[ANTI- 8.] Avowed opposition to freemasonry, such as was in the United States, for several years after 1826, the platform of a political party.
1827. John G. Camp, in Buffalo Emporium, 13 Dec., 3/3. His press would hereafter be devoted to the cause of anti-masonry.
1841. Emerson, Misc., 219. Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong, which gradually emerged to sight out of the turbid controversy.