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directly on you but the 4th june will be time enough
"you damned recreant, when and where you shall see
ga sprig oflocust"


We have our suspicious as TO the name OF the
writer of this ferocious threatrendered still more
ferocious by second threa. which none out masons
can undersand--and we shall take efficient mea-
snres TO detect him. II is mode Of doing things,
10 follow the strict line OF duty and he threat Of
being .Norganized," will not deter US. For a
long time we believed there was more of fiction
than reality in this business and we said little about
il. When convinced of our error, we spoke out, as
every man, and every mason, should speak. We
vndicsted the fraternity from the sweeping and un-
mcrited denunciRtons, OF excited popular assem-
bes, while we spoke in the strongest terms OF re.
probston and horror Of the perpetrators OF the sup
posed crime. We shall continue to do so, when
ever our public duty requires US to speak.


Another days delay in the publication Of the
foregoing article has brought an additional arti-
Gle which it is necessary to copy. II is the follow
ing note from TWO OF The delegates TO the Lewiston
Convention, which fully acquils the late MIR, Cha
pin OF having participated in the crime Of killing
Morgan, il such crime was committed. II seems,
moreover, that after all the information obtained
Lewiston was Of an " unsatisfactory nature"


The undersigned attended at Lewiston the 25th ult
as delegates from the Rochester committee to investigate
the circumstances of the abduction OF Capt William Nor
gan During the examination of the undersigned Lewis
ton some information OF unsatisfactory character
to their knowledge, duplicating Mr. Chaplin of Buffalo
in the affair tending to show hs, he present at fort
Niagara on the night Of the 18th Sept last This nforma
on was not intended for the public eye until something
certain could be sscertaned The information how
having been alluded in private letter. afterwards
made public, contrary to the intentions Of ue writer the
undersigned deem their duty 10 state that from several
afdavits submitted to them, they convinced that Mr.
Seth Chaplin Of Buffalo, deceased, could have
been present at Fort Niagara the time above mentioned
The undersigned therefore consider it due to the family
and friends Of Mr. Seth Chaplin thus publicly state that
as far they have ascertaned, he is no way implicated
in that unhappy transaction.


FREDERICK F. BACKUS,


SAMUEL WORKS.


Rochester, Feb. 90, 1897.


This doubtless refers the time of the annual meeting
Of the Grand Lodge of the State, which of the
pest-mas.es and wardens Of all the Lodges the
State, together with the past grand officers.