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I Do Conscientiously And Sincerely Believe That The Order Of Freemasonry, If Not The Greatest, Is One Of The Greatest Moral And Political Evils Under Which The Union Is Now Laboring ... A Conspiracy Of The Few Against The Equal Rights Of The Many ...masonry Ought Forever To Be Abolished. It Is Wrong - Essentially Wrong - A Seed Of Evil, Which Can Never Produce Any Good.

Westward The Star Of Empire Takes Its Way.

America Does Not Go Abroad In Search Of Monsters To Destroy. She Is The Well-wisher To The Freedom And Independence Of All. She Well Knows That By Enlisting Under Other Banners Than Her Own, Were They Even The Banners Of Foreign Independence, She Would Involve Herself Beyond The Power Of Extrication In All The Wars Of Interest And Intrigue, Of Individual Avarice, Envy And Ambition, Which Assume The Colors And Usurp The Standards Of Freedom.

Wherever The Standard Of Freedom And Independence Has Been Or Shall Be Unfurled, There Will Be America's Heart, Her Benedictions And Her Prayers.

When (an Advocate) Is Not Thoroughly Acquainted With The Real Strength And Weakness Of His Cause, He Knows Not Where To Choose The Most Impressive Argument. When The Mark Is Shrouded In Obscurity, The Only Substitute For Accuracy In The Aim Is In The Multitude Of The Shafts.