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🗓️ 2 January 2021
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0:00.0 | This is a preview clip of part five of the Meteorutes radio series, |
0:08.5 | the free Masonic history of the United States. |
0:12.0 | This episode is titled, Brother Against Brother, Free Masonry, Knights of the Golden Circle, |
0:19.1 | and the Scottish Right during the Civil War. |
0:23.1 | You can get access to the entire episode, which is four and a half hours long, at patreon.com |
0:30.3 | slash media roots radio. |
0:43.9 | We start part five of the free Masonic history of the United States. |
0:48.7 | The 1860 Republican Convention. |
0:58.5 | Six years before this, the Republican Party had been founded in Ripon, Wisconsin. |
1:07.2 | It was essentially the newest iteration of the third party populist spirit in the United States, |
1:15.1 | a spirit that embodied, quote-unquote, classical liberalism, anti-aristocracy, |
1:23.6 | and opposed the expansion of slavery. Not all Republicans at this time were abolitionists. |
1:28.8 | They opposed the continuing expansion of slavery as a platform. |
1:39.3 | Their second presidential nominating convention in 1860 was between several different political rivals, most of them Whigs. |
1:47.6 | William Seward, Salmon Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln. |
1:56.0 | Abraham Lincoln would clinch the presidential nomination in that convention on the last day, May 18th. |
2:02.5 | The vice presidential nominee was Hannibal Hamlin. |
2:10.7 | Although Hannibal Hamlin would end up being replaced by Abraham Lincoln in his second term. |
2:15.9 | By Andrew Johnson, a Freemason. After Lincoln clinches the presidential nomination and then wins the presidential election, |
2:25.3 | he assembles what is now famously known as his quote-unquote team of rivals. |
2:33.3 | In 1861, Abraham Lincoln becomes president in the United States. |
2:39.7 | His cabinet is comprised equally of masons, most famously Andrew Johnson, his vice president, |
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