Anti-Mason

Millard Fillmore, a New York Anti-Mason from the start, became president in 1850.

William Seward, another New York Anti-Mason, became Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state, serving as a key member of the president’s wartime cabinet.

And, like an anti-Mason and Dixon, he is unconcerned about boundaries, which the states can also work out themselves.

The petition was favorably considered, but before it could be acted upon the Morgan anti-mason riot broke out, and the Masonic Hall, where the chapter met, was burned by the mob and all the records consumed.

Massachusetts sent Charles Gordon Greene, the veteran editor of the Boston Post; Benjamin F. Butler, then known as a smart Lowell lawyer, and the old anti-Mason, Ben.