Chapter 86
M. B, N. (Mac-be-nac,) which, in Arabian, signifies, “The son of the widowisdead.”” The
false brethren represent Judas Iscartot, who sold Christ, The red collar worn by the Grand
Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons, calls to remembrance the blood of Christ. The sprig of
cassia is the figure of the cross, because of this wood was the cross made, The captivity of
the Grand Elect and Sublime Masons, ({. 6. by the Chaldeans,) shows us the persecution of
the Christian religion under the Roman emperors, and its Hberty under Constantine the
Great. It also calls to our remembrance the persecution of the Templars, and the situation
of Jacques Do Molay, who, lytng in irons nearly seven years, at the end of Which our worthy
Grand Master was burnt alive with his four companions, on the eleventh of March, 1814,
creating pity and tears in the people, who saw him dio with firmness and heroic constancy,
sealing his innocence with his blood, My dear brother, tn passing to the degree of Perfect
Master, in which you shed tears at tho tomb of Hiram Abiff, and in some other degrees. has
not your heart been led to revenge? Has not the crime of Jubelum Akirop been represented
in the most hide :us light ?—Would it be unjust to compare the conduct of Philip the Fairto
his, and the infamous accusers of the Templars, to the two ruMans who were accomplices
with Akirop? Do they not kindle in your heart an equal aversion? ‘Ihe different stages
you have traveled, and the time you have taken in learning these historical events, no
doubt, will Jead you to make the proper applications; and by the degree of Master Elect
and Kadosh, you are properly disposed to fulfil all your engagements, and to bear an im-
placable hatred to the Kuights of Malta, and to avenge the death of Jacques De Molay,
Your extensive acquaintanco with symbolic Masonry, which you have attained by your dis-
crotion, leaves you nothing more to desire here, You see, my dear brother, how, and by
whom, Masonry has come to us, You are to endeavor by every just means to regain our
rights and to remember that we are joined by a society of men, Whose courage, merit and
good conduct, hold out to us that rank that birth alone gave to our ancestors, You are now
on the same level with them, Avoid every evil by keeping your obligations, and carefully
conceal from the vulgar what you are, and walt that happy moment when we all shall be
reuntted under the same Sovereign in the manstons of eternal bilss. Let us imitate the
example of our Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, who to the end put his hope in God, and
at his last dying moments ended his life saying, ‘* Spes mea in Deo est |’
Obligation,—I do, of my own free will and accord, in the presence of the Grand Architect
of the Universe, and this consistory of Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret, or Knights of
St. Andrew, faithful guardians of the faithful treasure; most solemnly vow and swear, under
all the different penalties of my former obligations, that I will never directly or indirectly
reveal or make known to any person or persons whatsoever, any or the le at part of this
Royal de, ree, unless to one duly qualified tn the body of a regularly constituted Consistory
of the same, or to him or them whom I shall find such after strict and due trial, f further-
more Vow and awear, Under the above penalties, to always abide and regulate myself agree-
ably to the statutes and regulations now before me; and when in a@ Consistory to behave and
demean myself as one worthy of being honored with so high a degree, that no part of my
conduct may in the least reflect discredit on the Royal Conststory, or disgrace myself, Bo
may God maintain mo in equity and Justicol Amen! Amon! Amen! Amen!
Now cannot anybody see that a person under any such supreme obligation
to his clan, order, or gang, is UNFVEY ‘TO HOLD ANY PUBLICOFFICE! And that
the further he is advanced in masonry the more dangerous he is?
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AND SUCH AS THIS ARE ITs FRurrs,
‘¢Besides the bones di: ed at Blue Mountain, as detailed else-
where in these columns, we ace {nformed that a lot were also found above
Pendleton, a short time ago, Many a poor devil has been knocked on th
head, in this country, and then stowed away under ground, without anybody
being the wiser,”
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*
A Crapter 1x AMERICAN Pontes.
From the Leaders of the Past, to those of the Present,
George Washington's Farewell Address, —‘ The very idea of the power
and the nght of the people to establish government pre-supposes the duty
of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions
to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under
whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control,
counteract, cr awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted
authorities, are destructive of tlis fundamental principle, and of fatal
tendency,”
574 Tue Practica, Workinas or Masonry, ETC.
Thaddens Stevens: “By Freemasonry, trial by jury is transformed
into an engine of despotism and Masonic fraud.”
Edward Everett: “A secret society so widely diffused and connected
as this puts a vast power, capable of the most dangerous abuse, into hands
irresponsible to the public.”
Chief Justice John Marshall; ‘The institution of masonry ought to
be abandoned as one capable of much evil and incapable of producing any
good which might not be effected by safe and open means,” 2
Charles Sumner: ‘‘T find two powers here in Washington in harmony,
and both are antagonistical to our free institutions, and tend to centraliza-
tion and anarchy—Freemasonry and slavery ; and they must both be de-
stroyed if our country is to be the home of the free, as our ancestors de-
signed it.”
Thurlow Weed: ‘T now look back through an interval of fifty-six
years with a conscious sense of having been governed through the Anti-
masonic excitement by a sincere desire, first to vindicate the violated laws
of my country, and next to arrest the great power and dangerous influ-
ences of secret societies.”
William H. Seward: ‘Before I would place my hand between the
hands of other men in a secret lodge, order, class, or council, and, bending
on my knee before them, enter into combination with them for any object,
personal or political, good or bad, I would pray to God that that hand
and that knee might be paralyzed, and that I might become an object of
pity and even the mockery of my fellow-men,”
Wendell Phillips: ‘History shows them perverting justice, stopping
at no crime to protect and conceal their mummeries , controlling polities
for selfish and personal ends, and interfering with great danger in national
emergencies. Every good citizen should make war on all secret societies,
and give himself no rest until they are forbidden by law and rooted out of
existence.”
George Washington, to friends in 1794, quoted by Myron Holley: The
real people occasionally assembled in order to express their sentiments on
political sentiments, ought never to be confounded with permanent, selt-
appointed societies, usurping the right to control constituted authorities,
and to dictate to public opinion. While the former was entitled to re-
spect, the latter was incompatible with all government, and must either
sink into general dis-esteem, or finally overturn the established order of
things.”
General U. S. Grant: ‘All secret, oath-bound political parties are
dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives
and principles which first bring them together.”’
President Millard Filmore, J. C0. Spencer, and others: ‘The Masonic
fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice,
and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.”
John Guiny Adams: ‘Tam preparedto complete the demonstration
before God and man, that the Masonic oaths, obligations and penalties
cannot by any possibility be reconciled to the laws of morality, of Christ-
ianity, or of the land.”
Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield: ‘‘TIn conducting the governments of the
world there are not only sovereigns and ministers, but secret orders to be
considered, which have agents every where—reckless agents, who counte-
nance assassination, and if necessary can produce a massacre.”
A, M. Sullivan, Irish Leader: ‘Thad not studied in vain the secret,
oath-bound associations. I regarded them with horror. I knew all that
could be said as to their advantages in revolutionizing a country, but even
TO.
is transformed
and connected
use, into hands
onry ought to
producing any
on in harmony,
1 to centraliza-
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r ancestors de-
val of fifty-six
ugh the Anti-
e violated laws
ingerous influ-
d between the
J, and, bending
for any object,
that that hand
16 an object of
stice, stopping
rolling polities
wer in national
ecret societies,
d rooted out of
Holley: ‘The
sentiments on
srmanent, selt-
x1 authorities,
entitled to re-
d must either
ished order of
sl eee are
tic the motives
‘The Masonic
ion of justice,
rol.”
demonstration
and penalties
lity, of Christ-
nments of the
t orders to be
h, who counte-
B.
ain the secret,
knew all that
otry, but even
Tue Practica, Workinas or Masonry, Ere. 575
in the firmest and best of hands they had a direct tendency to demoraliza-
tion and are often on the whole more perilous to society than open ty-
ranny.”
Hon, Edward Blake, leader in Canadian Parliament, March, 1884:
‘Tam notin favor of State recognition of any secret societies. I have
never joined one, though many of my best friends are members of secret
societies, But I believe the tendency of secrecy itself to be injurious. I
believe that it brings withit the possibility of evil; I believe that it involves
a certain amount of sacrifice of individuality and independence, and gives
very great facilities for the misleading of members by designing leaders
very great and mischievous facilities for that purpose, I believe that a
great deal of the trouble, social and political, that has occurred in those
countries [Europe and shasta is due to secret societies.”
General Washington opposed to Secret Societies: This isa republication
of Governor Joseph Ritner’s ‘ Vindication of ¢ feneral Washington from the
Stigma of Adherence to Secret Societies,” communicated to the House of
Representatives of Pennsylvania, March 8th, 1837, at their special request.
To this is added the fact that three high Masons were the only persons who
opposed a vote of thanks to Washington on his retirement to private life—
undoubtedly because they cousidered him a seceding Freemason, ‘Ten
cents each ; per dozen, 75 cents, —American Anti-secrecy League, 221 West
Madison Street, Chicago.
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*
Rae says: ‘It was difficult to believe that they were simple citizens
of the republic, so grand was their appearance, and so proud did they
seem of their new clothes, As a rule, there is no more soberly dressed
yerson than a citizen of the United States, A paternal Congress has for-
bidden a civilian to indulge in the vanity known as court costume, and has
enjoined that when he attends a foreign court he shall wear ordinary even-
ing dress, No restriction, however, is put upon the citizen donning any
kind of military uniform he pleases, and this is said to be one of the
reasons why the order of Kmghts Templar is attractive and popular in the
United States. Its members have the further gratification of reading
their names, with handles to them, in the newspapers ; and when plain
Brown, Jones, and Robinson see themselves in print as Sir John Brown,
Sir Thomas Jones, Sir Joseph Robinson, they may experience the satis-
faction of men who have made their mark.
Till I beheld the Knights Templar, I had never realized the effect
produced by entire regiments clad_in the uniforms of general ofticers of
the Grand Duchy of Gerolstein. With cocked hats adorned with feathers
upon their heads, embroidered trousers upon their legs, tunics round their
bodies, their breasts being as thickly covered with ribbons and medals as
the breasts of officers in the service of the Prince of Monaco, and with
swords in their hands resembling the toy swords of children, these Sir
Knights appeared to the simple-minded a splendid spectacle, and to the
critic a set of guys.”
Waar are Hiaunrpers ?
“The bloody conflict lately enacted between rival highbinder societies
in this city, resulting in the death of three Chinamen and the serious
wounding of two more, has given rise to considerable discussion as to who
the highbinders are, what they are, and the best methods to be employed
to break up their organizations, and by that to put an end to their nefari-
a) 48,
= he term highbinder really has no place in the English language. The
dictionary and encyclopedia both fail to recognize it. It is a term like
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many others in the English language, colloquialized, and has acquired a
standing through custom and usage, It is a conventional term, the same
as ‘‘ hobo,” ‘‘hoodlum,” and many others that have acquired a signifi-
one through a specific designation of some peculiar attribute of a general
class.
As near as can be learned, the term first came into practice on this
coast some fifteen or twenty years ago. It was applied to those contend-
ing factions among the Chinese denizens of San Francisco who were known
to make a living off the earnings of others, generally from the fruits of
illegitimate business, Just how the term originated isnot known. The
business of levying on the fruits of others’ labor was done under a guise
of giving protection and encouraging immunity from punishment. These
Mongolian vampires, who, when orgamzed, corresponded in a certain
sense to the corrupt political cliques of this country, were designated as
highbinders. Bulldozing is the fundamental essence and life principle of
both organizations. Chinese highbinders are ia reality a modified species
of pirates. Instead, however, of asserting their supremacy, as do the
pirates on the open seas, in open conflict, they show their prowess in cun-
ning deception, bulldozing, intimidations and threats.”
HIGHBINDERS IN CHINA.
In China the class of people answering to organizations of Highbind-
ers in this country are known by the name of Hung Tow or Tung Ho.
They are not legal organizations, but are under the ban of the govern-
ment. If a highbinder organization is discovered death stares the mem-
bers in the face. The Chinese authorities are very strict, and under no
consideration are secret societies of any kind allowed to exist. Discovery
is met with the extreme penalty of the law—death. An organization of
the nature of highbinders is looked upon as a conspiracy, and death is
the penalty of those gathered in secret conclave.
In China, as in this country, the highbinders hold the same relations
to society. There are at least 200 Kwong Hong or family branches in
China. These branches occassionally organize highbinder societies be-
tween themselves, Every one is eligible to join any of these societies.
All that is needed is for a person to have the necessary instincts of a scoun-
drel and he is at once received into full fellowship into any of their
orders. These societies, whenever for any reason they are not discovered,
live off the community, the same as a Hara does in thiscountry. They
live by bulldozing and by exacting subsidies under threats, They live by
smuggling, stealing, and even killing for pay. They live by means
that are illegal, and no means that are just.
HOW SUPPRESSED.
There are no longer many highbinder societies in China, while out-
bursts of riots between rival organizations are of very rare occurrence.
The reason is the extreme severity used in punishing those who are appre-
hended. if the existence of a highbinder society is made known to the
authorities, the ringleaders are generally beheaded.
In China a man may smuggle and his opium is confiscated ; he may
steal and heis publicly flogged. He may at times even commit more
serious crimes and escape with comparatively light punishment. But let
a man conduct asecret meeting and he is denied even a preliminary exam-
ination before a mandarin. He is beheaded without further ado. If the
guilty are notfound out, the innocent are executed with them, for the guilt
is atoned for at any price, though innocent lives be sacrificed. The end is
calculated to justify the means. Generally, however, the names of the
ETC.
d has acquired a
1 term, the same
quired a signifi-
bute of a general
practice on this
o those contend-
who were known
rom the fruits of
10t known, The
one under a guise
ishment. These
led in a certain
are designated as
1 life principle of
4 modified species
macy, as do the
ty prowess in cun-
ions of Highbind-
‘ow or Tung Ho.
wn of the govern-
1 stares the mem-
ict, and under no
exist. Discovery
.n organization of
racy, and death is
the same relations
amily branches in
nder societies be-
bf these societies.
hstincts of a scoun-
into any of their
re not discovered,
iscountry. They
hts. They live by
ive by means
hina, while out-
rare occurrence.
se who are appre-
de known to the
Ascated ; he may
en commit more
shment. But let
reliminary exam-
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ced. Theend is
he names of the
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guilty parties are giv: ri inter
guilty Harti iy vie comited are not given es tre autistic
His Hoga Se sodian eed * soon fortheoming. oT hase eaters still Than
heud by cot hose aes ho ae oe hn
throat exaene ct hghtinder soition hs poaceble que a
cori Saori Red a *h 's her popu ation by the millions,
agains aiding o abchibuetn HEINE @ mieetug of m Hienbiudee oF oftee
HIGHBINDERS IN THIS COUNTRY.
When the Chinamen came to thi
! sg 1is country many of their i
ris pghag ae their ar flowery kingdom, found an Sopertantiy: tenons
sion. iis was a free country, and the laws were made for :
Skaidey ue io Pi aap a naar The Chinese had ream vol with
da, and what wonder is there that they should te yar
extremes when this restraint is removed? Our laws in the United Siniee
were made to govern citizens of this country, and citizens of this per *
ae pa baa an aa 6 nee in civilization where democratic pe
ient for them. e Chinese coming here are evid
1 coy civilization, for they abuse its privileges. The ene fae te
ens itened people, and cannot fit a semi-barbaric contingency. Ifa f *
“lee element cannot be assimilated into the body politie of the cont .
anc acep its rules and regulations, it becomes very evident that that fo: “f
cen ement cannot exist in the country unless there be particular faye
anne se eae A pepe womevuat according to their Feinfaniant,
xactly the reason highbinder societies have flourished i is
country. By the silence and indifference onltte ee ee
By | ce of the author f
Chinese highbinder societies have come to the conclusion that if the Bes
not exactly courted, they are at least tolerated and approved. ee
MIXED UP AS USUAL
As is always the case in rows amon i it i
lway 5 4 g the Chinese ry di
2 get any information as to the cause of the trouble. The steer a
3 one of bt de ie mixed up in such affairs is not to be relied
, and even the dying q ) > hi i i eat
no we ying statement of one of these highbinders is as likely
The leading Chinamen of this city are all very
i eRNCR Mone his ne Oy Be ae very much wrought up over
Hey Ra pa ne have any sympathies with the murderers if they can
‘*The laws in this country,” said one, ‘
in this cc VE , ‘are altogether :
PU aicasa This fight is a natural outcome of ie enanee aan the
inese murderers in the county jail. The Chinamen have no f for
the law and think that they can buy their freedom if they have pl “ 4 of
money. No such highbinder societies are allowed in China. If phen .
any secret organizations of any kind discovered in China the pine ate
coer dealt with. If the English authorities find thet at ete
hinamen are either imprisoned for life or shot, and if the Chine i 7
ernment makes the discovery the Chinamen’s heads are cut off f th vith.
There is 4 en the ey of a trial given them.”’ haat
+, Another cne said that the murderers of thes i i
be found out unless one of the Chinese companion Sree ee ae
‘The Chinamen know who the guilty ones are, but will not tell,” fe ak
The city authorities ought to send eight or ten policemen to tals a
37
semaines aremtentr
578 Tue Practica, Workinas or Masonry, ETC.
thorough search of Chinatown. There are still quite a number of
wounded Chinamen hidden and if they are not soon hunted up they will
either sneak out of town or get well without medical attendance. The
city is not taking the right position in allowing the matter to rest as it now
stands. The guilty parties should be ferretted out and if this is impossi-
ble, those who stand in with them should be hung with the suspected
ones, in order { make an example of them if to no other end.”
A third Chinaman said that the Chinese societies can tell who every
guilty party in this late bloody transaction is, and furthermore they can
be made to tell if the authorities go at them in the right way. ‘‘The
Chinese are allowed too many liberties. All highbinder societies should be
broken up, and the police authorities must be more stringent if the com-
munity desires to have no recurrence of such a bloody fight.”
‘“ HIGHBINDER SOCIETIES MUST DISBAND,
Mayor DeLashmutt and Chief of Police Parrish had a conference with
the leading Chinese merchants, for the purpose of securing their assistance
in bringing the guilty Chinese to justice, and to prevent a recurrence of
such conflicts. As a result of this conference the Chinese business men
and merchants will unite and give the authorities every assistance in their
power to accomplish the work of breaking up all highbinder societies.
The name of every highbinder society with its location were given Chief
Parrish and the war of extermination will soon commence. The China-
men are all agreed that active steps should be taken at ouce. Notices will
be posted on every door of these highbinder headquarters ordering them
to disband within five days. If this order is not obeyed within the speci-
fied five days, if every sign is not taken down from their headquarters and
every other evidence of the existence of these societies destroyed, the law
will take its course. The police will commence to arrest every highbinder
in the city. The names will be furnished by this protective organization
of Chinese business men and there will thus be no chance for any to es-
cape detection.
The black list will be made out at once, and every highbinder will be
placed behind prison bars. This course of action has received the sanc-
tion of the leading Chinese merchants and there will be no difficulties en-
countered in carrying it into execution.”
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*
‘¢As a reporter of The Oregonian was passing through the county jail
yesterday, Mah Jim, the Chinaman under sentence of death for killing Ah
Toy in the Chinese Free Mason’s hall some six months ago, hailed him.
Mah Jim began by saying that he was not guilty of killing Ah Toy, but
ive the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his enemies to get him out of
the way.
‘‘Did you not serve a term in the penitentiary ?”’ asked the reporter.
‘“‘ Yes,” said Jim.
‘‘ How long were you there ?”
<¢ About six months,’ answered Jim.
** Well, how did it all come about? What was you sent up for ?”
‘‘For larceny. I worked for Quon Wo Wa, on Oak street, while they
were sending gangs of Chinamen up on the railroad to Tom and Jim
Filliken. You sabe ; some Chinamen can’t talk English, and I talked for
them and told them where to go. I was to get $2.50 aday, but as I didn’t
et my money I sued Lee Sang, of the Quon Wo Wa company, in Justice
reene’s court, for $170. At the same time a job was put up on me—that
I stole some clothes—and I was sent up.”
rc.
——_$$$$$
a number of
l up they will
sndance. ‘The
» rest as it now
this is impossi-
the suspected
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tell who every
more they can
t way. ‘‘The
eties should be
pnt if the com-
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conference with
their assistance
2 recurrence of
se business men
sistance in their
yinder societies.
ere given Chief
e. The China-
se, Notices will
ordering them
rithin the speci-
eadquarters and
stroyed, the law
very highbinder
tive organization
e for any to es-
ghbinder will be
reived the sanc-
o difficulties en-
the county jail
h for ae Ah
ago, hailed him.
ng Ah Toy, but
get him out of
pd the reporter.
pnt up for ?”
feck while they
» Tom and Jim
land I talked for
;, but as I didn’t
pany, in J ustice
up on me—that
THE Practica, WorkKINGS OF Masonry, ETC. 579
‘* What was the job put up for?”
‘* Because I sued for the money.”
‘*And why do they accuse you of this murder?”
‘‘When I got out I took the suit to the state circuit court and ob-
nes a judgment for $75, but I didn’t make anything as the lawyer took
i ”
Mah Jim then went on to say that Lee Sang, the man he had sued,
was all broke up,owed everybody, and he had been threatened, provided he
took legal recourse against him, ‘I belonged to the Chinese Free Masons
for six or seven years. They are all the same as highbinders ; all like
brothers together. If a man is killed and they don’t want it known none
of them will say a word about it. Mah Jim said two head men of the
Masons and particular friends of the man against whom he prosecuted
the suit, put up the job accusing him of being the murderer anf that they
agreed to pay Pow ChinWah, the principle witness against him, $50 to swear
that he killed Ah Toy, $200 if he (Jim) was sent to the penitentiary, and
$300 if he was hanged. Further, that everybody who knew him well
had a good opinion of him, and that he had more friends among the white
people than among his own countrymen.”
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*
HIGHBINDERS IN Los ANGELOS.
Prizes set on the heads of two Chinamen and a White man.
‘“* Tf left to settle itself Chinatown will undoubtedly solve the problem
of its own existence without the aid of any boycott. The slumbering vol-
cano of internecine strife occasionally emits its deauly odors. All is not
unity, harmony and love within the Chinese camp. Its coolies belong to
different companies, whose fierce struggle for supremacy and the lion’s
share of the wages of their slaves is a fit sample of the struggle of the sur-
vival of the fittest. Each company takes care of the religion, social pleas-
ures and physical comforts of its members. Each company has its own
joss house, its tan game and its highbinder society, wiitiol the Chinese call
a ‘Freemason lodge.’ When the lynx-eyed highbinders of the Wong com-
pany see the members of the Chung Wo Company robbing at a tan game
some poor devil of a coolie fresh from a Washhouse or an orange orchard,
they inform the officers, and the latter make a raid, and the Chung Wo
men, if captured, have to pay roundly for their fun. They then come
back on to the Wong Company when they are fleecing agreen countryman,
and so bad blood has been developed between the companies till every
Chinaman goes armed with a revolver, which heis ready to draw and shoot
on the slightest provocation, as the row last night shows. The Wong and
Chung Wo companies are ready to fight for the least cause now. This
was the exact status before the big Chinese riot of 1871, when eighteen or
more Chinamen were killed, and these are the same causes which led to
that riot, by exciting the ira of the lower class of the Caucasians and
Indians, who shed their blood.
Last Sunday the highbinders of the Wong Company, on solemn con-
clave, set prices on the heads of several Chinamen, including Ah Jim and
another Chinaman, for $800 for each head. The price of $1,200 was set
on the head of Charles Newberg, who inhabits Chinatown more or less,
and who learned to speak the Chinese language in Hongkong, where he
was born, while his father was there in the merchandise business, This
appalling state of affairs was revealed to the officers on last Monday, but
they regarded it as a stupid tale till the events of last evening in the
attempted assassination of Ah Jim on Negro alley confirmed the reports,
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During the attempt of the officers to make a raid on a tan game on
Negro alley, about 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, a shooting scrape occurred
in which several Chinamen were shot.”
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*
‘*The police learned of the murder; they could get nothing but the
bare facts. Not one of the perpetrators of the crime was caught, as no
one would give any information for fear of incurring the revenge of the
society. The same thing has occurred so frequently in this city that it
is in the nature of a miracle when crime in Chinatown is discovered
and punished.
Measures AGAInst HIGHBINDERS.
Last Friday evening the Mayor and Chief of Police being informed
that the highbinders’ societies were disposed to resist the order for clos-
ing them, started out, and with the assistance of Officer Watson closed
up nine of these rendezvous. The signs of the societies were torn down,
and their emblematic ornaments, little josses, bowls of sandalwood and
other implements with which they solemnize their secret obligations,
were taken down and locked up.
The mayor has further instructed Chief Parrish that this measure
must be thoroughly prosecuted.
The mayor is thoroughly aroused in the matter, and has the active
and earnest support of all the police force, and the approval of not
only the whites, but the better class of the Chinese merchants. The
outlook is most encouraging for a complete break-up of this organized
menace to good government.
[But say, why not also break up the other masonic ‘menace to good gov-
ernment ?’’]
CotorED Masons.
‘*In California, as well as in every State in the union, the colored
Masons are a separate and distinct organization from those of Caucasian
origin, The sovereign grand lodge of California, which recently held
its session in Stockton, was without a single white representative. Out-
siders sometimes consider it rather singular that masonry, which professes
not to regard the outside qualifications of men, should be opposed to
recognizing colored men as brothers. The reason for this, however, is
found in the fact that the negroes secured their charter and ritual from
England. On this account American lodges refu: \ to recognize them.
In the South this alienation is carried to the extry ne. During the war
a Southern man’s house was foraged by some No: iern soldiers, among
them being a sergeant, an ex-slave, and as bla as midnight. The
soldiers slipped a nooseover the Southerner’s head: 1demanded to know
where he had hidden his silver and gold. He de ined to tell. <“‘T’ll
never tell,” he said. They threw the rope over a1. ib, jerked him into
the air and tied him up to die. Unable to speak he made a certain
masonic sign and the negro sergeant sprang for ard and undid the
rope. When the power of speech returned to thw half-choked man he
looked into the face of his deliverer, and still without recognizing him
masonically, asked, with incredible astonishment: ‘What in the ——
did you know about that sign?” The ex-slave answered: ‘‘ You need
not hold masonic converse with me unless you so desire, but nothing
can prevent me from doing my duty to all Masons under the Sun.”
They all affiliate, black, white, and yellow, and this was one of the ‘‘ char-
itable”’ (?) brethren that would murder an outsider in cold blood for a little
money. |
ETC,
——$<$<$—$—
a tan game on
scrape occurred
nothing but the
is caught, as no
» revenge of the
this city that it
n is discovered
. being informed
he order for clos-
ry Watson closed
were torn down,
sandalwood and
cret obligations,
hat this measure
1d has the active
approval of not
merchants. The
of this organized
enace to good gov-
nion, the colored
hose of Caucasian
ich recently held
resentative. Out-
y, which professes
d be opposed to
this, however, 18
vr and ritual from
recognize them.
During the war
n soldiers, among
| midnight. The
jemanded to know
ed to tel. 9TH
, jerked him into
le made a certain
dd and undid the
if-choked man he
recognizing him
What in the ——
red: ** You need
sire, but nothing
nder the Sun.”
s one of the ‘‘char-
1 blood for a little
Tue Pracrica, Workinas or Masonry, ETC. 581
An Apparess IssvED BY THE Executive ComMitrer of Farmers’ ConGREssS.
‘That all1aen and women are equally endowed by their creator with
the inalienable nght to the possession and enjoyment of whatever wealth
they produce. That to secure, among others, this right inviolate to all
citizens, governments are rightfully established among men. That when
governments, laws or systems become destructive to these rights or fail to
secure them to the people it is their right and imperative duty to them-
selves and their posterity to alter and abolish such government, repeal
such laws and destroy such systems, That the agricultural mass % of the
United States have not for years been and are not now secure in the
possession and enjoyment of the vast wealth which by unfalteringindustry
they have created. To prove these declarations let unimpeached statistical
facts be submitted to your candid, considerate, unbiased judgment.......
lic crepene one We have brought forth facts which show that the agricultural
population is rapidly and surely being re‘uced to abject serfdom. Facts
which show that if we wish to be free, and the owners of free hemes, there
is now an imperious necessity demanding the organization of ‘tli: agricul-
tural masses, to defend for themselves, each other and their ohil dren the
right to what they produce, the title to their homes, and the »'“cu're enjoy-
ment of their firesides.
By order of the executive committee.” —Oreyon.
From A PRESIDENT’s MESSAGE.
‘*The equal and exact justice of which we boast as the underlying
principle of our institutions should not be confined to the relations of our
citizens to each other, The government itself is under bond to the Ameri-
can people that in the exercise of its functions and powers it will deal with
the body of our citizens in a manner serupulously honest and fair, and
absolutely just. It has agreed that American citizenship shall be the only
credential necessary to justify the claim of equality before the law, and
that no condition in life shall give rise to discrimination in the treatment
of the people by this government.
The citizen of our republic, in its early days, rigidly insisted upon full
compliance with the letter of this bond, and saw stretching out before him
a clear field for individual endeavor................. Hundreds of private
pension laws are annually passed which are the sources of unjust discrimi-
nation and popular demoralization.
Appropriation bills for the support of the government are defaced by
items and provisions to meet private ends, and it is freely asserted by re-
sponsible and experienced parties that a bill appropriating money for pub-
lic improvement would fail to meet with favor unless it contained more fcr
local and private advantage than for public benetit.”
[Here follows an example in point:—]
‘*Captain John Mullan claims large sums as ‘commissions’ for collec-
tion of claims for Oregon at Washington. Those claims were paid by
authority of acts of Congress, directing the same to be done. How then
could Captain Mullan have ‘rendered services’ in getting the money ?
Did he cause Congress to enact the laws and make the appropriations for —
their payment ?”
[What else was he employed for? A masonic lobbyist can be trusted
‘‘on the square”’ by his secret oath-bound brethren m office to divide the
people’s money. o outsiders get private laws passed, and big pensions?
They are an insolent, defiant, foreign, pagan government within the republic,
supported by the government that they paralyze in any action against them. |
582 Tue Practica, Workincs oF Masonry, ETC.
Fe
“Notwithstanding our Government is founded upon the broadest
principles of equality; that the first of the self-evident truths enunciated in
that Declaration upon which 1t rests affirms, that ‘all men are created free
and equal,’ there immediately sprang up a party under the new Govern-
ment which, if it did not precisely favor kingly rule, endeavored to build
up and perpetuate a privileged class, with quite as marked characteristics
as the dividing lines of caste under governments of hereditary rule.
Should the humble Knight of Labor be censured because he belongs
to a secret order which his friend of aristocratic associations declares poli-
tical, when he, himself, (or rather his confederated friends) cross continu-
ally from one haven of safety to another by the mystic bridge of a society
which is xt political ?”
HorripuE Mormon Crime.
Salt Lake letter to St, Louis ‘* Republican.”
‘¢ One crime which was committed here only a short time ago, 1 must
describe. Mrs. Maxwell came to Salt Lake City with her husband in
1869. ‘Two years afterward her husband took another wife, and one year
subsequent he was married to a third. Mrs, Maxwell had two sons, re-
spectively 14 and 16 years. Their father urged them to go through the
Endowment House and become Mormons, bound by all the oaths of the
Church, Mrs. Maxwell objected, and in order to prevail over her sons
she told them the secrets of the Endowment House. The penalty for re-
vealing these secrets is dismemberment of the body, cutting of the throat
and tearing out of the tongue. Mr. Maxwell overheard his wife, being in
an adjoining room, and forthwith he informed the elders, who sent for the
unfortunate woman and her two sons, ‘hey were taken into what is
called the ‘Dark pit,’ a blood-atoning room under Brigham Young's
house. ‘The woman was then stripped of all her clothing and then tied on
the back to a large table. Six members of the priesthood then performed
their damnable crime ; they first cut off their victim’s tongue, and then
cut her throat, after which her legs and arms were severed. ‘The sons
were compelled tostand by and witness the dreadful slaughter of their
mother. They were released and given twenty-four hours to get out of
the Territory, which was then animpossibility. The sons went then tothe
house of a friend, to whom they related the butchery of their mother, and
then getting apackage of provisions started, but on the following morning
were both dead. They had met the Danites. One other case similar to
the above occurred about five years ago in the City Hall. These are
truths, and the lady to whom the sons told their story is willing to make
affidavits to the facts if she can be guaranteed immunity from Mormon
veugeance,
Lae is masonry !—Mormon government and masonry are one and the
same,
“SxippeD.—John Kelnappil, who for some months past has occupied
so prominent a place in the minds of so many of our citizens, and who
made such a vacancy in their pockets, has skipped the meshes of the law,
and left for parts unknown, and his ruddy countenance no longer greets
us from behind the barsatthe jail. John was too big a thief, the grappling
irons of the law were not strong enough to hold him. His creditors had
furnished him with too much with which to fight them. He laughed at
their threats and defied them in every attempt to punish him or recover a
dollar of the stolen money. Having freed himself through the loseness of
the law from every criminal charge against him, save one involving only a
small amount, upon which he was held to bailin the sum of $1,000, he
simply lay in jail awaiting his opportunity. On Saturday evening, the
, ETC.
pon the broadest
uths enunciated in
n are created free
the new Govern-
leavored to build
ed characteristics
litary rule.
yecause he belongs
ions declares poli-
ids) cross contim-
ridge of a society
”
+ time ago, 1 must
h her husband in
wife, and one year
had two sons, re-
to go through the
ll the oaths of the
yvail over her sons
[he penalty for re-
tting of the throat
1 his wife, being in
rs, who sent for the
taken into what is
Brigham Young's
ng and then tied on
bod then performed
5 tongue, and then
severed, ‘The sons
slaughter of their
ours to get out of
ns went then tothe
f their mother, and
following morning
er case similar to
Hall. ‘These are
is willing to make
hity from Mormon
wry are one and the
past has occupied
citizens, and who
meshes of the law,
no longer greets
hief, the grappling
His creditors had
n, He laughed at
lh him or recover &
igh the loseness of
e involving only a
sum of $1,000, he
irday evening, the
THE Practica, WorkKINGS OF MASONRY, ETC. 583
steamer Wildwood having been chartered to come to this port after him he
deposited the amount of his bail, stepped aboard the sprightly craft and
turned his back upon the field of his conquest. Tlus ends the story of
this wholesale robbery, )y which so many of our citizens have been made
to suffer, and for which the law furnishes no remedy through the ordinary
channels of justice.”
[It is masons in office that paralyzes the courts and does this prostitu-
tion every day for their brethren. Jt was secret brethren that got the boat
and helped him away. |
* *
*
‘‘TLieves now work in gangs instead of competing with each other,
and, acting on the principle that union is strength, they take possession of
districts and assert themselves with a confidence which completely cows
the victims upon whom they prey.
Masonry otherwise known as the gang or ring plan, has been in suc-
cessful operation here for many years, It has been tried at Washington,
and has been tried in the cities of New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia,
and in all the State capitals. Honest men should see to it that the co-
operative stealing of this kind is prevented, or, if committed, that the per-
petrators are duly punished.”
* *
*
‘¢ Dublin, November 21, 1882.
In the Joyce trial [four or five men sentenced to Ang ... Judge
Barry in passing sentence informed the prisoners that they furnished a
terrible example which he hoped would sink deeply into the hearts of
others of the consequences of joining a secret society. It was not improb-
able, he said, that some of them had been terrorized into joining the gang
who murdered the Joyces, and had not taken an actual manual part in the
massacre ; but persons joining an unlawful enterprise were responsible for
the acts of all the parties thereto,”
* *
*
“It seems that Chicago Courts take very plain and unexaggerated
views of the law. In his charge to the jury, in the Anarchists’ tnal, the
presiding Judge held that ‘if violence for any unlawful object resulted in
death, those who organized the violence are guilty of murder.’ In other
words, those who employ dangerous methods are responsible for the result.”’
* + %
Secretism. The Masons with their degree of apprentice, fellow-craft,
and grand master, toyether with the whole brood of inferior orders, form
the dry rot in our political body. ‘They are an enemy to both Church and
State. They are anti-Republican and anti-Christian, Their ensnaring and
blasphemous oaths forever proscribe them.—New York Witness.
A Proresr aGatnst Masonic Parrictpation,
“A printed protest of large proportions against permitting Masonic
societies to participate in the dedication of the Washington Monument
next Saturday, has been received by the Congressional committee charged
with arrangements, ‘The signers claim to have i3,000 signatures, Protest-
ants say that the Masonic order has no more right to such a distinction
than the Hibernians or any other secret order, A stone sent by the Pope
for the monument was, they say, broken up and thrown into the Potomac.
‘“Why,” they ask, ‘‘are Catholics snubbed and Free Masons honored ?”
‘Free Masonry,” they say, “is of foreign birth, is entirely un-American
584 Tue PracticAL WorkINGS OF Masonry, ETC.
——_——— $$ _____—_— me
and un-republican. Its public displays are pompous and barbaric; its
titles extravagant and lordly; its constitution despotic; its oath extra-
judicial, which Webster said should be suppressed by law.” They pray
only that such ceremonies as are national in their scope and American in
their character be permitted. The protest came too late for action by the
committee.”
Aaatnst Secret Socrerres.
“Newburg (N. Y.), June 7th, 1887.—The Synod of the Reformed Pres-
byterian Church of America to-day adopted resolutions declaring secret
societies immoral, selfish and unjust, degrading and enslaving to the con-
sciences of their members; that, in addition, many of them are Christless,
yet they counterfeit the worship of the church and obstruct her work and
for that reason, as well as for the secrecy, the members of such societies
ought not to be admitted to the church’s membership, and the Synod en-
joins the courts of the church to refuse admission to members of all secret
orders and to exclude from membership any who may have crept in un-
awares, In the course of the debate on these resolutions Free Masonry
was bitterly denounced.”
OpposITION TO Masonry IN SoutH AMERICA,
‘Lima, August 1st, 1885.—The Bishop of Lima has sent an address to
Monsignor Favor, Minister of Justice, protesting against the proposed
Masonic Hall to be erected in Lima. The Minister has replied in strong
terms, deprecating the publicity given to the protest by the Bishop, but
assuring him that in virtue of the Constitution the Government has not
permitted and never will permit the erection of a Masonic Temple in Lima.”
* *
*
In THE U. S. A.
‘The exercises of laying the corner stone of the new State University
building on yesterday afternoon by the Masonic fraternity were well at-
tended, though there were not as many as were expected from abroad.”
[Is it not time that such deviltry and desecration was killed by the
American people ?]
Eprror Cynosure:—1, Is the man a consistent Christian who preaches
Christ in the pulpit, he beiug a member of the Masonic fraternity, reject-
ing Christ in their ritual and prayers ?
2. Is any man entitled to our confidence and respect asa true Christian,
whose life and character are controlled by Masonic oaths and public
opinion ?
3. Are not those who place their hope of salvation on a Christ-exclud-
ing religion as far wrong as heathen, and more guilty ?
4, Are not Masonic ministers stumbling-blocks, in the way of all other
Masons, though they preach Christ in the pulpit, as they are paid to do?
5. Is it not indecent and partial to require a Masonic candidate to
solemnly swear to be chaste toward the female relatives of brother Masons
only ?
“6, Can a Christian innocently neglect to inform himself and others in
regard to a Christ excluding religion in our midst ?
7, Who strains ata gnat and swallows a camel, if not the Masonic
Baptist, who will not commune with a person who has not been put under
water ?
8. Is not the man who will not inform himself in regard to an impor-
tant duty as guilty in the sight of God as the man who knew his duty and
did it not?
TC.
1 barbaric; its
ts oath extra-
> They pray
1 American in
r action by the
Reformed Pres-
leclaring secret
ing to the con-
are Christless,
t+ her work and
such societies
the Synod en-
ers of all secret
e crept in un-
3 Free Masonry
Le
nt an address to
t the proposed
plied in strong
he Bishop, but
rmment has not
mple in Lima.”
State University
y were well at-
om abroad.”
s killed by the
n who preaches
aternity, reject-
true Christian,
hs and public
bn Christ-exclud-
ray of all other
re paid to do?
c candidate to
brother Masons
f and others in
bt the Masonic
een put under
1 to an impor-
w his duty and
Tae Pracrican WorkInGs OF Masonry, ETC. 585
9, Can it ever be right to solemnly swear to keep another’s secrets in
all cases, except murder and treason?
10. Is wrong-doing any less sinful because so-called good men have
made it popular ?
11. Would any respectable man join a Mason lodge, knowing the in-
side working of tie order, as all ought to know it?
12, Is it not mainly because Masons are ashamed of their doings that
candidates are required to swear ‘‘ to ever conceal and never reveal” the
secrets of the order ?
13. Would not the professing Christian, who dare not answer these
questions, do well to revise his religion ? J. M.
“Gentlemen:—You know you are a set of knaves, hypocritically aping
innocence. We recognize what you are—that you flourish by cheating,
lying, and force. We cannot at present help that. You are strong, united,
cunning; the people are weak, disunited, apathetic, ignorant. But we
who profess, in some measure, to guide public opinion will not cease to
point out your tricks and roguishness until we shall have left you not a
rag of character, and you will be glad to hide from the contempt, if not
the shoe-leather, of those whom you have beguiled so long!” Dopo.
* *
*
‘On Tuesday, November 16th, 1888, Dan Collins, a resident of Colfax,
evidently insane, while court was in session, suddenly walked to the wit-
ness bar and attempted to address the jury. Judge Langford stopped
him, when he claimed the right to address the jury, and said his life was
being threatened and his property was about to be taken away by Masons,
Odd Fellows and other conspirators, The court referred him to the
grand jury, in session, and on going down stairs he was arrested on a
obatyp of insanity, and taken before Judge Thompson, who so adjudged
m. ’
[Are such victims now languishing in secret prisons to have no re-
course? Reylect that the courts are often in the control of these very con-
spirators who thus judge and hold their victims.
On the other uand take this:]
‘Tran CrosEp.—A Dallas letter of a recent date contains the follow-
ing: The close of the trial of C... for the killing of F... near Lone Rock,
last June, has taken place, resulting in the acquittal of C.... The rulings
of the new judge was a surprise to many, and has caused much comment.
If a man is running for dear life from you, it is better and justifiable to
shoot for fear of his return, especially if he is on what is believed to be his
own land and you want it. Are these conditions to go on and on, and the
public be compelled to submit to the woeful travesty of justice for all
time to come? Has vitalized and aroused public opinion no influence in
changing an order of things that is heaping disgrace upon the country and
insecurity upon the lives of the people? There are times when men, des-
pairing of the justice of courts and seeing in them only the liveries of
oes sweep aside these public farces and take the law into their own
ands.”
* *
*
‘‘The people are earnestly searching for some means by which society
may be protected and human life made secure, There certainly ought to
be conditions in which the law can be used as a means of public safety ;
in which homicides can be punished and pilferers and swindler be brought
to justice. But, humiliating as is the confession, these conditions do not
exist, Crime was never more insolent and menacing—Courts never so
i
ee
586 Tue Practica, Workinas or Masonry, ETC.
weak and inefficient. Life is at the mercy of every assassin who chooses
to take it ; property the spoils of every dishonest wretch who conspires to
seize it.
How long these conditions will be allowed to prevail we are unable to
say; but there is a growing sentiment which will burst some day in all the
fury and desolation of a tempest, and i+ will sweep outlaws and their abet-
tors from the face of the earth. Not even Courts can continue forever to
shield criminals from punishment and mock with insolent indifference and
unblushing collusion with crime the indignant sense of an outraged com-
munity. Judges and juries, and Courts of last resort have trampled upon
the rights and insulted the moral sense of the people long enough. It is
time to call a halt.”
* *
*
‘‘The people are banding together to make an example of a few of
such gentry. Right here let us say we believe the law of every State
should inflict capital punishment forstealing stock and robbing post-oftices
and betraying other trusts in any amount of money over $5. The old
North Carolina law was a good one. The breed of thieves should be
stopped by strangulation. Such punishment of a few would deter others.
No man has a right to claim an existence among men when he is a practi-
cal thief, The country is getting to full of low, dirty scoundrels who de-
sire to live well off the product of the labor and business of others. The
law should be to hang every thief proven to be such. This world is too far
in the advance of civilization to allow men of such low morals tu have an
existence among the rising generation. Their examples are too fraught
with evil to be suffered to live on the Earth.”
* *
*
‘*We have a country of unbounded resources, becoming richer and
richer every day ; and yet, the class that produces the wealth is becoming
poorer and poorer with the most alarming rapidity, and they have them-
selves to blame for it. If they have not actually and actively aided the
oppression that environs them, they have encouraged it by their silence,
The land 1s swarming with men who live by their wits, and our law-
makers come largely from this class. They are not too honest to steal or
rob, but they do it in accordance with the prevailing ideas of our present
advanced civilization.
Somehow they nearly all, directly or indirectly, draw from the public
treasury, and much of the money thus obtained is no better than robbery;
but thoir methods are legalized and the people are helpless so long as they
do not (1k matters into their own hands. These parasites and grabbers
are all loyal to themselves,”
* *
*
‘‘ Where law by reason of its deficiency is inapplicable to a certain
class of individuals, and punishment cannot be meted out to a certain
class of wrong-doers, when rascality runs rampant and villainy holds high
carnival—when under the thinnest of legal subterfuges men go on and
heedlessly commit wrong upon wrong on almost defenseless man or set of
men—when men by their wealth and position are enabled to single out a
man and taking advantage of his omission, would rob him with no law to
say stop—then we say it well becomes a community to make a law unto
themselves, and even though it be ‘ wild justice’ it is better than no justice
at all, if it stays the evil and stops the curse. The Anglo-Saxon race is by
nature and training law-abiding. The American people are not false to
rc.
a
n who chooses
10 conspires to
. are unable to
» day in all the
and their abet-
nue forever to
ndifference and
outraged com-
trampled upon
enough. It is
ple of a few of
of every State
ying post-oftices
y $5. The old
aves should be
1d deter others.
1 he is a practi-
indrels who de-
xf others. The
world is too far
yrals tu have an
are too fraught
hing richer and
lth is becoming
they have them-
ively aided the
their silence.
s, and our law-
nest to steal or
of our present
from the public
by than robbery;
5 so long as they
ps and grabbers
le to a certain
ut to a certain
ainy holds high
nen go on anc
1g man or set of
to single out a
) with no law to
ake a law unto
than no justice
Saxon race is by
are not false to
THe PracricAL WorKINGS OF MASONRY, ELC. 587
their ancestry or their civilization, and ponder long ere they would take
unto themselves the issuance of decrees and the administration of ‘wild
justice,’ yet we say whenever a man becomes a confirmed criminal—
whether of polish and high bred or coarse and of low estate, it matters not,
and persists in violating the laws of a reasonable humanity, then we say
and say it with no compunction of conscience, organized society ought
to break his neck, swiftly and in an ample way.
There are enough worthy objects upon which to lavish sympathy or
to bestow benefactions. All around us are poor and worthy men and
women whose fortunes have been hard, whose lives have been mostly in
the shadow of ill-success. To such let charity extend a helping hand. It
may save some soul irom crime. They are deserving of sympathy and
support. But to the vile and heartless, the conscienceless and cowardly,
the brutal and bloodthirsty [masonic] assassins, who so rarely are brought
to punishment, nothing but stern, inexorable justice is due or should be
extended. Sympathy with such is an abnormal sentiment; it is weak,
maudlin, morbid and wicked.”
THE WoRKINGMAN,
‘In point of fact the workingman is chained to a treadmill, and makes
his weary round, day in and day out, wearing the collar of servitude, while
he ploddingly but unintermittingly grinds out dollars for the masons.
Into the hopper are dumped life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and
out of it comes more millions for the men who do not need them—more
misery for the men who really make these millions.
ithe poorest citizen should have as much interest in his condition,
and in the general condition of the country as the wealthiest man, and yet
tens of thousands of our citizens look on quietly while they are being
taxed for the benefit of legal swindlers and while their native soil is being
plundered. Truly does it take a long time to civilize human beings.”
* *
*
‘* Resolved, First, that we declare our opposition to the Republican
party for its frauds and robbery of the people. _It has created a million-
aire nobility and impoverished the populace, It has taken dominion from
the lords of blood and passed it to the lords of gold. It has given to the
transportation department of this country an empire of the public domain
larger in extent than the whole of England, Ireland and Scotland, thus
robbing the people of their rightful inheritance. It has created an olig-
archy of a few thousand idle drones and furnished them with the means
and appliances to absorb from and rob the toiling millions of their annual
hard earnings.”
[Is it the ‘‘ Republican party,” or is it practical masonry ?]
, *
**A spirit of communism and carelessness is engendered in his breast
when the farmer of the Willamette Valley comes to this city and looks on
the palaces and other evidences of wealth which surround him, and re-
members that after twenty years of ceaseless toil and privation there is a
mortgage on his little farm that he cannot pay, and that the fruits of his
life long industry have gone into the pockets of men who never reclaimed
one acre of land from the wilderness, nor added one dollar to the pro-
ductive industries of the State.”
* *
*
‘As I write I have before my mind’s eye a double picture on this
Christmas morning. On one side a beautiful Christmas tree standing in
eT eer CBN cst ential .
588 Tue PractricaL WorkKINGS oF MAsonry, ETC.
the bay window of a stately mansion ; the tree is loaded down with beauti-
ful articles of luxury, which only the wealthy can possess. In the room
at dawn of day are grouped the youthful members of the proud aristo-
crat’s household, the youngest of which exclaims, ‘Good Santa Claus.’
Could everybody be rich, and were luxury within the reach of all, or did
the riches come honestly to hand this would be all right and proper, but
on the other side is the hovel of the unfortunate poor. Here, too, are
little ones beautiful even in their rags. In acorner sits the disconsolate
mother, listening to their innocent prattle and shedding irrepressible tears
as a child exclaims, ‘Why don’t Santa Claus come?” The father having
been beaten out of the bulk of his property by afew [masonic] bilks,is now
compelled to do menial service to keep the wolf from the door. He has
not the heart to face his family now, but is laboring with all his might to
keep his family supplied with the bare necessaries of life, while the pro-
pretey of the mansion is saying complacently that providence has favored
im in the acquisition of his wealth. The religion which gives one man
millions and another nothing comes from hell and not from heaven.
r . A. J. 8.
*
‘¢There is scarcely a hall for public gatherings in this city but what
would prove the scene of death or damage in case of a fire occurring in
them when occupied by an audience, but it might be libelous to make any
mention of particular instances before the coroner sits upon the dead.”
eb is, if the proprietor has secret influence at court! Such is the
libel /aw in the hands of the gang. |
* *
*
‘‘The public sentiment in the Montague case with all decent citizens
is withthe husband. There are too many smart, no account licentious men
in this city whothink that the most creditable thing they can perform is to
b:eak up the peace of families. The only redress the injured men have is
to take the law into their own hands and there is no jury in the United
States which will convict them.”
[This is how the ring press shouts out when the offender is an out-
sider ; otherwise they hold it to be ‘‘ murder” to kill such people, and the
‘“good judiciary ” either convicts ‘‘the injured man” or robs him of his
property, or both. ]
* * *
‘*This [Links] was then editor in and Postmaster of the place. The
people were complaining of him, and Governor Beall charged him with
whatever the derelictions were. Afterward, when he entered Link’s office
he was shot twice by him and died from the wounds. A jury—a military
court-martial-—which had no more jurisdiction of the case than the vestry
of a church in this city, acquitted fiinks.]
[Thus he was ‘‘ acquitted ” (?) as he also was about fifty times after-
wares © other charges, which was practical masonry also. |
* *
*
: 1012 known that the people of this Territory have been almost,
and sonic of them entirely, driven from tieir homes by the extortionate
charges of physicians and surgeons,
New York and several of the other Eastern States have laws to protect
their citizens against such high-handed robbery as is practiced on this
coast. It may not be generally known, but this one thing alone is a great
drawback to the settlement of this Territory.
ETC.
ywn with beauti-
33. In the room
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‘]
ave been almost,
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practiced on this
alone is a great
THe Practica, WorkINGs oF Masonry, ETc. 589
Not long since I came up with an emigrant train in camp. They, of
course, made a great many inquiries about the country and its customs
generally,the prices of various articles of home consumption and produce,
and finally an old gentleman asked what our doctors charged per mile. I
informed them that they charged $1 per mile in the day and double that
at night with a bill at the drug store of about $5 each trip. The expres-
sion of those people at this news, was exactly this: ‘My God, how do
the people live here ?’”
[The quacks all belong to the gang and can thus, through secret
brethren at court, enforce their extortion and mal-practice on their victims.
Even the testimony of others of the oath-bound gang is taken as evidence in
the ring-ridden courts against the injured citizen !]
* *
‘Sheppard testified in his own behalf, saying:
When I was twelve years of age I was employed in a counterfeiting
establishment which was owned and operated, among others, by Charles
H, Leonard, recently mayor of Galveston, 'Tex., and at present one of the
most prominent citizens of that city. Interested with him in this business
were the mayor of New Orleans, city officials, chief of police, judges, and
limbs of the law. Then the judge of the criminal court for the parish of
Orleans was a partner in the establishment, also a@ prominent lawyer who
now occupies a judgeshipin Baltimore. These people were engaged in
counterfeiting Mexican coin, United States bills and money of every
description. The Mexican money was manufactured down stairs, and the
United States notes, etc., were turned out up-stairs. My position was that
of messenger for the establishment and as such I delivered the counterfeit
money to the banks of the city and high city officials, Thousands and
thousands of dollars of this money was manutactured and circulated here
and elsewhere throughout this country and Mexico, Many of the persons
engaged in counterfeiting them have jot behind them sons and daughters
who move in the highest society. For this reason I do not propose to
make known the names of the persons for whom I first worked in the
counterfeiting business, All my life it has been my misfortune to suffer
for and to bear the burdens of other persons’ misdeeds. My whole life
has been one of continued sacrifice.’ Sheppard is now sixty-two years of
age.” [What a ‘good judiciary.’ |
* *
*
Ne a ‘* good judiciary.”’|
says a local paper to-day: ‘‘An Oregon man who shot a lawyer a few
years ago was convicted and sentenced to prison, ‘This mistake has just
een corrected by the governor, who gives him fullpardon. ‘The mystery
surrounding his conviction has not yet been explained.”
[The brother was shot for practical Masonry! That’s what. ]
* *
*
“ANOTHER SHOOTING.—About five o’clock on Tuesday evening of last
week, [Links], ot Asotin county, shot and killed one Elmer Stimpson, As
we learn, Stimpson took Meyer’s wife some time since and ran off with her,
and last week the two returned, and, in passing the field in which Meyers
was at work, waved their handkerchiefs at him. He returned the ‘‘salute,”’
not knowing who they were, but when told, went and procured a Win-
chester rifle and shot Stimpson, the ball passivg through his right breast,
and he died on Wednesday night. Meyers then fired at his wife, but
missed his aim. The murderer gave himself upto the Sheriff and was held
to appear before Justice Ansman on Monday 1m the sum of $1,500,
590 THE Practica, WorRKINGS OF MASONRY, ETC.
roe slayer was a secret brother and was ‘acquitted ” (?) according-
ly. is own, sworn brethren were on the jury !]
* *
x
“THe Rina.—Garfield county has been run by a handful of Ring
Democrats and Ring Republicans long enough. The hard working
farmers are tired of Ring Rule. It is too expensive, too exacting and too
unjust. Now is the time to shake off the Ring shackles, The old settlers
of the county say bi want a change, and are going to vote a change.
Will the farmers, and their wives and their daughters, vote to perpetuate
a [masonic] ring ?”
[Name one of the gang, if you can, that is neither a mason or odd-fellow? |
* *
*
According to The New-Orleans States, the official democratic paper in
that city, B. B. Jones, recently appointed consul at Callao, is a fugitive
from justice. He was, it says, indicted in Louisiana for tho a:sassination
of General Liddell in 1870, and escaping from a band of lynchers fled
from the country. He now turns up as the President’s choice for con-
sul at Callao, and The States demands that Governor McEnery make a
requisition for his body.—New York Tribune.
[Secret influence, my boy. An office instead of $2,500 reward. |
* *
*
Tur ‘‘By-Gonge”’ REcorD.
A newcomer wants to know what the ‘infamous record ”’ of [Links]
is. Itis easily recited. First, while school teacher, he seduced one of his
pupils, This offense against good morals had been condoned by his mar-
riage to her, the birth of two or three children following. Second, after
his marriage he became enamored of another woman with whom he left
the States, leaving his wife and several of his children so destitute that the
former finally brought up in the poor house. Third, at the time of his
flight he took some $4,000 which did not belong to him. Fourth, to
evade the officers of the law he assumed an alias, his true name being
These facts Links acknowledged to be true, but pleaded the ‘‘ baby act”
and said they were ‘early indiscretions.”
Up to the time of coming to , Links had committed four crimes
punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. Whileliving here under
un assumed name he again married without first obtaining a divorce from
the first wife. With this wife he lived for many years and became the
father of her children before legally marrying her. These facts form an
outline of a career whose details cannot be told without outrage to decency.
All of these crimes Links confesses, but wishes the people to look over
as by-gones. And yet in the face of this damning record, and in the
face of more recent moral and political misdemeanors shameful to man-
hood, there are people who flock to his support, attracted by the thin
molasses of a polite address, or the hope of a share in official spoils.
The man is not wanted by the people and their representatives will not
elect him to the high place which he asks.”
[But as he was a high Freemason he was therefore elected (?) and is
now lording it in the United States Senate. Then why showld criminals
in prison reform ? Why not rather join the gang and run for office? As
this case is but an example !]
ETC.
|’? (?) according-
handful of Ring
> hard working
xxacting and too
The old settlers
0 vote a change.
je to perpetuate
on or odd-fellow? |
ocratic paper in
lao, is a fugitive
tha assassination
of lynchers fled
; choice for con-
IcEKnery make a
)0 reward. |
cord ”’ of [Links]
duced one of his
ned by his mar-
Second, after
h whom he left
estitute that the
the time of his
m. Fourth, to
hame being
he ‘* baby act”
ed four crimes
ving here under
a divorce from
nd became the
» facts form an
rage to decency.
le to look over
rd, and in the
lameful to man-
pd by the thin
official spoils.
atives will not
cted (?) and is
ould criminals
for office? As
Tue Pracrica, Workinas oF Masonry, ETc. 591
ir here give another mere example of practical masonry ! that is going
on while innocent men are being convicted and held to languish !]
Voorhees, of Indiana, and Blackburn, of Kentucky, defended sap
earnest appeals to the doctrine of ‘higher law.” Blackburn, in closing a
speech that was really remarkable for energy and eloquence, said ; ‘‘ There
is but one tribunal on earth where cases like this of Thompson’s can be
adjusted. Itis a tribunal in which conscience sits on the bench. Its
judgments are traced in blood. It has the sanction of the law of human-
ity wherever civilization prevails, It is God’s law, and you cannot re-
verse it.”
Je ut why is it that this “higher law” is never heard of except in behalf of
members of secret oath-bound orders? Iv COULD EASILY BE PUT IN'TO A COM-
MON STATE LAW and MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL MEN ALIKE, and not requiring
$1,000 or $2,000 middlemen and other great expense to dig it up and show
it to the court and jury or else to die! Damn such courts; they ought to
be killed! It cost the Indian nothing to administer this ‘‘ higher law,”
Nor did it the white man on the plains !]
% *
*
On ‘Higher Law” rm Kentucky,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The shot-gun is mightier than the courts. It is a universal leveler. It
simplifies and cheapens the law, and brings it to the door of the poorest
when need is, and long may its policy prevail, mute sentinel by the
fireside, guarding the honor of our women, protecting our cradles and
our children ; a menace to wives that are weak, and a perpetual terror
to libertines and libertinism.
[What consolation is such talk to victims looted and languishing in
secret robbing prisons, because they even dared to defend their lives and
homes against robbing, murdering libertines, and in the very act! The
court gang says to the citizen: ‘‘Your money or your life!” and it
often gets away with both. ]
*
*
‘Tur GLENN Murprer TRIAL
The Glenn murder trial was resumed. R. M. Cochran, superintendent
of the Glenn ranch, was the first witness called. He testified to having
pursued Miller, and shot him in the leg before he would surrender after
the shooting of Glenn. After being shot, Miller fell on his back, and
when ordered by the witness, he threw his gun to one side. When witness
approached Miller, the latter asked for protection and help as a brother
Mason. Witness declined to testify to conversations between Miller and
himself, as it would be in violation of the rules of Masonry. He did not
know that Miller was a Mason until after he had shot him.”
[And thus is the supreme allegiance to a foreign secret government
over our government granted by ring-ridden courts, How can an outsider
get justice in such courts against one of the gang when they are thus
allowed to ‘‘ever conceal and never reveal” each other’s secrets? And
mark that this is in a case of murder. Is one of these foreign, pagan sub-
jects fit to be a sheriff, judge or any other official ?]
* *
*
‘Physicians allow that the lancet is a cruel instrument, but tell us
‘that its timely application often saves life.’ Law and its administration
in Oregon show but few marks of the principles declared as being those of
592 Tue PracticaL WorRKINGS OF Masonry, ETC.
the American union. From the justices’ courts to the supreme court,
where can a poor man get justice ?.....eseeereees .. They afford no
excuse to corrupt and unjust judges who bear the double brand of shame,
as perjurers and traitors to their country.
For in them is vested the authority to decide the issues
destroy rights to property, liberty and life. Hence corrupt [Masonic]
rings exercise their utmost efforts to keep control of the courts. The courts
of law should be the bulwark of the people’s liberties. Are our State
courts such? Our State supreme court was in its inception a fraud. No
State or people has ever gained anything by covering its mistakes but ig-
nominious exposure and disaster. Many have gained by fearlessly facing
and exposing them.... After careful examination of the
subject, his opinion was uttered in one short sentence: ‘What a supreme
court!’ We have occasionally to deplore such acts as those of people
who break into prisons and take out criminals and hang or shoot them
without the trial the law allows. If they would now and then take a judge
and hang him by his neck till he was dead, it would be matter for small
regret. The former class are mostly illiterates any way; the latter are sup-
posed to be men of education and honor; but when judges tamper with
the people’s rights, they ought to swing. They are sworn to protect them.
Crimes of the poor and ignorant should be treated with lenience. Those
of the rich and educated should never be overlooked nor condoned. If I
correctly understand the meaning of that great word, ‘Liberty,’ such
would be the means to secure it. hen a dozen men, or twenty dozen
men, undertake to run aState or government even to its courts of so-called
justice, itis time for that State to rise up in righteous indignation and
make an end of them all, Where there is one administration of law for
the rich and another for the poor, where a rich man is allowed to steal his
thousands and a poor one imprisoned for stealing a loaf to feed his family,
there is no real liberty. Liberty means not only protection for the rich,
but also absolute freedom and justice for the poor; and if the courts of
law are made vehicles of oppression and inequity, it would be far more
just to hang a few educated judges than many others whose errors are
traceable to poverty or ignorance. J. Frep, Cuark.”
‘‘DrrvEN INTO PovERTY AND Prison, DisGRAcE AND INSANE ASYLUM.
About a year ago George Conroy sued the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company for injunes received by falling into the cesspool the company
had dug on their right of way just east of Mr. Heroux’s barn, Last winter
the company took a change of venue to Olympia, where the case came up
in June last for trial and Conroy was nonsuited. Upon the termination of
the suit the company made a complaint against Conroy for perjury, and
had him bound over to the December term of the court to await the action
of the Grand Jury. Conroy lay in jail all summer, and in consequence of
his confinement, and suffering from his rupture and ilJ-health, his mind
became affected, and last Saturday he was sent to the Insane Asylum at
Steilacoom.
There is very little use of any one attempting to get satisfaction out
of arailroad company. Poor people particularly ought to know that they
have no show to right their wrongs through the courts. Railroads delight
in the reputation they have ‘that it is no use to law the railroad,’ no
matter how just the cause may be against them. They will hire men to
commit perjury or anything to gain their ends, and when now and then a
poor devil does try to get his rights, the company will hire a host of wit-
nesses, and in the end send the man to jail until he becomes insane. This
is the way the railroads have of terrifying the people.
ETC.
supreme court,
,.They afford no
brand of shame,
hich confirm or
rrupt A spss!
urts. ‘The courts
. Are our State
on a fraud. No
mistakes but ig-
fearlessly facing
‘amination of the
Vhat a supreme
those of people
ng or shoot them
hen take a judge
matter for small
he latter are sup-
ges tamper with
to protect them.
lenience. Those
condoned. If I
‘Liberty,’ such
or twenty dozen
ourts of so-called
indignation and
ration of law for
lowed to steal his
» feed his family,
ion for the rich,
if the courts of
ould be far more
whose errors are
RED. CLARK.”
INSANE ASYLUM.
Pacific Railroad
ol the company
am, Last winter
he case came up
e termination of
or perjury, and
await the action
consequence of
ealth, his mind
sane Asylum at
satisfaction out
know that they
ailroads delight
e railroad,’ no
ill hire men to
how and then a
a host of wit-
bs insane, i
THe Practica, Workinas oF Masonry, ETC. 593
Conroy ought to have known he was not able to cope with the North-
ern Pacific Railroad. If Lewis County could not do anything with the
company, how could a single individual hope to do so ?”’
* *
*
Secret societies have been the bane of all countries and the cause of the
downfall of all Republics. America, whose greatest boast is, it believes all
men are created free and equal, has no use for secret societies. Many men
are artfully drawn into secret societies, but few self-respecting, patriotic
Americans continue their connection after they learn the aims and practices
of the oath-bound orders. In our view the danger to the liberties of the
people which many see in the concentration of great wealth in the hands
of few men and corporations, are homcopathic compared with the danger
to the free institutions of America hidden in the oath-bound societies
which are contrived, set in motion and kept going by designing dema-
gogues, whose chief aim in life is to live well without labor.
‘‘ [FREE-Masons] Honprne Miuitons of Donuars Worth oF Property
AND ALLOWING Laporina Men To Pay Anu THE TAXES.
“Some time ago we called attention to the fact that upon the
shoulders of the middle classes rested the burden of taxation, and we
cited several cases in substantiation of the assertion. ‘To-day we have
a few more cases which we desire to call attention to, and if they do
not show up a little system of ‘mysterious’ proceedings on the part of
some of our wealthiest citizens, then we are at a loss to determine what
would be called ‘mysterious.’....
[It will be found that nearly, if not all, of these delinquents who
escape taxation owe supreme allegiance to a foreign government. And they
generally manage to have an assessor elected who is a fellow-oath-bound
subject of the same masonic gang. A fool can see the result ALL AROUND
HIM. |
* *
*
“It is dishonest and demoralizing to the public for such notorious
disregard of truth and law to continue from year to year, and that, too,
with a semi-official encouragement extended to it....... The man who
has little save a small homestead, worth $1,000 or $1,500, pays on $750
or $1,000, while the man or company worth $50,000 or $100,000, pays
for not more than $10,000 or $15,000, It is high time an organized
effort was made to break up this dishonesty. The citizens should select
competent, honest and fearless men for assessors, and then give them
the encouragement and moral support they would need in destroying
the [masonic] wall behind which the class of tax payers are entrenched
who avail themselves of fraud and perjury to escape their just share of
the public burdens. The aggregate valuations would double, and per-
haps quadruple, and this would render necessary a less rate of taxation.
The city and county rate could safely be lessened one-half. Honest
men would not have to pay as much as now, and their less scrupulous
[linked] neighbors would be compelled to do what they now dishonestly
avoid.” ‘
* *
*
‘There is annually 50,000 acres of land unassessed in Polk county,
or one-sixth of the entire town and farming area of this county is yearly
untaxed. By an honest assessment, therefore, the percentage of taxation
38
i
594 THe Practica, WorKINGS OF Masonry, ETC.
could be reduced two mills on the dollar, It has taken the county sur-
veyor, together with his assistant, six months to compute these figures.”
[And so it is everywhere when the secret gang gets a fellow-subject in
as assessor, Jt is practical masonry !|
* % *
‘A certain disreputable fellow [a masonic lawyer-honored ‘member
of the bar’] who was a member of the last legislature, and who was then
under an indictment for perjury, in order to shield himself succeeded
in working through a law in such a shape that no person who swears
falsely is guilty of perjury.”
[Not quite so ; all the laws are so fixed that they don’t operate against
members of the gang, but their shape is good enough to work against out-
siders, and when thors is no code law to apply then, the higher law of
‘public policy” is dug up and used against him. So the code laws are
really but a convenient blind and humbug to swindle the people. ]
* *
*
TIMBER THIEVES.
The California Redwood company, an English company with Scotch
directors, has stolen 64,000 acres of the most valuable timber land in the
world, estimated by experts to be worth not less than $22,000,000, Four
hundred men were found who would enter 160 acres each and then deed
the land to this Redwood company. Some of these men were town pau-
pers, some of them paralytics, some of them sailors not yet naturalized.
These straw ‘‘ homesteaders ” marched from a rumhole in Eureka, Cal., to
the United States land office and then to a notary public to transfer their
land. For this service they received $50 each and this Redwood company
with its foreign capital, English president and Scotch directors got an
alleged title to 64,000 acres of valuable land heavily timbered. ‘To “‘ prove
up” his claim required perjury, and perjury was forthcoming. Of course,
the homestead act was not intended to be used for such gross perversion
of land that belongs to the bona fide settler, and these facts illustrate what
frightful robberies of public lands are perpetrated in defiance of the tim-
ber land act.
In connection with these enormous public land robberies it is worth
while to notice that the last official act of Lamar, as Secretary of the In-
terior, was to remove from office, as the price of his support vf the re-
publican senators who voted for his conformation, Captain John W. Le-
Barnes, an ex-Union soldier, an old-time anti-slavery friend »{ Governor
Andrew and Wendell Phillips. LeBarnes was a law clerk of tue general
land office, who for years has stood in the way of land grabbers, railway
corporations, attorneys for cattle companies, pine land combinations, etc.”
[Those who don’t know are here informed that it is only a secret oath-
bound gang of masons, etc., that overrides and defies our government, and
works these land swindles through with impunity, a part of whom must be
officials in the land office and the courts. <A citizen, therefore, who, with
these indisputable facts and swindles staring him in the face, who would
appoint or vote for one of these oath-bound subjects of the gang for office
is either a fool or a thief and a traitor to his country! Let all persons
who believe that their duty to their secret government and pagan “ mys-
teries’’ is higher than their duty to their country, be declared — be in-
TC,
e county sur-
ese figures.”
llow-subject in
ored ‘member
who was then
self succeeded
m who swears
operate against
rk against out-
higher law of
code laws are
eople. |
ny with Scotch
ber land in the
000,000, Four
and then deed
were town pau-
yet naturalized.
ureka, Cal., te
o transfer their
wood company
irectors got an
bd. To ‘‘ prove
ing. Of course,
ross perversion
illustrate what
nce of the tim-
ies it is worth
itary of the In-
port of the re-
1 John W. Le-
d sf Governor
of tue general
abbers, railway
binations, etc.”’
y a secret oath-
lovernment, and
whom must be
fore, who, with
ace, who would
gang for office
et all persons
il pagan ‘‘ mys-
lared be in-
Tue PracricAL WorkinGs OF Masonry, ETc. 595
eligible to act as jurors or lo hold any office of trust under the general govern-
ment if it is to be supreme |
Is it not safer and better to trust to an instinctive love for our fellow
creatures, which cannot be perverted to their annoyance, than to secret-
oath-bound subjection to a despotic gang which have too frequently pro-
duved the seeds of hatred, intolerance and high-handed persecution ?]|
* *
*
‘*AN ALLEGED MurpErER DiscHaRGeED.”
.... Justice [Mason] discharged from custody to-day [Links] charged
with the murder of [Blank]. In rendering his decision the justice said
that the defense had clearly proved by the testimony of ‘two experts’
[brethren] that defendant was not in his right mind at the time of com-
mitting the act.” [Links had shot Blaak down in open court and shot
him in the back in cold blood! and was never before or since sent to any
insane asylum. And was not insane though his victim may have been. Now
all should know that an outsider can never get discharged from a charge
of suck a murder by only getting two ‘‘experts” (?) to testify that he
“was nct in his right mind at the time of committing the act.”
Now look here! Would men, even victims, be ‘‘in their right
minds” in the killing of ring prostituted courts? This defendant whose
farce of a trial and discharge is but a sample case of so many had not
been wronged much in comparison to hundreds of men who besides are
now languishing in secret prisons, and who have greater cause and better
right to kill a dozen men each, than he had to kill one! In truth he
hardly knows what a wrong is! or what it is to suffer cruel, relentless,
persistent, flaming injury! Are you ready all! to see to it that these out-
raged, tortured, bleeding victims have the benefit, if they like, of the
‘higher law” or of ‘‘experts”’ (?) as well as do members of the gang ?]
* *
*
‘The ring in this town is composed of [masonic] Democrats as well
as [masonic] Republicans. They have a common cause—the spoils of all
they can get.”
[They pack both conventions with their secret oath-bound brethren
so they can say to the people, ‘‘ heads we win and tails you loose.” The
Australian election system should be adopted. }
*
*
PROCEEDINGS OF CouNTY COMMISSIONERS’ Court.
“‘Matter of remitting taxes on Odd Fellows’ Temple. Ordered that
said taxes be cancelled.”
[It is to their supreme and secret government that they pay their
taxes. Such ‘commissioners ” are traitors !]
* *
*
How the gang ‘‘ hang men for betraying a trust or stealing a sum ea«ceed-
ing $5,” as they howl should be done (meaning to outsiders) :
“The Washingtonian, in a very soothing tone remarks about as fol-
lows: At the regular session of the commissioners last week, Brother
596 Tue Pracrican Workinas oF Masonry, ETC.
Links, the Treasurer, was found to be short in his accounts $12,300. Mr.
Links has humbly resigned, and concludes by saying, ‘‘It is a bad state
of affairs, but we withhold comments until further facts are developed.”
Why attempt to smooth over so dastardly a theft? A man in whom
the people have confided, to maliciously and intentionally rob them of
their trust, 1s a thousand times worse than the poor, half-starved sneak-
thief who prowls about nights, seeking what he can find to appease hunger
or cloth nudity.”
‘¢More oF THE Gana’s WoRK.”
‘As will be seen by the telegraphic dispatches, it has been discovered
that Links, Treasurer of Gartield county, and a number of the [masonic]
ring of political tricksters, is short in his accounts at least $12,000. Of
course, you can’t turn a wheel without water—neither can you run machine
olitics without soap. Links furnished the soap, in the meantime blasting
his character and ruining his bondsmen. The money was ‘loaned’ to the
‘same corrupt gang who recently tried to work the primaries, Garfield
county has long been noted for this corrupt [masonic] gang, and it is to
be hoped that this expose will settle this crowd of thieves.”
“The Pomeroy Independent, with tears in his eyes, says: ‘Links has
been a brother to us, but we cannot excuse him in the great wrong he has
done his friends in this transaction. This paper insists that the law take
its course as it would in the case of a delinquent tax-payer.” This is acall
to all grand larceny defaulting thieves to go to Pomeroy for brotherly pro-
tection, because there they are oaly classed as delinquent tax-payers,”
[And the court said that he (being a mason) was ‘‘innocent of any
crime.” Good judiciary !]
* *
*
** How did he discharge the office of a Judge? Let those who suf-
fered by his injustice answer..... It is notorious that during the time of
their tyranny the [people] neither enjoyed the protection of their laws..
nor of the natural and unalienable rights of men. No inhabitant of the
ruined country has been able to keep possession of anything but what has
either escaped the rapaciousness, or been neglected by the satiety of those
universal plunderers. Their nod has decided all causes and their decisions
have broken all law, all precedent, all right. The sums they have by
arbitrary taxes and unheard-of impositions extorted from the industrious
poor, are not to be computed. The most faithful citizens have been
treated as criminals. [American] citizens have, like slaves, been put to
death with tortures. The most atrocious criminals, for money [or secret
influence], have been exempted from their deserved punishments, and
men of the most unexceptional characters condemned and imprisoned un-
heard..... The infamy of their lewdness has been such as decency forbids
to describe. Nor will I, by mentioning particulars, put those unfortunate
persons to fresh pain, who have not been able to save their wives and
daughters from their impurities. And these, their atrocious crimes, have
been committed in so public a manner, that there is no one who has heard
their name, but could reckon up their actions.
Now [gentlemen of the masonic gang] I ask what you have to advance
against this charge? Will you pretend to deny it? Will you pretend
Y, ETC.
———
unts $12,300. Mr.
‘Tt is a bad state
ts are developed.”
A man in whom
nally rob them of
half-starved sneak-
1to appease hunger
1as been discovered
xx of the [masonic]
least $12,000. Of
an you run machine
2 meantime blasting
was ‘loaned’ to the
yrimaries. Garfield
| gang, and itis to
ves,”
, says: ‘Links has
great wrong he has
ts that the law take
ayer.” This is a call
y for brotherly pro-
ent tax-payers,”
is ‘innocent of any
et those who suf-
during the time of
tion of their laws..
o inhabitant of the
ything but what has
r the satiety of those
bs and their decisions
sums they have by
om the industrious
citizens have been
slaves, been put to
pr money [or secret
i punishments, and
and imprisoned un-
as decency forbids
it those unfortunate
hve their wives and
rocious crimes, have
b one who has heard
you have to advance
Will you pretend
THe PracticaL WorkKINGS OF Masonry, ETC. 597
that anything false, that even anything aggravated, is alleged against
you? Had any prince or any State committed the same outrages against
the privileges of [American] citizens,should we not think we had sufficient
ground for declaring war against them? What punishment ought then to
be inflicted upon a tyrannical and wicked [gang] who dared in the [shadow
of the American flag] to put to an infamous torture and death that unfor-
tunate and innocent citizen....only for having asserted his privilege of
citizenship, and declared his intention of appealing to the justice of his
country against a cruel oppressor, who had unjustly confined him in prison
from whence he had made his escape? The unhappy man..is brought
before the wicked [gang]. With eyes darting fury and countenances dis-
torted with cruelty, they order the helpless victim of their rage to be
stripped and rods to be brought; accusing him, but without the least
shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion of having [committed any crime].
It was in vain that the unhappy man cried out, ‘I am an [American]
citizen, and will attest my innocence.’ The blood-thirsty [gang], deaf to
all he could urgein his own defence, ordered the infamous punishment to
be inflicted. Thus, [fellow-citizens], was an innocent American citizen
publicly mangled....whilst the only words he uttered amidst his cruel
sufferings were, ‘I am an [American] citizen!’ With these he hoped to
defend himself from violence and infamy. But of so little service was
this privilege to him, that while he was thus asserting his citizenship, the
order was given for his destruction.
Oh, liberty ! Oh, sound once delightful to every [American] ear! Oh,
sacred privilege of [American] citizenship! once sacred, now trampled
upon! But what then? Is it come to this? Shall an inferior magistrate,
a governor, who holds his whole power of the [American] people in fan
American State] bind, surge, torture with red hot plates of iron, and. at the
last put to an infamous death, an American citizen ? Shall neither the
cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators,
nor the majesty of the [American Union] nor the fear of the justice of his
country, restrain the iicentious and wanton cruelty of a monster, who, in
confidence of his riches [and secret power] strikes at the root of liberty,
and sets mankind at defiance ?
I conclude with expressing my hopes that your wisdom and justice
[my fellow-men] will not, by suffering the atrocious and unexampled inso-
lence of [the masonic gang] to escape the due punishment, leave room to
apprehend the danger of a total subversion of authority and introduction
of general anarchy and ©)’ usion.” CICERO.
* *
*
“Dr. [Links] Arntvep.”’
‘*Dr, [Links] returned last Monday from the East. He was delegate
to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., which met at Baltimore, Mary-
land. He has had an interview with President Cleveland, and says that
the chief magistrate of the nation is a good and true man, The way it.
came about was this: Mr. Links applied for admittance to his Excei-
598 THe Practica, WorRKINGS oF Masonry, ETC.
lency’s presence. There were about one hundred persons in waiting on
the President, all anxious to get the first interview. Our townsman pre-
sented his card, and the doorkeeper being an odd-fellow, admitted him
forthwith, leaving many eminent men of ‘high degree’ to bide their time.
President Cleveland is an odd-fellow of high standing and talked with
Mr. Links at length on different matters.”
[Is it not humiliating, indeed ! that even at the White House
and the different departments of the government at Washington, full-
fledged American citizens must stand aside and wait till the secret
obligations and interests of a secret Mormon government and its sub-
jects thus held supreme are first attended to ?|
* *
*
“T would give up my life, and that alone for God’s sake:
for to what purpose is it to live among a people insensible of
their calamities, and where there is no notion remaining of any
remedy for the miseries that are upon them ? for when you are
seize1 upon, you bear it, when beaten you are silent, and when
the people are murdered, nobody dares so much as send out a
groan openly. Oh, bitter tyranny that we are under! But why
do I complain of the tyrants? Was it not you, and your suffer-
ance of them, that have nourished them? Was it not you that
overlooked those that first got together, for they were then but
a few, and by your silence made them grow to be many, and by
conniving at them when they took po ver in effect armed them
against yourselves? You ought to have then prevented their
first attempts, when they fell to reproaching your relations, but
by neglecting that care in time you have encouraged these
wretches to plunder men. When houses were pillaged, nobody
said a word, which was the occasion why they carried off the
owners of those houses, and when they were drawn through
the midst of the city nobody came to their assistance. They
then proceeded to put those whom you have betrayed into their
hands into bonds. Ido not say how many and of what char-
acters those men were whom they thus served, but certainly
they were accused by none [but themselves; and condemned
by none [but themselves] and since nobody succored them
when they were in bonds, the consequence was that you
saw the same persons slain...We have seen this also, so
that still the best of the herd of brute animals, as it were,
have been still led to be sacrificed, when yet nobody said one
ETC.
nsin waitin. on
‘townsman pre-
w, admitted him
bide their time.
and talked with
e White House
‘ashington, full-
it till the secret
ent and its sub-
r God’s sake:
e insensible of
maining of any
‘when you are
lent, and when
as send out a
ander! But why
nd your suffer-
it not you that
were then but
B many, and by
t armed them
revented their
relations, but
ouraged these
laged, nobody
arried off the
rawn through
stance. They
iyed into their
of what char-
, but certainly
nd condemned
succored them
was that you
this also, so
ls, as it were,
ody said one
THE PracricaL WorkKINGS OF Masonry, ETC. 599
word, or moved his right hand for their preservation. Will you
bear, therefore, will you bear to see your sanctuary [of equal
justice] trampled on? and will you lay steps for these profane
wretches, upon which they may mount to higher degrees of
insolence? Will you not pluck them down from their exulta-
tion? Oh, wretched creatures! Will not you rise up and turn
upon those that strike you? which you may observe in wild
beasts themselves, that they will avenge themselves on those
that strike them. Will you not call to mind, every one of
you, the calamities you yourselves have suffered? nor lay be-
fore your eyes what afflictions you yourselves have undergone ?
and wii ne! euch things sharpen your souls to revenge? Is,
therefore, {h. snost honorable and most natural of our passions
utterly lost, I mean, the desire of liberty? Truly we are in
love with slavery and in love with those that lord it over us, as
if we had received that principle of subjection from our ances-
tors; yet did they undergo many and great wars for the sake
of liberty!....But perhaps many of you are affrightened at
their multitude and at their audaciousness, as well as at the
advantage they have over us in their being higher in place than
we are; for these circumstances, as they have been occasioned
bv your negligence, so will they become still greater by being
still longer neglected, for their multitude is every day aug-
mented by everg vile man’s joining those that are like to themselves
and their audaciousness is therefore inflamed because they meet
with no obstructions to tueir designs....but be assured of this
that if we get up end fylt them they will be made tamer....
perhaps also God ims lf, who haw been affronted by them,
will make what they tirow at us return against themselves,
and these impious wretches will be killed by their own darts,
let us but make our appearance before them [with but our
votes] and they will come to nothing. However, it is a right
thing, if there should be any danger in the attempt, to die be-
fore ‘these holy gates, aud to spend our very lives, if not for the
sake of our childy: and wives, yet for God’s sake and for the
sake of his sancew rs: of liberty! I will assist you both with
my counsel and wits my hand, nor shall any sagacity of ours
be wanting for your support, nor shall you see that I will be
sparing with my body neither.”
600 Tue PracticaL WoRKINGS OF Masonry, ETC.
Tue Story oF Moraan,
——Thurlow Weed’s account of the famous murder.—
A statement dictated two months before his death.
The following letter, dictated by the late Thurlow Weed but a short
time before his death, contains his sworn statement of his knowledge con-
cerning the abduction and alleged murder of William Morgan, and forms
a most interesting chapter in relation to the sensational events which in
their time caused so great a social and political convulsion:
New York, Sept. 9th, 1882.
Dear Str:—I have delayed the answer to your letter inviting me to
attend the unveiling of the monument te Cap*nin William Morgan in the
hope that I should be able to be present «1 ocasion.
Impaired vision, added to other infirm. prevents my going far
from home. The occasion is one that recalls an event of startling interest,
arousing deep popular feeling, first at Batavia, Le Roy, Canandaigua and
Rochester, then pervading our own and other States. After reading the
proceedings of a meeting at Batavia, with the Hon. David E. Evans as
presiding officer, I wrote a six line paragraph for the Rochester Telegraph,
in which I stated that a citizen cf Batavia had been spirited away from his
home and family and that, after a mysterious absence of several days, a
village meeting had been held and a committee of citizens appointed to in-
vestigate the matter; adding that, as it was known that Freemasons were
concerned in this abduction, it behooved the fraternity, whose good name
was suffering, to take the laboring oar in restoring the lost man to his
liberty. That paragraph brought dozens of our most influential citizens,
greatly excited, to the office, stopping the paper and ordering the discon-
tinuance of their advertisements. I inquired of my partner, Robert Martin,
what I had done to exasperate so many of our friends, He brought me a
book and directed my attention to an obligation invoking strict penalties
as a punishment for disclosing the secrets of Masons, inquiring what I
thought of a man who, after taking such an obligation, violated it? I re-
plied that I did not know any punishment too severe for such a perjurer.
The discontinuance of the paperembraced so large a number of its patrons
I saw that my brief and, as I supposed, very harmless paragraph would
ruin the establishment. Unwilling that my partner should suffer, I
promptly withdrew; leaving the establishment in the hands of Mr. Martin.
The paper was doing well, and until that paragraph appeared my business
future was all I could desire.
At that time an editor was wanted at Utica, where I had formerly
worked, and where I had many friends, but my offer to go there was de.
clined. I was equally unfortunate in my application for editorial employ-
ment at Troy. The objection in both cases was that I had been too busy
in getting up an excitement about Morgan.
Meantime the mystery deepened, and public meetings were held in
several villages, Rochester included, In the meeting at Rochester it was
1, ETC.
murder.
death.
Weed but a short
us knowledge con-
[organ, and forms
al events which in
on:
apt. 9th, 1882.
er inviting me to
am Morgan in the
n.
mts my going far
startling interest,
Canandaigua and
After reading the
avid E. Evans as
chester Telegraph,
ited away from his
of several days, a
ns appointed to in-
Freemasons were
whose good name
e lost man to his
nfluential citizens,
lering the discon-
ler, Robert Martin,
He brought me a
g strict penalties
inquiring what I
iolated it? I re-
such a perjurer.
hber of its patrons
paragraph would
should suffer, I
1s of Mr. Martin.
ared my business
e I had formerly
yo there was de.
pditorial employ-
Ad been too busy
gs were held in
Rochester it was
THE PracricaL WORKINGS OF MASONRY, ETC. 601
assumed that all good citizens would unite in an effort to vindicate the
law. A committee was appointed consisting of seven, three of whom were
Masons. It was soon discovered that the three Masons went from the
committee to the lodge-rooms. It was subsequently ascertained that two
of these gentlemen were concerned in the abduction, and that Morgan had
been committed to the jail in Canandaigua on a false charge of larceny,
and that he had been carried from thence secretly by night to Fort Niagara.
The committee encountered an obstacle in obtaining indictments in five of
the six counties where indictments were needed. The sheriffs who sum-
moned the grand juries were Freemasons. In four counties no indict-
ments could be obtained. In Ontario, however, the district attorney,
Bowen Whiting, and the sheriff, Joseph Garlinghouse, though Masons, re-
garded their obligation to the laws of the State paramount. Sheriff Gar-
linghouse and District Attorney Whiting discharged their duties indepen-
dently and honestly. As the investigation proceeded the evidence in-
creased that Morgan had been unlawfully confined in the Canandaigua
jail and secretly conveyed to Fort Niagara, where he was confined in the
magazine. There was every reason to believe that he was taken from the
magazine and drowned in Lake Ontario. This, how>ver, was boldly and
persistently denied—denials accompanied by solemn assurances that Mor-
gan had been seen alive in several places, divided the public sentiment.
At town meetings, several months after Morgan’s disappearance, the
question was taken into politics. A large number of zealous anti-Masons
determined to make it a political issue, Solomon Southwick was nominated
at Le Roy for governor. Our committee firmly resisted all such efforts,
urging all who were connected with us in an effort to vindicate the law to
vote for the candidates of the party with which they had been previously
connected. We endeavored to induce the whig State convention to nomi-
nate Francis Granger, but, failing in that, we gave our support to Judge
Smith Thompson. Afterwards, at a village election in Rochester, Dr. F.
F. Backus, who had been treasurer by an unanimous vote of the electors
from the time the village charter had been obtained, ws again the candi-
date of both parties. No whisper of opposition was heard before the elec-
tion, or at the polls, but when the votes were canvassed a majority appear-
ed in favor of Dr. John B. Elwood. Dr Backus was an active and in-
fluential member of the Morgan investigating committee. That astounding
result produced an instantaneous change.
Political anti-Masonry from that moment and for that reason became
an element in our elections. It was alleged and extensively believed that
the ‘‘ Morgan committee,” to gratify personal aspirations, went voluntarily
into politics, Those allegations were as untruthful as they were unjust.
It was not until we ascertained that the fraternity, by a secret movement,
was strong enough to defeat the candidate of both political parties, that
we consented to join issue with them politically.
In the autumn of 1827, the discovery of the body of an unknown man
on the shore of Lake Ontario, near the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, gave
602 THe Practica, WorkKINGS oF Masonry, ETC.
a new and absorbing aspect to the question. Thedescription of that body
as published by the coroner who held an inquest over it, induced the be-
lief that it was the body of William Morgan. Our committee decided to
hold another inquest. Impressed with the importance and responsibility
of the question I gave public notice of our intention, and personally invit-
ed several citizens who had known Morgan to be presont. One of our
committee went to Batavia to secure the attendance of Mrs. Morgan and
as many others who knew him to attend. The body had been interred
where it was found. The rude coffin was opened in the presence of
betweon forty and fifty persons. When it was reached and before remov-
ing the lid, I received from Mrs. Morgan, and others who knew him well,
descriptions of his person. Mrs. Morgan described the color of his hair,
a scar upon his foot, and that his teeth were double all round. Dr. Strong
confirmed Mrs. Morgan’s statement about double teeth, one of which he
had extracted, while another was broken, indicating the position of the
extracted and broken teeth. When the coffin was opened the body dis-
closed the peculiarities described by Mrs. Morgan and Dr. Strong.
This second inquest and the examinations of the body proceeded in
open day and in the presence of Masons and anti-Masons, not one of whom
dissented from the coroner’s jury, by which the body was unanimously
declared to be that of William Morgan. Mrs. Morgan, in her testimony,
failed to recognize the clothes. The body was taken to Batavia, where it
was re-interred, no one as yet expressing any doubt of its identity.
Subsequently, however, we were surprised by a statement that the
body supposed to be that of Morgan was alleged to be the body of Timothy
Monroe, who had been drowned in the Niagara river several weeks before
holding the first inquest. This awakened general and intense feeling.
‘sotice was given that a third inquest would be held at Batavia, where the
widow and son of Timothy Monroe appeared as witnesses. Mrs. Monroe
swore to a body essentially different from that found at Oak Orchard creek.
Her husband, she said, had black hair that had been recently cut and
stood erect. Her testimony made her husband from three to four inches
taller than that of the body in question. She testified that her husband
had double teeth all round and described an extracted tooth from the
wrong jaw and knew nothing at all of the broken tooth. The hair upon
the head of the drowned man was long, silky and of a chestnut color,
while that of Monroe, according to the testimony of Mrs. Monroe and her
son, was short, black and close cut. While Mrs. Monroe failed in des-
cribing the body, her description of the clothing was minutely accurate.
The heel of his stocking was described as having been darned with yarn
different in color. Her cross-examination was very rigid and her answers
throughout were found to be correct. The clothing thus described had
been in possession of the coroner, who testified that it had been seen either
by Mrs. Monroe or any stranger from whom she could have obtained m-
formation. On the other hand, Mrs. Morgan’s description of the body,
ETC.
tion of that body
induced the be-
ittee decided to
1d responsibility
personally invit-
ent. One of our
[rs. Morgan and
\l been interred
the presence of
nd before remov-
» knew him well,
color of his hair,
und, Dr. Strong
one of which he
} position of the
ed the body dis-
r. Strong.
dy proceeded in
not one of whom
vas unanimously
n her testimony,
Batavia, where it
identity.
ntement that the
body of Timothy
ral weeks before
intense feeling.
ntavia, where the
. Mrs. Monroe
k Orchard creek.
cently cut and
ee to four inches
at her husband
tooth from the
The hair upon
chestnut color,
Monroe and her
le failed in des-
nutely accurate.
rned with yarn
nd her answers
s described had
een seen either
ve obtained m-
n of the body,
Tue PracricaL Workinas oF Masonry, ETc. 603
before she had seen it, was quite as satisfactory as Mrs. Monroe’s descrip-
tion of the clothes.
Our committee took no part in the third inquest, and the body, as is
known, was declared to be that of Timothy Monroe. Simultaneously an
accident occurred showing the vindictive spirit of our opponents. On the
evening of the day that the body interred at Batavia was declared by a
third inquest to be that of Timothy Monroe, I went into the billiard room
of the Eagle hotel to see a friend from Clarkson. When leaving the room,
Ebenezer Griffin, Esq., a prominent lawyer employed as counsel for
Masons, said, ‘‘ Well, Weed, what will you do for a Morgan now ?” To
which I replied, ‘‘That is a good enough Morgan for us till you bring
back the one you carried off.” On the following morning the Daily Ad-
vertiser, a Masonic organ, contained a paragraph charging me with having
boastingly said that the body in question ‘‘ was a good enough Morgan
until after the election.”” That perversion went the rounds of the Masonic
and democratic press, awakening much popular indignation and subjecting
me to denunciations in speeches and resolutions at political meetings and
conventions. Explanations were disregarded; the maxim that ‘‘ Falsehood
will travel miles while truth is drawing on its boots” was then verified. I
suffered obloquy and reproach from that wicked peversion for nearly half
acentury. Indeed, there is reason to believe that even now, where I am
personally unknown, generations are growing up believing that I mutilated
a dead body for political effect, and, when exposed, boasted that it was a
good enough Morgan until after the election. Forty years afterwards the
editor of the paper who originated that calumny, by a series of pecuniary
reverses, was compelled to apply to me for assistance. I avenged the
great wrong he had done me by obtaining for him a situation in the custom
house.
This served to extend and intensify the ‘‘excitement.’”’ It was every-
where charged and widely believed that I had mutilated the body in
question for the purpose of making it resemble that of Captain William
Morgan. I encountered prejudices thus created both in Paris and London
20 years afterwards.
Our investigations were embarrassed and protracted by the absenc
and conceaiment of important witnesses. One of these witnesses was i.
invalid soldier who had the care of Morgan while confined in the magazine
at Fort Niagara, but he disappeared, and all efforts to find him were un-
availing for more than ayear. I finally traced him (Elisha Adams) to
Brookfield, a mountain town in Vermont. We reached the log house of
Adams’ brother-in-law, with whom he was hiding, between 12 and 1 o’clock
at night. Our rap was responded to by the owner, to whom, on opening
the door the sheriff introduced me, directly after which, and before any-
thing more had been said, we heard a voice from the second floor of the cabin
saying, ‘I am ready and have been expecting you all winter.”” Immediately
afterwards the old man came down the ladder, and in 10 minutes we de-
parted on our return,
604 THe Practica, WorkINcs oF Masonry, ETC.
While waiting for breakfast at the foot of the mountain several men
dropped into the bar-room where we were sitting. When called to break-
fast, the landlady, carefully closing the door, remarked that her husband
had sent around for Masons, some of whom had already appeared, but
that we need not fear them for she had sent her daughter to inform other
villagers what was going on, and that before we had done breakfast there
would be twice as many anti-Masons in attendance. Returning to the
bar-room we found that she had done her work thoroughly. Fifteen or
twenty men were in the bar-room glaring at each other and at Adams; but
nothing was said and we were driven off unmolested. On our way back,
Adam, at different times, stated that hearing a noise in the magazine he
reported it to Mr. Edward Giddins, keeper of the fort, who told him that
a stranger was lodged there who in a day or two would be taken to his
friends in Canada, but nothing must be said about it. He then from time
to time carried food to the person. Soon afterwards, near midnight, he
was told to have a boat in readiness for the purpose of taking away the
man in the magazine. Several gentlemen arrived in a carriage, by whom
the man was taken from the magazine and escorted tothe boat. Adams
was told to remain on the dock until the boat should return, and that if in
the meantime an alarm should be given he was to show a signal to warn
the boat away. As nothing of the kind occurred the boat returned quietly,
and of the six who left in the boat only five returned, he supposed that
one had gone to his friends in Canada.
Adams was wanted as a witness in trials then pending in Canadaigua.
We reached that place in the afternoon of the day the court convened.
Three men were on trial for abducting Morgan. The testimony of Adams
was essential to complete the link. On being called to the stand he denied
all knowledge bearing upon the question. He resided, he said, at the time
specified, in the fort, but knew of no man being confined in the magazine;
and knew nothing of men coming there at night in a carriage, and knew
nothing of a man being taken from there in a boat. His denials covering
the whole ground were explicit. That, for the time being, ended the
matter, When the court adjourned I walked across thesquare with Judge
Howell, who presided, and who remarked to me that I had made a long
journey for nothing, my witness, Adams, being ignorant of the whole
affair. General Vincent Mathews, of Rochester, who was walking on the
other side of the judge, replied with much feeling, ‘‘that the old rascal
had not uttered a word of truth while he was on the stand.”
General Mathews was the leading counsel for the kidnappers, but re-
fused to be a party in tampering with witnesses. On our return to Rochester
the witness Adams wasin an extra stage with his Masonic friends. As
there was no longer any need of hiding he was on his way to Niagara. In
passing the Mansion House, Rochester, Adams, who was standing in the
doorway, asked me to stop, saying he wanted to explain his testimony.
The lawyers, he said, informed him that if he told what he knew about
the magazine and the boat, it would be a confession that would send him
ETC.
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eing, ended the
uare with Judge
nd made a long
nt of the whole
walking on the
tthe old rascal
happers, but re-
rn to Rochester
hic friends. As
to Niagara. In
standing in the
his testimony.
he knew about
vould send him
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to state’s prison. They also told him that the law did not compel a wit-
ness to criminate himself; and, to avoid punishment, he must deny the
whole story.
In 1831, after my removal from Rochester to Albany, a libel suit was
commenced against me by General Gould, of Rochester. It was tried at
Albany, Judge James Vanderpoel presiding. The libel charged General
Gould with giving money he received from the Royal Arch Grand Chapter
to enable Burrage Smith and John Whitney to escape from justice. Gerrit