I have received, with others of a similar character, the inclosed [sic] sheet, having a paragraph underlined to secure my attention, and I send it to you to attract your notice. Under the head of “Summary” is a concentrated distillation of malice and mendacity. The main attack seems to be against the fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, and, as many slanderers have heretofore done, the writer avails himself of a sectional prejudice existing against me to point his attack against Freemasonry, and in less than the three underscored lines perpetrates at least as many falsehoods.