The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-06-15

traitor 10 It's trust. IL ought, tOrthWuh 10 nave
put the masonic institution upon the defensive
That was its true position before society under
case of conspiracy and crime planned and eNecnt'
ed by those who notoriousy belonged to the secret
institution. l lay this down strict reasoning
and so let it be judged; would clinch upon the
Press the charge OF infatuated derecton, or OF as-
cessary guilt.
The worst is to be told. For. whence this in
fatuation, or this connivance Whence this most
marvellous exception 10 all its wonted eageTness
and fire Whence the sudden spiking of that artil-
lery that heretofore has played its yollies up
on crime Whence, but because the Press ITSELF is
under the deleteriouS entertainments of masonry, or
| otherwise wears it's nahacles. Whether tbs IRON
ones forged for it by the Institution ITSELF or those
existing in the influence of readers and patrons the
result is still the same How else could 1t have
happened, that il has withheld frem the people, the
lincontestible evidences of masonic guilt, which
the repeated and solemn trials in New York have
afforded Does it act in this way other occa-
sions Did it even suppress from its columns the
publication of the case of the wretched pirate
Gibbs with all its train OF particulars during this
present spring! Has not this case, certain
w. of no novelty in its principle, been running the
rapid rounds of almost all the papers of the union
Yet no word have of the trials at Lockport,
that going on at the same instant; not whis'
per- not breath. All is silent like the tomb
How will the Press shake off the obliquy of such
conduct. 1t cannot shake it off. There is no otis
er explanation of it, than the given. Will 1t
pretend to alege, that those trials brought out no
evidence OF masons' guilt VIII it presume to
say, in extenuation, that the murdered remains of
Morgan still unbound Preposterous, insulting,
extenuaton! Why not publish the evidence itself,
and let the people Judge; as, at all events, the
case had become one of great and commanding
public notoriety If the people to transfer
portion of their indignation from the murderprs of
Morgan to those presses of the country that have
evinced an anxiety to hush up the foul deed, they
would be acting righteously. 1t would show the
Press, by lesson never to be forgotten, that the
people the true fountain of justice, as well as
power.
l feel anxious 10 stop; but as vet cannot.
must look round upon the unparalleled scene. 1t
brings with it weight of though and feeling, that
is oppressive. | did not sit down to write disser-
tation on masonry, nor am | going TO give myself
to this task. i dwell not upon its remote origin
and long history upon its curious titles upon its
ceremonies, of oriental mould, and celestial exata-
ton. | dive not into its claims to science, to phi
lanthropy, to religion All these | leave, for
good or for bad for censure or for commentator.
My concern at present. is with of them. |
purposely turn away, that there may be no diver
sion from the scene | am surveying. l am in a
field by itself, There my astonished sight beholds
two figures the State, with the broken sceptre of
the laws in her hand, on one side; and Masonry,
with veil over her face, on the other. My vision
is distinct, though the spectacle is portentous
| go not beyond the narrative shat presents it.
Keeping 10 that, am guarded against mistake or
confusion. have here, imnoYeabe ground under
me- take post as upon the verify Of legal rec
FORD. few facts are all that want, and these |
have. ] desire to render the case irresistible by
its concentration and its simplicity. believe that
Morgan seized, carried far from his home by
Masons, and by masons murdered believe that
this was the result OF a conspiracy, engendered and
carried through under circumstances of peculiar
deliberaton, malignity, and terror. Yet, to this
very hour, she infamous deed remains unpublished
bavn afC nod fho &c I H..
she is dsheartened fatigued worn down. by efforts
continued throughout years. to clutch these worse
than Catabrian banditt / see her fault; sec
her countenance in despair. Masons know the
whole tale of blood. Who can deny this Masons
conceal it. Who can deny this Can then aov
sentient reasonable being say, that masonry is not
at the bottom of the evil True these are deprav-
ed masons who act in this manner, and | do not
mean to judge all other masons by them; but ma.
sonry, corporate existent masonry, is the root.
The abandoned hends of the order who know the
/ truth, conceal 1t on system. They wicked
/ through principle. They confound crime with yir-
tue; murder with masonic merit. Like imps of
Pandemonium, they rejoice and dance in their sin.
Like the crew III the Mask of Comus they are con
seious of their " foul Disagreement" The deep
er their guilt, the more they make themselves in
| vulnerable. You can no more grasp them than if
they sink into the earth, or mount into the air Its
spirit, memorable death, DESTROYED the life of
this citizen; and, like spirit, it became invisible
1t is here-lt Is there-It Is gone nobody see
1t; but society feels it. 1t is the spirit OF night
! The magistrate strikes, but it is into yacuity. He
follows up the blow again and again but falls up.
on shadow. Is all this nothing is it to be for
gotten to be mentioned with Indifference to be
sneered at, fanfaronade If the Press has turned
deserter and gone over to the enemy, whose prof
lgate cohorts have overthrown the laws, is that a
reason why the people should not be true to them
selves is the whole army to be given up because
the sentnels have skulked? If so, where is our in
telsigence where our estimate of the popular dig
NIFTY; where our stern rePubcanism where our
quick, our exalted sense of country Where we
may ask, has fled our Jetfersons saracity when he
told us that Republic was the strongest govern
ment upon earth, since it was the only form under
which, on breach of the law evefv one would fiy
TO Its support, as personal concern Had he
heard the opposing spirit of our day, that could
spurn the law Had he heard of the spirit. GREEN
ing IN darkness, that could not only cover the
guilty with an armor impenetrable but try to throw
udlum on those who cry out for retributionl Scion
pelhg asked, which was the most perfect popular
government. replied, that, where an injury done
to any private citizen, is such to the whole BODY
The blood OF a murdered Roman. of one single Ros
man, could once rouse that whole race Of freemen
as BY voice from above. IL could call down
Just vengeance against all who caused the deed
more tnan once 1t changed their government II
expelled the Tarquins, it overthfew the Decem.
/ virs. 1t kinded holy enthusiasm which nothino
could aPpease, until the guilty authors were blast.
| ed and consumed, that thus the wounded common
wealth, name sacred in Roman eyes, might have
its propltiatory sacrifice. 1t was SO, that Roman
glory, that work of ages, as Tacitus decribes IT,
that toll of patriots, and statesmen and legislators
and warriors, was founded and kept pure But IN
our boosted Republic, the blood of an American.
who was taken from his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
agonized-borne by the conspirators along the high
roads with an imPndent cayalcade of carriages and
horsemen-cast into fortress over which had
foated the sovereign flag Of the Union-and at last
immolated-by harpies belonging to an organized
and powerful Institution who conceal their crime
under the horrible decisions of their mystic tie
all this ia to go for nothing The Institution is not
10 blame. no it is fault of the Institution The
lmmolatlon Is to cause public dismay. We are
70 SIT still, In stupid gaze; some beholding it with
ioIaeo arms, Others in dersion The Press is ST.
lent; or the Press SCOTS. The Institution even
turns complainant 1t positively grows belliger-
ent it shows battle. 1t will not be prosecuted"
VII nave no noise made; none of all this flash
ana rhodomontade-and buster. The small num-
Der who are driving the conspirators into The tolls