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Excerpt from Free-Masonry Unmasked, or Minutes of the Trial of a Suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, Wherein Thaddeus Stevens, Esq. Was Plaintiff and Jacob Lefever, Defendant
F OB many years after the startlingdisclosures of the principles of masonry, made b Captain morgan, the L1: Rov convention, bernard and other seceding Masons, the Fraternity, from their most respectable Kings and Great Grand High Priests down to their most servile lacquies, eitherby direct allegations. Or significant insinuations, pro nounced those disclosures false and fictitious. So monstrous was the Masonic combina tion; so degrading its Ceremonies; and so iniquitous and blasphemous its Oaths, Obliga tions and Penalties, that it was difficult for honest, honorable and ingenuous men to be lieve that they had been submitted to and propagated by their worthy and respecta ble neighbors, whom they knew to be Masons. A large portion of community rejected those disclosures as fictions, invented and propagated from interested and ambitious motives. Many, misled by the assertions of Masons, disbelieved the abduction and mur der of Morgan. A large portion of intelligent, but somewhat haughty citizens, trea ted the subject with disdain, and of toolittle importance for serious investigation. The testimony relied on originated at too great a' distance, and much of it wanted the sanc tion of Judicial authority.
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