State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-09-06
For the State Journal.
FREEMES OF VERMONT!
TRUTH.

FREEMEN OF VERMONT!
In n time of the greatest apparent ST.
curly, it is wise to look out for danger
The storm is not less sure or fearful, be-
cause it is preceded by calm. For more
than five years we have been told-and we
believe it-that Masonry was dead Aud
what evidence did those who made the
declaration give of its truth Every ac-
ton showed the most bitter malignity to
every man who was an active Antimason.
No wonder then, that they did not believe
it. And shall we now believe the same
story, which has been repeated ten thou
sand times, without some evidence of its
sincerity? Is it not safer to support those
men who have long buttled in the Antna-
sonic ranks, than those who are now all of
n sudden Antimasonic 'tor the occasion ?
Fellow citizens, Masonry is not de ad Its
spirit yet fingers in our midst and its OPP
erations are plainly to be seen. No, it is
not dead The writer of this article has
, felt for the last six months with bitter eX-
perience, that it yet survives in all its de-
/ formity and wants only an opportunity
to pour out the burning walls of its wrath
upon its enemies He has received as an
individual, in his private affairs, an injury
from the hands Of Masons, which can new
er he repaired in which he is well aware,
the fact hat he has for four nr five years
been an open and active opposer of Mason
ny has had no small share of influence
We doubt not that masonry still lives; and
il can be but necessary for every one who
has been heretofore an Antimason, to find
,chere It's hdeous power lies to set his face
as flint against it. First then does it yet
exist in the breast of every mason: Here
tofore masons have declared that they cared
nothing about masonry while they were
constantly calumniating every Aniimnson
with all The bitterness of perfect hatred
Fut now, very many of them show their
faith by their works. and are willing 10
support Antinasons for office. The word
of such men can be trusted. But il must
be known 10 all, that there are many Wing
Masons who will vote for the Van Buren,
candidates, merely TO defeat the Antima'
sonic. They do it not, they say, to support
masonry, but because they hate AntinIason-
~, meaning Administers. And is masonry
dead in that mans breast, who will sacrifice
his political principles thus, to revenge
himself upon those who agree with him ii
every thing but the "vexed question:"
1t is fact capable of incontroverihle
proof that, as general thing, the masonry
of this State is in this way driven into the
| Van Buren, party and is forming league
with popery, slavery, mobocracy, aud inf
deity, for the final overthrow of all ouj
liberties. But I'VE are mighty Antmasonic,
say they. The leaders of the AntimasoniC
, party are with u.s. True, they have go
Palmer, Eaton, Pettibone, and Barber, an,
all told--and them they are afraid to trust
lest, when they huvs given them influence
with the party, they may SHOW fight tt
: masonry still. And mark this where they
, have got one such man from the Antina
, sonic party, they have gained fve mnson
from the Wing ranks, and we have gainet
ten from the honest portion Of their own
, l do not accuse Palmer, Eaton, Pettibone
, and Barber, Of deserving their Antimasoni
principles, but we have good reason 10 sas
peoi that some Of them are governed b.