In order that the members of the Masonic Fraternity may have a correct
and thorough understanding about the origin and the irregularity of
Freemasonry among Colored men in the state of Texas, it will be
necessary to state the time and place that clandestine and spurious
Freemasonry among Colored Men was instituted in the state of
Massachusetts and also the establishing of that self constituted African
Grand Lodge of Modern Masons of Massachusetts which is now the Prince
Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts for it was from that corrupt,
notorious, bogus Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts whose record
covers the very blackest page in masonic history that Freemasonry among
Colored Men in the state of Texas first originated from. I am fully
aware of the fact that when the truth is told about the actions and
conduct of the leaders of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
which has been done from time to time their minds are inflamed to an
extra ordinary degree of madness, hatred and dislike and they talk and
write and say anything except the truth, and the truth they will never
state except it is by accident on one hand and mistake on the other.