Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-09-02

srhe uneasness for "our liberties from Anti Ma
sonry, betrayed by the editor of the Herald farci
cal A citizen Is dragged from his home and the
embraces OF his family in tho dead Of night, by the
hnatical myrmdons of a secret Embellishments
ed, or 80 disposed of that he never heard ofagain
oil this Is psrperated in country Of laws. which the
consPirators successfully set at defiance, and bnfe
by their obligations. the agents of public JUS
tce, for years together-aH this, fails to make the
slightest impression upon the of our brother of
Norfolk! When the people rise in their MAJESTY to
reform an enormous evil which exposes every man in
society to a dark and mysterious fate-an evil be-
yond the cure of ordinary remedies when they arc
led BY many ofthe most distinguished PATRIOTS whose
well tried lives prove the purity oftheir ends and tho
disinterestedness Of their zeal-when the means u
SGD. sfact mans liberty take away mans life,
bat are the which enlightened patriotism has
prescribed in the Constitution ITSELF the polls and the
ballot boxten It is that the nerves of brother
of Norfolk become agitated and his love of country
alarmed at the prospect of tho loss of public liberty
We would attempt the task of consolation did we not
know that sensitiveness exquisite, is wifu! and
will DOT be comforted.
We have inclination to introduce the porty dis
factions of Masonry and Anil Masonry, in Virginia
We are Nelson's ourselves to the Institu-
ton in its purity-and know its basis, to be one of
holy and expanded benevolence. Like every thing
else. II has come in time, to be wrestcd from its
einsl designs, and contaminated with the spirit of
chayiatonerie. which is characteristic of the age
Modern Masoas must be deeper read in its mysteries,
than the ancient aiun,inati Of the order En,husi-
asts m,sconceive its designs and innoyate upon its
rules aud fana les not wanting to wade through
blood and trample on the laws Of God and man, in
the execution of its imaginary behcsts Hero is in
decd. caure for alarm That social condition is truly
alarming when citizens committing offence known
TO the laws and in disregard of the sacred shield
which they neposc for the protection of the person.
are fcrcibly abducted from their homes midnight,
murdered or spirited away, man knows whittier
Whatever duty owe, and are ready checrfully to
pay to the: order of Free Masonry, still high
obligations to country, and will forever ex
claim against such state of things as this. From
the hest information in possession. Masonry in
New York, is very different thing from Masonry in
Pirginia-nor does hostility the former conflict
with the allegiance acknowledge ourselves to owe
the latter. Virginia Masons revolt at the fate of
Morgan, nor it possible for counterpart of that
Internal tragedy to be acted the soil of the mother
of Liberty, TO the point of supprcssng the corup-
LIONS WHICH procured inc late OF morGan-0ur voice
shall be raised to cheer the exertions Of the Anti
Masons-regardess Of the admonitions of oversrain-
ed patriotism the COMPUTATIONS of a fastidious
purity.
DT In reply to the statement of the N Y. Courier
C. Enquirer, that Mr. MoCord, editor OF the Colum
bia Telescope, had been despatched political
rission England, by Dr. Cooper, the Telescope of
Aug. 9Th, says:
ITO answer each and every caumny of every scoun-
dreI who chooses to indulge in reckless falsehood
panst the prominent patriots who have stepped for
ward in defence Of tho rights Of the States would be
endless. To defend ut says,) David ] McCord from
such accusations, arising f:om such source, promul
gated by such paper, would indeed be work of
pererogation" =.
Another opportunity is thus afforded the Leute-
nant ofdspl'ying his warlke propenstes But, we
advise him to let the Bilingsgate pass as unworthy
his notice. The Telescope the cause Of nullif-
cation pershng in the land of its birh-its abetors
reserved for the fate of the Hartford Convention
and something ought to be INDUCED to the testy hu-
NOR which these reflections naturally begct II would
be almost pity that the Lieutenant should waste his
distinguished yalor subj ects already much de-
pressed by unpropitious fortune.