The Albert Pike Statue is located at 3rd and D Streets, N.W. in downtown Washington, D.C. It is administered by the National Park Service. Congress authorized the placement of a statue to Albert Pike on Federal land in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 1898, in Joint Resolution 20 (30 stat. 737). The Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, which Pike led for 32 years, sponsored and paid for the statue's erection, as recognition for his long service to the Scottish Rite. At the time of erection, the statue stood in front of the Scottish Rite House of the Temple.
. George Washington was in a Freemason, joining in Masonic Lodge in Fredericksburg, VA in 1752. He requested and was sworn into the Presidency on a Masonic Bible provided by St John’s Lodge in NYC, He presided over the cornerstone ceremony for the U.S. Capitol in 1793. He was buried with full Masonic honors in 1799. Freemasonry was at the very heart of the founding of our nation. From the Boston Tea Party, which included members of that St Andrews Lodge (which met on the night of the Boston Tea Party). Brothers Paul Revere, John Hancock, Dr Joseph Warren, (All from St Andrews Lodge) were instrumental in the American movement in Boston. The signers of the Declaration of Independence – Brothers Benjamin Franklin, and at least 8 to 15 more, to The Continental Army which the percentage of Freemasons run between 33% to 46% percent. The tenants of Freemasonry run through the very ideals that from this country.
As an ambitious landowner, Washington did not want to upset Indian relations, and so also notes that, “It is lucky however that … none escapd to carry the Intelligence, and we, in consequence, may represent it in as favourable a light, as the thing will admit of, having the knowledge of it confined to our selves.”
Let’s also keep in mind that Washington’s views on Indian relations changed over time. Just 10 years after this letter to Armstrong—in 1779—he instructed Major General John Sullivan to attack Iroquois people. He said, “lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed.” In the course of the carnage and annihilation of Indian people, Washington also instructed his general not to “listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected.”
His anti-Indian sentiments were again made clear in 1783 when he compared Indians with wolves, saying “Both being beast of prey, tho’ they differ in shape.” After a defeat, Washington’s troops would skin the bodies of Iroquois from the hips down to make boot tops or leggings. Those who survived called the first president, “Town Destroyer.” Within a five-year period, 28 of 30 Seneca towns had been destroyed.
Let’s also keep in mind that Washington’s views on Indian relations changed over time. Just 10 years after this letter to Armstrong—in 1779—he instructed Major General John Sullivan to attack Iroquois people. He said, “lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed.” In the course of the carnage and annihilation of Indian people, Washington also instructed his general not to “listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected.”
His anti-Indian sentiments were again made clear in 1783 when he compared Indians with wolves, saying “Both being beast of prey, tho’ they differ in shape.” After a defeat, Washington’s troops would skin the bodies of Iroquois from the hips down to make boot tops or leggings. Those who survived called the first president, “Town Destroyer.” Within a five-year period, 28 of 30 Seneca towns had been destroyed.
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