William H. Seward (1801-1872) from... Anti-Mason. Admitted to the bar at Utica NY in 1822, settling in Auburn in 1823. In 1830 he was named as the Anti-Masonic candidate for the state senate. Governor of New York 1839- 43. U.S. Senator from New York 1849- 61. U.S. Secretary of State 1861-69. In 1857 the Russian minister to the United States suggested that Alaska might be for sale. The U.S. Civil War prevented any transaction from taking place immediately. Finally, in 1867, a treaty was negotiated by Secretary of State, Seward by which the United States purchased Alaska for $7,200,000. This became known at Seward's Folly. See Scarlet and the Beast, V1, ch. 14; V3, ch. 4. The following statement made by Seward needs careful consideration by every freedom-loving person and certainly by every Christian who enjoys freedom in Christ. Mr. Seward forcefully asserted: "Before I would place my hand between the hands of other men in a secret lodge, order, class or council, and bending on my knees before them, enter into combinations with them for any object, personal or political, good or bad, I would pray to God that that hand and that knee might be paralyzed, and that I might become an object of pity and even the mockery of my fellow men. "Swear, sir! I, a man, an American citizen, a Christian, swear to submit myself to the gu idance and direction of other men, surrendering my own judgment to their judgments, and my own conscience to their keeping! No, No, Sir. I know quite well the fallibility of my own judgment, and my liability to fall into error and temptation. But my life has been spent in breaking the bonds of the slavery of men. I, therefore, know too well the danger of confiding power to irresponsible hands, to make myself a willing slave." — Danger Signals, edited and supplied by the New England Christian Association (Boston: James H. Earl, Publisher, 1896, p. 24). DF]The Crusades 1099 -1314 "Secret Society" behind Osama bin Laden ... to the 11th Century thru the dawn of the 14th Century, … See Scarlet and the Beast, Vol. 1, Introduction and Chapter 1. … 4 —First Crusaders entered Jerusalem with Peter the Hermit and ..... and Montenegro in the Balkans. (See S&B, V1, 3rd ed., chaper 20). … www.scarletandthebeast.com/PB 6... -Op Xx