THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND FREEMASONRY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 77, 17 October 1874, Page 12

THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND FREEMASONRY.

joe .matjy years back the nation has been periodically astonished af findin 5 the ceremonies connected with the inception TtZ^SL^ given over to the management of a secret society. sf^*l wunWel S tho world .America affords the least excuse for tixe exis ence of e'fc sooiehes at all; they are contrary to the genius ot our political and social system, and are not looked on with favour by the g?eat body of the people, as is evident from tho agitation against them, and lfronf ington:- Wmg P ' hha 9 M ° l7 beea fo^arded to wS- " To the President of the TTnited States— "The undersigned citizens of the United States learnin* throurfi pnWw announcement, that it is proposed to lay the corn™ Stone .s the SS^.". 6 ? h ft S r iT : -^Masonxc'ceremSs en Sjtk ? / next— St. John's Day, so-called— respectfully reDresen? t% X 7i eV^- ,Conß, ConB r titation «d laws, no society? sect ZZel °U entitled to official preferment or precedence over any other order sect or society, ana they, therefore, do earnestly protest that the order to whioh it is thus proposed to delegate . work of rational interest rfSuS not be allowed such recognition, either through its festivals, or ita American £I™™*' "^ m ° ffenSive * 0 ' the ea . fc bod > of «»J iSll£? Ution " 8ig °t d b y l2 ?' 000 "^zens from various States, and ifc certainly expresses the aeatiment of J count Jess thousands besidefl.^-