Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

30 THE TRAITOR AND MASON AADO~ BUll.“The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” and sent Itback to France, where the survivors of The Reign ofTerror received it, and today it rules European Masonry.“As early as 1796, while John Jay was Gpvernor,Colonel Burr had various conversations with him on thesubject of these (Mexican) provinces. Col. Burr saidhe could revolutionize and take possession of SouthAmerica.”“Burr was actively engaged during the years 1005-6in traversing the western country.”“Previous to the cession of Louisiana Baron Bastropcontracted with the Spanish Government for land nearNatchitoches, exceeding thirty miles square.”“The Spanish Government granted to Bastrop onemillion two hundred tho~isand acres. Col. Lynch. paidBastrop about one hundred thousand dollars for sixtenthsof it; and Burr paid Lynch fifty thousand dollarsfor half of his (Lynch’s) purchase.”“Gen. Wilkinson detailed to Burr the facilities whichwould probably be afforded by the inhabitants in effectinga revolution.” ~Burr writes to l 1is daughter, Aug. 1805, “1 have DOW150 miles of wildernesS to encounter.”“Col. Burr was arrested as a traitor on the Tom BigbeeRiver, Mississippi Territory.”The above excerpts are taken from “Memow’S ofAaron Burr, by his friend, M. L. Davis, promisCuouslYpages 874 to 888, vol. II, and they prove’1. That Burr’s object in raising troops with Blenne?-hassett was the disruption of the Union, and a slave empiresouth and west of the Mississippi, to include Mexicoand Central America, then belonging to Spain. ForMASONIC CONSPIRACY TO DTDOY THE UNION. 31this he was tried for his lire, but acquitted for want of~verttreasonable acts. Before his trial, we read in theMemoirs, page 888: “a letter was delivered by Swartwoutto General Wilkinson, written in cypher.” Barnardand Gassett say it was in Royal Arch Cypher.And as Burr had been on the staff of Benedict Arnold,a Mason and a traitor, these facts furnish probable proofthat Burr’s conspiracy was a Masonic conspiracy.But the crowning proof is this:—By universal Masonic law, but one supreme body canbe in one nation. But the Charleston Supreme Councilmade the United States the sole exception. In 1813,twelve years from its origin, it created a Supreme Council,Northern Jurisdiction, located at New York, limitedto the States north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi;the very division contemplated by Burr, andafterward attempted by the Jeff. Davis and AlexanderH. Stevens’ Confederacy, by repealing the MissouriCompromise, and, in Stephens’ words, attempting an“Empire whose corner stone is slavery.” But for Jefferson’spatriotism and Jackson’s courage and decision,the attempt would have been made years before byCalhoun’s Nullification. Indeed, the hopes and predictionsof Monarchists, Papists and Anarchists of Europe,from the first, were that the United States wouldspliton the Ohio and Mississippi; shut off New Englandand her principles between the Atlantic,, St. Lawrence,Mississippi and Ohio, and leave the whole vast Southand West; its soil, climate and mines, to slavery, thelodge, the priest and the mob.Now considering that the (Tharleston Supreme CouncilMasonically divided our Union in 1813, by thesewry lines :—Conaidering that Aaron Burr,using the Ma..