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Hillage affdmall subsort.'\ ld. cea@r.$2, 50 at the end of SE who take {Ji ufihpem at the - mpanies of 18, or-more; yacht! th¥lr papers at the olfiué, and pay, ' em in advance, §1 50. Rates of Advertising:-50 cents per' s Advertising:-t uare gr the first; insertion, and for every rubseguent ion - :Onter Ton rou: - ¥, MARCH 29 Aaznie - ~ - \as- yuri ----CO0PERSTOWN, Me if gontiomen are so ampon foreign capital: in New Yorlk-th ingy defend ourselves ngainetdfiect The destruction of the: Clisistian Re- ligion, was: the, first objectrdf 'this con- spiracy.. . But its managers worg led to Ste adduced from:more thammen'tzi] over ou? legions whom they have so: Tfiifiqfiagfi pribted muat sullte. duced. - Lodges that may serve as hid ence of the United States banle avith what justice will they Téfuse the samd aidsto the.bank at Lockport, wHich wil have tocontend with a competition ans - cannot so consider it, The ital the- frrends-of-thi . is one \which iL carried out, as it must prinfifile for *% a 9 associate with it the subversion of To- gitiniate civil government: and all, mo ral restraints upon the lusts and pas- r must be free of postage,... | mphlets, handbills, blanks, cards, exdcuted on new type, and in a {ll not fail to pleage. 6C All communications addressed to the ed> ~. AGCBNTS. co. Martin Bridges Hartwick, 6 Nathaniel Pierce. Otego, Gideon Cornell. a ions of man, .of Ingolstadt, in Germany. This bor- ~ 'The plot for this two-fold pbject, re- ceived its finishing touch from the'cel- ebrated infidel, Adam Wiefhaupt, Pro- fessor of canon laws, in the University tid scheme he perfected under the name lavery good: citizen.\ - Rrofesson Robi L dndor its cover, he renounced it forever; { e urcommitiechere ing-piaces-for-conspirators;-mmust for:-3 ever remain, shat, both to us and to [to: fe-nécdless-fory ark; ° thatmodern- events in ofr d the higli degrees of American now published .and wel} kipuwit, full demonstration tliat Iiimin- s Andoed been . planted, ant hasd é(deeri rgot in the. United Stats, In Europe, Hlyuminiznt was Thost 'be planted by the side of Sgecu~ mtg Masonry, and led (in lac way an- noln tu- Masons in the first degrees) sor-himself had been a- Mason.. But, on discovering the fact, that. Mumin® ism had been planted by' its side, and had been perfecting its horrid ' designs and advised all- his Masonic. brethren; in the world,.to do the same. as ~~ We thus learn the words of honest 3 6. ABLES\ -.-Of tho Committee of Massachusotts State. __ is substantiated with ample ~---Amorica-And in the reign of _terrof Buflmggon, Ebenezer Sheldon. . Utica, Oneida co. - Win. C. Rogers. Bridgewater; © -Esq. Blackman. Florence, Jabez Green _. Fort Plain, Mont'y co. J. W. Hamilton. Seot, Courtland co. - Zenas Miller. Sullivan, Madison co. - Oreb Montague. Cazenovia, |\ Benjamin T. Clark, Nichols, Tioga co., - Orson V. Stanton. ' Esperance, Schoharic co. Wilbur S. Deuel. Cheshire. Berkshire co. Mass. ElderJ. Vincent ANTI-MASONIC. REPORT a ree Convention;-on--tho-connexion. between. FRENCH ILLUMINISM and tho higher degrees of FREEMASONRY. *Your committee, appointed to inquire how far Freemasonry and-French Hu- minism are connected, beg leave to re- ort : , , That in forming a decision upon this | question, they mtst have recourse . to | historical facts. - And nothing shall ! «knowingly be adduced as such,but whatt evidence, e musi._be pgemitted to exhifit the ~origistend nature of lllyminfsm; and ~ the evidence of its being planted in our United States! In theso will be found its connexion with Freemasonty. - 1. Theorigin and design of Hlumin- ism will be given. - 'When the French revolution aston- ished the world, in 1789, we rejoiced in the thought that it was from a spark of the true spirit of liberty from America, caught across the Atlantic. Bat the enormities of the < French revolution soon evinced that it had an origin very . «different from that of the revolution in a ~* thero, thé world stood aghast not know- , ing tho cause, But shon it. was-devel. . {of Ailwninism or system of light. tion and Wliss.\ Tus was framed into a systora - of higher degrees of masonry: and Spec- ulative Masonry it now took \hito its grasp, as a most fit cover for its occult operations. ~ But its real designs were with the greatest possible caution, con- cealed from the view of Masons-in the first degrees of their order. They were permitted to learn only, that Masonry was a far more noble institution than they had ever conceived ; ascending to higher and higher degrees, till it had reached a wondérfulbheight of perfec- A candidate, marked for their prey, would have his attention arrested by some hint, (dropped in his hearing by some man of .good appearance, but seeming to be accidental,) of the great power and benefit of 'secret societies} \That there were such societies under the direction of the, greatest and best men, who were going to. reform the world, and render it happy. Where the bait was fouftd~to be-takings~ idate saon found himself conducted to the fiv-, enue of this system of light and glory. He was here, of course, laid under the most binding obligations of infallible secrecy ; and of obedience to unknown leaders. - And he was thence led on, through rising degrees, by some of the adepts, whose real object was, to form a full acquaintance with him; and to erase from his mind alt impressions-of of réligion and morality, which might there be found. - He was hence, to be prepared férthigher degrees of their in- fide! cast. - To thesé higher degrees he was admitted, as soon as it was found he might receive them without alarm ; | and his admission was with the most mn: But-where-his es as hiving it. _ Pres- the: gran kn 6 ftelity-and-licentioumess-3 thas been in our nationi-£ T- 0.2 fdr Committee then'F-are of qriniof. 5 s distinction should be mate be- | twekn Masonry ; and Masons int iffo w - | grees, While we uftérly eqidenin l a danish. as havingébeéfi founficapziJ {fifth in Europe and .A‘me ca, of ing a cover .of Hlomipism;-as in {ature tending to infidelity ;fib con- ig anti-republican and dafgerous falities among citizens! andks rest- on shocking and barbarous oaths @nenaltics, whigh ought never to be, dered as possessing any mon! bind- rce; we ought to feel a tend con: ifor many of our fellow citizens, in European Masons, relative=tp the con- nexion between Masons aud Illymin-, ism: That masopry had actually been adopted as a most fit vehicle of Ilumin- ism while yet this was designed to be | most cautiously .concealed, from Masons in the lower degrees. r 2. This thing may. furthér® appeary when we consider that Illuminisn was!, not designed for amusement; but t bind the world with invisible hands; and to bring back the nations from their Christian religfon, 'and legitimate gov- ernments. - Would sucha field as A- merica then, be overlooked by the I- Iuminees 1 - Sooner would it have ten- |g fold proportion 'of their efforts ! Every {ee consideration, every. important circum- Aélfower degrees of Masonry, wlo have stance terrifies to-this. - And~ Robinson “egg! led to unite in their presat con-, and Burruel testify to the fact. Upon |j GEE-3:1, with no. designsof mounting}: the list~of their societies given by tmfinhorrid objects of Mluminism, That} former, several are mentioned as exist- © ing in America before the year, 1786. Darruel, mentions a lodge of this order in Portsmouth, Virginia: and two lodg- hould, with open heartSarc arms, and urge them ta followihe ex- apples of the many; who have rmounc :; ed\Allconnexion with a systen so a-,. and immensely wicled and} 8 |_, Before eritéring Mto'glapec-at the history-of legis upon this subject, | that 'we'ni should be fiard into the state \ing-from the Branch Hank at Daffalo; + beygud 'coul on- greater) than-dny & that the branch at Nes : con . lute in reference to the: Ins Befor pf} that city. Shall: we depart from know the bill under discussion, it imgy bt woll ; and general pri tes of taxation Pafiicj§7lixt§~umpt to crea tem as kpow |its operatiots as ave the v ral counties 1 || Are we ip «in by which wo shall be ilize the - profits and Jepartments of in- investment, | through- If so, well might the inipkins, (Mr. Mack) be if this shouht . pass the State in a coursg, 0 'gislation f,ps;‘\afiflless!ixs just .y 92 ' upon the imgrits n potonly what had been but whatis the | of your siv i taxation pon incorporatmlpom—7mm” a sys anies, f gentlemen have argue, called upon.to eq ed this question as if-the provisions of | lusses of the ya the revised statutes were simityr to' dustry or 'of those ofthe original law of 1822. , The-out the sla provisipns of that law required that all | gentleman from FT taxes | upon | incorporated companies | say that he woulkas soon legislate by sury , , the es of Procgustes ald dis iron where was retffied the state tax and bedstad. all that had been goflected upon toc <I will now call the attention of the in, H owned by persons not citizens of this committee to the Inju-tice and impolicy - state : to theseveral county treasuries, of such foreigners who amount as such should have been recul- here, in the shap lected from' stocks owned by persons ' those who make investme Distribution was then made tending greater privileges to those continue their funds 1s of money, than to uts in real es- Ho who sends capital from abroad , the county. treasurer had deducted the | to be located in NEw York, in real pro- proportion due for courity charges, still perty, which adds to your farther distribution was made to the | wealth in peace, and whitch cannot twas within which resid- cseape | the burthens of war, is and ed. In addition to these provisions it should be taxed as one of your own was also declared that any company ' citizens; which tex is not only con- might pdy ten per centum per annum tinued from year to year, but is increas- upon its: dividends in lieu of Taxation ed as the eetate is improved. by indus- upon their capital ; which commutation . try or embellished by art : and yet we was to be distributed as before stated. are called on to increase those Lurthens After amending: this system from yea\ Athin tlng'r'ifi-j'in favor . of a cepital residing within said counties, and after' tate. \ident Dwight, thence wrote, in 1793, @Tiluminisin exisfs in this country; and the impions mockery of the sacremental supper, described by Rosrnmson,is act- ed here.\ - Again he thus wrote; .\ der these circumstances were founded the societies of IHluminisim. They spread of course with a rapidity, which noth- 'ing but fact could have induged a sober mind to believe. Before the year 1786, they were establishedin great numbers throughout Germany, in-Sweden, Ma-! & drid, Poland, Austria, Holland, Swit-} 5 zerland, Italy, En‘glaqulzficotland and, America. In oll-Ahesgiplactgfifas faught. q 2 he v] Suh. , . - Al . whichegs respectfully | subsshited \2000-2\ ETHA whi\ «To. NSSNTH,. Charman - | _.. .of the Oqumittee, to 515i: _ “IN ASSEMBLY, MARCH 11. Thghill for changing the made of taxing Bank- | ' Compinics ing Now York, \bung under | ion, Mr. GRANGER addressed the 35, ihmitteo in substince, as follows: 1“. Chairman. . Much has been said, | larly by the gentleman.fram Co-] , (Mr. Vanderpoet) about certain | Hfaniszing-spirits, who restless and | {fented are constantly endeavo ring ugh the settled. laiys of the land, ' byuprtiqfiglftpgt the . g dgéfimgf xfill“: 5ndz to year, was foumt- so complivated -which-though ay. your its provigions could not be execy(- ' peopte ; that y i ed, and by thé revised it was *but those ofpintercet ; fxflmL 1 deblared 'that Capital thus invested. to-day and gone to-morrowifggeking _... sh - - x-. n or town within which its operations planted; which though, it may * wefe conducted, in the same manner asi. benefit you in peade; «will oppressyou; other personal property. It is now |in war-and which, for pirt sought to change this law and to intro- | and transient in its ex stence, refingms» duee a systern having all the intricacy, a mere tenant at will to its distant pats but not half the equity of the one which | rons. Neither wisdom nor policy can has been so recently abandoned. { dictate such degislation, 'There are mapy for whose opinions I During this digeifssio entertain - the highest respect, with; said of the A6 at whom I differ upon this point, who ; could be ufiiémeffm'lh, think that all personal property should ' large dij ade\ he assessed to the owner aud for the he- | Withou, nefit of the town in which he might‘a‘bsuydfi it can begpost pro- * _ '.. foreign in its birth - \% tions, of \. 7 aried interests -_ » A * the Lord Jescs oped.- Two authors, atoned, exhibited ! i rorld. _The celebrated John Rrofessor of. Natural Thiloso: phy in the University of Edinburg, and. ro«mion In m ich. 'others wrote-each His volume,. to equainted with |o! imposing Tormalitio®; 3 pliancy for infidelity was oubtful, the was.car fig fer ”éé'éaz‘d’ghwéra, were trained in a seh £ infidelity, apts blood, by rites ani ~ ~apfold a most horrkl system: pursued different plans; but met, in | every essential point, and gave the same original {eters, «documents, and watch words; and thus exhibited the best pos- sible evidénce that their developements were correct, and iight be fully relied on. Dr. Robinson's character was at -~ones attacked, according to the express I!luminism, to destroy his tes- t R into his character; which was ascer- tained to be most excellent in point of -moralityy-stability , and excellence ; and he was indeed ranked among the high- est literary dignitaries of Europe and America. [Sce Payson's Modern Anti- Christ : and Smith on the Prophecies, 2d edition.] - Som» facts from the con- stents of these volumes will now be con- cisely given. } The French Philos | \c, Yor. AIRF, about the middle of the last century, formed a plot to destrmy the Christian Religion. -He wax wont to say. '* E- am weary of hearing people repeat, 'that twelve men established Christian- ity : I will prove that, one may suffice to overthrow it U*. And to this object he vowed to dedicate his life. - 'To one, who sard-te-him, you will never over- throw Christianity ; he replied, « that is what we shall see.\ ._. To effect tl is task, he adopted the | mask of philosophy. This he put forth as the only © governess of life '' Un- terit;-ho-waged-wer u . ligion. - Foltaire now associated with himself a number of French philoso- phers, who had as great ennsity as him. armed | atheists ! «The horrors of the cepted. French revolution burst forth like a riv-| officers, and the number of their adepts; i great city woukt self against our revealed rerigron : also the celebrated Frederick of | Prussia; with seven other crowned heads of Eu- _rope, of whoni he was heard to boast by name ; and besides six or seven prin- cesses. - Here were the first champ.ons of the plot, which was formed with a' most profound depth of intrigue, and of concealment. - The leaders all received - fictitious pames ; and also transacted their business in a language newly if~. vented for the pu .¢?agTheir opera-\ tions commenced : and their successes; i in corrupt Catholic religions, were as-! tonishing even to themselves of the poser of secret societies; and of the: facility with wh bound with invisible hands ! their watch words, were the following: «Hurl the javelin; bat conceal the hand - \Crash the wretch?\ meaning Crarer ' i hand that gives the -he: Among | ;geep+ Eat hide the \Blow. frobes, sttem}, amt int th | gates of our temples; for the profane} than: found means to penetrate into: ! retreats for their impicty, sunset propriate for the purpose. - ._.. Their highest. secret, (which in the French revolution was thrown open without disguise) - was, There is no CoJT~ \Death is an eternat sleep \* Their sentiments now cae forth to the light, amply stored with such senten- ces as the following : \All ideas of jus- tice and injustice, of virtue and vice and of glory and infamy, are purely arbitra- «< The man-that is above law, can commit without remorse the act that inay serve his purpose.\ * The fear of the Lord is so far from being the beginning of wisdom, that it is the he- ginning . of folly.\ * Modesty is only an invention - of refined voluptuous-; ness.\ - of the Jews and of Christiana is but a chimera, a phantom, Jesus Cirregg® is an imposior.\ The practical maxims of this system wore such IS frttows t © Extend and 73 : [ject the promotion of revolutions, and | ic his 11127511353! figs upon the house-their own G tafififii‘rmch e Hs c nore s mtg-[£14 coe these 'who opposed the bifl sipon the table, which the doctrines of Atheism. | Aud it is a | plates a mate astrous change in a law that has been. maxim in their code that it is bettur to defer their attempts fifty years, than to kscttlcd with defiberation and | with the i Bat in as fatt-of mrccess- through tuo-muel- precip- Columbia itancy.\ First rate Masons in our land did, has not advanced any thing that lns many years ago, acknowledge that 11+ / not been at least as stionaly urged by luminismm was planted here. | A grand others upon the same side of the ques- chaplain, by the name of Zrast, of the' tion, aid in as much as that gentlemn royal Arch. Masons of New York, 25, hag geen fit so soon as In had hurled his years ago,, warned his brethren thiis :-- Tarts to Toave the battle trmmmt befor * 'The deep designs of taodern masons, . they could be r turned upon himy E wall galled the Hluminati, who have inun | not reply to any thing that has fallen dated Europe, and are fast gaining fria that source, least the reply should ground in Americapshave clearly dem- be considered as gratuites aso was the onstrated - the abuse untyled - Masonic attack ; and E can neither coment. mn Lodges have met with, and how they, ' the al.sence of that gentl-man to reply when not presided over and guarded-bxin ghe-guauner which - wo ! L1 otherwise men of genuine, Masonic principles, can have been demanded, tr b join in th be overthrown, revolutionized & fould | Parthian warfare in which he has soch ed ato pleasure !\ rand Master Ma- fit to engage, game to apply.that remarlutp passa he bill contem- fo , having i H £ . a lorie P renofit of- muck experience 'much as the gentleman from multiply the childrén of light, till force and numbers shall throw power into your hands + then hesitate no longer, , but begin to render yourselves formida- , ble.\ - Nations must be brought back by whatever means : peaceably | if it. may be; if not, then by force. All su- bordination must be made to vauish from the earth!\ In this system, the words, \ reason,\ \* foleration,\ ¢ hu- ' manity,\ were used as a quictus, till ' they could call to arms. The ranks of Muminism were this' swelled ; and hundreds of thousands be- lod re-.caine fully prepared to rise in anns, to the Hlutminated Lodge Wisdom,at Ports- carry th world was | presented eir designs into effect, and the; with a nation of er of burning lava. When honest Masons, of the lower- degrees, (who had not gone up to the higher socrets of infidelity and anar« hy. and had not known their designs) learn- ed the use thus made | of their masonic order, they closed their temple, and fled. One addressed his masonic associates, of the lower degrees, thus : \Brethren and companions ; give free vent io sour sorrow ! - The days of innocent equali- ty are gone by. However holy our mysteries may have been, the Lodges are now profaned and sullied. Let your tears flow. _ Attired in your mourning, ihat 5 them; They have tarned them into: and dens of sacred walls hormd deeds,\ Let us weep! - Within the they have planned their and the min of nations. f iand carnage. | U sons have - repeatedly given | similar, _ Neyer hasa ball Teen pfesonted upon warning. - A principal officer of the the pr(‘:\N|r:lTv‘ll.~.4llu‘ Ivsuh‘ ob which cc order wrote to President Dwight, thus yen its frends differed sofwadels , After \The Lodge, to which you allude, was The bank emimmitter had fe on sine sia considered by me as under the modern weeks in conclave upo this subgect term - of masoury, - (Maurinism.) - TS and whilecormun chia tgs sore [hose ! inembers, in 1691, were mostly French.\. through the house tit Qeror ight net To the same he again wrote this: 'That be destroyed by the buest z oot thas sou had good reason to suspert the de- ludden thinder. Aufallh {othe signs of that French Lodge, T havo no. taman from Herlamar (Nr. reason, nor evet had, to doubt,\ opening the debate as a Ps in } 9 The late Rev. Dr. Morse, many years , the cautious step of dre who to a's npo ago in a printed sermon, assured the; on thesentines of a pmblic of an official communication from Ix the gentleman from tis) appeared to cou -to the ~Tominatet orf then bith as-mmry The letter was inter- duce a shock by owlgeh sli th mwhue. -on nul and ul! Lo YVork \b 6 10 R der the mouth, Virginia Ledge Union. In it were the names of their serial and } tr being then 190, mostly French. Ia class. - After all t this letter, it appearedthat there wor:. frum Rensselaer {M thousands of such lodges of Maminnt ! that this is a two pel in the world ; and many in this western \ question of whether world. - That this Lodge Wisdom, was himdred | thousand dap # descendant of the Grand Orient of muthoms and an halt Paris-that the Lexige Union addressed jin the City of N m was the fourteenth in these | restens.- \empted from tarata n; The letter contained emblems of death as the whole ame nto It had this motto \Me@' barks that ean be br believe their eyes further than thrit provisions of the «if ig earg. The way by proceptos long Nt persons not citizens © short and efficacious by examples \ 4 DMA I think with (hal hint seems here to be given, of the d@ \this was the only unesi sign of their Masonic emblons ard LOl - this discussion. Ew «d a-practioad emmy of ef the -nrstian to. ~A metnber of that Ledge V ite Bl ose first of Puy,. was heard to beast, (while the Fre ack | jert too centemptible but revolation was well tho't of in Amerk \as a sient rebuke to (P@Baik Co ramai- ca,) that he belanged to a Lodge in Get | ton for presenting a ieee of se little manr. in which that revolatin Wis _ consequence, and up n } «s ansen planned ' , more unpleasant and angy deflate than ¥arious other direct evidences sught .L have ever. before: Wifnessei. | But I the Davis) p afhur. a soo e rmikon enc rs, of the four f foreign ca; c 4 Fork shall != | for this he states $ ca; ital held I . rcht within the fund. cuned i; Eh» state. “denflemafi‘tfia! Eon in {have voted in} the bill what I's ec sane 4 sthe|. it and in my view Elimifififih‘fmmt—mifléd—flifltfl—f R . . - Tv as a sub to sey Haie we shaun oal alos ank ans t 0 te 1200 chance to reside, without reference to ! I ns ampuvnwjfiptpMigg—énhh capituld- pls AAs remarkfro qubrier, 1 was 3 tru that- anterior tho.gentleman+1828, all perso mal property bad beem(te, | imagine had ‘ banfedi b J *in s thus auseesed.; but this onfio[th caso than from any prop¥ * he L with -a siew to certain income fur the ewner is willing to abandon the +P speeviaton which ars pre- {gece set cal rraut, inode of taxing real and personal prop- erty. te who rosides in V. ing bends for leans im cd at home tor the ament Cf will b because there is no means ef reacien of d bor the investinent in New York, an I n te a p hold- York, is Tix: his bonds mmm mim -A*tothitoprmtn-rd bergense cap- d+ Tins tStoch $ s pac caqubed as 22 a ing from whieh sou can there fis e payment of the tax. faut who \I ire tment property is male al deg give to it I habstain i name, % it then becomes as Lor ans ject of taxation for the benent of tle community from whueh it drass diena when ye shila i ** it come as is the read estate of flod eca 0 And why nett ft ed by add tii fixes are food the past erection a laws or the pra vral protection. td that thas probe bon Psa © goth isbn en a ag ye then ad ~ man thail we v protect. d - - tis protectin adel t 6\T gov tod cp ns it had notlng as pud We love no Gapate 1 Hrewbes hse ee prepeth thord i 13 aa psd ds - \ £+Al£ tix s vo this' ed bj ! by ho a Ins cous tis ving to man' Utor a no- 10 traW it hax tole, par a ark winch * sate than more- go d ba f Rew t + gout gern b Ni canst en C' L Now \ ork, bat con secking s r resents su nond «4 opposi- Io vorhd call the * a noms That trem oft lila at, ens c dhe ro: > \u towus whn shon collectrl. and we as raw cele} a : A how meen br ',q\ tin enticels upon bau oms soars bave passed a- late wath a view to the ¢, rab norl c+ & tar < throughont fhe several ~ ut: mine stafé. amido Feis s to the profits to *> 1 from e. tow vole Cruriry v os eng partieular spaces Toor hen tort ar fo ut were then free each county | Wont c ul acne ¢ abepfoun che hand if the erea'cr. and now e> aon d var > w |§Tc It: a
