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$o w_ral shock has been felt with few excep- P watuen.\tff AN TI-MASON IC. - REPORT Of the Committee on the abduction of Wim. Morgan, made to the Senate; Feb. 14, 1920, [arovext im ay ma. naypan.} The select committee, to whom was referred so vernor's message as relates to the ab- roceedings much of the duction of William Morgan, and the beg leave respectfully to Rsrort .in rang: That they have attentively examined the message of the executive, of March 18, 1823, and the law appointing a com- missioner, which was thereupon enacted ; as also the recent-message-of-the-present -| governor referring to the same subject.- They have also perused with especial care, the report of the commissioner, which is to be presumed a fair and cor- rect statement of what has been transact- ed by him, during the laborious duties of the last ten months ; they cannot never- theless abstain from expressing their sur- prise at the meagre character of the com- missioners' report, when they call to mind that the first duty specified in the law creating that office was \ to institute in- quiries concerning William Morgan and his fate subsequently, and all the inci- they dread their operation. The order of the Jesuits, whose disci- pline secured unity of design and secrecy in action-which used the solemn ganc- tion of the most high God, to subserve purposes the most selfish and profane, Ca »REX 1s THE PALLADIUM QF OUR o NORWICH, CHENANGOQ COUNTY, (N. Y.) WEDNESDAY, | men, and especially ofthe combinations of [such men for purposes either unknown or known to affect improperly, the even and healthful current of our political affairs. They have learned that concentration of feeling, of interest and of effort are to the moral and political, what the lever and . _ under the Jaw of the last _sessjon upon Hgbjectr—serew—nreto-flxcmhani’cal powers, and committee therefore recur to it, the more readily, but without any intention of ex- pressing an opinion of his innocence or guilt. He had 'been suspected of having had a concern in some of the transactions Washington in the fall 'or winter of 1826 -- : applied for public employment, and obtained, with the assistance of some of his masonic friends, the place of sutler to the U. S. troops in the territory of Arkan- gas:°. 'The suspicions resting upon the public mind in regard to him increased ;. and Messrs. Garlinghouse and Bates were affecting William Morgan. . He went to JUNE 24, 1829. courts in the country, still no record tells us whose hands have been stained with the blood of this masonic victim.* 'T!1e committee assume the fact, that the life of Morgan has been destroyed ; and they are compelied-to do-80, from the irresistible weight of circumstances tend- of gold, incited by the great rewards which have been offered ; the love of character stimulating individuals implica- ted, and indeed the fair fame of whole classes of men reproachfully assailed ; the fear of punishment operating on the ing to fortify that conviction. -The love| °\ FOREIGN NEWS. ° =~ , LATE FROM ENGLAND. 4 By the packet ship Pacific, captain - Crocker, arrived at New-York on Thurs- pers, each to the 16th of May, are receiv- | The riots and disturbances in the manufacturing districts had entirely subsi- ded. - i ' Russia aro Turrev.--A pretty warm action ocurred between the Rus- sians and Turks at Sizepole on the 9th of day, files .of Liverpool and. London_pa- ._ _ known. of the Pope. ed masons. ancient and even of divine origin, adopt- ing sanctions similar to those of the or- der of the Jesuits, and commanding a se- | presented-to the 16th century -a- moral power greater than, the world had ever It penetrated with the silence and certainty of fate, the secrets.of eve- ry court in Europe, and subjugated, without the force of arms, one half of the continent of America to the dominion This order bas been crush- ed, but within the last 120 years another has arisen-the society of free and accept- This institution, professing to be of déspatched by the governor of this state, for the purpose of arresting him, and per- haps some others, who were supposed to be fugitives from justice. They ascertain- ed that King was at Cantonment Towson, and procured an order from the secretary at forthwith. | The fur of Uhiis sovéereigh exercise of the state and United States power, in procuring the return of this humble sutler to answer in the courts of this state for the misdemeanors charged upon him, was precisely such as might have been anticipated upon the supposi- tion that the obligations of masons to each war, to the commander.to surrender him- agents more immediately concerned, and in fact every consideration, that should influence men, pressed them on to a re- deliverance of Morgan to his friends and to society, if it had been possible for them to du av. The peuple of the wogtyran cumslances of this transaction, and hav- counties fully award of the leading cir- April, m which the- latter, who made a very spirited assault on that fortress with 5,600 men, were repulsed. 'The Russian account represents the assailants as hav- ing suffered a considerable loss, leaving 251 on the field. A Turkish officer and three soldiers had the spirit to scale the breastwork. A report, which is contradicted by the ing had more than two years for inquiry, and reflection, have arrived at the decision with unexampled unanimity,that this man has become a victim, and @ sacrifice. It is conceded that the facts herein de- tailed to shew the interference of mason- ry in the administration of justice, come Russians, states that the Turks have made a successful sortie from Guergevo. Under an Odessa date of April 18th, we are informed that the 6,000 who sail- ed from that port under admiral Greig, were to land at Bazardjik, where they d erewith:\\-'That -the report, coming as it does from a man of - reputation, and high official standing, should be thus jejune and bare of inci- dent, confirms an opinion long entertain- ed by individuals composing the commit- tee, that all those criminal transactions, whenever an attempt should be officially made to bring them to light, would from causes of a peculiar character, be shrouded in a veil of impenetrable dark- ness. Your committee have come to the de- liberate conclusion, that the evils intend- ed to be remedied by the legislation of 1828, were not at that period fully under- stood ; that their character was miscon- ccived, and their importance underrated. Thatlegislation seems to have been based upon the supposition, that the admin- istration of justice was feebly dispensed, in the western section of the state, and that the deputationtof a special counsel- lor or attorney, to give it tone and ener- gy, was alone sufficient to remedy the evils complained of by the people. How- ever much the appointment of such a commissioner might in different ways ex- pedite and facilitate the trials growing out of the fate of. Morgan, still such com- \missioner has been, and will hereafter be powerless, in bringing to merited justice the guilty individuals, who have been chiefly concerned in the transactions, that have so much disturbed and afflicted the community. In the judgement of the committee, the past evils cannot now be reached by any legislation within the range of our constitutional powers, and it is their opinion that remedial enact- ments baving regard to the recurrence of simflar evils, ought chivhly at this time to attract the attention of the Sen- ate. 'To entitle this opinion to its just weight, some of the reasons which have led to its adoption will be briefly stated. At no period since the revolution has the public mind been as severely agitated as by the abduction and subsequent unhap- py fate of Wam. Morgan. 'The great mo- tions, by people of every age, sex and condition. The high-handed violation of all law, the great number concerned in it, the cheerless and desolate condition of his bereaved wife and children, the un- certainty that for a while attended the whole affair, were all calculated to arouse the public mind to an unexampled state of sympathy, indignation and abhorrence. But these- passions, although intense at that period, are in their nature cvanes- cent, and before this time would have spent their force, had not the attempt to bring the offenders to the bar of justice, producéd a developement of facts, cir- cumstances, and principles 'as lasting in their effects as the love of liberty in man. The committee think it proper to ob- serve that a just regard for the wishes and feelings of their constituents, and the other requirements which grow out of the occasion, will compel them to lay aside all that, delicacy in treating this subject, which is incompatible with a just and manly discharge of their duty- and reluctant as they are to give just cause of offence to any man, they will feel themselves compelled to designate classes of men, by the names they have scen fit to adopt, and to animadvert free- ly upon their conduct, when such anim- adversion comes within the legitimate The people of this state are distinguish- ed by their attachment to a pure admin- tration o Justice as connected with the #! for tthers of more (r Matthew“ crecy-strl more profound, have -recently made demonstrations of a power, aston- ishing in its effects upon the social and political compact, and of a character such as the friends of free institutions cannot fail to deplore. The powers manifested by the masonic institution which may have been exer- cised in its unlawful restraints of human liberty, or pretended jurisdiction over hu- man life, are not now so much the occa- sion of alarm, as its fearful moral influence, exerted upon the public press, and its facility in controlling results in the tribu- nals of justice. The public fecling at the west, which has borne the ridicule and 'sarcasm of those interested in quelling it, is not, as they would have it believed, the mero animal sensation indicated by brutes, whose bellowings mark the spot where some victim has been slaughtered ; but is the result of sober, calculating re- flection, looking to causes and their con- sequences ; to existing evils and the reme- dies to be applied ; to posterity, and not the present generation alone. The life of one man, or even a thousand, in a republic consisting of 12,000,000 of inhabitants, politically considered, is of but little mo- ment. But that the streams of justice should flow pure and uncontaminated, is matter of infinite concern not only to the people of the west, but to the whole state ; not only to the state, but the Union. But they have lost the confidence they formerly reposed, in the tribunals of jus- tice. They believe that masonry exerts its influence, in civil as well as criminal cases;. in arbitrations, references, and in trials by jury, before justices of the peace, as well as in higher courts. - Formerly from one half to two thirds of their justi- ces belonged to the fraternity of masons- now not one in twenty are of the initia- ted ; and this. change has been chiefly produced by their entire conviction of the fact that masonry pervades and influen- ces the courts of justice. During what havo been called the Morgan trials, and other civil cases which owe their origin to his abduction and sub- sequent fate, the people have crowded the courts of justice to overflowing. They have watched the deportment of masonic witnesses upon the stand ; some of whom, of good repute in society, have sworn to facts, which in the opinion of by-standers, were not credited by a single one of the hundreds of persons who were present.- It is believed that grand juries, a majori- ty of whom were masons, have omitted to find bills of indictment when there was proof before them of outrages, not sur- passed in grossness and indecency, by any committed in the country since its first settlement. Those outrages were committed upon a mason, who had been in the daily habit of exposing in lectures, what were once called the secrets of ma- sonry. Grand jurymen have said while assembled for the discharge of their duties, and when it was apprehended their mi- sonic brethren would be implicated,\ we must not let our brethren suffer.\ In a | case of recent occurrence, a defendant who bad been sued by a mason, not willing to have his case tried by masonic jurymen, challenged them ; stating to the court his readiness to prove the character of the masonic oaths, and to show that the obligations assumed by them were of a description, unfitting them to sit in judg- ment between parties; and of such a na- ture as to disqualify them in point of law. With thie assent of the circuit lndge, the masonic jurymen left the box, and defendant, entertained no doubt upon the law and the facts he could prove, that the challenges were well taken. 'The committe might multiply cases 'public notoriety; and x other, are such as they undoubtedly must be, upon the proof that has been present- ed to the public. Bound to protect each other by the tenor of obligations in their view of higher import than those they owe to the state or country which gives them protection, -the officer of the Fort, in- stead of obeying the order of the secretary at war, notified King of his danger and Garlinghouse and Bates soon found by the escape of King, that their labours, ar- duous as they had been, were defeated by the machinatious of masonry. chiefly under the head of circumstantial evidence-of its weight and conclusive- ness, the senate will judge ; but it is en- tirely certain that it fully justifies the opinion of the commissipner, Daniel Mose- ly, esq. expressed in a paragraph of his report to the senate, in which he states that, \ as to his fate subsequently thereto, it is not yet developed, nor can it be an- ticipated with much confidence, to be ju- dicially determined by any tribunal over which men have controul.\ The committee will now proceed to re- The annals of criminal jurisprudence furnish no parallel in many respects to the case of William Morgan. > The majesty of the laws and the powers of masonry heve been brought into conflict. What may be the result of the mighty struggle none can tell. But the events of the last two years during which the conflict has been maintained, induce the belief that masonry will be victorious. 'The history of Morgan's fate is short and sim- ple: On the 11th day of September, 1826, he was taken by several masons in broad day, by force, from the village of Batavia to Canandaigua, a distance of 50 miles, and there upon a process originated for the occasion, confined in jail, While on his way from Batavia, one of his kidnap- pers who had him in charge, said with an oath, Morgan should pot be taken from him alive. - After a short confinement in the prison at Canandaigua, he was taken out on Sunday the 12th, at evening, and amidst his distressing cries of murder, was forced into a post coach, - He was then driven through a densely populated coun- try, 110 miles to the United States Fort, on the Niagara river, and there confined. The horses and coaches used in convey- ing him from Canandaigua, were owned or procured by masons. - And the owner of a livery stable then kept at Rochester, who at that time and now is a royal arch mason, actually charged the grand chap- ter for the use of his coaches and horses to Lewiston. Pains were taken to obtain masonic drivers. The last driver, how- ever, accidentally was not a mason. It was Corydon Fox. He drove the pris- oner, attended by three masons to the graveyard, about 80 rods distant from the Fort, and was directed to halt. The par- ty dismounted, and Fox was told to re- turn to Lewiston. - This was in the night time. Shortly after, Fox made some observations about his trip to the Fort, which excited fears in the minds of the brotherhood, and within a short period, a special lodge was called, and Fox was ini tiated as a member of it. An unusual number of masons were at Lewiston, and in the vicinity of the «Fort, during the (3n mark upon other evidence which has come to their knowledge, in reference to the subject before them, of a different but highly alarming character, and calculated more directly to impress upon the senate the necessity of ulteriour legislation.- Many masons at the west, whose feelings had been aroused by the enormities of the institution committed in that quarter, learned from witnessing the tempor of the people, that they should be protected in any infraction of its laws. They were satisfied beyond controversy, that the strange oaths of an institution, governed by iniquitous principles, and used for evil, and sometimes for murderous purposes, ought in no respect to bind the conscien- ces or conduct of those, who had impru- dently taken them. They saw the ab- surdity of supposing that any human be- ing could be bound by an oath appealing to the Supreme Being, when that very cath enjoined an obligation to do that, which is in opposition to the laws both of God and man. They finally assembled at Le Roy in convention, on the 19th of Feb. 1928, and frankly and truly stated to the world, the substance of the mason- ic oaths and obligations. One of them is cited at the conclusion of this report, and distinguished as No. 1, and is the ob- ligation of the royal arch degree. From an examination of its terms, the senate will perceive that all masons who have taken it and believe in its binding force, will neccessarily and perhaps conscien- tiously carry on to the witness stand, and into the jury-box, and indeed into all the departments of justice, a partiality sub- versive of every principle of right. Several pf those masons who have se- ceded from the institution, and certified to the public the caths and obligations al- luded to, are personally known to a ma- jority of the committee, and they deem it proper to assure the senate, that they are men of standing in the community, whose characters for veracity are beyond the réach of calumny. Upon this oath, and perhaps one or two more, the committee may cite, no comments will be made, as it is apprehended the simplest form in three or four days of Morgan's confiement there, and nightly visited the Fort. The sufferings -of Morgan were probably ter- minated on the night of the 18th of Sep- tember, 1826. Morgan was fifty years old ; in point of talents and manners was above medi- octity-had fought in defence of his coun- try at the battle of New-Orleans, and im- mediately preceding his abduction from Batavia had unfortunately for himself and family been concerned in writing a book upon masonry, disclosing its usages, oaths and obligations. It has been fully establi testimo- ny in the various trials that have n had, that a great number of have been directly or indirectly concern- ed in the abduction and subsequent fate of Morgan. But notwi the publicity of this transaction arising from dollars offered as rewards by the execu- five of thisstate, as well as the govem- of of Catada, to those who would give @<. «my-«v, cell bk e anflilie G . fetinted and expended ay which the subject can be presented to the mind, will be the most forcible. [Concluded next week.] ~ * When this report was made, the facts relative to the confession of Howard were not known.~Tzt. {From the Hartford Intelligencer] RENUNCIATIONS. To tax Pusizc.-We, the subscri- bers, having taken the number of degrees in speculative freemasonry, affixed to our names respectively, without intending to increase popular excitement, or wound the feelings of those with whom we have formerly associated, as brethren, (for many of whom we entertain a high respect,} do publicly declare that the sys- tem of freemasonry is, in our deliberate jadgement and opinion, pernicious to the moral habits, and dangerous to the civil and religious institutions of our country. We therefore feel it-our duty, under these impressions, peaceably to withdraw our- selves from the institution. _ * U might interfere with the passage of the prisoners, and even interrupt the commu- nication between the capital and the Otto- man army in Asia. | It was reported that the Turks had 60,000 men, at Erzerum, and that 16,000 Egyptians were expected to join them in less than two months. _ The Russian head quarters, at the latest accounts were at Galaty, and those of Kallurush, - The Russians had extended their block- ade in the Archipelago. The London Courier says that the Sul- tan is expected to entertain a disposition for a good understanding with England and France. \Let him only consent,\ remarks the editor, \to the treaty «of London.\ - He adds, that those powers, have no wish 'to crush Turkey ;' and asks, whether the Sultan will consent to ° an arrangement which shall establish the Independence of the Morea and the Cy- clades.\ j The Emperor of Russia has proclaimed his resolution to have his coronation as king of Poland celebrated at Warsaw, and that the Empress shall participate in this ceremony. Grzerom.-The garrison of 'Misso- longhi, it is said, have sent a flag of truce to the Greeks, who have driven them to that extremity, Loxpon, May 12.-Tho preparations of the belligerents are of the largest kind. Ample preparations have been made in every department, vast armies collected, animated with equal confidence and cour- age, and led on by the most experienced generals. Yet we are still to learn why Russia, not proposing either conquest or dismemberment, would continue the war, at such risk and cost of treasure and blood; or why Turkey should decline expressing a desire for peace, which the events of the last campaign placed her in such a condition to make without dishonour. All are on the alert upon the Danube from Silistria to Widdin. The Turks ac- cording to our letters from Mallachia, have two fortified camps near Giurgevo and Sillistria. They are defended by 17, 000 men each. On the 11th of April they made an attack upon the Russians at or near Trato, but without success; tho' if we may form any judgment from the number of the wounded sent to Bucharest, the conflict was a sanguinary one. Redschid Pacha has repaired to the camp at Choumla, whither reinforcements are proceeding from all parts of the Turk- ish empire. In Asia the Turks have opened the campaign with some partial success on the Kur. We have not yet heard of any movements on the part of the Persians to justify the speculations in the Constanti- nople articles of a renewal of the war with Russia. The Petersburg version of the massacre at Teheran, which we have extracted from the French Ministerial pa- per, the Messager des Chambres, gives a different account from that which we in- serted yesterday from Constantinople. Tho Petersburg statement declares that the Persian government bad no hand in it, but that it expressed great abhorrence, [and a desire to afford the fullest satisfac- tion. , Excraxv.-The London Courier of the 12th of May, says:-\ the accounts from the manufacturing districts, this morning, inform us that no further di- turbances have taken or seem likely to take place.\ The London (Morning) Herald of the l6th of May, states that a notice of a public meeting was posted up'at Man- chester to be Beld on the 12th, but a | body of dragoons repaired to the place where 100 persons wers assembled, ahd #s P “a tl’y fl Br .. Ifi muss . C ‘xw Sotse of the manufactarers at Rock- sons aut of employ. army designed for the siege of Silistria at ~~ ' bonis np carens ior eee
