citizens to hatred against the wealthy merchant families. Then the Tories played the ``
conservative '' card. Ultra-orthodox Calvinists actually business partners to the Harvard
liberals, threatened to set up their own religious institution in Tory-dominated
Newburyport. Their assertion, that Morse was not conservative enough, split the
resources of the region's Christians, until the Morse group reluctantly brought the
Newburyport ultras as partners into the management of the Andover Theological
Seminary in 1808.
The new theological seminary and the adjacent boys' academy were now governed
together under a common board of trustees (balanced between the Morse nationalists and
the Newburyport anti-nationalists, the opposing wings of the old Federalist Party).
Jedidiah Morse made Andover the headquarters of a rather heroic, anti-racist, Christian
missionary movement, bringing literacy, printing presses, medicine and technological
education to Southeast Asia and American Indians, notably the Georgia Cherokees. This
activist Andover doctrine of racial equality and American Revolutionary spirit was
despised and feared by British opium pushers in East Asia and by Boston's blue-blooded
Anglophiles. Andover missionaries were eventually jailed in Georgia; their too-modern
Cherokee allies were murdered and driven into exile by pro-slavery mobs.
When Jedidiah Morse's generation died out, New England’s elite families--who were
then Britain’s partners in the booming opium traffic, crushed the Andover missionary
movement. Andover was still formally Christian after 1840; Boston's cynical Brahmins
used Andover's orthodox Protestant board to prosecute various of their opponents as ``
heretics. ''
Neo-paganism and occult movements bloomed after the Civil War with Darwin's new
materialist doctrines. In the 1870s the death-worshipping Skull and Bones Society sent its
alumni members back from Yale University, to organize aristocratic secret satanic
societies for the teenagers at the Andover prep school. But these cults did not yet quite
flourish. National power was still precariously balanced between the imperial Anglo-
American financiers, and the old-line nationalists who built America's railroads, steel and
electrical industries.
The New Age aristocrats proclaimed their victory under Theodore Roosevelt's presidency
(1901-09). The Andover Theological Seminary wound up its affairs and moved out of
town, to be merged with the Harvard Divinity School! Andover prep school was now
largely free of the annoyance of religion, or any connection whatsoever with the
American spirit. Secret societies for the school's children, modeled on the barbarian
orders at Yale, were now established in permanent, incorporated headquarters buildings
just off campus at Andover. Official school advisers were assigned to each secret society,
which participated in their cruel and literally insane rituals.
When J.P. Morgan partner Thomas Cochran built Andover's luxurious modern campus
for boys like Poppy Bush, the usurpers of America's name had cause to celebrate. Under
their supervision, fascism was rising in Europe. The new campus library was named for