Show 1 A 0 I 1 I 1 M of 0 ore f remarks rear marks marka ks a ea A AB uc ed irl ill wery ry OW Os Z ad oty oc c 1805 1 W GAD W TT it is somewhat of an undertaking to address so large an assembly I 1 bear my testimony to the truth of the resto bation of the everlasting gospel and this work which god has commenced in thes thesa a latter days behas it has been the earnest desire of my hearal fr from orn the time I 1 received the ordinance of baptism in 1832 to be able to tb fuini my dutle dutie as a saint and to perform those bilings which were required of me as an individual to watch over myself and keep out of mi mischief I 1 might bo be prepared when my work is accomplished on the earth fo to inherit the blessings and glory of that king in whose service I 1 have enlisted I 1 presume that a large proportion of the saints have kept these things in mind though I 1 am astonished when I 1 reflect upon the great number with whom I 1 have bave ba ve been acquainted that are not now to be found and of whom we have hanl n no I 1 report only that they have gone off this thin that or the other way this illis reminds us ot of the parable odthe of the flower power that eliat went forth to sow as dl described by our Savior some somo of the good seed sied fell among thorns and th they ey grew up and choked it so some somo me fell by the way side and the fowls gathered it up some fell upon stony gudny ground where it iad lad had not much depth of earth and alid it cariie came up quickly and wilen the sun was v a s up lip it was scorched and withered aw away ay and some fell upon good ground and brought forth foith thirty sixt sixty yand and an hundred jold sold this is the substance of the parable lQ and t the kingdom of god in the last days is certainly very much lake unto it among Ikino nV the great number wh who 0 have bave entered into the fold of christ by bap few have remained faithful to t tho the 0 present time there were ln en among us whose hearts were faint who who felt that it would atwould not do to tp gather liere here because peradventure it was the greatest undertaking kig of any age to attempt to settle settie a whole people situated as us we were lil ill in the midst of a howling desert a thousand miles iles lles from flom supplies was too great an undertaking ill in tile the eyes of many wally and they dared not risk it it required faith cou courage conrage raUe rape energy daring and perseverance almost beyond description to lead a people into the heart of the great american desert and establish t 1 settlements we now ors arrive here by stage vilo who are of th ehfe achievement of having the tilo mountains it required a people full of faith falth energy and devotion to the cause cudse of god and a willingness willIng neis to abide every counsel given by the servants of god grod to egme here and also aiso required a lar iare lare jarge e amount of faith pati patience encel 1 energy helf self seli hell denial andI andl and long olig suffering to stay when they got here I 1 presume it was over three years after vire vite came camo before a score of men in the vAlley val vai leys leya 4 e ever jer belil beill believed aved that an apple peach or plum could be grown here and when the tho few men who had the fulfill fulfil and the determination to set an began to produce their peaches plums and iipp apples les ies and nd exhibit liem tiem jnnny nany anny opened their e eyes 1 pes res with astonishment who on the face of the eart cart would think that at an altitude of four thousand four hundred feet above the tile level of the sea and in latitude nearly forty one olle and nelll nelli near the southern limit of oath the isothermal line such nicely 11 savored delicate fruit could be raised we came to this land because it was so desert desolate and godforsaken god forsaken t riat ilat no mortal upon earth ever would covet it but as col fremont reported t that ilat at the mouth of bear river in the tild early part of august his thermometer illoyd at 29 fail pah three degrees below freezing holni point which would kill grain fruit or vegetables our enemies said sou aa you mormons may go there and welcome 11 chuckling to each other over what seemed to til them em our annihilation we had been driven several times our homes leonies had been lieen devastated both in missouri and illinois we wd had been robbed rob robbed lob bed of everything and some calne if here hene with the little tittle that they gathered 1 up from the smoking ruins of their habitations the priests sent campli ns merits to each other rejoicing that those cormons mormons Mor mons who had been making the 1 people eople acquainted with the principles of f the gospel by teaching them that the bible ibie ible meant what it said had gone into tie tle oid lie heart of a desert never more inore to be heard of for the indians would destroy arid and grini grim want would consume them the new newspapers papers recorded the joy and felt at tit the utter end 0 Morn nisin ninin ay goy gov thomas ford wrote us as follows in the tiie title liage page of his of illinois an acco account tint of the rise iise progress ogress pi and find F FALL ALI all of mormonism 11 h however the many C K f h t bac difficulties en encountered cou mr in the eh rno plo tiie hoppers and ana t the en an fn sterile sterlie the spirit ar f was ws ilove alove covering ning ring over the great basinas Basl basin nas a linguist stell Ote 11 us the spirit of the lord brooded blooded aver over the face of the waters anciently so it brooded blooded over the great basin masin and the climate became gental and soft anever I 1 never nover was waa af nir air the crossing of the sevier river in summer for seven years after aften our settle settie settlements menti county haa had heen been eeli established without experiencing frost and now i the th sevier bevier valley produces luxuriant fields of grain and vegetables in the geason season thereof in every place where the water wafer has been taken out from the mouth of that river to the head bead of it nearly nine thousand feet above fhe the level of the tho sea who has bas done this god and jand the saints maints have doneit done it the saints have llad bad faith and walked oven over over the land with the holy priesthood ulion upon them and blessed and dedicated it to the lord and have labored according ng to the file counsels of god goo and the wok has been heen accomplished to have told the mountaineers aea fea en years ago that groin grain could be raised in the tile upper valleys ia ilie rile s of the weber webe r where they encountered heavy frosts every month in summer 11 their thein ridicule but bu tie tle genial influence of tile the spirit of tle almighty alright ha s sonnen soften softened Cd the rigor of or the oli cli climate mateAl j and the nourishing g counties of morgan da and summit are tho the result in 1853 1833 an expedition went out dut from provo city after some somo indians that had lid stolen stock they went up the provo river and encamped near where the city of heber sta stands rids in the middle of summer on their return ret uril util ported to me that they were nearly frozen and that much ot of the wild w ild vegetation was killeby killed by the severity of the weather lier lick and that it would be useless I 1 ever to attempt t to raibe raise grain there theme I 1 suppose that provo valley with au all its losses wilt will vilt raise not less lens leis than thirty thousand bushels bushes of grain and vegetables witha with a little kel ref reflection lection we wo can readily perceive that the lord lod god of israel has blessed these mountains and valleys which have bave been dedicated land and set apart by ills his servants for the gathering together of his people and the establishment of his latter ilay day upon the earth i GO iowa nauvoo illinois pr lor curtland lUrt land and obio ohio and ask for apples and deac peaches ies les alid and you will find them them few and far between in feb 1 visited my clr former field of labor in ita NV western estern virginia and enquired of an old oid friend for soc reply was my peach trees fre are all killed andi andl and Ibave I 1 have not been able to raise ralo any pea peaches clies elies for six years 11 nave you vou any an good apples rot biot an apple that is fit fa to eat our trees are ali alf diseased and many maily of them sa navo nave 0 peni peri perilee periled wed led 11 elis ells this condition of was very vety general it is so vile rever reven the saints faints have lived and und wil xii beeh leeh driven away their glory has departed to return no more until ulle the land is dedicated and consecrated to god I 1 and occupied by the saints I 1 we had to ta produce the ille llie necessaries ies les of life froin the ground ir tvr we had nat the meatris to end abroad eleven hundred miles td purchase in a short time after the pioneers bottled settled this coil country some twenty nive five th thousand pilgrims to the land jand of gold passed through this grent orent iasin lasin a large portion efthem of them came here destitute destitute and tind they aie ale are indebted to the inhabitants of these tuese settlements s mpr the preservation of their Wi california ia Is iii ill indebted delit ed to the latte latter r day S or its present gie gic greatness atness ainess wp opened its gold mines explored its country explored and made wade the three three principal im roads ads leading there thure and ran the he first ship thip fh lp load of amerlan american emi grants into hito the port of san francisco franeisco tilen then called yerba buena we are the men that developed ohp resources of the pacific coast and then we nye fed those tens of thousands passing through h to that land who nho would have starved starved and perished on oil the deserts had we not provided them with bread while they traveled the roads we made to go to the mines the passengers an on board hoard the ship brook brooklyn n not only brought to the pacific coast amr their valuable library but a printing press which they established at Verba yerba baerla now san sail francisco and from which was issued the cuti Cati california fornia star ilk lit 1847 47 8 we are the pioneer of the great west the tile latter lutter day stal Stai saints tits established the first printing press in western missouri Misso url uri the Lv evening ening and morning star staf published at independence in 1832 1831 S 3 and tile the upper in as 33 by W W W phelps phelba after the destruction of t the lie printing office by the mob the press was removed to liberty and was for years used to print the only news newe newspaper paper printed west vest of nooney booney ilie abio avio excepting the eiders elders idelt jb journal urn pu published alis ails ea forbas forB SS rt tiffie timen timon i i n far fattest west m A IF awe erthe pione pioneer Pio plo neeS e irl spi settlers of western 1 iowa lowa aqwa making th the e ro road id and ai id briding bridging tho the bt the pich rich lity of reeo qua to the missouri river nearly three ll 11 hundred undred miles we established the arst farst pa paper er at council blums bluffs published by eiter elter elder eider orson hyi hyl hyde e entitled the frontier guardian in u 1848 9 and 50 1 the omaha birrou Ir rok roU publisher by jose joseph p ih 1 E johnson was the first paper published in nebraska sah who subsequently published the cha at wood river we introduced the culture of wheat and fruit in western missouri andiola and Iowa lowa improved agriculture in california and developed the resources of these mountains mal mai making ing the roads roada and showing men how hony to travel them safely while NY lille all this this thib has leen been dope for our country anu and and we have bave comparatively jamed tamed afie the savage and heid held in cheek check his wild and bloodthirsty blood thirsty nature that the inhabitants odthe of the world could travel across the deserts without being robbed and murdered we have been the subject of vile vilo vie vio scandal simply because e aurrell our religious views frow from of the hireling clarg clergy who occupy pits of christen christendom om we ve taught that men shou preach the g gospel 1 without purse ov or eer scrip p ms reachie preach rea ehlt chit f r all ill I aad a man who depended in ed upon aco a congregation for a salary 6 by which 1 ch to obtain lils his binck black coat and fit out was ready to deno denounce place preaching ii without purse and scrip as a idies heresy v why wb y because it would reduce 0 him to the necessity of going to sollie some useful calling instead of making merchandise of the gospel which god has made 1 free dree it endangered his bis bread and butter and thus priest craft has lias raised a constant howl bowl that the mor mons mona wele were lea iea leagued aed with the indians why because we Ae crossed grossed til the e plains and th the tho indians did not rob us the reabon reason the latter day saints cro ero crossed sed the plains and the indians did not rob them was they organized zed wed tabeh heir hein companies camped in order kept up guar guards ils treated the India indians ius lus with kindness and respect seeking no quarrel wit with lAthem them and passed bigit liht along when the indians look down from the his hills on one of our trains and seo see it camped they know it Is a mormon train they see a blee bice corral and a i guard out with the cattle who are carefully att attending ending eDding to their duty when they come up they get a kind bind word when night comes the mormons cormons Mori Mor mons lions kneel down to pray they do not blaspheme the nam ulf god T he indians see all ali this tan s and conclude not to interrupt that company for they cef hurt the Mor mormons cormons mons having always provided their companies with sufficient lent arms for protection that is the wa way y the latter iatter day saints travel through these mountains uninterrupted how is it with others they would organize a company buthe on the frontiers travel A a while in that condition tu quarrel guarrel arrel who should be capt captain aln ain and divide into five or six squads and by the time they got to the sierra ne K e vada there would woula be only two families together and ud bev ibey bey would divide their wagon rill aud and A gnip mad wad se if they ayere were bf i the indians this way of scattering presents a temptation to the red red men which as beauy very vers hard for them to resist res ref cist nor for theise plains plain cannot boast of biqing safer rafer than tb the streets of new nely york philadelphia ladelphia and washington where volere millions are expended to pay chy police to guard alief aud protect the property ro perty perly and lives of white aneo men froni from the depredations of white men we ve can but have havo a deep sympathy s when marq w realize realff the grevious grevi grevl ous oua afflictions that have bave befallen our common nion 11 country we lock lookout at the cause when the latter day dam saints organized their first settlements in nii dil missouri when they u undertook to lay the foundation of zion although there was no charge which cou could iid fid bo be brought aga nga agal agai bist them for fur vlola violating til i any filly law constitutional dional or mora lyet yet set because they introduced a new system of religion loix the birel hirel hireling ing eler cler clergy gyi gyl the praest priest craft of the world arose against them to destroy them as governor dunklin of missouri 1 said paid th there ere ai are re ample provisions I in ll 11 the constitution and laws of the state to protect but the prejudice is so great among the people against you that it i impossible to enforce these laws there is a great deai deal il sald kii kil about the origin of the trouble between the tite north and tile the south ald aid it was the tile almighty negro but the fact is the |