r OFFICE OF THE STAR, s CRADIENESEErEG_ STREET; A FEW DOORS IVIR , r — FORRY'S^ TAVERNi ADVERTISEMENTS —Conspicuously—inserted—vouft—ti DOLLAR per equare-4over four times, TWENTY-FIVE ctr4Te .er uare ,charged. 191'1 At $2 per annuni, lialf..yearly In advance. _ _ Vilt3 Ce&Ell&FIIDo sweeteet'loweri enrich'd Fronivarioua gardens cua'd with care." autao'ilzawai.vci Watch & pray, lest ye enter into tentptatkna. thimatelLitial..igiiy=tratLaurent_not, Huw near thine hour may be; can'St not know how soon the bell Nlay toll its s notes for thee: 'N • Death's thousand snared beset thy way, Frail child of dust-.--Oh watch - 1731U pray ! Fond von :it—as yet untouched by care, • Does thy young pulse boat high? Do hope's gay visions;bright and fair, Dilate betbre thine eyo? Know, those must change, must pass away= Fond trusting youth—Oh watch and pray Thou mw—life's wintry storm flath soared thy vernal bloom; With trembling stop, and bending form, Thou art tottering to the tomb, • - And can vain hopes load thee astray? Wateh, weary Ailgrim—watch and pray Amerriox—stop thy panting,breath, PiunE—sink thy lilted ese ; Behold the dawning gates of death Before thee open lie; • Olt hear the counsel, and obey— Pride and Ambition—'watch and pray I Oh watch and may—the paths we tread _ _ Lead onward to the:grave; -Go to-the-tombs_aild_46_the dead,— ~" ;Ye on life's stormy 3vuse— And they shall tell you—even they, From their dark chambers—wlrcit AND PRAY? 'ION. RICHARD RUSIL - OF PA. He is thelqeeman whom the Truth makes Free altr;'lllisles Second Letter. YORK; Pa: June 30, 1831. )lenten:---.Y our comnamication, dated tr- -of May, and bearing the Boston . poS.-ti;. A of the 21st of thisinonth, reached ,4itte on the 26th instant, which I mention, as it will account _for what- might otherwise seem a Fong interval between its date and this Eidknowledgment. The favourable sentiments which; as Dele gates of a Convention lately assembled in Boston from various parts of the , Common wealth of Massachusetts to adppL,measures for the suppression of Freemasenry,you have been pleased to express of the views which I have given to the public upon this subject, yield me a very solid satisfaction... They naturally_ and_powerfulty_tend to cot of an y own mind the soundness - of those views. They demand all my acknowledgments, 'which I beg leave to tender to you, fully and sincerely. You have yourselves presented. views of the subject, other than those which I took, that are full .of importance. The subject indeed is of great extent, and may be usefully discussed under a variety of aspects, as ditFerent minds may be differently &Met ed towards it; and thus the aggregate of sep tirate—contrihutions will i - VgoOd lime make up the entire volume of light with which it ought to be encompassed. In the letter which has drawn forth your obliging communication to me,' it wag my Object to hold up the dangerapf Masonry as skn,in-tfie contest° it has •wa;ged with the Mormtn's cane, aniHite-vietorv-it has woe That part of the subject, and, in direct connexion - With it, - the - enslavement of so great, apoTtiotrorour -- iiiewspaper - pw - Rg by .Masonry, were those upon which alone I • O_LIWAIJ_t h )it theqp i.oints-plah - -and practical, and the ground under each so strong, that it was impossible not to shard firmly upon it. As further reflection leads the to think it still stronger then at first, and as I have now,• is addition, your valued ap probationi-besides-that-ofothemofipy fellow 649100190 e ;.P.Pflrelx4ion...cannot...but_bc flattering, 1 will slain' your indulgence whilst I throw out a few more ideas under the same heads, and perhaps incidentally upon some Others. It is of the Law of which I chiefly desire to speak, in its col inex ion with Mason ry, because it is of the utmost moment that its true doctrines should be ttialerstood.--,- Not only do all our civil rights depend upon the true understanding of them, lent also our public liberty. - Pii:st however, of the Ness. The . thraldom of the press was evinced by its general: silence under the foul deed of Morpn's abduction and murder - or by flue llbsenco of that decided indignation with which it:ought to have followed it up, such as the press issure to manifest in other eases, where great crimes are perpetrated; Or, what was More disreputable still, by not male quently treating the whole subject with levi; ty, making it the occasion of coarse ribaldry and unseemly merriment. The friends o the press will have cause to blush, as etleji as _this part of its history. in our country is' recalled.. They will feel shame. in retollfict ing, that wlyen the' liberty and life or a zen were struck down by a conspiracy'of extraordinary boldness and malignity, an immense Majority of the A mericarkpress, as far as I . had any means of knowing to repeat the expression of my former, letter,lfit spoke at ttll,..would not -speak out; that AgtOrtst - all its nature and habiti. it grew tame; or eien If: at first,' to save appearances, it did 'make wine demOnstrations, and stow a 'guarded inclign!ttion, that it soon .d rew in, becoming indifferent, becoming blind, to .an .unspeaka e ontrap, that it knew to bestill imaveng :Nl', la. tact., that dawn .its Vigilance, its filfellicience and its - spiiit at the footstool ; ,f t ".. DUCIT AMOR PATRIX PRODESSE CIVIBUS-"THE LOVE of Freemasonry. More reprellettsible than all: that, reversing its true duties it Aso ! lately exerted its spirit tigainst those who embarked in the pursuit - of justice - , - by brand; ing that pursuit its an unnecessary "exeite ment;" and that finally, in eflixt, it passed ' over—the necessary •consequences, of its measured step against the crime in the be gitining—to the - side - of - the ollbirding where now it is seen in full juxtapoSitioni'ad ministering to nasonry the condlirt which it needs in this remarkable fellowship. Such, in a word, has }wen the course of the press, Often, in other times and countries, it has been silenced by arbitrary will, or bought up by corrupting gold; but in this country, it has been bestrodden' by Masonry. Servi tude under any dircuinstanceS, is hin»ilia tivin; but in the lowest depth, there is a low eMlecp; And that our press _should have bowed down in worship to this: idol, is the step into that deep. A late writer on the. "Principles of Morality," Dymond, whose early death those who Stand high in letters in Britain, deplore as, a public loss, whilst discussing the subject, of neWsrlpers, utters this striking opinion; '"that there' are sonic creditable editors who do harm in the world, to an extent, incomparison with which, rob beries and treason are as nothing." I give thisage - in own emphatic words. If this swelling writer, as he has been called, he was of the society of Friends, and an honor to that Society, could have witnessed iiilliiitrirriffifSliites the subjection of a large baud of editors to Masonry, he would not .surely, have revoked his opinion, On 'the contrary, astonishment and disgust , must haVit taken possession of his bosom, at per ceiiing how the press, in a cowl; ry proud of its freedom, could have come under such a yoke; and, -beingunder it, how it could pass from absurdity to absurdity,' at one time Jositpr itself in a confusion of the under standing,. at another in a tornado of passion, in attempts to excuse itself tbr not doing . its duty 'to the public, wider an event as au thentic as ever arose in any country,- for drawing out all its honest and most unconi promising indignation.. - . The National Intelligencer of the 11th of this month, now lies befbre me. This news. paper has long been published in the capital of the Union. For high and various merit, I do not: lA:Hove that it is exceeded by any journal in this, or in any country. Its con e tors_dohonar_to_ a profession as noble i and useful in its honorable exercise, as it is mischievous and unworthy in its abuse.-- Elevated in mind they never, whatever their., own views of subjects, fail to state fairly the views of those front whom they differ, and never, to my remembrance have they, in the whole course of their career, soiled their columns with personal indee,ortuns. Yet what do my eyes behold? This paper, can did-as it is, faithfully as it disseminates all other information, aptly as it dissusses all other questions, will not touch that of Anti masonry. It will not permit itself "to be instrumental in fomenting an excitement, which, prevailing extensively in some parts of the country, had its origin'in the indig nation justly excited by the abduction some years-ugo l if a'person - by the name of Mor gan!" A pEllsoN WS' Tun NAME , or Mon- GAN !! ,l Thus do these experienced editors speak of the c tse ii - s - ifit were still new to a large part of their nuineroiii . ..rs; which probablyi-was-the-titM--It-scems - trrharc been the first time that they had meddled with - it, - and it is intimated that their press will. Meddle with it-M3 more. Is not this eni:nigh / to shod( u51....,Wi1l more proof bh called tor; except -by the infatuated, of the - bowing down of the - press Wore the unseen, wide-sweeping greo 445-of the Masonic-insti tution? 'The estimable citizens tie less than accomplished editors, tg.whogn, and to whose press, I hem,:venttim to allude in ftirtherance of theprinciple I haVesin hand, may be well assured, that it is done in not the slightest spirit °f i xers ;sal tthlidd'&ein.. They are themselvM: , iry,jjt;O: say, unaware of the contrellingqi 6**6 l 4b.der which they la , hour; they t . , not perceiver'how they breathe them in with die social atmosphere; how they are dripping with the deleteious damps ormasonfy,without knowing how they come,' 'any more than the damps of the night. nation was- As to the LAW, never in any age dr was it more completely laid prestrate by any''power, titan, masonry, has done it in „the case of Morgan. If this be not enough to consign it„ to•reprobation in a freestate, there is nothing els'e, that will. lire have been went_ to tallea the law being SOVEREIGN with, us; a but it is MAsngitv that is sovereign as.things now stand., This is no unconsid ered assertion. I shall proceed to the proof, With a confidence than which the human mind never would be justified in feeling more on. any moral - proposition. It rests on evi dence strong as adamant, though it be notall technical evidence. It rests on principles co:extensiye with the civilized world; -prin ciples out of which empires have arisen, and will -ariiie" again. Did - our fathers of '76 consult 'Gilbert's law of evidence, or the I chapter in Hawkins, to knowif evOy, act i of oppression. against them could helechnical -ly pi'oved in court?, Did the English ofl 666 ,or the. French of Ituitjuly, stand upon siich -doctrine? '.'he public safety is not Owe he cavilled away.. kis not,-as Lord Chath am said, to depend upon boOkti - I'vith . the : - , ,-,,,-- ': !TN- r..., - - . • • ortawaietaaezaz. 4•42. ti!tinteimetz e 1160124 a% leaves turned down in dogs ears. Every uccessive day, that finds the murder of Mor gan unavengedi 'Marks tt yontinuation of the outrage winch Ake ifirigCT - eiii-^tence of Ma sonryiti Our country, carries`witli itl'4iS the Masons who committed it, or.who kmew of it, still elude punishment by clinging to their masonic obligations, which they hold - tote; -- s4F - e - riiir - ilitbn -- Though it . .. even admitteil, that this arises from falla.ti: eisin i n theta, w hich perverts the true inten tion of the masonic obligation, society equal ly suffers and is equally outraged. When the 'institution, affecting to complain of"per secution" exclaims, "punish the guilty but not the innocent," it falls into a mockery, which affronts society . anew; for if is the very masonic oblig,ation itself, which never would have place but fin: the Instittition,that enables the guilty'to elude the law. When, too, the institution, rearing its presumptions i crest to a.parallel with Christianity, tells us i that c r a nes committed in the name of the latter are not allowed to recoil upon religion., and claims for masonry the same indulgence , it advances ' ~ claim more audacious than ah -1 surd; a claim that no unbiassed mind will notice, unless to remark upon its greater sacrilege than sophistry ; as if the oaths; and (Trips, and mysteries, and titles, and,the - whol%Trirth ofindickS; in alliance with which .. masonry finds it indispensable to perform the charities, were all of sacred origin; all .jure dirino, like the,claim of monarchs of Old to their throne-3. -The thoughts of such a parallel, make masonry doubly nauti l i, showing:that it is blown up by impious in flation; that hot content with causing mur der upon earth, it is for mounting_up after wards into heaven: , But its pretensions to religiOn form a branch of the discussion into which I did not (To nor do I desire.. to go. The only con o I n thnt . ' masonry politically, is on the ground of its _doing a_ positive injury to soe,icty. What its predilections'rna3 incite it to _cherish in theory or enact in practice, within its. own walls, those outside need not „care about.— Let it employ itself as any other benevolent; or festive, or theological brotherhood, if any or all such it. constitutes, with its own duties and pastimes, as long as it keeps within its own limits. Itut the line must never be passed. It exists permissively, under the license of society. The continuance of its chador,- depends,upon, its itm!xentitonduct.: This must be unequivocal and invariable. There must be no exception collaterally, any More than directly., The moment it is dis covered that persons belonging to this bro therhood can conspire against the liberty and life of a citizen who had broken no law of the land, but merely some ofits own edicts and when these persons can escape detection by persuading themselves that the volunta ry oaths and other self-assumed obligations which bind them to the brotherhood are of higher authority than the laws, no matter - under what mistaken notions of those oaths and obligations they act, front that moment the whole Institution, from which such rank delusions and tremendous . perils proceed, assumes a new relation to society. It is placed in attitude of nn aggressor. It rides over the laws. It is guilty; construe- _J tivelv if VOU %liLbiit übvionsly,_and lap,affr pay. It stands responsible for the blood of a citizen. In vain it may:allege that its - preceptk — hiculeiffe - obedience to whilst its, ignorant or wicked niemliers•vi6: late them through° a feeling Which the Insti stitution generine4M, their minds at least. The cry that it. is-"persccuted," is a contra , diction to common sense. It can no longer claim protection like other bodies of men, imitedfor their own plirposes. Society and such an Institution ctuniot exist itrszOtv to, gether, and the latter must k,irtt;e iva;4: "first principles of society, all the securities that, keeps it fromasunder, stamp this reasoniag with truth. t 'lt springs from the first impulses of t lie . mind, and is ratified by the covenants of every Code. No lawyer, no judge, no pnbliciSt, in iiiititeVer clime he nuiy•live, unless his understanding be subdued by masonry, can gainsay its three. The master is answerable for the servant, the superior -for the inferior, the pithy para mount, for lino who acts under influenee. The very dog unchained;- who does injury in (lie streets, fixes liability 'iipon the owner. TKse are primordial maxims ofjurisprn deuce,. locally and universally. They lie at the foundation of individual, social, and po litical safety. • No gpvernmenfs, no commu nities, none; of the links of civilized In, could hold together a. day without their shield.— They are the cement ()leach- within And of all to each other. Let it not Ire! - said that the respensibility is for civil• condlict, not crime. This is a distinction that can avail- Masonry nothing'. Nobody dreams of indicting.innOCent Masons for the murder Of Morgan; but only of putting an end-to the Institution flir the 'sufficient reason It guilty Masons took hislife4rough an igno rant misunderstanffing or cortupt perversion of their ties to that la! , tittition. 'lt is Olio that brings legal guilt home to the Instit i ntion en the,Vistionotiow raised a§ beseen itself and. society, - Yt shows the Institution . to 'have been 'the moving 'spring to the crime; the. influence paramount...that instigated . it; the aigie'fiot power, I do ,notsay, that coin marakid—tifis is not, tiece'ssary to.tfi e . nvitu MY COUNTRY LEADS ME TO RE OF ADVANTAGISTO Elia.,LOW-CITIZKNO." item.- 7 bar that caused the crime. ljere is enough, (unless indeed this fungus of human device, this mere mull of man, is to go on With - its clitimto — eo-equality with Christiani ty,) quiite enough, to Nil* it tmth.t the broad conservative maxim of the law to which I appeal. We must look at the: max im in its highest reason; not merely as one 4111 . 64W - itiliciconrc - iiinniijii Nit designed, in the for wid9r range of its digni ty and justice, to t hrow • protert ion over mankind. We make masovy amenable to it, in the only way in which the American people in their collective capacity, can ap ply its saving efficacy; viz: hr insisting that the Institution which caused the crime, be dissolved. The great coroner of the nation —such would the press have been on this emergency jilt had not shanietidly deserted its post—holding an inquest over the dead body of Morgan, could render no other ver dict, if the verdict covered the whole ground than that he came, to his. death by Masons, and through mosonry 4 lithe verdict were qualified by•saying the Pod spirit of mason ry, notkoits good, what difference would this make to the nation, seeing that masonry, in some form or other, was the source of the whole transaction; To the nation therefore. is masonry, upon the soundest principles of law, accountable for his de:ttlo The safety of the people is 1114.1:11EMN taw, which will disdii,in all shadewy distinction in a case orthis magnitude and concern. It is from masonry than. the Commonwealth has re ceived detriMents in the (lest ruction of a cit izen; and the old custom of Rote should be revived: the people Must take cure that it receives no More. , This conservative maxim of jurisprudence is seen in its broadest application when in force between nation and'nation, The en tire family of independent nations, acknowl edge its indisputable t. , . tly nations, are I eld responsible _for a Illetddilike . giltileired- to the person of a citizen of another nation, I "'though the nation, collectively, within whose limits the indignity may have been ommitted, be free from all imputation (If an • ntetitiot gd guilt. History abounds with such acts; and with accounts of wars, followed up the overthrow of nations growing out of them. I might mention, as a - very fresh il lustration of the general doctrine, the course just pi rsued by France in despatelting a squadron -to -the Taus,-to avenge the - de dradino• t' treatment shown to a French sub •ect in Lisbon, although it would appear to lave been denied that the POrtuguese King Don Miguel) had given any sanction to the sutrage; for the French Minister's note of •eclamation, does not undertake positively o say that it had his sanction. Had Lisbon yen been bombarded and its innocent inhab tants suffered, it would be nothing more ban we have seen, ineact, in analagous ca-_ s among inclepeiplent nations. Yet-mason rv, in defiance of all this, in defiance of the iisorbing and t ranscendant nature of public rights, whether as claimed and exer ised so 'nvariably by states within themselves, or nternationally, affects to think that it is not o answer for an offence committed by the immediate Members of its own body acting from a spirit iiffused intoikemby.titat body. he lattet• inoTedhaa trtsl .troaorr tlianihe one just cited, or any other likely to occur bet Ween the Stittes pot.ti. mention other enormitiestn the case of-Mor ;an that recoil de jurf,, and,-.as we shall see presently,: de facto too, upon the-Lodge.- 7 .. But what am I saying? W„ ... b . ydO ITo - r* myself? With governments niasimry W . hold no pitrallel; with nations-it will-hold -no parallel; nothing but Christianity is its cora-, peer!- The Lodge and the Church, are ever in celestial glory coupled. Christianity- is not answerable fiir the bad deeds of Christ lam —therefoie, masonry must not be answera bk. for the heal deeds of Masons! Suchol% the consumniated blasphemy of Masonic lo gic, Sometimes, inde4d, it will stoop, a little. /t will transciently condescend to comp4re itselfwitilte Senate of the Um States; or being fond of old things, to the old Revolutionary Congress. It is in the mat ter of. secrecy, that - it .thus . cona?ii below its heavenly aspirations. • The comparison pur ports, thatlis nations sometimes transact their allitirs with eloSed doors, the nation of Free masons have also good right -to close theirs eteniir ly, with the superaddition,en bagatelle of eternt 1 oaths, and penalties, lest they conic . to be ppeneck • Let us look into the moving - spring of all this self exaltation. It may not lie so much below. the surface as that common penetra tion cannot easily get , to it, if it will but be exerted. I am unwilling to transgress upon your kindness byhaking my letter too long; but the subject isfulLof interest.. The: publie)kaVe so long been familiariz ed to the name, 'of Freemasonry, and it ur, ges,its Claiths upon theimblic so imperious. ty,, that we have not yet , - nials, beaminrr like the fires of_ Elusis, to . . - overpower the scepticism or silence the contumitcY of.all who presume to breathe a doubt against its purity or raise - a finger - a , gainst its sway. It is fit, says Bacon, that we sometimes burn incense where bad or doors have been raised. • So it is with OUP • Hoary. ' , Thousands who join it by Crossing the threshold of a lodge but once in their lives, because they find that once enough, " . know no more of what passes there after wards, than of what is going on in there. giens to which Ulysses descended. But by setting out these names, by dwelling upon by-gone centuries r and unrolling. the laded catalogue of its other meritS, which the un initiated are-to- take-upon 'the credit • Ari -- 1 . 11; own - knights - ill budder; it - a - e - b - kaltiArtiW side the understanding from-a scrutiny into its more recent achievements, and all hit •. i-stit js tlehert.,. It may - be - profi ble te• , detach ourselves, fora moment, from these demands upon our reverence and look at ii the case before •iii under a change in the ' , outward circumstances, but of hone .whate. ver in the real substance. This mode of viewing it, may open f an avenue through which the judgment Can pass, witholit the common hindrances, -right conclaskies obit . the character and dee - di - of Masonry. , e it s -stilifieS e -,l * -n, that anew society had been formed in the -U. States about five years ago,unde - fa name before OliknOWEl to . . us, and modelled, we will also say, 'after -- one abroad; for example, in Constantinople.- - ' For convenience, we will ' give it a name, —We will suppose it to have been called, 'the Brethren of the Sun and Moon, coin- Ix .1 'dons of the Stars, and Knighti of at ' crimson turban." Let us suppose that some gf-the-rnernbelli-of thii society, a dozen - we will say, had, with the aid of certain signe known among _themselves, and.toall4nos.- * hems, but of which others knew .nothing f . laid a conspiracy against the liberty and life of one of our people and destroyed both, for breaking. some of its own self reated rules; c.3 o*.supposition includes the idea . or secre ,as fundamental te'their rules; and it regards the society as composed of Anis.- ricans as well as foreigners. Let us farth er and lastly suppose, that, these :titled and turbaned associators had then, by virtue of certain ealialisticar vows that bound thew to their society and each other with an en- , ergy as if inscribed on the banner of the , prophet, continued to defy, for fell . . years out of the five of the society' exis tence, all out courts - and juries ,t Convict r them of this conspiracy an urder, al. , . though - their - guilt - wag - S6 grant rtlitit - no intelligent mind would t nk of douibting it: what would notre been the feeluAr 44, Th - e - people every ,w r---.° - --- ' ' , ..h - 1767 1 14 :op e every iere against sum. a to ciety, and wh - lawful - means - Would - - have. - - beenieft - riedtbr its - suppressionT. Now,. here is e case of Morgaii and .hitisonry,. gimp but substantially - stated: - Theonly d, ,., efect is, that, for brevity'esak4; 1 tonrlde - Ito much to Masonry m the case assumed. Aig ir l, is there - any thiog.2in the _matvniq._-__. •Socie thi t liforda exempt. it iVoitiTithiF .to •whir.h - such a new-born scialety - iVtallii ' have Wen exposed? What is it that gives to the tbrikeri'privileges beyond any ether assOriatian of men, that we should not hon.. estly and fearlessly denotince it, aaite own. culherents-tralople upon the law? Whet iri: the meaning of the statutes ogivagranite., .. .ofywri tbe l liont-books of the lctw gottera. to, ailagebni. . Do we not know , that the' eit. , ' ." sena ofthe offence at which•they were lev;.. elled, consisted in , introducing into the bob ! a power above the law; something pre vented its fair execution? And notnut-• sonny done this very thing irrhforgari's - ettset. Who will say that prohibitory statutesmighe ~ not, be enacted against Ale- Iliecitution in' NPW York? 'el; re would have teen little. . • . hesitation, we m be assurecf,, I ifa- bringing - ; the Turkish soeity, the ease. of which tr l, have put, under th k , sharpest penal regisla- .. 4 tido, it' it bad not en made to disappear wider more itinnedia bleats of poblie.gle-- : . • testation. And on : t plea should'naeon ry escape? - Its antiquity?.., This ippreeise ly the strongest reason for'Outting 4, flealiv Ancient abuse's are sure to be the moat fbr , -- _..-- 1, nudable, in every commttoity disfigured by ' thfir existenee; They make re claim too • 1 sanctity on this groom', like the English! I rotten borouglrsystem, !Ai work evil the more fatally under every Crrrr. Time' io power which th'artful plaretf iponthetres• _ dulity of mankind,. Do' e require theprooll How else cpuld it have happenedythat, ma, . sonry has.stood erverttolhisdayinseold* ' . like . ours, whilst ingulgingitsetfin.- ' tries' and . taking, teritselrtitles,, that. hare IK)t v . only been baiished from EprOptuuto3ll4frier t 1, c but - tharstirptists' all Aritatis eicagsetatinbl i i and haVe been treed to seek, refuge ht. the, . . uncivilized -o x neon taskell.ofi t' c p is tar , s, . • • . • • • . • OW-MU