Hagers-Town Free Press (Newspaper) - March 26, 1834, Hagers-Town, Maryland WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1834 f Yol TWO IT FAID IN were i Downing bv the opposite party m of New were evil disposed spirits like the of the while at the same time there were other kinds who appeared to warn friends of approaching point out the spot where money was concealed kind and not to frighten led men and children and even old women neither did they tie chains and throw down chairs to the great alarm of those in the neighborhood Shakspearc calls one kind Spirit of I the other Goblins and he terms dead Oft have I seen timely parted yhost Of ashy semblance meagre pale aud less Sometimes ghost haunted places at other times persons and says son there a churchyard that had not its showing what a avis i ghost now is for it is some years since he public have been honored by their visits from the vigilance of the police hich saves them the trouble of poaching as it is technically no doubt T f Air rt York Daily 8 Ever since J wrote to you about them it tnu st lie verrn the as once expressed it to seek such re- venge or The reason 13 en- in mystery and darkness trable But is V There was a time when the raven but croaked and his hoarse note caused many a stout heart to a cheek to There was once a period when and brimstone and murder let 1 hare been look in on to see how our folks are to work their way out of the scrape they have got The Government iny and 1 mean to say another word a- bout it But as things are ony gittin Worse and worse 1 the General for the last time if some change did'nt place I must quit for J stay here and have my advice put aside jest to suit other folks notions when 1 see as plain as I could see daylight the hull country goin all to smash The Gineral was considerable struck tip when J talked of leavin on him and he me where I was goin Well says Ij General that is tell for I don't see now where 1 can goto git rid of this trouble for its worse than cholera morbus a body could git away from that but this has got now every where and when it gits hold stands no chance with it I am afraid Major says the Gineral you are your says J it may be so for a may as well change his teeth says I if by keeping his old set lie can git nothing to bite with em Arid now says I Gineral jest lets you and I look into this Experiment of yourn and see where to land us for says I if I dont miss my guess we shall and attack we make agin th Bank ony worse the peopl about the country this now and t hull country is 1 Ginen a myself i have got into a scrape I should like to and tli a we g the hoot of the owl from the fur over head to rights and there A on A spirit a certain lime lo walk j for ihs day confined to fast on fires i The belief in the of the soul after it had left this tenement of day can by no means be called modern re- spect to age nor confined in regard to country The ancient Egyptians had a notion that the souls of departed friends sometimes appeared among them that at come future period they would return and take op their abode in their former bodies provided that they had not suffered mutilation and were in a fit Mate to re- their former guests This gave rise custom of embalming and to it we owe those vast monuments of Egyptian art which constructed for the purpose cf shielding and protecting the bodies which were therefore entombed The evidently believed in the possibility of appearance as Saul's demand of the Witch of Endor plainly proves the results of that demand has puzzled many a hard denier of the of sudi an appearance That this belief was common to more modern Jews is lhat passage in St Luke which describes the as walking on said When his saw him they were thinking they had seen a Sri HIT The Greeks and Romans universally be- in this appearance and it was tomary among them lo offer to er filled the minds of our ancestors the heroes of Cressy aud with more dread and dismay than the shout of sing hosts or the tumult of battle That feeling is apparently dead But I will ture to affirm that there are many in this than would like to edge would not dare to sleep in a house reported to be even with the usual accompaniments wax lights a drawn sword two brace of pistols H gun a huge cheese and brown loaf two bottles of ale ami a fire blazing on the hearth Even if a man undertook this the the of his friend would cause his brow to be covered with a cold dew the closing of the outer door as it sounded the hollow and died away in distant cause him to suppress his breath and to his tankard of with a fervor astonishing survive I what think you would be his feelings when lie hears dis- tant and indistinct by his own fears and vaulted passages of the haunted Ihc noise approaches the door of his strikes falls with a heavy Then behold at his clenched distended ing convulsive of neighboring I say no more that however would be the ture of many a ghost of the nineteenth century But it is to be wondered the effect of is no which end come down first And I don't see says I what good is to come down feet first even How savs we Jo satisfy this batch of folks with all their little children now ferin all the country by this You might as well says I try to make folks believe it will be better for when they git ed to it to take oft their shoes and ings and go now and tell em that's the ony way so that in war time ery man will be ready to inarch and not bother the country to provide shoes and stockings for em And its pretty much so now with this no Bank Experiment Folks have got a notion that they can't git on without banks aud they there must be a out and git you out too if I can at any rate says just pack up my ax and gu my bundle ready for as things are goin it won't do to stay here The got considerable riled at this and slatted round a spell but he soon seen do no good for it me whistlin yankee so to right says he Major did I never tell you that story and the bee tree and the apple says not as I knows on but f like to hear and so the Gineral he sot down and a long story goin out once with a gang of his a it was jest arter the last Ingen war and folks all about the country Vas beginning to think that long before he koon and beset the to work ting down the tree this tree stood right a- long side an old apple and afore it was half cut down a man cum along and asked the Gineral what he was arter and he him why says he eral you are up the rong tree this time for I jest see the jump to the next tree and afore this lie mile there in the Gin era him he was mistaken and jest then the old mer asked the what on oil em have been dropping their eggs un- der him to hatch for oni and not bin has come of the nest that the people like And says I if some on you don't manage to stand and Jet an egg go in the nest worth Urn peskily afraid the people won't stand it much but will make a sweep of the hiill on you and break up the old nest gain and so says 1 that's all for the sent Tour old friend j DOWNING Militia 2d Brigade The A ESS To the Fraternity of Masons in the Stale he was cultin down that tree for that it was one of the best boo trees on his farm and had supplied his family and the neighbours round with honey for a good many seasons and the bees was in And with thai the got i i o -7 and the to cut away and strong one to know too late all the small ones jest like the ance wheel in a watch for without that says I little wheels will go and break all to bits and you'll never the tims of day no more a sun dial will leHin a snow storm And then says I to talk about hard money and that there be no other kind of money Why says I you might ss well tell folks to go back to er ami was new in his that the Gineral he shoe buckles agm when a good lether fears will operate upon for says Lockr Let but a foolish maid inculcate it in a child possibly he shall never be able to extinguish them again This is one great cause of the superstition of Hie present age Children arc committed to the care of ignorant persons and ignorance and are and the children imbibe their notions which they can never gel rid of afterwards Though it must be acknowledged that the of places and circumstances cannot altogether he string is lighter and belter suppose says I a merchant wants to send money from here to Orleans to buy cotton or to China to tea and says I a old Revolutionary Soldier liven back in the country sent here for his sion anil he was ton old to come for it self how then says I would we manage to git ibis money in the safest way ble ary to to bay cotton or to China to buy tea or to the hands of this Old Soldier If you hard dollars says down went the tree right across the chard fence and ays the Gineral if the aint there cut down the apple orchard till you find him and the at afore out down many trees the old farmer lanit wisdom and he come to the Gineral and him lie was all far the was jist where he thought lie and he had from apple tree to cellar and will I off the niggers and the farmer it was weil he had found the as soon as ho did for he'd a cut evry tree in his orchard 1 telly him Gineral be might the for larnin wisdom says I Gineral was your lion why says he Major if I done jist so ii would a gone all round the try that I and it's jisl the Bank if I give up my notion now folks will say I know in Bankin and afore I'll break ery man in Irade from one the country to the other I'll let folks know afore I am done that Andrew Jackson knows as much of Bankin as he does of When we take a retrospect of the past years and review the delerious con- which the has our community in deranging the social arid harmony of society pervading ur counties and the tale and severing the ligaments of our affections in our families kindred religious and political relations ivc arc grieved and afflicted at the great evil has produced In consequence of the manner in which was by the uninitiated part of the against the whole fraternity and the very Institution of as containing iu itself A OF SECRET POWER by which it could direct and control tlie destinies of society as well as of individuals with an unseen hand and that it could accomplish purposes and even perpetrate capital nls without responsibility to the public law of the land for its This accusation of a combination of power comes with equal truth against all systems of aristocracies monarchies aad whether of the civil or orders It is the very gist if the numerous systems of human device through nil the pages of history and ages of time by which the minority usurp age intrigue and govern the majority The Sovereigns and Despots of so usurp the prerogatives of society and claim divine md so long as they can persuade or force their subjects to believe in the imposture ibey sneered in it is an u- liere we have good evidence in the which it had on our for laying had the throughout the State of York dp not presume followed our e ple but had they have given up their lets also political would never after have appeared at the polls of our election in this have been organized into a political party in any er state But the objection with yon then was that it was yielding to the prejudices of a great public NECESSITY Now political haying in our section reposed from its labor this objection ho longer thus left freely to the act of our own volition the question occurs BECOMES TMK MASONS SEW STATE OF In the act of surrendering our charters in the County of Monroe we gave a al pledge to that we had retired from the Order for the of bur honestly so intended it and it was received of us in good faith fore we cannot now chunge our purpose take new charters our Lodges and again come into fellowship with without being liable to the rebuke of would be contrary to the even tenor of past lives and tion to so subject ourselves to that reproach consequently we do not intend nor do we know of any who would ask to take out new we should seriously regret to see any in the County Monroe attempt it because the act justly provoke the resuscitation of ical the recurrence of which no sober thinking man could ever desire WHAT SHALL WE To undertake to maintain the Order against the popular prejudices subject to the of the numerous publications would in our view become means of Wei I says T don't see how tnu minority by Ike magic of it combination and succeed in governing n majority Our American Republics are founded on this broad principle of civil dence Ike will of Ike majority con- tlie well public law of lite land and respecting the rights of the the same rule of law dispenses equal justice to to the civil authority of the state all nal jurisdiction and allowing to the religious and social communities no more of it than simply the power to expel win? were divided into two good and bad the former were called and il at Uic festival in their to throw bark beans on the graves of tin deceased or to bum them which combined magical and f he besting of drums was to them away and to prevent them Irom relations The of ghosts by os remarkable fur the df I Die idea and tlic which lie to it O of various or like tlie cohering of onion which when together are tangible Lwt when become to the ouch though From cf we will turn to those more modern date and we shall find that though vary in kind they do not in degree The word goblin w derived by forms from elf is derived from being tbe families thai to crated we find a kind of indescribable awe mixed with fear in treading o'er tbe graves of mighty dead in walking by light amongst the ruin of an abbey or in viewing the spot shaded by trees in centre of a vast forest where some murder has been committed All these scenes a of awe which Burke describes 93 sublime and fear as the same author remarks is companion In the situations few would choose to be alone at midnight though those persons disclaim all notion of any thing supernatural being the cause I will now conclude with the words Doswell IH Speaking of what I might say of did not affirm any upon a subject which it is the fashion of the limes to lauh of J in a ship and she its gone to all and if the pirates take her its at as a nutter of absurd credulity he on- ly willing a candid ter truth strange and inexplicable to that he understood might be urged for me if wry And I want iw free B R B A lady beating a on a table as of harmony time asked er if she knew what she played I answered sin Beauty worse yet and if you send it by mail Major Barry have to make some worse contracts than we have already This stumps me considerable and I have been lookin into it ever since this Bank war be- gun and the ony way says I is lo have a Bank lhat every body has got confidence in and have it as strag as all and known every where anil then we can git round all these storms and pirates and bor of hard money about And we want no belief Bank than we've got now to do all this if we ony let it And the best proof that it is strong is that with all our hammerin at it we haint shook an atom and the more we fight agin it the worse it for the people want the money this Bank owns and the Bank wants to lend its money for that is its business and when we tell the people that Squire Kiddle is the cause of makin money scarce they know that's all fiddle How says I suppose jon was pointed to defend the country again an en- emy rial was comin here from abroad and the enemy was say 10.000 men and they you where were going to land but yon was obliged every week lo tell them where your men says ibe Gineral I'd go right down lo New leans and whip as I did afore but suppose says 1 they there keep about the coast from cite lo how then says says ihc Gineral I'd call man in the country and I'd have men in fort from New Orleans to well I that t be the ony way and if il in- harvest time it would be had work the coald not help that says the Gineral Pd defend the country thro thick and As we understand tlie subject we never claimed more limn expelling power for lie Masonic for obvious and gent we will never consent lhat more than that power shall ever be our cd lo moral social or religious orders our civil if git sich notions Nor I don't jor says the Gineral but it has always been my way when I git a notion to stick to it till it dies a natural the more folks talk agin my notions the more 1 stick to em Kow says 1 Gineral that was a good story been I'd to tell you the Gineral he filled his pipe and I began A spell ago says I iny old Grandmother my mother's know says P eral my mother was a so I the Gineral as far as I could all about the hull Danfurth family and that strait f got back agin to my Grand- mother says f owned in old hen that one of he critters that ever This old hen was never remarkable for hying she was a master hand at hatchin on cm old Grandmother Danforth used to keep this old always and fast as she one batch she'd stick tinker got so at last ail the other fowls the place would come and in along side this old lien and by their eggs in her limes j for from osar and dunghill fowls and it made no odds which his old lien would hatch cm all and was as tickled every mornin when the voting one? wonld crawl out of the nest as she had laid the the accusation of a sacret combination of against Masonry bo and well founded it becomes our duty as good Citizens of our Republic to abandon the Institution For ourselves we most solemnly aw that tvc entertained no such suspicions gainst ihc Institution while we fellowship with fraternity that we considered it a good meekly forcing it into the arena to de- generate the its high and ancient character for charily and lence into a mere political party eering there made to perform the very acts and justly to incur all the obnoxious have been bestOK-cd upon it and in the event to de- grade it into ah of the land as a public nuisance the like as the order of Jesuits amongst the governments Therefore in order to rescue it from so propose in the state return their charters dispose of the funds an i hand to some other purpose let tlie In- in ihc arms of its members We most consider this fice to be duly lo society in order to sooth and the angry of men I Then Acting under a deep and tional sense of and religious with an unanimity ihc allar cf our country for ing with a moral no consciousness cf yielding a right to pacify the of a wrong in the mind cf our io and and deserve confidence of community As Rochester the metropolis of the world we still and ing its members their and charities in life and Warming their wilh be- toward But we candidly aAit its moral leaching did not in and influence Ihc as it instructed the nor do we consider this frailty belong exclusively to the Masonic In- we have presumed ness to address you with suggestions luring that yon will duly kindly our and also concur and us in our petition lo I ho Grand nud the Grand ihc final dissolution of the which we submit to con- sideration deference and fraternal feeing Rochester I was all the wile ruffled and f ihc a good long story about this old about bet the other fowls used to impose her so forth Tlie was good deal taken with and he been Jo Mr Vain Aimos Kindle and the rest of the one on em came lo me lo know what latin that story had an The all I could say it- boot H was that the me his I that's pretty ranch what Squire is arter he don't know where we intend to attack his Bank and we make him tell as every week how the Branches stand as to strength and we have hint bresk him if we tan as he be doin JjJs dirty if he defend his he is to keep every point strong as he can and no a food of money M jest a good many militia be in the war been aint one of difference story to show how it was for him to slick notion right or wrong and as he did'nt know exactly how he got his I thought Pd tell him we find similar in our moral duties to abound more or lew in all our religions and all partaking largely of tbe frailties of man That owing to the manner in which the various Orders and of the were and the secret con- dives in which the their social intercourse in Hit wilh re- secrets the vftkt had a under for suspicions against the power we secret freely And for these apparently der in Monroe ter years awl and macli in he story cf ray old grandmother hen and sec if that wonld throw any light Then to know if f ed to compare the Gineral to thai old hen and 1 em it wantt so much my siness other it was for me we sec act to return and as from of we feel justified lo the story it was One in cf however says I iis pretty sartin and lhat is that tin Gineral got tome oM fowls about him that Wh the of a sincerity in sn earnest of e given them tf in Suit Wei he subscribers who were formerly members of tbe Institution of Masonry rending in tbe Village of Rochester and in its in the County of respectfully invite your attention to thv subject of our annexed to brethren of the and solicit yon to take the proposition we nave therein made that fcn in Itu lAwr lei Me ike iMv yew rioM When we great tlie aad find it oldest Orders rf human and tbe only one of all its now THAT M of lence aad to man from Mad ia darker THAT it was foster of tad literature together with the have ha bawl af tae it has dispensed fk greater lam evil to the THAT by its own lo of man aided bv tac af civilization and H
