Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Miscellany of the Masonic Historical Society of the State of New York, 1902
It caused thousands of good, honest men to be carried away by the outbreak of popular delusion until they violated their oaths and joined madly in the hue and cry against the order to which they had belonged. It separated families, it arrayed father against son, brother against brother, and wife against husband. It excommunicated from church, it debarred from civil or professional preferment it denied even the poor favor of decent burial to those who failed to renounce the obligations they had voluntarily taken upon themselves to be good men and true, to support the laws and the Government, to deal justly with all men, to practise charity, inculcate morality. The whole anti - Masonic crusade was in itself one of the most hideous which the force of popular delusion ever endowed with strength. It spared neither age nor character; a hero of the Revolution, a warrior of 1812, a preacher of the gospel, a philanthropist, or a public-spirited citizen was besmirched in memory or in person by its senseless vaporings. It became a mighty political tornado, sweeping everything in its narrow path before it, and then it passed away leaving nothing behind it but wreck and ruin.
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