What Happened to William Morgan?

The story goes that he was arrested, formally arrested, for a debt that he owed to an innkeeper. He got all ticked off and said, all right, I'm going to expose all your secrets. The number of lodges in New York state went from 480 in 1825 to 75 in 1835. And the Civil War was such a national horror that everybody kind of forgot about how much they hated the masons.