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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | Come let us prepare, we brothers that are here met on this happy occasion. |
0:15.0 | We'll quaff and we'll sing, be he peasant or king, |
0:20.0 | Here's a health to an accepted mason |
0:26.6 | The world tries in vain our secrets to gain |
0:30.6 | And still let them wonder and guess on |
0:33.6 | They ne'er can define a word or a sign of a free and an accepted mason. |
0:46.3 | Tis this and tis that they cannot tell what why the great men of every nation should aprons put on and make themselves one with a free and an accepted mason? |
1:03.0 | Then join hand in hand to each other firm stand. Let me marry and put a bright face on no order can boast so noble a toast |
1:17.6 | as a free and an accepted mason no order can boast so noble a toast, |
1:28.3 | as a free and an accepted nation. |
1:37.3 | The law is still paralyzed by a hidden agent |
1:43.3 | that continues to prove stronger than the combined force of its machinery and its ministers. |
1:52.0 | The lodge of this agent has become its sepulchre. |
1:58.0 | There it lies, a spectacle for free men to look at. |
2:02.8 | In our boasted republic, the blood of an American who was taken from his home, bound, tortured, |
2:10.8 | agonized, borne by the conspirators along the high roads, with an impudent cavalcade, carriages, and horsemen, |
2:20.8 | cast into a fortress over which had floated the sovereign flag of the Union, |
2:26.4 | and at last immolated by harpies, |
2:30.2 | belonging to an organized and powerful institution, |
2:40.0 | who conceal their crime under the horrible delusion of their mystic Thai. |
2:47.0 | From the anti-Masonic Almanac from the year 1832, published by William Williams of Utica, New York, around late 1831. |
2:56.0 | The cover of the Masonic Almanac, in the form of a political cartoon, |
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