the county court system which was only a (casting place for the town law yers in a court held by political magistrates, all on one side in poli ties, and appointed lot life. Remkmheh That the Democratic party has al ways opposed these provisions of our wise and humane Constitution. 1 Remember That some of tlieir papers and leaders propose disfranchising or not allowing to vote all who do not or can not pay their taxes, —the showing of your tax receipt to be necessary before your vote shall be taken. Rkmbmbbr That other Democratic papers and leaders actually propose allowing rich men a vote for every “three'' or “five hundred dollars” of property upon which they pay tax (see Albe marle Regester a Democratic news paper.) Suppose some young man just oomming of age should heir an estate of fifty thousand dollars, he would it this proposition, which is openly made in a Democratic paper, bcoome* the law, have one hundred votes and the poor man who is una ble to pay tax, be disfranchised aud not allowed his one vote. Remember That several leading papers in the i Stale, among them the Char i loltc Democrat owned and edited by | W. J. Yates formally a Fayetteville i man, is opposed to the delegates i taking the oath prescribed, that they j j may disregard the sugar coated ‘re-! . sU'ictions' which are meant to lead I the people into tue belief that the j j homestead and lien law shall not be | |touched. Remember That it the oath is taken aud hon orably abided by, that machinery my be put in operation to prevent the homestead exemption from applying to old debts aud thus many poor people sold out ofhouse and home for debt* incurred for the necessi ties of life for tlieir families while lire husband or brother was away in the front of a line of liattle. The 1 homestead law i-an !»•* left untouched and all this ready effeetd in a change of the courts which are nil that pro tect the homestead now against old debts. Remember That in prescribing the ‘mode’ by which the people are to ‘ratify’ this new Constitution which they may make, that they may, inasmuch as the Legislature is elected by the people and tho members of the leg islature understood to be the repre sentatives of the people, they may call the Legislature together to rati fy their work! Remember These are dangerous times and that most of the lawyers are hungry and ravinous as well as remorseless. Remember That a convention can not be restricted by a legislative enact ment. Remember That the people have not called a convention in North Carolina for tho last forty years and being opposed to calling one now, that the only 1 chance for protection and safety, | the only chance for peace is to vote for men pledged to adjourn the con vention at tiie earliest practicable moment. Remember That in Cumberland county the' No Convention ■ candidates arc Ralph I’. Buxton and John C. Block er, and it they at e elected they will struggle hard to hand you baric our present constitution unmolested, and that in so doing the great ex pense these hard times of a thousand dollars a day (or the session of the convention and another thousand dollars a day for an extra session of the Legislature this winter will lie saved to the people. ADDRKHS- Delivered by Mr. .J. .T. Sawyer, beloi-e Kiii-ekn Lodge, A.. Y, M., ti lth itars. ( Concluded.) lii Chase's Digest of Masonic Law p. 211, these words appear:— ‘ It is es tablished as a goner.-.1 rule in the United States, that persons of negro blood should not be made masons though they may be freeborn.” This is the sentiment that actuates the advocates of the royal craft in America, and this is the doctrine they preach and practice. Really there ought to be n super abundance of Brotherly relief and truth —-of faith, hope and charity—among our white brethren of this country, for it is an obvious and potent fact, they have not drawn very heavy on their stock of these virtues, in tlieir treat ment of colored masons of this coun try, for the past oentary. But the Grand Lodgo of Delaware comes ont flat-footed on this ques tion in 1866, by passing, in open Grand Lodge, the following resolu tion. “Resolved, that Lodges under this jurisdiction are positively pro hibited from initiating, passing, rais ing or admitting to membership, or the right of visitation, any negro, mulatto, or colored person of the United States. This prohibition shall be an obligation, and so taught in the third degree.” Hear ye masons, and all the pro fane world, and take notice, that eveef , mason in Delaware is s>vom in the most solemn maunor, to din re gard the spirit which pervades the Constitution and Laws of our coun try, and to sot aside so much of the laws of God as requires us to do mi lo our neighbors us wo would tliat onr neighbors should do unto us, for the resolution says “this prohibition shall be an obligation, aud so taught \ in the third degree.” Now every Mason knows that ! every tnan that has taken, or who i shall take that obligation, solemnly ' affirms that he will not uo unto otli- j 1 era as he would that others should | |do unto him. Aud further, every i | mason knows that a man thus obli. j gated, is hound by that obligal ion j while life lasts, bo ho clergyman or layman. Aud now does it not soem reason able that if this very sentiment was not general among white masons in this country, that some of their Grand Lodges would have condemn ed this action of tlm Grand I-odge l„l IMawei-' •’ lore now And isn't it a little strange again, that in the same year, in the same month and nearly on the same day, a very simi lar Resolution should be passed f by the Grand Lodges of Delaware and North Carolina? And the man tiho introduced it in North Carolina #as elevated, at the same communication to a very high Masonic offioe, for this raasterpeice of workmanship, in thus bringing to the rescue this great sheet-anchor of American Free masonry—caste prejudice. How does all this savor of truth, Brotherly love and Charily. The Scriptures say that lie who says he loves God and hates his brother, or in other words his neighbor, is a liar and the truth is not in iiim. It needs no comment from me. Various are the reasons,,which have been alleged, from time to time in the support of this prejudice; it waq at first argued that thu Grand Lodge of England had no right to set up a Lodge in Boston which was not under the Grand Lodge of Mas sachusetts; this was claimed under what is termed the jurisdictional rights of Grand Lodges. Such a thing I was never known in ancient craft masonry, for, for a number, of years there were two Grand Lodges in | England each holding concurrent jurisdiction, and they were merged | into one at Apple tree tavern in 1717: And in the State of Massachusetts there were two Grand Lodges for a I long time, both illegitimate, and these two were merged into one in 1792; and then for the first time, was tjie question of jurisdictional rights of Grand, Lodges mooted, and then, only to exclude the African I-odge in Boston, from fellowship, under cover of a regulation. In short tliq thing is purely of American ori gin, and is an innovation and assump tion uuinasonic and of a base and unwholesome origin. It is next urged that colored ma sons are denied recognition on ac-' count of not being free born, a part of them, and those who were free born, because tiiey affiliate witli those who were born slaves. This Landmark in regard to men of free birth, is the American landmark of landmarks, which when abolished by the tii and Lodge of England in 1845, brought forth such a torrent of invectives from the jurisprudence landmark sticklers of America. It it conceded by Masonic writers that King Athenstal gave tiie identi cal fifteen articles and points contain ed in Ilalliwels M. S. to tho Masons iu 926, and from them the Land marks of masons were made. The article from which the land‘ mark in regard to free bom is taken, is in poetry: and in it no suah word appears at all. The poem meiely says: “That he no bondman preutys make." The following is the whole artiole: Akticulus Quartus. The fourthe artycul thys monte be, That the mayster byin wel be-se. That he no bondemon nrentys make. Nv lor no covetyse do him take; For the lord that he yt bolide to, Mav Cache the preutys whenever he go el yu the logge he were y-uke, muche desese hyt myth ther make.— The following, taken from mason ic history, will explain the conduct of tho Grand Lodge ot England in 1845, already referred to. “A Freeman—According to tho customs aud regulation* of our an cient Brethren, every candidate was formerly required, to be ‘a freeman born of a free woman.' This formu la was originally considered to be uu unexchangeable landmark; but on the extinction of negro slavery by the British Parliament, the following arguments were used at a Grand Lodge holden Sept. 1, 1847, in favor i of its alteration." The Grand Master requested the j Brethren to consider the propriety j of remodeling the form by which a: candidate for initiation declares him self to lie freeborn. ‘There are,’ he said, ‘at the present moment, many men in Jamaica aud other places who are free by the law of emancipa tion; and yet as tlietr mothers have been slaves, they cannot conscien tiously sign such a declaration know ing it to be true; and in the absence of that preliminary act we oanuol initiate them. I should be glad to see it altered, and lliereforc move that in future we substitute ilie words free agent fori freeborn, and the declaration be thus revised.’ After a friendly conversation, ,jrhicb lasted some time, it was unan imously resolved, that the phrase in future should be freeman' and that die words ‘free by birth’ should be canocllcd." So brethren this action of the Grand Lodge of England, instead of establishing a new regnlation, was simply a return to the old landmarks. In explanation of the fourth arti* cle of ancient Masonry which I read a few momenta age, I find in Ma thew Cooke’s MS. written about a century after the Halliwci MS., tho following. “That no Master, for no profit, take no apprentice, for to lie learned, that is born of bond blood, for be cause of his lord, to whom he is b'ond, will take him as w'cll ho may from his heart and lead him with him out of the Lodge, or out of his place that lie worketh in, for his fel lows peradventure, would help him, and debate for him, and thereof man slaughter misrht arise—it is forbid den.” • So that it is evident ifliat this an cient article had reference merely to tiie condition of botfdhgo at the peri od of apprentice hip. find not to birth Having skid this much about the persecution of colored masons, let 1 tm: assure you brethren that the day I star of masonic justice is fast rising in tho eastern skies. The Grand orient of Fl-anee first placed itself squarely before the world, by asserting that no distinc tions on account of the color of the craftinans skin should be practised or tolerated by that Grand Body or any of its subordinates, for which simple act of justice most of the Grand Lodges m America, (North Carolina included,) severed thoir fra ternal relations with tiie Grand Ori ent, and have never renewed them, and I doubt if they will ever be ask ed so to do. But the thunderbolt is not generally known or felt as yet. The Grand Lodges of United Ger many have recntly been in convention in Darmstadt, ami at that convention the clinching nail was driven home, on tliis subject, as the following tele gram, sent to the Grand Master ot I'l 'iucc Hall Grand Lodge of Massa- I cimsctts, recently, and published in the Boston “Evening Journal” of June 4, 1875, will -how: Darmstadt, 17 May, 1875. Mg Most Worshipful and Jlelovetl Brother: After long and very spirited de bate the Convention of Grand Lodg es has at last, by the following uiian imous resolution, recognized the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Boston and the G,and Lodge of Ohio (col ored): “With regard to the motions made by the Grand Lodge Prince Hall and of tho Grand ]<odge of Ohio the Convention of Grand Lodges de clares timl these Lodges appear properly constituted, and that the German Lodges will accord to inein bers of those Lodges and of their sister Lodges without reserve aud joyfully acceptance into their Lodg es.” It required a long, spirited fight, but we have carried it to a happy end, and now your cause is in order. In the name of the Grand Lodge of Hamburg I now request you to cause your Grand Lodge to propose to us three of your members, ‘roiu whom we shall uhooee one as the representative of the Graud Lodge of Hamburg in your Graud Isjdge. In like manuer wo shall very soon propose three el our members to you, from whom your Graud Lodge will choose one for its represents tive. My telegram of this morning you will have received. In hearty brotherly love I greet i you. Your trmy united brother. Frederick Glktze, G. M. of G. L of H. The official communication of tho j above resolution you will receive! hereafter from the Grand Society oft the Convention of Grand Lodges, i The fact, however, is fixed. I have already detained you long- j er than I intended, and with a few words to the ladies, I will conclude. l The ladies, in the time when Mason- j ry was so bitterly persecuted in the j old world, took a very prominent part in that work. But nowadays they are not so bitterly opposed to it. Iu the year 1787, when Freema sonry was being struuuously oppos ed by church and state, in ilollaud, France and elsewhere, the tranquili ty of tho Order was interrupted in Germany, by the malice of women. The curiosity of the female sex is proverbial. | About, that time a few German ladies, who possessed a greater a mount of curiosity than could be con veniently confined to drawing room conversations, were anxious to dis cover the secrets of Freemasonry. Having been baffled in their at tempts upon the fickleness of their husbands nr the fondness of their admirers, they converted their curi osity into revenge, and attempted to inflame the mind of Maria Tbresa, the Empress Queen. Against the Lodges in Vienna. Their attempt was in some mens tire auooessful, as they persuaded her to issue an order for surprising all tho masons in tiie city, when assembled in tlieir Lodges. The plan however was frustrated by the intervention of the Emperor Joseph Ist., who being himself a mason, de clare*! his readiness to answer for their conduetrand showed tiie ladies and their friends (list tho charges against Freemasonry upon which they were then acting, were false and defamatory. But the ladies of this day are not . so much opposed to our order as I this. They only desire to know all a ; bout it, as they want to about every thing else. In short they are considerably curious on the subject of masonry. It is true iadies, that our order precludes the admission of women ! Not that it refuses to pay a proper regard to the fair sex, or that we insinuate that you would not, implicit ly obey the strictest laws ofeecresy. —but it would lie inconsistent with the modest economy and delicacy ot the temalc character to admit you among us, and again, your attractive conversation might prevent us from pursuing the high objects of masonic acquisition in our assemblies.— IVe are, however, penetrated with pious considerations iu your belioot—wc are, by onr rules, pro hihited from injuring the peace of families, or destroying domestic happiness, as fashionable endeavor to do. We are also, solemnly enjoined not to violate the hrst. and most holy institution of civil soe'ety viz, the marriage compact we are bid that to enjoy the blessing sent by divine beneficence, is virtue and obedience, and at the same time, to avoid the illurements of intemperance, whose short hours of jollity are followed by tedious days of pain and dejection, whose joys turn to madness, and lead to misery and death. Another objection is that your husbands stay too late at the Lodge, and are com pelled to go to so many meetings. Are you sure that- they are there every time they would have you think they are? An'd dont some of you inake the atmosphere so warm at homeaMime? that llio poor fellow* are obliged and glad to go to the Lodge or some where else, till you 000 l down and get to napping? Brethren and friend*. I have al ready consumed too much time. Brethren of Eureka Lodge. May yon ever keep intact the sacred tenets of your profession, and up hold the high calling of our order; artd may we all, at last, meet in the Griuid Lodge above, where we shall be eternally happy. Dr. Wheeler’s Arnend -1 incuts. On the 18th March, 1875, the Convention bill being uuder consid eration in the House of Represents tives, W. H. Wheeler, memlier from Forsythe, offered the following ameuilments: “Nor shall the said Convention amend the Constitution by requiring thu payment of taxes as a qualifies lion for voters, uor shall the said 1 Convention increase the mmilicr ol Supreme Court or Superior Court judges; nor shall the said Conven tion aiuuiid or abolish any of the amendment to tho Con-litutiou rati fied February 24th, 1878; nor shall the raid Convention repeal or abolish Article IX. sections II aud 111. of the existing Constitution; nor shall the said Convention provide for any capitation tax; nor shall the said Convention repeal or modify section IV, article I, of the present (fonslitn lion; nor shall the said Convention authorize or propone to authorin' branding, whipping or cropping, as a punishment for crime.” The yeas and nays were called, and the amendments were rejected, every Ih.noerat cot my in the nega tive.
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