Longfellow's history is inaccurate.

Longfellow's poem was masonic propaganda. Washington expressed wariness of masonic propaganda and other founders expressed concerns too, The founders lived in a time in history when the Weishaupt illuminati were infiltrating the lodges. The founders were not the same people as the masons that came after them.

Longfellow's history is inaccurate but your conclusion is easier to like than mine.

Longfellow's poem was masonic propaganda. Washington expressed wariness of masonic propaganda and other founders expressed concerns too, The founders lived in a time in history when the Weishaupt illuminati were infiltrating the lodges. They were not the same people as the masons that came after them.