planted her banner of enlightenment
under the glorious leadership of Martin Luther, and such institutions
were done away with, but Catholicism turned these asylums, which were
once a protection to the persecuted followers of Christ, and
converted them into an abode for Catholic criminals.

There is scarcely a man or woman in America but what has heard of
Wm. Morgan, who lived at Batavia, in Western New York, who, it was
claimed, wrote an expose of Freemasonry, and who, the Catholic Church
claims, was killed by the Masonic fraternity for writing this expose.

The fact of the matter is that this book was prepared by the Catholic
Church for electioneering purposes, and it served their scheme well
and truly.

It is history that Morgan disappeared very suddenly, and the Catholic
Church gave it out that he had been killed by the Masonic fraternity,
which is untrue, as Wm. Morgan was spirited away, and the trick was
turned by Catholicism.

"Wm. Morgan" became the issue for the campaign, and it was narrated
around that Morgan was conveyed in a carriage from Batavia to Niagara
by Freemasons, and there drowned in Lake Ontario.

A body was produced near the mouth of the Niagara River, but a friend
of Wm. Morgan, who knew him well, by the name of Mrs. Wm. G. Barr,
denied that the body that was found at the mouth of the Niagara
River, was that of Morgan, and a devout Catholic remarked at the
post-mortem examination that "It was a good enough Morgan until after
the election."

A rigid investigation was made and no one was ever convicted of
murdering Morgan.

The result of the election was that Catholicism carried her point.
The Catholic Church had turned by this excitement the eyes of the
world towards Freemasonry, and claimed that Morgan's fate was caused
by the Masonic fraternity.

When I came to America, I was given instructions in regard to secret
societies, and the Morgan case was gone over with me in detail, and I
was given "The Bulls" of three popes, which excluded all members of
Freemasons from the Catholic Church, and all who belonged to the
Masonic fraternity were denied even a Christian burial by the
Catholic Church.

I was told by a priest, who was in good standing, that the Masons had
in their meetings a literal devil concealed in a box, and that when
they would meet, they would stick pins in a picture of some supposed
"traitor" and shriek out in their madness: "Die like Morgan!"

Mrs. Wm. G. Barr was call