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The Address Of The National Anti-masonic Convention, Held In Philadelphia, September 11, 1830, To The People Of The United States
Myron Holley
Social Science; Freemasonry; Social Science / Freemasonry
Address Delivered Before The Rochester Anti-slavery: On The 19th January, And Again, By Request Of Several Citizens, At The Court House, In Rochester, On The 5th February, 1837
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Address Delivered Before The Rochester Anti-slavery: On The 19th January, And Again, By Request Of Several Citizens, At The Court House, In Rochester, On The 5th February, 1837
Myron Holley
Printed by Hoyt and Porter, 1837
Social Science; Slavery; Slavery; Social Science / Slavery
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Myron Holley was an American politician. He served as a member of the New York State Assembly, and was one of the commissioners of Erie Canal.
Background
Myron Holley was born on April 29, 1779 in Salisbury, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Luther and Sarah (Dakin) Holley and by family tradition a direct descendant of Edmund Halley, the English astronomer. Horace Holley was his younger brother.
Education
In 1799 Holley graduated from Williams College and began the study of law in the office of Judge Kent at Cooperstown, New York.
Career
In 1802 Holley practised law at Salisbury, and in the following year he moved to Canandaigua in New York. There he abandoned the law, and having purchased the stock of Bemis, a local merchant, he became the bookseller for the village and the surrounding country.
Elected in 1816 to represent Canandaigua in the General Assembly, he became deeply interested in the projected Erie Canal and was appointed one of the canal commissioners. He acted as treasurer of the commission and expended more than $2, 500, 000 for the state. Because of the method of the disbursements and his carelessness in safeguarding his own interests, he was unable to produce vouchers for $30, 000 of the total, and in order to make up the deficiency, he surrendered his small estate. An investigating committee exonerated him of all charges of misappropriation, but, although the state later returned his property, he was never adequately compensated for his great services.
He had retired and was devoting himself to horticulture when he was again brought into public affairs by the abduction and murder of William Morgan followed by the anti-Masonic movement which swept New York state and culminated in a convention at Albany. He drafted the address of that convention to the people of the state and was one of the New York delegates to the National Anti-Masonic Convention which assembled in Philadelphia in 1830. The Address to the People of the United States (1830), eloquently demonstrating that Masonic societies were inimical to the principles of a free, republican government, was the work of Holley as the committee chairman. In 1831 he became editor of the Lyons Countryman and for the next three years waged a vigorous campaign against Freemasonry.
In 1834 he went to Hartford to edit the Free Elector for the Anti-Masons of Connecticut, but after a year he returned to New York and settled near Rochester. Holley first began to take a practical interest in the slavery question in the winter of 1837 and was soon convinced of the necessity of organized political action. At the anti-slavery convention held in Cleveland in 1839 he moved that a nomination of candidates for president and vice-president be made, but the motion was badly defeated. He returned to New York and secured the passage of a resolution by the Monroe County antislavery convention in favor of a distinct nomination, and a few days later he was again successful at a larger convention held at Warsaw, which convention nominated James G. Birney as its candidate. The formation of the Liberty party in April 1840 at Albany was thus in a large measure his achievement, for he had succeeded in transforming the moral and religious indignation of the Abolitionists into effective political action. On June 12, 1839, Holley issued the first number of the Rochester Freeman which he edited until it failed shortly before his death.