The Formation of the Anti-Masonic Party The disappearance and probable murder of Morgan in New York State had caused much agitation against the Free Masons, and a political party arose pledged to oppose the power and influence of this oath-bound secret order whose members, it was asserted, were banded together to con- trol the government and to direct or prevent the admin- istration of the courts and the laws in their own in- terests. Stevens became one of the adherents and leaders of this new party. Stevens proceeded to defend the morality of the men who had disclosed the oaths and secrets of Free Masonry. He denounced the lodge as an improper banding together of men under oath of mutual support, to secure immunity in improper conduct and to pro- mote one another to improper place and power, — to secure power for other than public ends in every place where power is of importance.
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