CATALOGUE OF BOOKS

ON

THE MASONIC INSTITUTION,

IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF TWENTY-EIGHT STATES OF THE UNION,

ANTIMASONIC

IN ARGUMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS.

BY DISTINGUISHED LITERARY GENTLEMEN, CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES,

WITH

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, AND A COMPILATION OF
RECORDS AND REMARKS,

BY

A MEMBER OF THE SUFFOLK COMMITTEE OF 1829.

(Henry Gassett.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY DAMRELL & MOORE.

1852.

Marquis of Londonderry on the death of Emperor Alexander, · · · · ·
Freemasonry in Quincy, Massachusetts,

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Article on the last days of Alexander, by Robert Lee, Physician to
Count Woronzow,

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Extract from the Address of Wm. F. Brainard, a Royal Arch Mason,
before Union Lodge, New London, Conn., June 24, 1825,..

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John Brooks elected Governor of Massachusetts by Freemasons, •
De Witt Clinton elected Governor of New York by Freemasons, 15
Hon. John Q. Adams's answer that "He was not a Freemason and
never should be," and the consequences,·
Masonry suspected in the sudden release of Lopez at Savannah, Ga., 15
The Year of Light, 1826, discloses many things, and among them some-
thing of Arnold, Burr and Clay,

Washington's devotedness to Freemasonry asserted and magnified, in

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Contemptuous and acrimonious terms applied to Antimasons by
Henry Brown, a Knight Templar of New York State, and by
three eminent gentlemen of Rhode Island,

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The good quality of Freemasonry pronounced by Archibald Alison,
the historian, Past Grand Master, ·
Article signed A from the Union and Sentinel, published in Lancas-
ter, Pennsylvania, on the exclusiveness of Freemasonry,. . . . . . . 27

The Boston Daily Journal and Quero on the celebration at Worces-
ter of the Anniversary of St. John the Baptist,
Quero's Communication to the Boston Liberator,·

An Imposture, the claiming of the St. Johns as Freemasons,
The Corner-Stone of Bunker Hill Monument laid by John Abbot in
the presence of Gen. La Fayette,

A Masonic Falsehood deposited with the Corner-Stone of the Masonic
Temple in Boston, Oct. 14, 1830, as certified by Levi Lincoln,
Governor of Massachusetts, and Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor of
Boston,..

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The Smithsonian Institution in incongruous contact with Freemasonry, 37
The assertion that Gen. Washington, while President of the United
States, laid the corner-stone of the Capitol, doubted, and reasons
given for doubting,.

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Presidents Jackson and Polk when visiting Massachusetts declined

attentions of Masons as Masons,

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Letter to Benjamin B. French, Grand Master of the District of
Columbia, July 15, 1848,∙
Letter to Benjamin B. French, Grand Master of the District of
Columbia, July 27, 1848,.

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Letter to Benjamin B. French, Grand Master of the District of
Columbia, Oct. 12, 1848,
Extracts from the Address of R. W. Robert G. Scott at the laying of
the Corner-Stone of the Washington Monument of Virginia, at
Richmond,

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Letter to Robert G. Scott, Esq., Richmond, Va., July 8, 1850,∙
Letter to Robert G. Scott, Esq., Richmond, Va., July 19, 1850, 57
Disagreement in Declarations of Capt. Hugh Maloy and General

Washington,

Votes in Congress, March 27, 1844, on the question of incorporating

the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and that of Freemasons in
District of Columbia, with the names and residences of the yeas
and nays,.

Another unsuccessful attempt, January 24, 1851, to get the Lodge of

Odd Fellows incorporated,

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Bright Examples, four in number, of Freemasons,

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