Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-09-02

and these have. desire to render the case
irresistible, by its concentration and its sim
>plicity. l believe that Morgan was seized,
carried far from his home bv Masons, and by
Masons murdered. believe that this was
the result of conspiracy, engendered and
carried through, under circumstances of PEE
culiar deliberation, malignity and terror.s--
Yet to this very hour, the nefarious deed re-
mains unpublished / have watched the pur-
/ suit of justice. / see how she is disheartened,
fatigued, worn down, by efforts, continued
through years, to clutch these worse than CaS
llabrian banditti. see her at fault; see her
lcountenance in despair. Masons know the
whole tale of blood. Who can DENY this?---
II Masons conceal it. Who can deny this p
\ Can then, any sentient reasonable being say,
that Masonry is not at the bottom of the evil?
I True, these depraved masons who act in
this manner, and L do not mean to Judge all
other masons by them but masonry, corpo-
rate, existent Masonry, is the root. The aban-
doned fields of the order, who know the truth,
conceal it on system.-They are wicked
through principle.-They confound crime with
virtue; murder with masonic merit. Like
iimps-of Pandemonium, they rejoice and dance
i'm their sin.-Like the crew in the Mask of
Comus, they are unconscious of their 9. foul
Idishgurment. THE deeper their guilt, the
more they make themselves invulnerable. You
can no more grasp them, than if they sink into
the earth, or mount into the air. A spirit in
Iexorable as death destroyed the life of this
citizen and, like spirit, 1t became invisible.
1t is here-it is there--it is gone nobody can
see it, but society feels it. 1t is the spirit of
might. The magistrate strikes, bnt it is into
vacuity. He follows up the blow, again and
again, but it falls upon shadow. Is all this
Inothing?-Is it to be forgotten; to be mentions
,.ith ,p1 : 10 he ~ for,s
faronade LII the the press has turned deserter
and gone over to the enemy, whose proAigate
cohorts have overthrow the laws. is that
reason why the people shold not be true to
themselves Is the whole army to be given
IMP, because the sentinels have skulked! If ses
where is our intelligence where onr estimate
\ of popular dignity I; where our stern republi4
cansm; where our quick our exalted sense
/ of country! Where, we may ask, has fed
our Jeherson's sagacity, when he told us, that
a republic, was the strongest government upon
earth. since it was the only form under which,
OH branch of the law. every one would fly
to its support as personal concern? Had
The heard of the opposing spirit of our day,
that could spurn the law? Had he heard of
the spirit, creeping in darkness, that could not
only cover the guilty with an armour inpenes
trable, but try to throw odium on those who
cry out retribution? Scion being asked, which
was the mostperfect popular government, rea
lplied, that, where an injury done to any private
.Icitizen, is such to the whole body. The blood
elof murdered Roman, of one single Roman,
5 could once rouse that whole race of freemen,
e as by voice from above. 1t could call down
sla just vengeance against all who caused the
E ldeed. More than once it changed their GO
t Ivernment. 1t expelled the Tarquinis. Ii
f overthrew the Decemveris. 1t kindled holy
IL
until the guilty authors were blasted and coma
j sumed, that thus the wounded commonwealth,
5 IA name sacred in Roman eyes, might have its
, Ipropitiatory sacrifice. 1t was so, that Roman
d glory, that work of ages, as Tacitus describes
lit, the toll of patriots and statesmen, and legisa
t lators, and warriors, was kept pure. But in
e our boosted republic, the blood of an Ameria
: can, who was taken from his home-bound---
, tortured by the conspirators
/ along the high roads with an imprudent cavals
Y cade of garages and horsemen-cast into
v fortress over which had hoated the sovereign
/, flag of the Union-and at last iminolated---by
: harpies belonging to an organized and power
full institution, who conceal their crimes Under
the horrible decisions of their mystic tie--all
. this is to go for nothing! The institution is
: not to blame, no it is no fault of the insrirus
o ton! The immolation is to cause no public
: idismay. We are to sit still in stupid gaze !;
n some .beholding it with folded arms, others in
S derision! The press is silent, or the press
l. SCOTS. The institution even turns complainant.
It 1t positively grows belgerant; it shows battle.
II 1t Will not be s'persecuted." 1t will have no
II noise made; none of all this hash--and rhodos
Y montadc--and bluster. The small number
who are driving the conspirators into the TOLLS
o and permanently breaking UP their den. to
/ save the future from all possibility Of similar
d tragedies, are denounced, ridiculed! They are
he infected with s'an anti-masonic excitement"
lie they are demagogues, Office hunters; the mere
e, getters up of groundless party, without
ii motive-or object! Was ever an intelligent
e. community so treated before Was ever the