Trying to Expose the Freemasonry
Morgan was friends with a local newspaper publisher, David C. Miller, who was struggling to keep his publication business afloat. The Freemasons were a group that represented wealth and power, which seemed unattainable to them. Therefore, they decided to try to find out the secrets behind the infamous organization’s success.
In his 1874 book History of the Abduction of William Morgan and the Anti Masonic Excitement of 1826-30, A.P. Bentley wrote that Morgan and Miller “entered into a partnership to print a book which the public was to be told disclosed the secrets of masonry, in hopes to make a fortune out of the gaping curiosity of the vulgar.”