E. H. ADDINGTON

82 OUTLINE OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS
misrepresentation as in 1850-51, in the early part of 1857 he succeeded
in causing two lodges to withdraw their allegiance from the Grand Lodge
and transfer it to the so-called Supreme Council.* Attempts were made
to revolutionize several other lodges, but they proved unsuccessful and led
to the expulsion of the parties engaged in them. This rebellion was shortlived
: in 1858^-9 the two lodges memorialized the Grand. Lodge to be
•reinstated on its register, and with difficulty obtained their prayer. Those
whom they had initiated during their rebellion were not recognized, the
Grand Lodge declaring that a person made a Mason in a clandestine
lodge could not be healel, but must present his petition for the degrees the
same as if he were a profane. Pending these difficulties the question of
"uniformity of work" came before the Grand Lodge, and at tha annual
communication of 1858 a resolution was adopted, declaring "that this
Grand Lodge expects and requires that uniformity in the following particulars
shall be both taught and practiced, viz.: 1. In all the means of
recognition. 2. In the ties which bind them together as Masons." By
this resolution the question of work was definitely settled, and on this basis
the harmony of the jurisdiction was re-established and has remained unbroken
to the present day. '
James Foulhouze had been created a Thirty-third by the Grand Orient
of Prance, and that body on learning that he had established a spurious
Supreme Council in New Orleans, ordered him to dissolve it. To this
decree he replied by a scurrilous publication, for which he was expelled
by the Grand Orient, February 4, 1859. The clandestine lodges' he had
created soon disappeared and the spurious Supreme Council became dormant.
In the early part, of 1867 an attempt was made to revive it: Foulhpuze
having abdicated, was succeeded by Eugene Chassaignac who created several
clandestine lodges and, by opening their doors to all comers regardless
of "previous condition," obtained recognition from the Grand Orients of
Italy and Belgium. In 1868, the example set by these two semi-political
associations was followed by the Grand Orient of France; the Grand Lodge
declared non-intercourse and being sustained by her sister Grand Lodges,
the Grand Orient of France was ostracised by the Masonic world: the
recognition it had extended to the so-called Supreme Council gave it no
moral support, and, finding that the attempt to create dissensions among th«
fraternity was vain and futile, it either went to sleep or gave up the ghost.
Whichever it may be, matters little: its course is run, and it can nevei
again disturb the Masonic peace of Louisiana.
CHAPTER VII.
) GENERAL SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.
THE negro insurrection in the French West India Islands in 1791, led to
the introduction of Freemasonry in Louisiana, which was then under the
domination of Spain. In 1793-94, refugees chiefly from the island of
Guadaloupe established the lodges Perfect Union and Polar Star—the
former working the York Rite under the Grand Lodge of South Carolina,
the latter following the Modern Rite under the Grand Orient of France. As
Masonry was proscribed by the Spanish law, the two lodges met outside the
walls of New Orleans, thus introducing a practice which was followed
fay succeeding lodges long after the reason for its adoption had ceased.
,. In 1801, an attempt was made to revive in New Orleans, the LOge la
' "The lodges implicated in the second revolt, were Polar Star No. 1 and St. Andrew
No. 5. - . - . . .