tnemsejvps. ain UAruuuui^iivx\.TO THE PUHIAC.• • «I have been informed, that it is spread, with great industry, through a large part of* this county, (no doubt with the intention toinjure mv election,) as if I was ip favor ofFreemasonry, or at least at some places had pretended to be so: Therefore I hereby so*, ieinnly and publicly declare that all reports to that amount are founded upon falsehood —that I am, and always was a Democrat, and declared myself to be so; but that I never was, nor atn 1 now, in favor of the masonic institution, nor have t ever pretended that I was—and further do 1 declare, that I consider all secret societies, and prim eipaily Freemasonry, us inconsistent witR true Democracy.ROBERT McILWAIN,September 29.