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The Anti-Masonic Party was the earliest third party in the United States. [11] Formally a single-issue party, it strongly opposed Freemasonry in the United States.It was active from the late 1820s, especially in the Northeast, and later attempted to become a major party by expanding its platform to take positions on other issues.
Under the leadership of anti-Masonic Thurlow Weed, an Anti-Jacksonist movement became (since Jackson was a Mason) the Anti-Masonic Party. This political Party ran presidential candidates in 1828 and 1832, but by 1835 the party had disbanded everywhere except Pennsylvania .
Thurlow Weed, a New York politician, gathered discontented opponents of President Andrew Jackson, a Mason, into the Anti-Masonic Party, which gained the support of such notable politicians as William H. Seward and Millard Fillmore. [47] In the 1828 campaign, other Jackson rivals, including John Quincy Adams, joined in denouncing the Masons. [48]
In 1829, Palmer was an organizer of America's first third party, the Anti-Masonic Party. The Anti-Masons opposed secret societies, especially Masons, who they argued controlled several institutions including the government in defiance of democratic principles. The Anti-Masonic movement was especially strong in Vermont, and in 1831, Palmer was ...
The Anti-Masons brought to the Whigs an intense distrust of politicians, a rejection of automatic party loyalty, and innovative campaign techniques to excite voters. They invented the national convention in 1835. [20] By 1840, the Anti-Masons had ceased to function as a national organization, and local cells had disappeared.
He published an anti-Masonic weekly newspaper called the Lyons Countryman from 1831 to 1834. He accepted an offer in 1834 to move for a year to Hartford, Connecticut, leaving his family in Lyons, for a paid position as the creator and publisher of an anti-Masonic weekly called Free Elector. The Freemason movement declined in influence by the ...
He saw the new movement as link to the line of believers including Adam, Abraham, David, St Paul, Luther and Melanchthon, transcending boundaries of nation and race. Ward believed that the Daniel showed that “the kingdom of heaven” would come “from heaven with its king,” and would rule “over all the earth for ever and ever;” and it ...
In 1826, Spencer served as a special prosecutor to investigate the disappearance of William Morgan who was arrested, kidnapped and murdered for exposing secrets kept by Freemasons, thus sparking the Anti-Masonic movement. [9] Spencer sided with the anti-Masons and was the author of a manuscript on Masonic rituals. He was again a member of the ...