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Article PRETENDED MASONIC REVELATIONS. ← Page 7 of 8 →
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Pretended Masonic Revelations.
strongly urged , and is made so much of , while it is so utterly absurd , and so entirely unsupported by evidence , that we cannot resist entering into a brief examination of the matter . We allude to the alleged murder of William Morgan . This person was a Freemason , who was supposed to have revealed the secrets he had sworn to keep ; in finding
probably that there was still some honourable feeling left in the country , and that even among the " smart , " deliberate perjury was after all not considered particularly attractive , he betook himself elsewhere ; but for obvious reasons it was thought expedient to accuse the Masons of having murdered himand we are accordingly favoured with " evidence read
, at the county court house , in the year 1826 , before a meeting (!) held for the purpose of investigating the alarming subject , "—we suppose with Judge Lynch in the chair . It is deposed by various witnesses , that Morgan was taken to goal for debt , that the wife of the gaoler released him ! and that he was then placed in a carriage and carried off , and at
last shut up in the fort of Niagara village ! and fed and guarded there for two days ! After which he was taken out by the Masons , and sent down the falls ! * The delightful complication of goaler ' s wives and commandants of fortresses all uniting in the subsequent immersion of Morgan , is , to say the least of it , very striking ! And the notion that a
person could be forcibly carried off in broad daylight , through a populous district , as jealous of law and restraint of any sort as Seven-Dials or Finsbury , is a more astounding demand upon our powers of belief , than the sea serpent , or any other " whale . " But the evidence of the last witness called is inconvenient : he is the driver of the coach , which
conveyed Morgan from the goal to the fort , and states that there were only tioopersons besides the prisoner ( this precious victim , whom it was so important to keep safely , and to prevent from escaping ); but this is so utterly inconsistent with the " crowds armed with clubs , " who are supposed to have taken part in the ruse , that this witness is quietly
dismissed with—" of this man ' s being one of the base Fraternity , there can be no doubt !" It is attempted , further , to prove that public feeling was
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Pretended Masonic Revelations.
strongly urged , and is made so much of , while it is so utterly absurd , and so entirely unsupported by evidence , that we cannot resist entering into a brief examination of the matter . We allude to the alleged murder of William Morgan . This person was a Freemason , who was supposed to have revealed the secrets he had sworn to keep ; in finding
probably that there was still some honourable feeling left in the country , and that even among the " smart , " deliberate perjury was after all not considered particularly attractive , he betook himself elsewhere ; but for obvious reasons it was thought expedient to accuse the Masons of having murdered himand we are accordingly favoured with " evidence read
, at the county court house , in the year 1826 , before a meeting (!) held for the purpose of investigating the alarming subject , "—we suppose with Judge Lynch in the chair . It is deposed by various witnesses , that Morgan was taken to goal for debt , that the wife of the gaoler released him ! and that he was then placed in a carriage and carried off , and at
last shut up in the fort of Niagara village ! and fed and guarded there for two days ! After which he was taken out by the Masons , and sent down the falls ! * The delightful complication of goaler ' s wives and commandants of fortresses all uniting in the subsequent immersion of Morgan , is , to say the least of it , very striking ! And the notion that a
person could be forcibly carried off in broad daylight , through a populous district , as jealous of law and restraint of any sort as Seven-Dials or Finsbury , is a more astounding demand upon our powers of belief , than the sea serpent , or any other " whale . " But the evidence of the last witness called is inconvenient : he is the driver of the coach , which
conveyed Morgan from the goal to the fort , and states that there were only tioopersons besides the prisoner ( this precious victim , whom it was so important to keep safely , and to prevent from escaping ); but this is so utterly inconsistent with the " crowds armed with clubs , " who are supposed to have taken part in the ruse , that this witness is quietly
dismissed with—" of this man ' s being one of the base Fraternity , there can be no doubt !" It is attempted , further , to prove that public feeling was