History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . 22 WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS [1835 residing in Western New York, was re-ported about to expose in a publicationthe secrets of that order. The Masonswere desirous of preventing this and madeseveral forcible efforts to that end. Mor-gan was soon missing, and the excitingassumption was almost universally madethat the Masons had taken him off. Therewas much evidence of this; but convictionwas found impossible because, as wasalleged, judges, juries, and witnesses werenearly all Masons. An intense and wide-spread feel
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . 22 WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS [1835 residing in Western New York, was re-ported about to expose in a publicationthe secrets of that order. The Masonswere desirous of preventing this and madeseveral forcible efforts to that end. Mor-gan was soon missing, and the excitingassumption was almost universally madethat the Masons had taken him off. Therewas much evidence of this; but convictionwas found impossible because, as wasalleged, judges, juries, and witnesses werenearly all Masons. An intense and wide-spread feeling was developed that Masonryheld itself superior to the laws, was there-fore a foe to the Government and mustbe destroyed. The Anti-Masons becamea mighty political party. Masons weredriven from ofifice. In 1832 anti-masonicnominations were made for President andVice-President, which had much to do withthe small vote of Clay in that year. It wasthis party that brought to the front polit-ically William H. Seward, Millard Fillmore,and Thurlow Weed. In 1833 Massachusetts, New York, and. Thurlow Weed. Worn an unpublished Photograph by Disderi^ Paris^ in 1861. In tk^ possession of Thurlow Weed Barnes^ 1835] LIFE AND MANNERS 125 Pennsylvania passed laws suppressing lot-teries, but the gambling mania seemed totransform itself into a craze for banks. Inmany parts this was such that actual riotstook place when subscriptions to the stockof banks were opened, the earliest comerssubscribing the whole with the purpose ofselling to others at an advance. To makea bank was thought the great panacea forevery ill that could befall. In this we seethat the American people, bright as theywere, could be duped. Less wonder, then, at the success of theMoon Hoax, perpetrated in 1835. It wasgenerally known that Sir John Herschelhad gone to the Cape of Good Hope toerect an observatory. One day the NewYork Sun came out with what purportedto be part of a supplement to the Edin-burgh yi92<r?«a/ of Scie
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