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	The Morgan Affair
		It is important to remember that the strong sentiments which gave rise to the Anti-Masonic party were not limited to hatred of Masonry alone.
		It's only one...." Rather, we are of the belief that IF Masons murdered Morgan they should have been swiftly punished for their crimes and if they did not, the anti-Masonic faction should drop their use of this tired canard immediately.
		No Mason is above the law and the SECOND duty that a Mason has is to his country and its laws (the first, to God) so clearly an act of murder is neither condoned nor pardonable.
	www.masonicinfo.com /morgan.htm (1670 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Vermont gave the party seven electoral votes and elected an Anti-Masonic governor, William A. Palmer.
		The Anti-Masonic Party, formed in New York in 1828, reflected the widespread hostility toward Masons holding public office.
		The Anti-Masonic Party was the first party to hold a nominating convention and the first to announce a platform.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0017460-00&templatename=/article/artic... (377 words)

	William Morgan (anti-Mason) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Morgan was a resident of Batavia, New York, whose disappearance in 1826 sparked a powerful anti-Freemason movement in the United States.
		Despite the prompt disavowal of the actions of the kidnapers by the Masonic hierarchy, all Masons
		Morgan's disappearance—and the minimal punishment received by his kidnappers—sparked a series of protests against the Freemasons throughout New York and the neighboring states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Morgan_(anti-Mason) (1279 words)

	A brief biography of Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845: 18
		On September 26, 1931, the first national convention in American History nominated William Wirt for president under the banner of the Anti-Masonic Party.
		Clay could have renounced the Masons and run with the Anti-Masonic party, as many did.
		Political Anti-Masonism may have also represented an attempt to harness the growing anti elitism, and as it happened, both major candidates for president were or had been high in the Masonic order.
	odur.let.rug.nl /usa.990917/P/aj7/about/bio/jack18.htm (449 words)

	The Morgan Affair
		In 1831, the Anti-Masonic Party held a national nominating convention in Baltimore where thirteen states were represented by 116 delegates.
		In 1826, there were 480 Masonic Lodges in the state of New York with a membership of 20,000, but from 1827 until 1835, the number of lodges declined from 228 in 1827 to 49 in 1835.
		The project was made public and there was pandemonium among the Masons of Batavia and the surrounding towns in western New York, leading ultimately to his disappearance on September 19th, 1826.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /texts/MorganAffair.html (2546 words)

	MASONIC Digest Friday, 21 Feb 1992 Volume 4 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: Administrivia (Peter
		While a Mason has an obligation to hold a Masonic intercourse (conversation that includes the exchange of information that constitutes Masonic secrets), not all Masons approach someone else of whom they are unsure as carefully as they should.
		Of course you (as orthodox masons) could not associate in a Masonic way from the phrasing and insinuations of the 1917 document, however - recent leadership has shied away from the statements of giving 'Masonic' Degrees and has adopted the posture that our degrees are BASED on Masonic thought.
		Mason's are forbidden to solicit membership into the fraternity.
	www.skepticfiles.org /cp002/masoni26.htm (3916 words)

	A Page about Freemasonry: The Anti-Masonic Party
		The Anti-Masonic Party candidates were elected Governor in Vermont and Pennsylvania, and to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, in addition to controlling some state legislatures.
		The Anti-Masonic party candidate for President in 1832 was a former Mason who said he now realized the Masons were a threat to the country.
		The Anti-Mason Party in the United States 1826-1843, by William Preston Vaughn, published 1983
	web.mit.edu /dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/anti-Masonic.html (1283 words)

	Masonic Rings and Jewelry for Freemasons
		Each of my Masonic Rings and Pendants is created with the highest ideals in mind.
		It is all handcrafted, carefully designedd by Andrew Horn, the artist and a afreemason from Santa Monica Palisades Lodge #307 in Santa Monica, of the Grand Lodge of CA.
		Hand crafted by a Brother Freemason, who loves his work, is proud of his art, and is simply thrilled that you might be considering one of his pieces to represent your Masonic path.
	www.mastersjewel.com (1283 words)

	United States Presidents and the Masonic Power Structure Pt1b
		United States Presidents and the Masonic Power Structure Pt1b
		This criticizes the aura of sanctimony which surrounds Mason George Washington, specifically in a tedious "George Washington cornerstone ceremony" Washington actually laid the cornerstone to the Capitol building in a full Masonic regalia and there is a widely circulated painting of this event.
		Morgan wrote a book exposing the Masons, (Illuminations of Masonry) He was arrested by a gang of Masonic desperadoes, at the insistence of the Master of the lodge of Masons in Canadaigua.
	blackpope.bravepages.com /uspresidentasmasons_1b.htm (1283 words)

	Anti-Masonic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Anti-Masonic Party (also known as the Anti-Masonic Movement) was a 19th century minor political party in the United States.
		The party conducted the first U.S. presidential nominating convention in the U.S. at Baltimore, in the 1832 elections, nominating William Wirt (a former Mason) for President and Amos Ellmaker for Vice President.
		The highest elected office ever held by a member of the party was that of Pennsylvania governor, held from 1835 to 1838 by Joseph Ritner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party (1059 words)

	William Morgan (anti-Mason) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the leadership of a New York politician named Thurlow Weed, an anti-Masonic and anti-Andrew Jackson (Jackson was a Mason) movement was formed, the Anti-Masonic political party, which ran a candidate for the presidency in 1828, gaining the support of such politicians as William H. Seward, and Howard Thinser.
		In 1832, the party fielded William Wirt as its presidential candidate, though the party only received seven electoral votes.
		Three years later, the party had disbanded everywhere but Pennsylvania, as other issues, such as slavery, became the focus of national attention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Morgan_(anti-Mason) (1279 words)

	The Anti-Masonic Party
		In 1828, hoping to avert the total subversion of the democratic process; the Anti-Masonic Party was formed to counterbalance the threat of secret societies to both church and state; this through the most peaceful and practical means at our disposal, the ballot.
		MASONS HAVE done this, and their brethren, as may be seen by the oaths on our last page, are sworn to protect them.
		Jacob Allen was taken by Masons at Reading) and carried 60 miles, and placed for safe keeping in a county jail, in the care of a masonic jailer.
	impiousdigest.com /lbj/proceedings.htm (2307 words)

	A Page about Freemasonry: The Anti-Masonic Party
		The Anti-Masonic Party candidates were elected Governor in Vermont and Pennsylvania, and to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, in addition to controlling some state legislatures.
		The Anti-Mason Party in the United States 1826-1843, by William Preston Vaughn, published 1983
		New York went from 20,000 to 3,000 Masons and from 480 to 82 lodges, and Freemasonry was similarly devastated in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Ohio.
	web.mit.edu /dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/anti-Masonic.html (1283 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 65, ANTI-MASONRY: Library of Economics and Liberty
		But while acting as a part of the whig party, the anti masonic element was sufficiently strong and distinct to force the nomination of Harrison, in 1835 and 1839, instead of Clay.
		The anti-masons made no further effort to act as a distinct national party, and the rise of the whig party soon after absorbed their organization, except in Pennsylvania, where they retained existence in alliance with the whigs until about 1840, and in 1835, through democratic dissensions, succeeded in electing their candidate for governor, Joseph Ritner.
		In the hope of forcing Clay, who was a free-mason, out of the field, the anti-masons held their convention first of the parties, at Baltimore, in September, 1831, and nominated William Wirt, of Maryland, and Amos Ellmaker, of Pennsylvania, as presidential candidates.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy65.html (789 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		The Anti-Masonic Party was the first party to hold a nominating convention and the first to announce a platform.
		Vermont gave the party seven electoral votes and elected an Anti-Masonic governor, William A. Palmer.
		The political effect of the entrance, for the first time, of a third party into a United States presidential election was to draw support from Henry Clay and to help President Andrew Jackson (who was a Mason) win reelection by a wide margin.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0017460-00&templatename=/article/article.html (377 words)

	Anti-Masonic Party
		The Anti-Masonic Party was the first party to hold a nominating convention and the first to announce a platform.
		Vermont gave the party seven electoral votes and elected an Anti-Masonic governor, William A. Palmer.
		The political effect of the entrance, for the first time, of a third party into a United States presidential election was to draw support from Henry Clay and to help President Andrew Jackson (who was a Mason) win reelection by a wide margin.
	www.course-notes.org /parties/antimasonic.htm (492 words)

	American anti-masonic notes
		Millard Fillmore, Zachary Taylor's successor, was a genial but colorless Whig party hack who had begun his political career as an Anti-Mason and ended it by running for president in 1856 on the nativist and anti-Catholic "Know-Nothing" (or American) party ticket.
		Old Hickory [Andrew Jackson] would have won a sweeping victory even if the opposition votes had not been divided between Henry Clay, the National Republican candidate, and William Wirt, the reluctant leader of the Anti-Masons, a party based on the widespread fear that free institutions were endangered by the secret society of Freemasons.
		In 1827 [Thurlow] Weed and his young protégé William S. Seward took up the cause of Anti-masonry as a means of embarrassing the ruling Van Buren machine.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /anti-masonry/anti-masonic_notes.html (394 words)

	The Anti-Masonic Party
		The Anti-Masonic Party was the original third party to be active on the national scene.
		A state Anti-Masonic party was formed in 1828 and was successful with electing local and statewide candidates; the party also spread into neighboring states.
		Anti-Masonic fervor was especially strong in New York State, where the political machine, the Albany Regency, was run by Martin Van Buren, a Mason.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h271.html (333 words)

	Sectionalism
		The fact that Adams was not a Mason, and that Jackson was one, did not really confuse the issue: it showed that the Anti-Masons were not interested in either side; and although they supported Adams in New York, in 1828, they became a separate and militantly reforming party once the election was over.
		Their political party alliances were effected by America’s sectionalism that produced different economic, social, and moral issues for each region.
		The Republican Party's 1860 political platform called for the preservation of the Union, reaffirmed states' rights and sought the abolition of slavery in federal territories.
	www.gaston.k12.nc.us /schools/highland/class/clagg/DBQ2002/isbell (1475 words)

	Getting the Message Out! The Second American Party System: The Antimasonic Party
		Started in 1826 to protest the official cover-up of the suspected murder of a defecting Mason in western New York, Antimasonry developed into the nation's first powerful populistic third party.
		By Michael F. Holt, Ph.D. One reason Clay could not rally all of Jackson's opponents in 1832 was that in much of the Northeast a different anti-Democratic party, the Antimasonic party, also existed.
		Protesting that Freemasonry was a dangerous, unrepublican, and all-powerful secret society that privileged its members legally, politically, and economically over all non-members by controlling state and local governments, Antimasons called on voters to restore true self-government by driving Masons from elected office and having new governments pass state laws declaring the fraternity to be illegal.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-antimasonic.html (285 words)

	High Degrees in the US 1730-1830
		The party attracted reformers, abolitionists, and idealists, but its primary purpose was the destruction of Freemasonry and other "secret societies." From about 1826 to 1840 the anti-Masonic movement swept across the country, destructive in some places, barely noticed in others.
		American Masons seemed well aware their fraternity was an European creation and looked to that continent as the source and origin of all that was "regular" in Masonry.
		Modern Masons tended to be conservative in promoting the fraternity, prosperous, and loyalists, while Ancient Masons were aggressive in expanding Lodges, working-class, and revolutionaries.
	www.freemasonry.org /PSOC/higherdegrees.htm (4325 words)

	Neighborhood Link - Braintree Anti-Masonic Party
		This was the first time when the Anti-Masonic Party was formed.
		Years later a Mason by the name of Henry L. Valance on his death confided in his doctor that he and two other Masons had dropped Morgan's body in the Niagra River.
		The wheels of justice were slow on the Morgan case because the halls of justice were poisioned by the Freemasons.
	www.neighborhoodlink.com /public/clubhome.html?nclubid=560629192&nsupercity=813015497 (197 words)

	A brief biography of Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845: 18
		Political Anti-Masonism may have also represented an attempt to harness the growing anti elitism, and as it happened, both major candidates for president were or had been high in the Masonic order.
		This strange and short lived party formed partly because of the apparent murder of William Morgan, an ex-mason, who had tried to publish the Masons' secret rituals, and denounced them.
		Some Anti-Masonic and National Republican strategists felt the two parties needed each other to beat Jackson, and tried to get both parties to nominate the same man for president.
	odur.let.rug.nl /usa.990917/P/aj7/about/bio/jack18.htm (449 words)

	The Scottish Rite Journal
		Touched by the first third party in American political history (the Anti-Masonic Party), the Civil War, the Red Scare of 1919, the Holocaust, and the rebuilding of societies in Europe and Asia after 1945, the Scottish Rite portrays the sweeping scope of national life and sensibility across two centuries.
		Jim Tresner is Director of the Masonic Leadership Institute and Editor of The Oklahoma Mason.
		She is a nationally prominent historian of 19th-century America and a well-known, respected scholar on the teaching staff of Goucher College where she is a Professor of History.
	www.srmason-sj.org /web/journal-files/Issues/may02/brmay.htm (1200 words)

	A Page about Freemasonry: The Anti-Masonic Party
		The Anti-Mason Party in the United States 1826-1843, by William Preston Vaughn, published 1983
		The Anti-Masonic party candidate for President in 1832 was a former Mason who said he now realized the Masons were a threat to the country.
		Some politicians honestly believed Masonry was bad for the country, that Masons engaged in criminal conspiracies and cover-ups, and others joined because the saw this as a way to combine anti-Jackson attitudes with other political goals.
	web.mit.edu /dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/anti-Masonic.html (1283 words)

	A Page about Freemasonry: The Anti-Masonic Party
		The Anti-Mason Party in the United States 1826-1843, by William Preston Vaughn, published 1983
		The Anti-Masonic Party candidates were elected Governor in Vermont and Pennsylvania, and to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, in addition to controlling some state legislatures.
		Masonic leaders supported rather than punishing the wrongdoers, then remained quiet, covered up, and hoped the turmoil would die away.
	web.mit.edu /dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/anti-Masonic.html (1283 words)

	Anti-Masonic Party
		When fifteen of these candidates were elected to the state Assembly, an anti-Masonic party formed in 1828 and held its first convention.
		he Anti-Masonic party was founded in 1827-28, chiefly as a result of the mysterious disappearance of Willam Morgan of Batavia, New York, a Freemason, who was planning to publish a book which revealed the secrets of the order.
		Vermont gave the party seven electoral votes and elected an Anti-Masonic governor, William A. Palmer.
	www.course-notes.org /parties/antimasonic.htm (1283 words)

	Cerza_Bibliography.htm
		The Morgan Incident and the Anti-Masonic Political Party:
		Masonic Light on the Abduction of William Morgan.
		(Brother Cummings collected “Morgan items” for sixty years; his library in 1962 was sold to the Supreme Council, N. J., and was housed in the Masonic Temple, Syracuse, New York.
	www.preciousheart.net /freemasonry/Cerza_Bibliography.htm (800 words)

	Masonry links on the web dealing with William Morgan
		I just thought I would point out that information about Morgan, his book, his disappearance, and the formation of the Anti-Masonic Political Party is to be found on the web.
		The guy hosting this page styles himself an anti-Mason, and wants you to believe that Jack the Ripper was a Mason, and that Masons were responsible for the coverup of JFK's assassination.
		This is supposed to be a confession, by a Mason, of Morgan's torture and murder.
	www.lds-mormon.com /morgan1.shtml (126 words)

	Anti-Masonic party
		William Morgan - Morgan, William: see Anti-Masonic party.
		Anti-Masonic party, American political organization that rose after the disappearance in W New York state in 1826 of William Morgan.
		The Masons were said, without proof, to have murdered him, and in reaction local organizations arose to refuse support to Masons for public office.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0804240.html (220 words)

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