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Grand Lodge
GRAND LODGE
The proceedings at Grand Dodge on "Wednesday last were marked by a most wonderful unanimity of feeling , and we should not be disposed to call particular attention to them did we not feel it to be our duty to warn the Grand Officers and the Brethren against the danger of rushing from the extreme of neglect of complaints from the Colonies , to the most hasty of decisions on subjects of the greatest importance ; and rendering Grand Lodge the mere registrars of the
decisions of the executive . We will not go so far as to say that the Lodges in Canada were lost to England only by the neglect of their complaints at home ; but no person can doubt that the dissatisfaction which existed with our rule was materially increased by that neglect , and smoothed the way to the declaration of their independence . "What has taken place in consequence of too much neglect in the one case may , if we be not careful , be caused by too great a precipitancy in another .
"We are led to these observations by the manner in which the memorial from the Brethren of Lodge 781 , in Hobart Town , which we published on the 10 th ult ., was disposed of . On that memorial being brought forward , instead of , as has been the case on former occasions , Grand Lodge ordering it , to be printed and circulated with the report of the quarterly communications , and left for
discussion on the next Grand Lodge , the E . WJD . G . M . rose and expressed his opinion that ¦ " an appeal of this kind , involving as it does very serious points of difference between those who have signed the memorial and the Prov . G . M ., should be disposed of at once . " We admit the importance of an early decision on such a memorial , but we contend that the Brethren were altogether ignorant
of the evidence pro or con , and though it cannot be denied that our 11 . W . Bro . Lord Panmure brought his arguments most lucidly before ( xrand Lodge , we cannot forget that the noble lord stood for the moment , in defending the course taken by Bro . Ewing , in exactly the same position as would the secretary for the colonies defending the acts of a colonial officer appointed by the premier The M . W . G . M and the B . W . D . G . M . have both more than once
pressed upon us that the proceedings of Grand Lodge should be governed , as far as possible , by the usages of the House of Commons . Now , what would be thought of a minister of the Crown who , laying the papers relative to a grave complaint from a large body of colonists VOL , IT . 2 F
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Grand Lodge
GRAND LODGE
The proceedings at Grand Dodge on "Wednesday last were marked by a most wonderful unanimity of feeling , and we should not be disposed to call particular attention to them did we not feel it to be our duty to warn the Grand Officers and the Brethren against the danger of rushing from the extreme of neglect of complaints from the Colonies , to the most hasty of decisions on subjects of the greatest importance ; and rendering Grand Lodge the mere registrars of the
decisions of the executive . We will not go so far as to say that the Lodges in Canada were lost to England only by the neglect of their complaints at home ; but no person can doubt that the dissatisfaction which existed with our rule was materially increased by that neglect , and smoothed the way to the declaration of their independence . "What has taken place in consequence of too much neglect in the one case may , if we be not careful , be caused by too great a precipitancy in another .
"We are led to these observations by the manner in which the memorial from the Brethren of Lodge 781 , in Hobart Town , which we published on the 10 th ult ., was disposed of . On that memorial being brought forward , instead of , as has been the case on former occasions , Grand Lodge ordering it , to be printed and circulated with the report of the quarterly communications , and left for
discussion on the next Grand Lodge , the E . WJD . G . M . rose and expressed his opinion that ¦ " an appeal of this kind , involving as it does very serious points of difference between those who have signed the memorial and the Prov . G . M ., should be disposed of at once . " We admit the importance of an early decision on such a memorial , but we contend that the Brethren were altogether ignorant
of the evidence pro or con , and though it cannot be denied that our 11 . W . Bro . Lord Panmure brought his arguments most lucidly before ( xrand Lodge , we cannot forget that the noble lord stood for the moment , in defending the course taken by Bro . Ewing , in exactly the same position as would the secretary for the colonies defending the acts of a colonial officer appointed by the premier The M . W . G . M and the B . W . D . G . M . have both more than once
pressed upon us that the proceedings of Grand Lodge should be governed , as far as possible , by the usages of the House of Commons . Now , what would be thought of a minister of the Crown who , laying the papers relative to a grave complaint from a large body of colonists VOL , IT . 2 F