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HE Undersigned, members of the KasAEic isiAciaMfiES of this vicinity, having, many of us, taken all the degrees of
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are conferred in the Lodges and Chapters of New England, and some having been admitted into what are called the higher Orders of
KaSEEIf, feel constrained by what we deem our duty to our country and to- ourselves, in consequence of the excitement existing around
us on the subject of I?£e© iffiaiOSIft solemnly to declare, — That the only object of all the obligations, pledges, rites and laws of the
ll&eQSi© Institut ion, as we have taken, understood, practised and conferred them, is the promotion of morality, virtue and piety,
the promotion of all those qualities of the head and heart which constitute men good — good citizens of their country and of the world,
good in all the social relations and offices of life, and that the statements of the Anti-Masonic Party to the contrary are false, slanderous and
base. That the principles of the SaSEEl® Institution have had their full beneficial effect on their own lives, the undersigned do not assert;
neither do they say that they have never been perverted, but they do say that they Relieve them to be not more liable to perversion, and that they
have never been perverted to the injury of the Public, either in this or any other country, more frequently than the institutions of Religion; and
that, on the whole, Free Masonry has been productive of much more good, than evil, in every community in which it has flourished. Conscientiously
entertaining these views of the subject, and having received the laws and accumulated Funds of the SodWfdn ss-JCt-sfi
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for charitable uses, they
can neither renounce nor abandon it.
And should the people of this country become so infatuated as to deprive Masons of their civil rights, in violation of their written constitution
and the whole spirit of just laws and free- governments, they trust a vast majority of the
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will remain firm, confiding in God and the
rectitude of their intentions, for consolation under the trials to which they may be exposed.
The undersigned claim no exclusive privileges — no exemption from punishment when proved guilty of crimes — no immunity from the just
reward which an injured community bestows on evil doers, when by their own deeds it can be shown that they are such ; but they protest against being
adjudged guilty of crimes ‘committed by others, or of crimes imagined to be the consequence of their Masonic principles.
Finally, we most solemnly affirm, that we know of no obligation or principle in ®ae©E£y that requires duties of its members incompatible with
the laws of the land, or contrary to our moral or religious duty to man, our country or our God.
Salem.
Daniel Caldwell,
Nathaniel Garland,
, William Leavitt,
Jonathan Shove,
Asa Hooper,
Stephen B. Ives,
John Stone,
Asa Wiggin,
Sylvester Procter,
Jonathan Wilson,
John Page,
James P. Thorndike,
Henry Whipple,
Isaiah Straw,
Joseph Shaw,
Samuel S. Trefrey,
Ebenezer Dodge,
Abraham Kimball,
Francis Peabody,
John N. Frye,
Asa Wheeler,
John Gilley,
Thomas Cole,
Nathan Millet,
John Saunders,
Nathaniel Pitman,
David Shove,
Jason Chamberlain,
Joseph G. Sprague,
Henry Buxton,
Jonathan Webb,
Winthrop Sargent,
John Preston,
John Prince,
Joseph Eveleth,
Jewett Maxfield,
Samuel Tucker,
John W. Pepper,
Benjamin Jacobs,
David Blaney,
Benj. F. Browne,
Stephen Haraden,
George Peabody,
Aaron Perkins,
Thomas Stimpson,
Josiah P. Creesy,
Caleb Foote,
Samuel Nichols,
Albert G. Browne,
Adam Nesmith,
John Morrison,
James Gregory,
Pickering Dodge, Jr.,
Arad Pomroy,
George Choate,
■ Cornelius Baker,
Dean Kimball,
Samuel Bartoll.
Larkin Thorndike,
William Gavett,
Charles F. Wilson,
John Baker,
David Roberts,
Robert Brookhouse,
Erastus Ware,
Caleb Warner,
Nehemiah Andrews,
Ira R. Manning,
Malthas A. Ward,
James Odell,
John Frost,
4 Benjamin Peters,
John Ward,
Beverly.
John Howard, Jr.,
Charles Baker,
Peter E. Webster,
B. L. Rand,
Oliver Saunders,
Samuel Simonds,
William Whitaker,
Jesse Smith, Jr.,
Lot Alden,
Levi Preston, Jr.,
Dr. Joshua Fisher,
Samuel B. Buttrick,
Ebenezer Hathorne,
Putnam I. Famham,
' Charles Dexter,
Fitch Poole, Jr.,
Amos Sheldon,
William W. Palfray,
Amos F. Smith,
Jesse Fillmore,
j Gideon Wilkins,
John Upton,
Abraham Edwards,
David Mack,
Caleb Sawyer,
Thomas C. Whittredge,
; David Magoun,
Thomas Morland,
Stephens Baker,
John Morris,
William Cottle,
James Perkins,
Benjamin Farless, •
Frederic Clement,
Stephen B. Goodhue,
Emery Johnson, .
Hiram Southworth,
Joseph Hodges,
James S. Kimball,
Andrew Porter,
Samuel Lamson,
Lemuel Willis,
John Simon,
Joseph Cloutman,
Cornelius Briggs,
Augustus Hammond.
John P. Webber,
William Duncan,
Nathan. Blood,
Hardy Phippen,
1 Jonathan Merrill,
Elliot Woodbury,
Wm. Mickle field,
Andrew Slueman,
David Moore,
Henry Hubon,
Marblehead.
. Thomas Farris,
James Devereux,
Joel Browning,
Benjamin Pitman,
; Thomas Moriarty.
Jd&se Sheldon,
John C. Very,
Isaac B. Shepard,
Charles Parker,
Danvers.
Rev. John Bartlett, ,
Andrew Leach,
William Sutton, Jr.,
Henry Lnscomb,
Elijah A. Hanson,
John Traill,
George Brown,
Nathaniel F. Safford,
Samuel Becket,
Theodore Morgan,
\ Andrew Nichols,
Abel Gardner,
Benjamin Peirce,
Thomas Cloutman,
William Lummus,
Joseph Edwards,
William P. Endicott,
Samuel Bowden,
Stephen Roundy, Jr.,
James Barr, Jr.,
Mark Kimball,
Thomas Bowditch,
Nathan Poor,
Michael Coombs,
Francis Lamson,
Thomas Farless,
John Albree,
Eleazer Pope,
: Lewis Allen,
Nathaniel Adams,
Benjamin S. Lunt,
Frazier Carleton,
Daniel Sage,
William F. Nichols,
‘ Nathan Lakeman,
Isaac Collyer,
William Thissell.
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