The Mysteries of Free Masonry: Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's LodgeMorgan, William
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The Mysteries of Free Masonry: Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge
Morgan, William
Freemasonry -- United States -- Rituals
Upon leaving the prison door
he was seized in the streets of Canandaigua, and notwithstanding his
cries of murder, he was thrust with ruffian violence into a carriage
prepared for that purpose. At Batavia he had been torn from his
home--from his wife and infant children. At Canandaigua he was falsely
beguiled from the safe custody of the law, and was forcibly carried,
by relays of horses, through a thickly populated country, in the space
of little more than twenty-four hours, to the distance of one hundred
and fifteen miles, and secured as a prisoner in the magazine of Fort
Niagara. This was clearly proved on the trial of persons concerned in
the outrage, and who were found guilty and sentenced to various terms
of imprisonment. The fate of Captain Morgan was never known, but it is
supposed he was taken out into the lake, where his throat was cut, and
his body sunken fifty fathoms in water. About the same time, Col.
David C. Miller, the publisher of the book, was also seized, in
Batavia, under the color of legal process, and taken to Le Roy. The
avowed intention of Col. Miller's seizure was to take him where Morgan
was--and where that was may be best gathered from the impious
declaration of one of the conspirators, James Ganson, for several
years a member of our Legislature--that "he was put where he would
stay put until God should call for him." Miller was, however, set at
liberty, as the inhabitants of Le Roy interfered with the schemes of
his kidnappers. He soon after put to press the first part of the
volume which is here presented to the public. Additions have been made
to Captain Morgan's revelations, from time to time, until we are now
able to make public all the Masonic degrees of any note or interest,
entered into by modern Freemasons.
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