Corydon Press, and Anti-Masonic Democrat, Volume 2, Number 10, Corydon, Harrison County, 3 November 1830 — Page 1

I Jlnd JlntiMasonic Democrat.

VOL.2. CORYDON; HARRISON COUNTY; (IA.) NOVEMBER 3, 1830 NO. 10.

PUBLISHED EVERT WEDlfESUAT, BY MAXWELL PARKISON. Office South of the Court-House,. jPRRMS. One Dollar and Titenty-Fivi: Centi, Gr Fifty Number, p.-iid in advance; Ose Doll AH onl &19TY Csk7?, withiw the year. - - AorjiHTtsrMnilTO Incited at tie sanal rates. LfcTJjElts iidrM-ed to th Editor, miut bo free of nngtngr-.

ANTI-MASONIC. THE ADDRESS 0 ths National Anti-Masonic Convention, bKLD IN PHILADBLFHU, SEPTEMBER 1 !th, 1850. ?0 THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. Fell)-Citizens It is the privilege of freemen Co consult together, openly and peaceably, ontoll subjects interesting to their common welfare. And so long as tho opinion of a majority shall prevail, enlightened and frequent consultation among them, trill furnish the most efficacious and acceptable means of espelling wrongs and removing fears. Wrongs the most cruel and criminal have been committed, and fears the most agitating and veil founded ejfist among us. To confer together, and to address you, upon these evils, and the tnCt wholesome nsea!i he adoptod for their suppression, we have beon delegated to assemblo here, by a portion of your countrymen, respectable for their intelligence, and dedicated, in heart and life, to the free constitutions and laws of our country. In executing the momentous duties assigned us, we would proceed, in the ingenucu9 and free spirit of men, who earnestly seek the good of all. Pacta numerous and authentic, demonstrate tho existence, in this community, of crimes and dangers, which upon their first distinct disclosure t honest inquiry, excite equal surprise and solicitude; and which cannot be reflected upon, by any mind emhued with genuine self-respect, and a just regard for human rights, without the deepest abhorrence and alarm. Free Masonry is the source of these crimes and dangers. In 18fcG, William Morgan, your free fellow-citizen, was, by highly exalted members of the Mamic Fraternity, with unlawful violence, seized ; secretly transported through the country more than one hundred miles, to a fortress of the United States, then in charge of Free Masons, who had prepared it for his reception there imprisoned fjareral days and nights, again9t his utmost efforts to escape and after suffering the most unmanly UQiiilU, and the most inhuman abuse, he wa pritfttejjy murdered. Previously to hi seizare, au

merouB meetings of Free Matona, in lodges and otherwise, wero held for t lie purpose of cootriv ing and adopting the most certain means of carrying into efllct, their unlawful objects upon him. These meeting were attended, and the deaigno cf thcD approved, by -everul bundled of the masonic brelhrcu. They included legislator jsdgesY sheriff, clergy men, generals, physicians and lawyers. And they proceeded in discharge of, what thoy deemed their masonic duties. William Moigan was a Royal At h Mason. And the cau&eof all this unlawful violence agaicst bis liberty and life, was his determination to publish the secrets of the order. These secrets arc now published, partly from manuscripts pi epared by him, but more especially from ti e deliberate testimony of many worthy men, who had been initiated further into the dark mystcritsof the brotherhood, than he had. The precise motive, which impelled Morgan to the determination of puMi-h-ing we do not know. Ai the act was one of conformity to his highest obligation?, nd therefore, of distinguished honor, we believe the 'motive ;a have been good. There is no room to doubt, dV-.t other members of the institution, being awa e of the'solemn fate, to which Free Maxouty had coosigned him, for disobedience to its Jaws felt themselves driven by the fearful responsibility of membership, ojDfit carefully to weigh it object, ojnv, and tendency; and finding these, upon mature examination, to be wholly unjustifiable and dangerous, they were impelled, by good will to man. byallegiance to our government, and by the natural desire of self-approbation to proclaim its chair ter, and renounce its authority. To assist in publishing the secrets of Free Masonry, a printer was employed. Against him the malice of the fraternity was conspicuously displayed. While the manuscripts of Morgan, with all the printed sheets, were supposed to be in the printing office, it was fired in the night, by a masonic incendiary, with such ingenious preparations as were well calculated to in-ure its speedy destruction, with that of all its contents. The ofiire wusu wooden building, of which (heading under the stairs leading to the printing apartment, ws smeared over with spirits of turpentine. And cotton balls, and straw filled with the same combustible substance, were scattered around its foundations. The fjie was discovered almost as soonaaJ applied, and happily extinguished. But the reekless determination of the iucendiary, and hi coadjutor?, is fnrtber confirmed, by considering, that a family of ten persons occupied the lower p.ut of the building; while the printer's assistant mi in number, always slept in the upper rooms. Tho incendiary is known, and was subsequently a jn -cipalin the murder of Morgan.

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