Christian Cynosure . incoln told him that he had neverbeen a Mason. Ex-President William Henry Harri-son was recently published as a Free Ma-son by a Masonic editor of an Indianapaper, notwithstanding the fact that theopposite is the truth. In Vol. III., Cy-clopedia of Political Science, PoliticalEconomy and United States History,page 1103, will be found the following in-teresting fact: Neither myself nor anymember of my family has ever been amember of the Masonic order. Since the death of Gladstone, theAmerican Tyler, a Masonic publicationof this country, claimed Gladstone as abrother Mason.
Christian Cynosure . incoln told him that he had neverbeen a Mason. Ex-President William Henry Harri-son was recently published as a Free Ma-son by a Masonic editor of an Indianapaper, notwithstanding the fact that theopposite is the truth. In Vol. III., Cy-clopedia of Political Science, PoliticalEconomy and United States History,page 1103, will be found the following in-teresting fact: Neither myself nor anymember of my family has ever been amember of the Masonic order. Since the death of Gladstone, theAmerican Tyler, a Masonic publicationof this country, claimed Gladstone as abrother Mason. A letter of inquiry ad-dressed to Mrs. Gladstone has broughtthe following reply: Hawarden Castle,July 30, 1898.—Dear Sir: Mr. Gladstonewas not a member of the order of FreeMasons. Sixteenth President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was not a Freema- We must borrow the answer of thewise man, who, when some one calledhim a fool, replied: Theres a varietyof opinions about that. July, 1899. CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. 67. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Secretary of State Under President Lincoln. William Henry Seward was born May16, 1801, in Florida, Orange County,New York. He was Governor of NewYork, United States Senator, and camevery near to being the nominee for Pres-ident instead of Abraham Lincoln. His first political success was his elec-tion to the State Senate of New York onthe anti-Masonic ticket. From the American Statesman series,recently published, I quote from pages12-15 of Sewards life, the authors ac-count of political anti-secrecy: Upon the disappearance of the Na-tional Republican party, Seward joinedand soon became active in the anti-Ma-sonic party in Western New York, ofwhich Thurlow Weed was a moving spir-it. The rise and progress of this party isone of the most curious episodes in ourState and national politics. In 1826 there lived in Batavia, in theState of New York, one William Mor-gan, a most humble and insignificant per-son, a Freemason, whose extreme pov-erty tempted
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