Trying to Expose the Freemasonry
Morgan was friends with a local newspaper publisher, David C. Miller, who was struggling to keep his publication business afloat. The Freemasons were a group that represented wealth and power, which seemed unattainable to them. Therefore, they decided to try to find out the secrets behind the infamous organization’s success.
William Morgan. Source: Wikipedia
In his 1874 book History of the Abduction of William Morgan and the Anti Masonic Excitement of 1826-30, A.P. Bentley wrote that Morgan and Miller “entered into a partnership to print a book which the public was to be told disclosed the secrets of masonry, in hopes to make a fortune out of the gaping curiosity of the vulgar.”