FINAL WARNING: The Birth of Tyranny
(1828-30), and had labor support. The Working Man’s Party merged
into the Equal Rights Party in 1833, which later developed into the
Socialist Party in 1901. The Locofocos got their name when they voted
down the endorsed candidate for the Democratic Party Chairman, and
the gas lights were turned off by Party regulars during the 1835
meeting in Tammany Hall. The matches they used to light candles, in
order to continue the meeting, were called ‘locofocos.’With their political strength concentrated mainly in the Northeast, their
goals were to establish an independent treasury and to enact anti-
monopoly legislation. They were absorbed into the States’ rights
movement of Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, Sen. Henry Clay
of Kentucky, and Sen. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, who joined
with the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Anti-Masonic Party to form
the Whig Party, which represented farmers, southern plantation
owners, and northeastern business interests. Their main complaint
was President Andrew Jackson’s refusal to Charter the Second Bank
of the United States. They succeeded in electing Gen. William Henry
Harrison and Gen. Zachary Taylor to the Presidency, but were stymied
by presidential vetoes when they tried to get their legislative projects
passed, especially after the re-establishment of the National Bank. The
Whigs later merged with the newly formed Republican Party.THE ILLUMINATI LEADERSHIP CHANGES
After Weishaupt died on November 18, 1830, at the age of 82, Giuseppe
Mazzini (1805-72), an Italian patriot, and revolutionary leader, was
appointed head of the Illuminati in 1834. It was believed that Weishaupt
rejoined the Catholic Church with a deathbed repentance.While attending Genoa University, Mazzini became a 33rd degree
Mason, and joined a secret organization known as the Carbonari (their
stated goal in 1818: “Our final aim is that of Voltaire and of the French
Revolution– the complete annihilation of Catholicism, and ultimately
all Christianity.”), where he became committed to the cause of Italian
unity. In 1831, he was exiled to France, where he founded the ‘Young
Societies’ movement, which included Giovane Italia (Young Italy),
Young England, etc. This group united those who wanted to achieve
unification through force. Mazzini moved to England in 1837, then