Corydon Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Corydon, Harrison County, 18 August 1830 — Page 5

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Fretmen! Americans!! Look at this picture!!! ht. Do not the rules which govern on Mason And has it come to this, that our officers of justice govern the whole society? 2nd. Where is Cpt. rhust be calumniated and charged with every William Morgan? if alive state if not, where a thing bad and ignoble, for even attempting to your charity? 3rd. Was it charity to deprive c . briner to justice, masonic kidnappers and murder- wife of a husband, and leave her unprovided for

erg, while the convicted and condemned perpe- and unprotected, until Anti-Masonic benevolence trators are held up by the conductors of our pub- sustained her? 4th. Does Masonry make widow.

lic and extensively patronized journal, as honest and then boast of protecting them? 5th. Is it .med-sdJlced to the prejudices of the times! charity to leave two helpless children fatherlcw,, S;i; ; Jf such facts will not arouse Freemen to vigorous or is it an empty profession of benevolence? ; and determined action, then are they prepared I presume the case of the murdered Morgan

for the chains that are already forging tor their will be a sufficient, answer to our enlightened necks, and to hear them clank the requium of' electors. Ik plecpd to answer the above inter their destroyed liberties. 'rogatories, as it could be satisfactory anterior to Geneva Independent American, my discussing your professions of patriotic, or entering into the csritsofy our Masonic harangue. From the Pittsburgh Anti-Masonic Examiner. 1 a. Edward Simpson, Esq. When a secret societyf - whose numbers constitute but a cypher in our gov- It is well known that the order of Free Masons ernment, disregard public opinion, it h time for claim the Evangelist St. John and Solomon as its free and independent electors to redouble their votaries. As evidence of this, the fact of the cus exertion, and apply with unremitting diligence torn of the lodges appointing St. John's day, on the rod of correction. In December last, the which to hold their festivals, feastings and pro great political question before the freemen'of this cessions, might be adduced. Now, the Temple Congressional District, was Masonry and Anti- of Solomon was built 973 years before the CbiisMasonry. The result was, the election of Mr. tian era. St. John wa9 coeval with the Christian Denny, the Anti-Masonic Candidate, by a majori era. The order of St. John was instituted after ty which ha3 not been given in oui district within the time of St John. The oath of an Entered

triy recollection to any other candidate, viz: 1200 Apprentice begins thus: "I A. B. of my own free votes. Notwithstanding the expression of the sen- will and accord, in the presence of Almighty Godf timents of our independent freemen, on the 15th and this worshipful Lodge of free and accepted December last, through the medium of the ballot Masons, dedicated to God, and held fortli to the boxes, Masonry's minions 6till struggle to raise holy order of St. !in,.V ic- It must he obvious their heads above the water, and from pulpits to the most superficial observer that the oath in and house tops, proclaim our party to be compos- Up present forni eoeld not have existed either in ed of "fanaticism, ignorance and delusion." Is jt the days of Solomon or St. John; but must be the not strange, Mr. Editor, that at this late day, we work of modern bands; and that too of no skilful are to be informed that there in a majority of ones. jT?0ath contains this farther clause: twelve hundred "deluded and ignorant" veo- "Furthermore. I do Dromise and errcar. that I

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imposing upon a rmg generaiion ana mocking iion. ivna. nrp. the forms of our holy religion. This dark and At the Apple-tree tavern, London, 1717, is the once mysterious body, moved with singular grav- true origin of Speculative Free Mnsonry. ity to the Methodist Meeting House, where the I - f7 - Ex-Deputy Grand Master for the Western Dis- Cromwell. The last words caid to be spoken V trict of Pennsylvania, the Hon. Charles Shaler, by Cronmell are invaluable as a key to his whole Esq. denounced Anti-Masonry in set phrase, defi- carpei. He had during the progress of his illness, cd its influence, and hoasted of Masonry's triumph boldly predicted that he should recover. Some over the Spanish Inquisition. The Ex Deputy of his immediate counsellors, who saw the ineviSbaler, also instructed his brethren that their table result of the disorder, ventured at last to . object was Charity, Benevolence, and Brotherly recommend that he should 6peak less confidently Love. "Charity!!"' what' a prostitution of the on the subject, to save his character for piedictera. I would ask Sir Charles, before he again tion. But the Lord Protector judged from prinascends the pulpit with the empty insignia of a ciples fitted to act upon the multitude. He rc fusRoyal Arch Mason, to burlesque religion by the ed to qualify bis words: "If I recover," aid he, echo ofcAaruy, to answer me the following ques- ltthe fools will think me a prophet, and if 1 dio, tioas: what matter then, if they call me an impostor."