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Anti-masonry And The Liberty Party

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
January
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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has sufficient mental faculatie3 to form an opinión, feela free to expresa it, there are not wanting an abundance of prophets to predict that the Lilierty Party will follow in the wnko of the antimasonic - meeting with rapid success at first, and then d;s- solving into nothing before it shall be nulo to nccompiísh any thing. Mrs. Ciiild uí the National Anti -sla very Standard says: "The history of the anti-masonic partyurnishesa lesson. Their rnnks swelled nightily fora iime,oni liiey èxjie'cteiï notli g less tlian lo prostrate the two greatlJ ariies; bul all ofa sudlenihoy went out e a puffof smoke. Such will be the fate ] ' the "Liberty Party." Let Ihuse who f aughat the prophecy remember it at the nd of five years." ; J. C. Juckson answera her prophecy 1US'. 'AntiMasonrydicd when Masonry died. Veare willing t die, as a party. when s!aeryisdead. Till that lime we proiesi gainstbeing "puffed out" by prophecy. ♦Our friend Mrs.Child makes the above roihecy about the Liberty Party. We will not turn our lip in contempt at her varning; but we will say i word or two. Sball we keep up the prophelic ttyle? - ve are no prophet'sson, but siill the spirt is upon us, and we shall have to wait ome five years, like our friend, to decide whether we are a true or false diviner. . .; Hear, thei),a man - presumptuous ho may be thought - prophecv againsia womsn. J. C. Jackson says: TheLf (the Líber ty Party) ranl(3 swelled slowly lor a time, and they expected noihing else iban a terrible struggle för yearsj but all oí' a sudden, they íbund t'hemselvcs on the high road to victory. Such will be the fale of the liberty Party. "Let ihose who laugh at our prophecy remember U at ihe end of five years." Wm. Guodell answers it in th3 way."And how hoppenedit, pray good Mrs. . L. M. C, that tlio anti-masons failed in iheir pohiical action, and "went uut like a puffof smoke?" Why, il came to pass in this vvise. The "moral anli-maeons," as they catled themselvcs, counected vvith ths old poiitical panics, succeeded in per. suading the' 'poliiical' anti-masons lo give op their "independent noninations" - and 'voie conscientiously on the questionj" "holding the balance of power between the old partiea," without forsaking them. And so the anti-masons ia Massaehusetts connected themselvea with ihe democratie party, as k!lhe least of two evils," by ütaii;;;g their homraationfi, when they i'komised to do the fuir ihing. In New York they did the eatne with ihe Naüonal Repubiicans and Whigs. In national politica, they cunsented, at the West, lo be the supporters of Gen. Harrison. Thus betrayed, divided, pitied againet euch otber, and sponged up for the support of their antagonista, no wonder they 'wcni out like a puft'ot smoke'" Truly 1 "The history of the Anti-masonie party furuishe6 a lesson" which'third party1 nbolitionióts should not lightly overlook."For our own pnrt, wc have but Hule cotifideuce in prophete, in ihis age of the vorii,iüwever wise ihey may seem tobe. The füllovving portrait of one cf these prognosticaturs who lived about a hundred years ago, describes, tui tome points, certain political wiseacres in Michigan ío ex aclly,that we have copied il for the benefit of our readers, li is drawn by the ïand of a inaster."There are in every country moróse beings, who arealwaysprogaosti:atÍRg ruin. Therc was on e of this stamp atPhiladelphia He was a man of furtune, declined in years, had an air of wisdom, and a very grave manner of speaking. His name was Samuel Mickle. I knew hirn not; but he stoppcd one day at my duor, and asked me ifl was the young man who had lately opened a new priniing house. Up on my answering tn the afïïrmative,hesaid ihat he was very sorry for me, aa it was a very expen8ive undertuking, and the tnoney that had been laid out upun it would be lost, Philadelphia being a place faüing into decay; ita inhabitants having all or nearly all of them, been obliged to cali ogether ihsir creditors. That he, kuewfrum undoubted fact, the circumstances which might ïead us to suppose the contrary,such as new buildings and theadvanced priceofrent, to be dcceitful appcuranees, whicii, in reaüty, coniribuled to hasien its general ruin; und he gave me so long a detail of roisibrtunes actually cxUting, or which were soon to tuke place, ihat he tcft me alrnost in despair. Had I known this man before I entered ihto trade, I ahould doubilessneverhave ventured. He continued liowever, lo tivo in this place of decay, and to declaim in the samestyle, refusing tbr many years, to buy a heuse, be cause all was going lo wreek: and in the end, I had the satisfaction to see him pay five times as much forone, as it would havecost him, had he purchased it when bc first! besan hs lamentations."