Note p. 284 n. 2 — INDEX.
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[161] This party was formed against the Free Masons, chiefly in consequence of the report, not confirmed, of the killing in 1826 of a man named William Morgan, who had exposed certain secrets of the order.
[162] By law the Secretary had to give the order, and Jackson compelled the resignation of Mr. Duane, who would not give it.
[163] Sometimes men would start a bank in a small town, fail there, and then move to another town not far off and play the same trick. A contemporaneous invention, the telegraph, was destined to do much for the detection and apprehension of such rogues.
[164] Jackson’s vigorous policy toward France almost brought on a war with that country.