This is Robbie Martin for Media Roots Radio.

What you're about to listen to is a 25-minute preview of our ongoing,

the Free Masonic History of the United States podcast series.

This is a clip that intros some context about the Whig Party and John Quincy Adams.

And sort of jumps into a point where I'm discussing Abraham Lincoln's quasi-anti-war stance against the Mexican-American War

and how he was a self-identified Whig party member at the time.

So we're going to jump right into that section of the podcast,

but focus on a question that I ask in the podcast,

the idea of John Quincy Adams being the most credible

anti-Mason, but also potentially an anti-Masonic gatekeeper, if you will.

So I hope you enjoy this section from part four of the free masonic history of the United States

called the Grand Obelisk, A Golden Age of Fraternalism and the 33rd degree.

And if you'd like to get access to the entire series, which is now about 17 hours in length

in four parts, and we'll continue into a part five and part six,

you can become a Patreon subscriber of ours

for as little as $5 a month at patreon.com slash meteor roots radio.

Thanks.

But what's also interesting from this statement that Lincoln makes is that Lincoln was calling himself a wig.

Now, we don't hear very much about the whigs coming from the anti-Masonic party in history.

We hear a little bit about the wigs when we learn about American history,

but not so much what the Whigs were originally representing, which was literally a one-trick

pony political party called the anti-Masonic party. It was a political party that was formed

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