Anti-Masonic Party.
This political party arose in New York in response to the 1826 disappearance of William Morgan, a Mason. His lodge was suspected of murdering him in revenge for his publication of the organization's secrets. When state and local officials, mostly proto-Democrats, procrastinated in the investigation, angry citizens formed a political party and in ... ...
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