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spleen rn 8%. inl Bat peraduire or Vegfsubgequegt dressed tofiue Ca phlets, hand; éatly execute Eaurens, Otsego co. | Martin Bridges: _ Hartwie “(£95 1 '. (Nuthoniel Pierce. Otego, t\. « Gideon Cornell, _ {Burlington, ~~~ Ebenezer Shelddp. fifiéa,“;., 'Ongidace. (Wm. C; Rogers. Bridgewater, -*- > Esq. Blackman. Florence, - ~ ¢ Jabez Green Fort Plain, Mont'y co.. J. W. Hamilton. Scot, Courtland co. - Zenas Miller, Sullivan, Madison co. Oreb Montague. hid Benjamin T. Clark, - #Nichols, Tioga co. . Orson ¥. Stanton. A A Esperance, Schoharie co. Wilbur 8. Deugl,. o= ; Cheshire, co. Mass. A. A. Haskins. f ,m & -_ ANTI-MASONIC. p - From Ward's Review. Antimasonry seeks the arena of pol- itics. | Political Anti-masonry. coming no u / - from the great lakes, to grapple with ( ; the gigantic offsprings of London cor- ruption, asks no leave, constitutionally, Ao-level.the-lodge room with the éarth, to set up a gallows of timbers, and to bang the, impostor in his own cabletow _ \When the knot pinches; the traitor cries, ' £- Tout. dose uae cl sa o 1 The F ~ Antimagonry \uses politics as Chris- tianity uses miracles, not to make con- 4 verts, but to gain attention. - The glo- Fo ; _ rious exhibition of divine power in cur- + ing the halt, the maimed; the blind, in stilling thetempest,and raising the dead, were not the end of our Lord's mission; but they were 'the means made use of, *'sE-rUST AND FEAR: No#.\ tf ¥OL. HI. --- --- COOPE + em ® RsTOWN; . ¥. MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1830. -__- sonry is overflowifg,. on every side, [those limits, 'which the governor has [fixed for the patural boundary ; and it is by pointing to the votes,. officially te- corded, and visible to every eye, that masonic hypecrisy and lies, ° At the polls, Anti-masonry feels its 'strength, and it rejoices. I any join it merely for its-political sway, they are despicable; but if any, seeing its victo- ries in New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermonit, fail to acquaint themselves “with its great power, and adopt its maxims,--they dre neither politically wise; nor fearlessly patirotic. ' The display 'of miraculous power in raising Lazarasy did not convert the Jews; and the astonishing: vote of 61,- 000 for Antimasonry in Pennsylvania, will not make a single Freemason re- nounce: it is not expected; but if men in their senses, can behold these things and fail seriously to inquiré what they mean, they are faithless to themselves, and to their generation, and to poster- diy. 0 0. © Mar. Seencun's REPLY T0 Govean- or Troop. To the Editors Gf the Ontario Messenger, I sent you for publication, a copy of my letter to gov- ernot Throop, declinp sion, the object was stated to be, that my reasons for so declining might be known to my fellow ertizens. The im- portance of the trust,- and the interest which the subject very: generally excit- ed, rendered it necessary in my .own vindication, that those reasons should be published. Some of those reasons we are able to withstand the torrent of| t imng to act as discreet and -q cial Comsel under the 'act of last ses. | orable: and official confidence, by pro- mulgating» to the world what was con- fined to his own keeping, and what must inevitably have a most potent influence up- on prosecutions now pertding! Since_the appearance of my. letter of resignation, *- various newspapers in this vicinity have stated that more than a had been informed: and mors, of improper propositions having been made by me to Governor Throop. Where and how «did they obtain their information ? . Gan better evidence be wanting of the fact alleged, that the of- ficial confidence reposed in the Execu- tive, had been violated 1 If it be requi- red, it is furnished by the Argus itself. This was the principal, if not the only point calling for an answer. The Ar- gus having assumed to speak for the acting Governor and by his authority, was.baiind to speak explicitly and une- quivocally upon this point. It is a sim- ple question of fact, admitting of a di- rect negative or affirmative. | If it omit- ted to give one or the other, that si- lence would be the: very best evidence that the fact could not be denied. This alone would be sufficient for my justifi- cation, and here it might safely be rest- ed. But I submit that the Argus has admitted, the fact. og‘h‘f’ \to test the correctriess of his oC. impressions, hao. (Gov. Throo year'ago they had beard ru- isinterested friends;, and his own, his prompt ahiswer was given to the letter.\ A few sentences after, [no way 'been instFamental in divulging the correspondense, offer than as above stated,.and perhaps in referring the let- ter to the Comptroller, as he was ex- pressly requested b 0 doubt tool; the advise. finding * their | opinions - coincided witi. it says, \that he (Goy. Throop) has in |f the.charge of endeavoring to bribe a wit- fness=to-swear away men's th f that-charge founded upon the authority of the chief Magistrate? And would not tho;pablic interests be thus deeply con- cerned in the promulgation 'of such a confidential 'corréspondence: by which such a charge was' promulgated, affect, and deeply and irretrievably affect the public interests? But in this as in other cases of controversy, it is possible we do hot understand the: terms used, in the same sense. By the \public interests,\ I understand the interests of. the whole |community, of the government fepre- senting it, in bringing to justice the at- rocious offenders against the Jaws. Does the Argus so understand the term, or does it mean that the interests of the public would be promoted by the ac- quittal of the. offenders, or their escape from prosecution? In that sense and in no other, can it be said that the public interests would not be concerned by dis- gracing to the utmost ¢xtent, the officer who had those prosecutions in charge, What has been the fact! The revela- tion of 'the acting Governor has been seized upon with the utmost avidity by' the friends and associates of those implicated, by those whose interests & charge? Did not then, the violation of 3 r ® [given, the correspondence\ in questich' s‘hvemnflfmh‘jiisufifiatimy, there might be a pre- text of propriety in.doing:so: But here the coreman called for; & gether extra-official. For such a revelation, the nature of the correspondghee furnishes no - excuse; whatever, - And here J might stop, for here ceases all that relates to the assu- My statements have been literally ver- ified. Confidential communications have, been divulged; the knowledge -of thei has reached a counsel ofthe persons im plicated; their publication was calcula- ted to defeat the object in view, and was calculated “guild has brought re- proach upon me; and I confidently ap- peal tb an enlightened community, whe- ther I do not stand justified for refusing any longer to act as special counsel un- der such circumstances? . * Although I should not have felt atlib- erty to publish the correspondence be- tween Gov. 'T. and myself, until cer- joice that it is roads pliblic; because it must dispel the gross exaggerations al- ready alluded to, and which1 now learn from hewspapers in this vicinity have been circulating to my prejudice _for more than a year, but which did not. sympathies were deeplysentistod in tent and ‘defivfixfiféfifluemtqflhrougwtmfite, and particularly in that region which was the scene of the outrages Wim Morgan, and where the trials of the of- fenders must necessarily take place.- From his former experience on the sub- ject, Mr. Throop knew perfectly well, thie use that would be- made of any fact, of any intimation, of any plausible sus- writers in the (Argus, now to pretend to question the ** moral complexion\ of the propositions submitted to Gov. \F which it is believed in any other case they would be the last to doubt, I think it due to the occasion to go out of the matter in issue, and meet the insinuation of the Argus on that subject, although was gratuitous, un- tain trials were had, yet. for myself I re= +- fox-flip“ ction for I a the ‘gfiiwem trivmphir hei punitys: A choice-of evils was: f inust co ers who were supposedto be boundrto- tions, must be resorted to, in order 146 break“ up their: confederacy, by : firs ing distrirst among theniseives, and al- hazard to the innocent,. yet the: safe: guards: provided by our constitution; might be securely relied on: 'for their protection. maine on the tained. weightof evidence thus ob- might.have«been my private means, yet as an officer of :the govern ment, I did not perceive that I had any been designated by the proper authori- ty; they had been for two years before the Legislature-and the public, and the designation hat remained in fall- force. Gov. Clinton's proclamation of March 19th, 1827, a copy of which is annexed, thousand dollars for the discovery .of the offenders, to be paid on their conviction, and on-the certificate of the prosecuting officer. - As the agent of the Executive. this was my law, and it will be seen by my letfer to: Gov. Throop, and particu- [larly the last, which the Argus has thought proper to suppress, that all my suggestions and proceedings were foun- ded on that proclamation. If then, these means of obtaining testimony are cen- ~rted; 7 1 t continue, . Or the ususl means. of detectibe gether by extraordinary ties and obliga- - though it might he attended: with some, - A jury must finally deter= ./ \But in the present case,. whateVér - judgment - - med accusation of GoverhuLleoopkE’m—n—bhe propriety of resorting to such-- discretfon.--Those: means-had @lready~ < *-* offered a pardon and a reward of two - tele oo aes\ oer een. ~- -=[ Fuffored-it-to-Fome Awateofthe motive w tapromptsthe istration of nearly a year, unrevoked ; upon Governor Yan Buren, who like- wise suffered it to remain, and especial- (ly-upon Lfeatenant Governor \Throop whose attention was farticularly called to it, and who was apprised that unless revoltéd; it would be considered in full force. 'The frankness and decision of: character so much extolled by the Ar- ig= --- isdom,-to-induce busy-mer to study his character, and to keep his commandments. | It was Simon Magus, who became converted by miracles a- lone; and it is remarkable, that the mul- titudes who had witnessed the feeding and healing of thousands, but who had not taken heed to his sermon on the mount, were swift to join in the shed- / ding of innocent blood; while thousands afterward, imbued with the doctrine of the cross, laid down their lives in mar- tyrdom. He that becomes antimason for 'the sake of politics, is a Simon Magus; but he, who in admiration of its political sway, examines its doctrines, will suf- fer martyrdom sooner than abandon its principles. If the people sho in= es of Antimasonry, only for the power it displays, wo to the party. | Power it has: but power is a slippery tie to hold together the throng of great people ; it has itself a repulsive property, danger- ous to its own existence in a republican oa Bi: *+ a it 4 é he pra Gov. Throop, and have brought forth observations, conjectures and aftempted explanations from many Editors who could know but little or nothing -of the subject, while Gov.Throop himself has thought proper to remain silent, unless a labored article which appears in the Albany Argus ofthe 20th instant, is to be considered as hisact. before the public my reasons for declin- ing, I might, with perfect propriety, leave the sufficiency of those reasons to be determined byan intelligent commu- nity, until they were denied by the per- son most foterésted in thefe refutation, who only could know whether, so far as they applied to himself, they were Lcorrectly-stated or not. But astheed- itor of the Argus states that he hasbeen furnished by Gov. Throop with the ma- terials for his defence, perhaps I am bound to considerthe defence put forth by the Argus, at least as a semi-official act. _ Havingno desire to..shrink from seem-to-incuipate the olficial conduct of e y- Mr:Spencer to to. The above exception is a direct admis- sion that he did certainly divulge the correspondence to those discrect and dis- interested friends whom he consulted to test the correctness of his own impres- sions, and perhaps to the Comptroller.- The charge is, that the correspondence was divulged, I know not how, or to | whom, but I did know that it had reach- Having-laid Fed a counsel of -the-porsonsimplicated. That it was divulged to discreet and disinterested friends, is admitted ; that it reached thecounsel spoken of, has not been, and will not be «denied. I will not be answerable for the construction ofthe editor of the American, or of any other person; although it is not surpri- sing that the editor of that paper should consider Gov. T. responsible for the acts of those to whom ho confided offis cial secrets, and that when they reach- ed a counsel by means of the revela- tions of the Governor, he should charge the Governor with making such revela- Hion-to t} -The difference be> picion, which would derogate from my character and impair my official useful- ness. His-anticipations have been re- alized. | 'The dark surmise to which his revelation gave birth, has spread from hand to hand, and from mouth to mouth, each on@ adding a tint to deepen the shade, until the most horrible phanta- sies have occupied the minds of some of 'our most honest and unsuspecting citi- zens, and bribery and perjury \have come to be considered by them as the usual and ordinary means of supporting the prosecutions in which I was engag- ed. 'The intrinsic difficulties of the case required not this addition to render al- most hopeless, the attempt to bring the offenders to justice, The Argus says the measures suggested couldnot be defeated by a publication of the corresqondonce. Itis impossible with in the limits to which these remarks ought to be confined, to follow the soph- istry of the Argus on this subject. . It perverts my remarks,& argues as if [ asarted that the refusal of the acting go- ~- -govermnents-brecehes occur; opposition arises, and theparty, by its own force, is severed and broken. Principle alone can be relied upon; thoroughly imbued and intimately incorporated jealousy of 'any allegation I have made, or from its full andthorough investigation, I shall notice the defence of the Argus, altho' the disadvantage is, most manifest of contendingwitha champion_instead-of. £ ad-of tween doing an act directly or indiroct- ly, is left for the casuistry ofthe Argus. Suffice it to say, that I stated the facts precisely as I know them to be : and that-thoso-facts- thg stated aro not de- yernor to consent that the witnessshould beinduced by promises of reward and favour \to testify against the lives of others,\\ had defeated those measures: M‘ffiismifl a legitimate means protect- it has not the remotest connexion with the facts alleged by me. That it may be properly understood 1 have annexed Gov. Clinton's proclamation of 19th March 1827, which was the foundation of the application to Gov. Throop; the letters published in the Argus and two other letters on the same subject, and in continuation of the correspondence, which the Argus has thought prop@r to suppress for reasons which will probably appear when the letter of Gov. Throop of April 27, 1829 is read. Upon the general question of the pro- priety of offering rewards and promises of pardon and favor to accomplices, in order to induce then to become witnes- ses; it, may be said with truth that there is no one point upon whictrall the go- verpments of the world haye better a- greed, than this. No form of govern- ment has evor existed, in which the practice has not been adopted and sanc- tioned, by rulers, magistrates and mor- ing the community from fraud and vio- lence: and in no country has this meas- ure been more frequently resorted to, than in our own, by the state govern- ments and by our local and munfe palau thorities. gus, may be estimated by a perusal of his answer to that notification. My proposition. was to give that proclama- tion effect. - It is idle to talk as the Ar- gus does, about surprising the, accused with testimony obtained by such means. That such means was intended to be resorted to, was maile public by the pro- action, and their egunsel. The appli- cation of 'those «means to a particular witness, could therefore be a surprise on no one, wherever that witness was pro- duced. From previous information there was every reason) to believe that Ad- ams was less guilty than any others ; close the truth; be had been frightened by information that he would bring pun- ishment upon his own head by a disclo- sure, and the indictment against him lad confirmed his apprehensions. - He € to remove these impediments to his atoning for his own misconduct by the only means in his power. - Governor Throop, himself, ad- aits the necessity of previous commu- nications with Adams, and impliedly if to none was it better known - | than to those-4faplicated in that trans- - was the only witness accessible, and it. __ he had once. evinced a disposition-to-dis--- --- ali- whether they conceal or exalt themselves. This prin- ciple, political antimasonry induces men - . to study; it brings home~to the voters of our country, the question of the ten- deney of secret societies: and when that question is understandingly put, they ; will decide against the mystic brother- hood of every name, with overwhelm- his principal, in a case where the cham- Lpion-knows nothing of the subject mat- ter but what lhe chooses to know, and carmot therefore be interrogated. principal appeared, he would be requir- ed to give a fulland perfect answer, and his silence-on a material point, would bo an admission against-him; while the champion would pretend, as Mr. Cros If the | nied, but are admitted. I abstained from 'all comment myself, and I will not be responsible for the-comments or infer- ences of others. Whether the Comp- troller, or the discreet or disinterested friends, were the organs of communica- tion to the counsel of the persons impli- cated, \I know not; it was sufficient for meto have ascertained tho fact;-that my Whereas, I have said no such ..thing, and as will ultimately appear, could not bave said so with truth, for it will ro- main 'to be seen whethor he did refuse such consent. - But as to the probable ted let my letter of March 29, 1829, be sead,and then suppose its contents com- raunicated to a counsel of the accused ; effect of defeating the measures sugge§~ It would be easy to enumer- ate instances almost without number, but as such a fact is presumed to be too will merely advert to two cases of re- cent occurrence. One of them is that of the Salem murder, ge and most tempting rewards have been offer- ed by the Governor of the state, by. th ing -oxjoritioe. - All men in this country are political. Any thing connected with politigsgwill be generally canvassed. | If it be dan- gerous to our free institutions, the rep- robation of free people will'stamp upon it; but if it be good, :it will outlive its 3 foes. We are willing to submit Free masonry to this ordeal; if it abide the trial, well; if not, let it perish. The wonderfal vigor of the cause in the political world, is the best hope of those who aim at the destruction of Freemasonry. 'The array of votes is sufficient to stop the mouth of falsehood; | but any thing short of the official ts- turns, does not preveiit honorable and intelligent guardians of the public from i announcifig the entire composure of the public mind upon this iritating subject. well has, to speak only hypothecally and conjecturingly, being supposed not to be acquainted 'with the subject. But since Gov. Throop has employed the Argus as his advocate on the occasion, it is submitted that he was bound to furnish hin with all the facts and ma- terials which were within his own know- ledge;-and that the silence of the Argus on any -point; is-to- be taken as the si- lence of Governor Throop. The point is thus pre- sented in tha lelfer to Gov. Throop.- Complaint is made that my official and confidential communications to the act- bag Governor, have been divaiged, and that they became known to a counsel of the persons implicated in the offences a- gains} William Morgan, . The conse- quences of that disclosure form another official confidence had been violated ; and thenceforth there could bb no fur- ther communications of a confidential character with the individual to whom alone that violation cold be attributed; and I accordingly gave up the station which could no longer be held with dig- nity or propriety as respected myself, or with any prospect of usefulness as it Irégarded the public,. The Argus affects to deny that \ so far as the public interests were concern- ed, it, (the correspondence,) had not then and was not now any thing confi- dential about it,\\ while it seems to ad- mit that K0 far as the parties to it were concerned, it was confidential, on ac- count of *' the moral complexion of the proposition contained in it;\ but with that the Argus says it has nothing to can argument be neccessary to show : that any attempts thereafter to induce Adams to testify, would be abortive ! The diligence and activity of those im plicated i of their associates, in thwart- ing every attempt to procure testimony, are too well known. If apprised of a point of attack, their readiness to cover that point would -be equalled only by | their ability to do so. Io vain would Adams' friends from Jefferson visit him; in tain would the proclamation of Gov. Clinton be shown to him, vain and ; fruitless would. be the promises of a pardon or of & molle prosequi. If this statement of the maller be not sufficient to satisfy every one, that the divulging that letter, would prevent the success of the measures su ed would frustrate the effect of these meas- municipal authorities, and by the rela- tives of the deceased. A New York pa- | per, of the 19th instant, contains the | proceedings Tn the care of Mr. Justice: Valentine, from which it appears that Mr. Maxwell, the distinguished district attorney of that city, visited one Ste-; vens, then imprisoned on a charge of forgery, and made him promises, to in- duce a disclosure of hisaccomplices. t- deed he must be (ignorant of the histo- ry of criminal justice, who does not know titat the most important convic-! tions that have ever taken place, have, been had on the testimony cf accompli- Fees, to whom favor, pardon, and re- wards have been offered as inducements. Without therefore, now discussing the abstract question of the morality of this ! practice, which T-am adutonished by the Botorious to have escaped recolfection, T not directly authorizes them. For how could his suggestion about exercising |the_common law power of f: ism, without previously obtaining the con- sent of Mr. Adams, that he would be ubject.of such favoritism 1 The only points of difference between Governor myself were these: first, that he would not give me written in- structions renewing the proclamation of governor Clinton, but left me to construs that proclamation as I saw fit; and se- cond, that \ the inducements which should thus be held out, should be made { publi¢, that the jury may judge of the i bias under which he gives evidence.\ This suggestion would of course_-have- been obeyed whenever the opportunity for doing so arrived, which would be when he should be offered as a witness to the jury who were to judge of his bi- as. W hat inducements were they which Gov: Throop refers to, as thoss which were to be thus held out ? Those author« ized by \the common law power of fa- voritism\ from which he says his as- sent will not be withheld. What is tas - that_power of fay ontism; but the offer- (as he calls it,) bo carried into effect - Indeed the official returns do not prévont the acting governor of New York from cormencing his annual message fo the ; Fegislatore, with an assurance, Gat fa feelings, Thostihty to masonry) cannot} and dislinet-topick:-Tho complaint is, | that a discl®Gure has been made. . How- is this answered 1 One would think that an inquiry £0 simple and direct, cauld [be met directly. ~ And when we see do. ~ Buf it.is submilted to an intelli- geot public, that 1 as one of the parties Have touch to do with that view of the 'And that if it was a more vio- % long exist beyond the limits of- their # proper sphere of action; and it is a tource of gratifization thatin this instance,they give evidehice of speedy limils of the Anti- masonic sphere in soctan pisc:- neatly five heavy columns of the Argos occupied in discussing it, we aro led to donkt_whether an equivocating argo- pot intended jnstead of a fair ment is ander. Such a quantity of fog was lation of confidence between a principal and his agent, calculated to “Eli re- prédch.on thai agent, it.was sufficiest to tertkigate Alf confidential Intercourse between'them, whether the \Eublic in- viction upon a subject. Which seems to me too palpable to the senses to admit of afgament-or Hostration. - - - The next point'to Achich my aften- tion is called, i# what the Argus calls the \\ moral complexion \ of the propo-| sitions made to the Governor; and this it says; is between myself and public o- piiten: t etile. The object of publish- ; ures; I should feet unable to-produce con- { tength of these remarks, would here be . inexpéedient, it is sufficient for my pur- pose that such a practice is sustained. and that it has been immemorially a- dopted by the most moral, intelligent, and exemplary men ju this and every civilized country; and I think the re- mark may be ventured, that unl after the outrages upon William Morgan, its Iwill endearorts if I can, whate terests w ot affected by the{ingitho correspondence at all, is now | propriety was never pub‘hgri question- for any other par- | disclosure. is seriously preten-Heveloped- fifwj—r fen, fed in this “if,“ H ever there existed = retha subject. - But] ded by the Ar, ¥Bat the publication {ayg.4bd public indignation against Te, case in which such means were proper, perietrate it, & seize | of propositions Sf doubtfal © moral that thus Governor Throop may escape! it was that of the offenders against Wim sufistance it envel- | complexion\ as Uisge w chitsays were {through the smoke of this new fire.-| Morgan. A citizen had been kidnapped) \* d F ras ol a - 11-1660 -I ted to bring reproath a . eto Gor -T- The: cature of the correspondence itself, and recognized by the law of the land} ring a pardon to a witiess by Whose les- timony a conviction is produced! This inducement then was to be \held ont,\ and he will not withhold his assent to the doing so. | Let those who tan, dis- erimitate between my proposition and Governor Throop's suggestion, inany other particular than the two above sta- ted; and when it is seen that heleft the proclamation offering $2000 in foll force, tand would not instroct -m it, it will be perceived that he self sanctioned that offer, and rance of a pardon on 'thetor in lw principle of favoritism\ althoogltcke ard cartied one hundred und fifty miles] shrank from the responsibility of giving ghgmmwmm a wafimwmfiwwaws. i s: t defatte, the law cooscd the personal kadwothing to do with the fact of its through a Thickly popo him? toon 955 ) written instractions to fififfiflw'fi A. Counsell making them ? And manld bot.eact ® being Cfvalged:; whless that divalging | to a fort belongin@ to the governme deny that there was Top dey fi reproach upon an officer, vestod with | 4s made th the???“ of muffins; : -G. s been {the higt Of Specail Lpurm{doty. ~Naosurh thing ts pretended: Jt] no | seh, max his every aed fristrate | uce do come ciscreit § oie. EYE; 5:13?“ E _ ‘ we\ te ly th test the \coe: E
