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how an abduction by the mysterious freemasons led to a third political

Far from threatening republican government in the United States, Masons actually championed self-government, journalist Peter Feuerherd has written. ... As the National Republican Party led by President John Quincy Adams began to collapse, opposition to Freemasonry seemed to offer a viable..

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