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anywhere, since many of the police officers were Masons. The general consensus was that
Morgan accidentally drowned himself in Lake Ontario. However, the press, religious leaders,
temperance and anti-slavery groups, united to condemn the apparent murder. The murder caused
over half of the Masons in the northeastern United States to break off their alignment with the
Illuminati. The incident led to the creation of the country’s first third party movement, the Anti-
Masonic Party (1826-33) in New York. They wanted to stop the aristocratic conspiracy, and
prevent all members of Masonic organizations from public service. Anti-Masonic candidates
were elected to the New York Assembly in 1827.
A State Convention in Massachusetts in 1828 saw the establishment of a committee “to
inquire how far Freemasonry and French Illuminism are connected.” The Committee reported at
a meeting at Faneuil Hall in Boston (December 30, 31, and January 1, 1829), and passed the
following resolution: “Resolved, on the report of the Committee appointed to inquire how far
Freemasonry and French Illuminism are connected, that there is evidence of an intimate
connection between the high orders of Masonry and French Illuminism.”
A National Convention was held in 1830 in Philadelphia, and another in Baltimore in 1831,
where they nominated William Wirt, former U.S. Attorney General (under Monroe and John
Quincy Adams, 1817-1829), as a Presidential candidate. They were represented by 116 Anti-
Masonic delegates from 13 states. The movement caught on mainly in New England and the
Mid-Atlantic states. Even though they won quite a few Congressional seats in 1832, Wirt only
carried the State of Vermont, while Andrew Jackson, a Mason, won big.
The Party was phased out in 1836, because the anti-slavery movement began to overshadow
their activities. They merged with the Whig Party (1834-60) in 1838. The Whig Party later
assimilated themselves into the Democratic Party, the Liberty Party (1840-48), the Free Soil
Party (1848-54), and the Republican Party.
Fifty years after Morgan’s disappearance, Thurlow Weed (1797-1882), owner of the
Rochester Telegraph, and Editor of the influential Albany Evening Journal (from 1830-1863),
who helped found the Anti-Masonic Party, published information about Morgan’s death. His
grave was discovered in 1881 at Pembroke, in Batavia County, in New York. In the grave was a
piece of paper that had the name John Brown written on it. Brown was said to be one of the
people involved in the killing. A statue was erected in memory of Morgan in Batavia in 1882.
THE ILLUMINATI IN THE UNITED STATES
In 1829, the Illuminati held a secret meeting in New York, which was addressed by a British
Illuminist named Frances ‘Fanny’ Wright, from Scotland, who was an associate of socialist
Robert Dale Owen. She had come to America in 1818, then again in 1824. In 1828, she became
the co-editor of the New Harmony Gazette with Owen. In 1829, they moved to New York, and
called their publication the Free Enquirer. At the meeting, she spoke of equal rights, atheism,
and free love, as she promoted a Women’s Auxiliary of the Illuminati. Those present were told
that an international movement of subversives was being developed along the lines of Illuminati
principles, who would be used to ferment future wars. They were to be known as ‘communists.’
This movement was to be used to make the idea of a one-world government more appealing by
bringing chaos to the world through war and revolution, so the Illuminati could step in to create
order.
In 1843, poet Heinrich Heine, revealed what he knew about this new group, when he wrote a