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----HENRY W; HOPEKINE. year: for them in advance, $1 50, Rates of Advertising.-50 conts per square T= === ===\ for thé first insertion, and for every subsequerit , which masonry Insertion.25 conts. » . *,\ Al communications addressed to the Ed- itor must be freé of postage. % , PRIDTTENG, -Books, pamphlets, hand- - (where several masons met and consul- 'bills;. blanks, «ards, &¢, &e. neatly executed; tod Upon the propriety of aiding in .the on new and handsome'type, gun}! In a menner conspiracy, and upon the means of gon« |, thit will mot fail to, please. 1PORTANT DISCLOSURES, < From the Draywn(0ihiu) Republican. - a enc tes -m Wnixzdwamtzvn—arvfipmfiwn, By \ TERMS.-Tovillage and mail subscribers $2 00 in advance, or $2 60 at the end of the y Those who take their papers at the of- fice, $200 :-To Companies of 18, or more, -=- who receive their papers it the office, and pay ' VOL. 1 M allt ~> : #7 mn\ini 'Be JUST-AND FEAR Nor.\ b COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1831. - 4 \and I ‘yqrfixtjllxq‘highgsfgopiidémfiqflv Our opponents would\ to - add degrade Antimasoney down to a evel with thei own selfish purposes, They , -. | would endeavor to make us*believe = that we have undertaken to éffect ah NO. 17 |abject disconnected with politics, and as it is, could neither temper or soften. , He stated itt the Lodge in Canada {tions from Col. King, but never .compli ed with thein ; Col, Jewett howeve supposed he did. Eyeyiugiflurgan out of the country fnd {in my presence on another decasion that , Morgan deserved to die for revealing rrejoiee to have an opportunity to put | him to death, and if he was to be pun- , ished for the deed, he. would willingly communicated to Lim, and: went imine: the jury of inquest ; and heustated. t » all charitable and divine. washed ashore the preceding night.- Giddins actually \received . such direc- Some time during that autumn a dead | Gov. Clinton and body was discovered which had washed \us'hore afew -miles from the fort; | Col. { vea King, it is said was much agilit‘edhaggl; ~* =KTE. Editor : T propaie to state to the he-seerets of masonry; that hé woult [alarmed, when that cireamstance was | pufilic,'tho~evidengé and circumstances which have convinced me that Morgan was put to death by Frpmn'mhnq; and diately to Lewiston to avoid being on -| would all go and do their- duty. © rv to see which three of them should take his life ; but another observed that they * Antl boro I cannot forbear. to 'relate a conversation which took place between ictory Birdseye. Esq. the Special counsel appointed by. the Go¥erninent of New York, to conduct lie Morgan trial. _ This. conversation | publican party, we' I pavil d- gecurred some tile during the spring the ‘lirusies of these modern S9NTY ©Ome in. direct coflision with our Subsequent to the abduction of Morgan, and was communicated to me by Mr. a - f ® not a matter n any way affecting : our political destiny. Did-we believe them sincere in. thete declarationg, we should Republican party, and its expositions €€! compassion fin: llleir'qut of un- of the constitution, as- adopted by- Jef. derstanding, “F\? pity their- short sight- ferson, (by. Madison and by- Mon?os, edoess ; but as it is, we look upon the havealways received <our hearty ap-| fort as an Attempt to divert id from a probation; pontinuing to be guided: by most important task, by. artificés con- these well settled maxims of the 'Re- ganged-m the most [profligate spirit of o' inot. but protes cal depravity. 'Had-not. Freema- We have taken as Republicans no new groundyand the: principtes of the expounders, who, adopting the dogmas laws ; had it not rendered itself .P,°}ifi' of the political einpires of the, present | cal by a direct attack upon our political ; instituthon«, wo-nueht- . p’glmcxplcs? , I am confident that those who have tra-! ced the progress of that conspiracy, §o' dark and fearfulin its character, can no' longer resist the conviction that it end- murder. The first reason which L shall off {ascend the scaffold and glory to die a martyr in the cause of Eréematonry ; | for he egnsidered its destruction as a Dr. Pope of that place, that he believer to go aud disinterit that night [gab, Garside came to me while 1 was ‘rf in the Fort, and inquired if Morgan was | it was the body of Morgan and request Birds 1 7 masoun. ry will hang around it forever. ! he supposed Clinton mistook him for a I make this disclosure to show reat public calamity : On Saturday |; 'o go a r &! [why this catastrope has so long remain- | h . a ; greal p a di ity : _ On anlurday (and make a skeleton efit. When Gid-] ed.concenled-inelouds-and-darkness;| sages and fathers of the-Republic- ed in the. foulest and . most deliberate . previous to the disappearance of Mur- vd‘ms was on his return from York, U. [ C. where he was at the time Morgan was removed from: the magazine, ho} Governor stated to £8 Land that it-is-probablea gloomy myste- | The doy t proms these-rmeas-fimg -| led doctrines of the old federal school | 59\ to doubt the propriety of the meas- and bot bedabsurdities of southern \\BS We have adopted to remove It.- Hical enemy,is fact. seek to be guided- by the contemporg- | Of Which he who has ‘taken’ the least neous expositions of our constitution, | 4o enguire must be convinced, ; nd found ; That it has defeated the operations of lifers, in place of the. doctrmes or- the; But that Freemasonry -has-rendered -it= - ---- ~ een i . 4 and which naturally induces the belief that he was murdered is, that he ha sworn in a lodge and chapter, that h would forfeit his life if he should ever reveal the secrets of Freemasonry or violate its masonic obligations. As an entered Apprentice, he ha aworn if he ever revealed the secrets or' violated the obligations of that degree *to have his throat cut from ear to ear his fongue torn out by the roots, and his body buried in the rough sands of the sea,\ &c. ° - Asa Fellow Craft, to have his left: ~ breast forn-open, and his heartand } As a Master Mason, to have his body severed in two in the midst, his bowels burnt'to ashes, and); the ashes scattered to the four winds of, tals taken out. heaven. As a most excellent Master to have his breast torn open his hear and vitals taken from thence, and ex posed to rot on a dung hill, As a Roy al Arch Mason, to have the top of his | 'skull smote off, and his brains exposed to the scorching rays of a meridian sun These were the penalties annexed to the wilful violation of the several obli gations I have enumerated ; and every Royal Arch Mason inplicates and in yokes upon himself those horrid penal ties, on condition of his not keeping his ! masonic obligations inviolate. It wil be borne in mini, that the revelations Morgan was about to make, created ' stiff in the magazine. 1 repfied that I believed he was, but had never seen him. what I had before heard him remark concerning Morgan ; stated that he wag write no more bouks.\ willing to put hiin to death, and asked { me if I would go and introduce him to d € 8 sent and put him to death in the maga- zine. 'I refused to comply with his re- | that he assisted at his murder. quest, Col. King resided gbout one: mile from the Fort, was two days pre- ‘quent to the abduction 'of Morgan, the s 4 olent Clopter at Lewiston, and was ia high degree on account of his myste- considered on ageount of his high ma-] . respectable rank as a citizen, as the most l were endeavoring to mnvestigate the af proper person (o direct the? movements fair, that a company was collected. t in relation to Morgan. No measure of rake Niagara river to discover if possi importance would have been taken (ble, the bedy Garside was exceeding without his consent or approbation, J I woul! here remark that I then con- | to Giddins his fears that the body would t gatory and that the abduction of Mor- fin such a place, it makes my heart leap lnmguzine,‘ the plan of taking him to[put him, and by heaven Ihef’ll find , Quebec and from thence to England | him.\ 'their nature as the obligation to keep|to take it fair into the lake where it ~ the-secrels-of-a-brother nnl'rllp-r and trea- ay :.| -be-secure-The fvlbhuhlk degla- \ son not excepted,or to extricate a broth} rations of Garside have been proved in er from difficulty whether right or wrong, { a court of justice. | vrany uther secret of masonry. The hxlun to seize and convey Morgan out of the country was deliberated upon, and matured in the silent and secret con - office, in inquired of the captain of the boat, a! I mason, what they had done with the fis then repeated in substance} prisoner ; the captain replied, that he ** guessed he was put where he would Anler Giddins returned it was stated u d in 1ee I to | to hil that Morgan had been murdere?] Col. King, that-he might obtain his con\ | and Garside by inuendoes clearly indi- cated that such had been his fate and Some timeiduring the spring subse- ; vious instafied High Priest of a benev- | people of that vicinity were excited to high im rious absence and the taunts and re- {sonic office, as well as his elevated antfiproaches of masons cast upon those who, { gan by masons, his confinement in the into ny mouth, for there is where we! murder committed. if Murga'n was drowned in the' river, none could ever be convicted of his inurder;\ \for said he, \as you law- yers know, in order to convict a person of murder, it is first necessary that a murder should be judicially proved ; the | mere absence of aman is not sufficient. A inurder must be provedeither by the discovery of the dead body, or by the confession of the murderers, or by the testimony of the witnesses who saw the t It is not probable R * that the body will ever be discovered) compromising hostility to Secret Sucie- ; tributes of sovereignty we have resery - for if it was thrown into the river, 1 . weights, were doubtless attached to if to -more-particutarly the institution-of Vils hich constituted au- keep it down; neither is it probable h h e murderers-will ever confess ?}--other- peopardises- the - liberties -of -thre-thorised-to-effect-;-and-while -we. seo. id if there were witnesses standing.on | the bank of the river they could not ; testify so as to convict them of mur- ly alarmed at this movement, and stated | der ; for Niagara river separates two dis- , ? \ tinct governments, and the dividing line 4snlered my masonic oaths morally obli- be found; for he said **when they rake l passes through the middle of it. Now til would be. iinpossible for witnesses, standing opon the bauk in the night ting, to tell whether Morgan was mur- lan He then proposed to go and dered on this, or that sid of the line; , were all secrets as . strictly masonic in fish for the body, and if they found it whether he was murdered in the United States or in Canada; and until that quostion was determined 3; -they cout not know what gourt would have ju-/ publican brethren throughout the Uni- Soon after: Morgan's : risdiction of the crime, whether a court j ted States to arrest its progress, and t9 j 209, . h -. iqurder, Howard of Buffato, whom the? of the United Stats or of Canada. [ destroy 'its pernicious influence 'over, Snffered-to exist in conjunction with citizens of Batavia endeavored-to Ar-. It is now imipossilild to ascertain if the i rest, for selting fire to Miller's Drilliingimlmlerers of Morgan foresaw these con- 7 - - until we become ignorant of these, “gt“ !aws in (h‘mr—flrfimfi to detegtd-aTd cannot look for direction in Constitution , punish the “Inf?\ cur’mplramrsran the al and political matters, . to the nearly | murderers of Morgan is now “d‘ic'm'°° extinguished light of Freemasoory, nor fluarly- [\\’.\°d_ to admit af doubt.- be diverted from our opposition to the Therefore, in view of the whole ground institution-and its corrupt political al-] WC are Conv‘mced that our present lies, to wage a war with, the. amhudiud,£fl‘l‘£ opposition to masonry-ls ill? 6 fancies of the brotherlaod. s further and, therefore, we appdose i p . We have not lightly nor withoi4 Continuance through the medium of the good ground, adopted as the leaduig I‘mllut boxes, as the only sure aufl ef- and prominent principle of the republi-; “fut“! morle to accomplish our object. can cause we are now pursuing, an un-] The right of suffrage is one of the at- ties, viewing them at this day mulfl‘,’ to ourselves for the redress of all e- Frecinasonry, as an evil that above all ; thorities are either to weak or unau- citizens and one calculated in its na-] bat first and greatest °|’J?°_t of “Te ture, eventually, it it be suffered to ex-; goverl)lxlenls.—tlne mvmla'h‘xhly of the ist and extend its powers, to over.. and rights of the citizen, tatal- throw the Constitution under which m‘)’ destroyed by the. arts of .mas‘onry, is our happy lot to live, we' feel our- 228 the law, that safeguard; instituted selves called upon by the highest mo- , for the protection of our persons and tives of patriotism and duty, by. the, OU\ fights, set at nought, defied, baf- most enlarged and comprehensive views fed, and trampled upon by an institr~ of political propriety, we are capable of tion, thet not only hoasts blll“ has main- taking, to uppose its further cuntiuu-““”‘?da supremacy over it, we will ance in this country. And we do re-} COPlinue to exercise that power which new the pledges of our most zealous ! * have reserved, in the way ‘Vh'fh as sceomed to-oradi exertions, in co-operation with the Re-1 \** do-us-n to-crad {eate that evil, proven to be of such a nature that it cannot with safety be i A t-mete; those institutions,-which-aro_at “unnfirenuhlican governments and ropublican I Incl ; the boast and security of our free prin- | pr”:';‘f\“\ EH- A farl-m-the-accom- great-him-mmong -the fraternity: 1 'They foresaw. that the ruin of the insti- } tution was inevitable, if he was suffered ' to proceed ; and as the, masons then: reflection that they had done theirduty. Aixng-v—nnl; Mfifigfiélfi Cfififig‘glgt“ lffi‘ what fim imvew-of the transaction as a Ht of their obligntionsy aud ~did mormore and Grand Lodge had a right to tr punish Morgan for Masonic tre , and much importance will be attached to. this, when it is recalled to mind that masons universally have asserted that Morgan bad forfeited his life, and if he was put to death it was no more than . be deserved. 1f there is no meaning in the penalty, there is none in any part of the obliga- tiqnfimd if masons were not bound to execute the penalty upon Morgan, when according to the obligation he had for- feited his fifo by making a disclosure, then they are not bound by any part of the oath. When Morgan was first brought to Fort Niagara, it was expected that the Canadian masons would assist in carry- order-to-dests y- t claves of the lodge roums, and by com- mittees chosen by the different Lodges were then in that office for publication, and Chapters in the western partof the fled to N. York city, entered the Grand of operations. - The disposition made of ren, declared himself concerned in the Morgan was considered as strictly a ma-! murder of Morgan. - Money was then sonic measure ; for his seizure and theEgiven out of the funds of the Grand efforts to suppress the publication of his) Lodge which had been amassed for sonry, to save the institution from re-; where he has resided ever since. In proach and ruin; and every mason un- extricating him from his diffi¢ulties, the derstood that he was compelled to keep lived up to the letter and dpir- masonic secret, without an injunction tirim their duty as masons. Mr. Grif- ~to that effect. Butt wasenjortmed, and? fin, a lawyer of celebrity in Rochester, i1 presume others were to keep what!a freemason, who- has been employed was comiliunicated to us as such ; and 'as counsel in all the Morgan trials, sta- even thetoath of a master mason was ted that it was communicatd to him that sulliciently comprehensive in its (onus-[three persons rowed Morgan into the , to embrace every thing that was then river, threw him overboard and that entrusted to us. Although Col. Jew- they narrowly escaped falling in after ett, the superintendent of the Fort, and him. myself had determined to know as litte About six months after the disappear- . about the transaction as possible, yetiance of Morgan, a Knight Templar, at; some things of consequence were com- t gontleman now a resident of Michigan, , municated to me, and so long asfcon- of high standing, of estimable and un-) idered my masonic obligations binding, impeachable character, who had many I was never at liberty to reveal this re- opportunities of knowing what his fate j | quest of Garside, or any thing in rela- ' was, communicated to me, as a masonic tion to Morgan of which I had knowl- secret, that he had been murdered by free- edge, to any except freemasons ; and I- masins. 'This occurred at Fredonia, N. am filled with sorrow and indignation | Y. when on my way to Michigan, and wher J remain a lave to those wicked. was the first positive information 1 re- seerets-sequences, but from what his alrcady which Morgan had revealed, and which.; been stated, it is evident that they were Inn-n of good standing, shrewdness and hd PMA (00 intelligence, and not the rash and infat * universally believed These Ebliflntionsrsmw’ arranged -the-plam'-Lodge, and in the presence of the breth- uated persons that some have suppo- have religiously binding, reckless and enthu- siastic men could be found, so attached to the institution, that they would not hesitate to execute the penalty of some one of these obligations upon Morgan, and satisfy their consciences with the sed. JAMES A. SUED. From the Cayuga Wepublican Extra. ADDRESS book, were made for the benefit of ma- charitable purposes ! he fled to England | TO THE ANTLMASONIC REPUBLICANS OF THE COUNTY OF CaYUGa. A Maxiresro signed by two bun J not without the sagacity to perceive, dred and forty-two persons who have hat after the nah-Hy shoulx! be won, vassumed the task of re-organizing. the i \** should have firn and immovable s - g. D00 I0 BNC MNMDYA ' broken ranks of the Masonic Regency | ground to stand upon, in the existence ! party in this County, and among wllom’ur those principles, which are the on- HUS DRE Db aso 810. but the consequence ehour opposi- 'we recognize ons Iw entyv-roum persons known to be Freemasons of the highest influence in 'the Chapters and Lodges, has lulcly!p“y a compliment to the disbanded been issued and madly addressed by its | members of the old federal party, nor contrivers to the members of the Re- | !* OUT purpose like those signing the no other A party to be at this day existing in this 388Ume a variety of names, as the moun- y, whose xu‘incil'k‘s and practices tebank assmimes his motly vestments to » f pablican party. Believing \count Antimasonic Republican party, deein it our duty as members of that |©\ party, to noticean appeal to us, from - j 'so farge a body of our fellow -citizens. because finch an appellation designates We feel it also a duty to notice: this|29 «®)sting faction, address to us, as jt comes from the %0Nmen to-day, because the name we ' members of & faction, which, by means bore yesterday nay not suit ”‘f’ politi- Of justify them in assuming the appella-‘sm‘mnm gaze of vagrant eyes. tion of the Republican party, save the | MAY®vbjections to any and all appella- we | that do not plamly and unequivo- a Tg fim Out \of \thu cotmiry ; but they? i | baneful oaths, refused, he was incarcerated in the mag.; 894. P3\ <\ 'deelaration of Garside I attributed to have stated above, and which did not his excessive zeal and enthtisiasm im the transpire witlin my own knowledge, 'cause of freemasonry, and did not sup- had not then been communicated to me, azine, where he remained five days.-- It would seem that the masons of N. Y. were thwarted in their original in- The conduct and ceived of his fate, for the facts which 1 corpt commnmmor with Preema- ciples. -H Atitimasons 'To the principles of Jefferson, of} plishment of the great work they have Madison and Monroe, to the princi- lflnderlu!(e|), ”WW!\ the lfgnuranfufflhe ples of the Old Republican party, we Mattention, the time-serving spirit of superadided nothing that those, 10° P°ople of these United States, and principles themselves have not called j l-rcenjnsoury be again suffered to for and sanctioned, and when in sccor- estabh>h_ herself \.\‘|lh her mummeries, dance with the dictates of those princi- ceremonies, her titles, her assumption [ ples we unbesitatingly encountered a; of supremacy over the law conceded, - s cis he r d 1 Phe law | most poweiful and secret foe, we were where is her power “JFK”! 1 1 1.3 K that boast of human wisdom, That just object of human pride even in this land, where we clam for a most sublime su- premacy; has been trodden under foot , by masonry : and now if the people are to become recreant, if the spirit of 76 is to become tamed under the frown of arrogant, presamptuous Freemason- ry, we have roegson to fvar that such a result would finally and effectually solve the problem whether man is or is | uut capable of self-governipent. We ask the attention of our fellow- citizens to the present history .of the We ! Morgan outrage, | What bas the law h (dune to redress the wrong Freemason- ry has offered to this community 1 In comparison to the crime, nothing.- © The murderer of Morgan for ought wo know, while you read this, is sneering [in your very face, confident in the em- brace uf an order which defies both yuu and law. 'Constitutions are not worth ithe paper on which they are written,' if they protect not the person and tho ton to Masonry. We cannot at this time sttp aside to address to which we have alluded, to ly indicate our principles. We can- not consent to be called Regency men, We are not Jack- | 12 4 Lea b sonry and a powerful mopied aristoc. UbNtonians who will only meet upon racy, backed by the official patronage) ErOUnds which they may c'aim to oc- of the State and General Government, in common with oll opponents, \counts upon deceiving thre, who with 20d range under a name whieh has no' rights of the citizen. There is no civil liberty where. laws havo not their force. If these be trua, and they seem to us as undeniable propositions, we are far, ve tentions, and as they dare not liberate him because so many respectable men were implicated in the ewmiit of his ab. duetion, they held a consultation upon his disposal, and deliberately came to the conclusion, that he merited death for hating violated his masonic obliga- tions, and that they would assume the. awful responsibility of becoming execu- fioners. At this consultation, it has since been proved in a court of justice, were seven masons, all of them intelh- * and. respectable etisess il, 2 _, away, I supposed the Canadians thew tickets until they were far from ~ one of them however recanted, bart pose it, was the original design of masons Thus gentleman did not relate it to me to put Morgan to llgnlh. On the con- as having occurred within his own trary, I was informed it was nol their knowlege, but as having been com- intErGon to do mt UTE Teast nant, oat Wuncated to min at a Secret by some their object was to convey him to Eng- { of the brethren. He stated that eight land, on board a Britsh vessel, if they masons held a consultation upon the could find one whose commander w as a disposal of Morgan, and agreed to draw mason, to suppress the publication of lots to see on which three of shpm it this book, and it was stated That They 'should fall fo execute him ; and they , would support his fainity in Ins absence. put eight tickets intoa hat, and on three I was not then prepared to expect, what of them were certain marks, and it was E believe soon after transpired, and agreed that each ene should draw, im- . when } was told that Morgan had been mediately eeparate, snd not examine had feally concluded to aid in the con- 'each other; the five who drew blanks ourselves are - inclined. to aq.. become odious to them front long 1&1“ here to Republican principtes, into its fumed opposition. We shall not as upport. In all the contests which {} principles have been obliged to wage, lo-mor‘mw for the purpose cf securing they have never encountered more up. SUCH Freemasons, as will only join tus equal odds than in the present struggle under a name which will serve in some £ ; cers with this aristocratical combination ._. Jegree to cover: their political versatili- : From this contest, Freemazanty would! {*> \ divert vs, by devices as weak and shal. 2\ I have afficed the term Antimasonic But [as the Repullicans of ©86 affixed the in this they cannot succeed, for while A04-Federal] to indicate our pros- low as its purposes are. corrupt. an eneiny threatens to burn our diel ry far from enjoying the rights, the immunities of free citrzens, wlule an in- stitution exists among us -with -power sufficient to nuthly out laws. We-can not believe ourselves mistaken when we 9msider masonty as dangerous to the permanency of Our civil institu- tons. Wa cannot consider ourselves arming to accomplish an object not le- gitimately within the scupe of our po- htical duties, when we oppose the fur- , ther continuance af masonry. We have CUs the appellation of exclusrye repulilicans We are Antimasonic Republicans 1 ent leading pirpose- appetiz «lings and our title deeds, we shall not: N90 Of which we are. proud . one bJ ine vearrant of the strongest evidences - he drverted from our defence, alt} iwhich we desire do be known now *d in, declaring that the evil which most into tears and-said; + Gentlemen, 1 aim bound as a nmson to go with you, but it is getting late, and 1 wish to be ex-\ cused. They then postponed this es-: ecution to some more convenient time, but went to the magazine, reproached Morgan with the awful! guilt of viola- ting his masonic obfigations, fold him j «piracy, and had taken him to Quebec. ' were to return home different ways, It would have been difficult at the time that they might net know who drew, to convince me that he had ben mur- ' the tickets with marks, and of course . ' dered ; for 1 hadtoo high an estimation cout not be witnesses against them.- for the honor and benevolence of these The three who drew those marks were 'men who took an active part in the to repair to the magazinenal a certain transaction, to believe they would be hour, and put him to death. About six to be dune by attaching heavy weights This was <to induce us, he should throw down' hereafter ; it is a name hy which histe- - 59) our fences, and turn the \geese and the' \Y Wil deseribe the greatest moral and hogs and the cattle into our meadots and POMi‘f‘l emu} ever nndertaken to ac whect firds.\ We are not of that oface! COmplish a victory over error, <uppos that shoulder the musket to wage , ' tnre, an d political PrfifllgaC)'1: Jf our war with the crows that infest our cannot see in antimasonic corn fields, while the enemy is muster\ PMDCpPles and motives which elevate it ing his forces fur the purpose mat only (shove the crevelling and «clfish pur threatens our Republican hstitnlions at this day is Masonry. It hinders the administration of justice, -sets life“ up above the Constitution, feadt its or. ganized and systematic exertion, to de- feat the nperations of the laws-dispen- ses its treasures and charities to kfxlnap- pers and murderers-comforts in its.bo- he had not long to live, and asked hiny whateath he preferred to die. Mor-) gan replied. ' T am a soldier, shool me; buCif you put me to death, you will do masonry m_ gerious injury than to suffer me-to-live,\ _.On the subsequent night a simlar eonaoitation was held at aefrich four masons were present. - The conduct and détlarations of Gar- 'side, a Canadidn, and a Royal Arch Mascnare worlkyof notice -He was a man of savage and relentless disposition, guilty of such a crime. @a weeks his disappearance, 1 heard him. and tbrowing. hun into the rv,. | Eli Bruce, Then High Shend! of Niagara .or. Weights have since beea found in county, in a consersation with. Colonel the river, while rakimg for his body.-, Jewett, remark that if Morgan was put | The enilarity between this and the pre-; mto the river, it was probable the fish vious consaltations that were held, as had-exten-him,-omfe-was-com d-in-testified -by in-Conet,-ceenis-t some other manner before that time, so render this account rery probable ; for that there was no danger of his ever it was stated by bim that one of the being found. Jewett chserved that Gri-. seven who wero at the council beld: dins walked the beach ofthe lake every near tho magazine, the evening after} . morning, to see if any désd body had Morgan's amval, PW ots A of driving ns from the also. A ~ ~As members of the OHM Democratic | &= the fauit is mot ours. Republican party, and adopting and embracing its principles, it gives us pleasure to discover so many, who, 7 N have heretofore been its uncompromie. , PASONIF. again we say the fall is not ing opponents, now acknowledge = the | \- soundness of its doctrines ;\ and M‘ple by the ffmze of argunrents and rea- every one of these-charges, serious as would give us greater pleasare suil, | 50\ alone ; it romes with a, train Sfla is, is supported by the most clearand could we declare our belief that their! Cts and evidences. clear, indispO®ble)undsaisbis evidence. We caono; be- ! poses of office-seekers and office-hold ad ilty-asserta som the convicted a gouty - If they - wit jand exercises over the life and liberty [shat oat Frogi Their minds the contem- bf its members an authority and a pow- { plation of the broad and canstitutianal! fe or recognised by any { h / jer not known io, $ ground upon which we oppose Fre® | oumyed government on earth, These are facts not nttered without to substantiate them., Each and Antimasonty appeals to the peo- | essions of attachment to its prine:., 400 conclusive, The meanest shove any intelligent man, whososenses ples were any thing Nat feigned \ean drerern thg force, asd TFT! not blinded by pastioo, interest, 5f
