[153] As for the chronicle, the one indispensable book to the student of American Masonry is the _History of Freemasonry and Concordant Orders_, by W.J. Hughan and H.L. Stillson, aided by one of the ablest board of contributors ever assembled. It includes a history of Masonry in all its Rites in North, Central, and South America, with accurate accounts of the origin and growth of every Grand Lodge in the United States and British America; also admirable chapters on Early American Masonic History, the Morgan Excitement, Masonic Jurisprudence, and statistics up to date of 1891--all carefully prepared and well written. Among other books too many to name, there are the _History of Symbolic Masonry in the United States_, by J.H. Drummond, and "The American Addenda" to Gould's massive and magnificent _History of Masonry_, vol. iv. What the present pages seek is the spirit behind this forest of facts. [154] For the full story, see "Reminiscences of the Green Dragon Tavern," in _Centennial Memorial of St. Andrew's Lodge, 1870_. [155] _Washington, the Man and the Mason_, by C.H. Callahan. Jackson, Polk, Fillmore, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, all were Masons. A long list may be found in _Cyclopedia of Fraternities_, by Stevens, article on "Freemasonry: Distinguished Americans." [156] _Washington and his Masonic Compeers_, by Randolph Hayden. [157] Thomas Paine, whose words these are, though not a Mason, has left us an essay on _The Origin of Freemasonry_. Few men have ever been more unjustly and cruelly maligned than this great patriot, who was the first to utter the name "United States," and who, instead of being a sceptic, believed in "the religion in which all men agree"--that is, in God, Duty, and the immortality of the soul.