er; as Weed said, "_It's good enough Morgan until after the
election_"--a characteristic remark, if we may judge by his own
portrait as drawn in his _Autobiography_. Politically, he was capable
of anything, if he could make it win, and here he saw a chance of
stirring up every vile and slimy thing in human nature for sake of
office. (See a splendid review of the whole matter in _History of
Masonry_, by Hughan and Stillson, also by Gould in vol. iv of his
_History_.)

[159] _Cyclopedia of Fraternities_, by Stevens, article,
"Anti-Masonry," gives detailed account with many interesting facts.

[160] Following the first day of the battle of Gettysburg, there was a
Lodge meeting in town, and "Yanks" and "Johnny Rebs" met and mingled as
friends, under the Square and Compass. Where else could they have done
so? (_Tennessee Mason_). When the Union army attacked Little Rock,
Ark., the commanding officer, Thomas H. Benton--Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Iowa--threw a guard about the home of General Albert
Pike, _to protect his Masonic library_. Marching through burning
Richmond, a Union officer saw the familiar emblems over a hall. He put
a guard about the Lodge room, and that night, together with a number of
Confederate Masons, organized a society for the relief of widows and
orphans left destitute by the war (_Washington, the Man and the Mason_,
Callahan). But for the kindness of a brother Mason, who saved the life
of a young soldier of the South, who was a prisoner of war at Rock
Island, Ill., the present writer would never have been born, much less
have written this book. That young soldier was my father! Volumes of
such facts might be gathered in proof of the gracious ministry of
Masonry in those awful years.

[161] _Cyclopedia of Fraternities_, by Stevens (last edition), article,
"Free Masonry," pictures the extent of the order, with maps and
diagrams showing its world-wide influence.

[162] Space does not permit a survey of the literature of Masonry,
still less of Masonry in literature. (Findel has two fine chapters on
the literature of the order, but he wrote, in 1865, _History of
Masonry_.) For traces of Masonry in literature, there is the famous
chapter in _War and Peace_, by Tolstoi; _Mon Oncle Sosthenes_, by
Maupassant; _Nathan the Wise_, and _Ernest and Falk_, by Lessing; the
Masonic poems of Goethe, and many hints in _Wilhelm Meister_; the
writings of Herder (_Classic Period of German Letters_, Findel), _The