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Definition of Anti-masonic party
1. Noun. A former political party in the United States; founded in 1825 in opposition to Freemasonry in public affairs.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anti-masonic Party
Literary usage of Anti-masonic party
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"He was in 1839 chosen one of the Senatorial electors of the Anti-Masonic party.
After his retirement from office in 1829 he removed to Lycoming county, ..."
2. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1908)
"Many Democrats took up the fight against the Masons and most of them became so
embittered at Jackson and his followers that when the anti-Masonic party ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt by John Pendleton Kennedy (1849)
"The only answer I recollect W to have made was, that if the Anti- Masonic party
was dissolved, there were not Clay men enough among them to touch New York ..."
4. A Dictionary of Names, Nicknames and Surnames, of Persons, Places and Things by Edward Latham (1904)
"Anti-Masonic Party. A political party in America, opposed to the alleged influence
of Freemasonry in civil affairs It originated in western New York after ..."
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