Author: John Milton HodsonPublisher:
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Masonic History of the Northwest
Author: John Milton HodsonPublisher:
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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The Anti-Masonic Party in the United States
Author: William Preston VaughnPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081315040X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.
History of Bristol County, Massachusetts
Author: Duane Hamilton HurdPublisher:
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Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Seymour, Past and Present
Author: Hollis Andrew CampbellPublisher:
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Category : Seymour (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies
Author: Arthur PreussPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502896728
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This "Dictionary" was compiled at the request of the publisher from materials accumulated by the undersigned during a thirty-three years' career as an editor. It is intended for the information of Catholics, especially the reverend clergy, among whom there has long been a demand for a reliable reference work on the subject of secret and other societies into which Catholics are liable to be drawn. For obvious reasons all specifically Catholic societies, as well as, societies consisting exclusively of Catholics and having the ecclesiastical approbation, have been excluded. On the other hand it has not been deemed wise to draw the lines too narrowly, but for the sake of completeness a large number of organizations have been included which are neither secret nor even quasi-secret, but purely beneficial, civic, patriotic, and so forth. The difference in the length of the various articles is not always owing to reasons of larger or smaller importance, but to the amount of information obtainable. While the compiler has circularized all the societies listed in this book, so far as he was able to ascertain their addresses, not all of the respective officers have responded to his questionnaire, and among those that did, not all gave the information desired.
The Fraters
Author: John Rogers StewartPublisher:
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Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The Masonic Trowel
Author: Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Connecticut
Author: Freemasons. Grand Lodge of ConnecticutPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Rhode Island, a Bibliography of Its History
Author: Committee for a New England BibliographyPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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