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Show THE E venS G EDITOR AKff l.ji'lz i - U.lr .r JkaT7iwl ClJaaSVeauajri - HrM THE "MOBMCm"! QUESTION. Daunt Loitob .j Pennsylvania and aSuez canals are only water. What if atrangex on gazing upon the) statuary in Washington and our magnificent Capitol, and after robbing his eyes were to exclaim, Knrekal It la only rock and mortar and wood-- " This discoverer would announce that instead of the develop aaent of isrt, intelligence, industry and enterprise, its component parts were simply stone, mortar aad wood. Mr. Colfax has discovered that our improvements are attributable to "water. We next come to another division and quote i. tiEOKOE a- NEWS. wtmi flMtn and women were to be alarming extent In the United SuteT 'MdtM. from' the proi Colerado, the riaUa and olhsr rlren of 000 to help the saHbrlng "Mormons." United , distributed. and booty," were following will ahow how near Indian In i and territory, the States, same few a "Beauty miserable traps, t1 prodigies? Unfortunately Their agent took perform the was made by the Government their watchword. We were to have another Extract from a book, entitled. ri2ht for Mr. Colfar, it was "Mormon" polygam-it- s sweepings of an old store; for. the balance! aforrequisition 600 men to assist in conquering Mexico, grand Itorman conquest, and our houses, a jjovers xfest, by Key. John Todd who did it. The Hrie,the Welland,the of the patrimony he sent into Davis County : we Ttixra rxMxomoss. liiiwl: "This aleo'ls one of tbelKfsvorite themes. Constantly U is reiterated bw their apostles and bishops, from week to week, and from year to year. It is discoursed about in their taberrjacles and their ward and town churches. It Is written about in their peri odlcals and, papers. It is talked about with nearly every stranger that comes into their midst; 'A hey nave been driven from Dmt Sir: Having jbeen la the country and not hearing of m. Colfax's reply, while this answer hat absent. Is the reason so been losff delayed. Mr. Colfax has rolled to my article by another, published lit the1 New York Inde- VtlaYsem Se TtliM thaw avnlafv v ev aaewi Sm eavv VlSilf r Hf eWAVST eV" headed "The Mor-mo- a pendent, December count of their religious belief. -- Theirvifaith Question." has subjected them to the wickedest perseI bar always been taught to reverence cutions by unbelievers, They have been wen in authority My religion has not despoiled, they insist, of their property: maltreated In their persons, buffeted and the force oJT that precept. I am cast out, because they would not renounce sorry to be under tb necessity of differing their professions and their revelations." from the honorable gentleman who Lands This, sir. is all true; does it falsify a truth second In authority ln the greatest end to repeat it? The Mormons make these statements are always prepared to freest nation la the orUL My motto has prove them.andI referred to some of these Honor to whom things In my last. Mr. Colfax has not disalways been 'and now honor Is due; yet, wlxile t feel bound to pay proved thexn. lie now states, "I do not b omage to s man of ify talent and position I attempt to decide that the charges against are well founded." Why then are men are now free them cannot but realise they made? Has it become ao desirable to and equal and thatI ltre in aland where put down! the Mormons that unfounded against them? the press, thought and speech are free. If charges must be preferred was church first established at "Their it had. been a personal difference I should Manchester. New York, in 1830, and their KlrUand. bare had no controversy with Mr. volfax, first removal was in 1831, to Ohio. and the honorable gintleman, I am sure, which they declared was ' revealed to them the site of their New Jerusalem. (A wlU excuse-rnefosfinding up in the de as "Thence their leaders went west mistake) fense of what I know; to jbo a traduced and to search a new location, Which they found Injured people. 1 vjould not accuse the in Jackson county. Mo., and dedicatedre-a for anotherNew Jerusalem theremd gentleman of mLsreresentatlon. I cannot site to Klrtland to remain for five years turned help knowing, however j that he is inlain avowedly to make money;" (an error) "a formed in relation tamdit of him hLtrHial bank was established there by them; large details; and Jostice tot an outraged com quantities of bills, of doubtful value issued. m unity, as well as trfcth, requires that such and growing out of charges of fraudulent statements should t.e met and the truth dealing. Smith and Blgdon were tarred vwdicated. I cannot bat think that in and feathered." This is a gross perversion, refusing the proffered hospitality of ou r city Smith and lllgdon were tarred and featherwhlch,of cour se,hs hid a perfect right to do, ed in March, 1S32, in Ulram, Portage he threw himself am Am class of men. that county; the bank was organised Dec. 2nd, wre, perhaps, not rry reliable in histori- 1S3D, In Klrtland. cal data. Mr. C. continues: 'And I am not surprisedat Ms spparent pre- such outrages are this one unjostlilableas was based on judices: I can aecoun for his antipathies, alleged fraud and not on religious belief." bat cannot permit Mr. Colfar. eren ignor-antl- Allow me to state that this persecution to traduce" mr friends without de was based on religious belleand not on fense. ' lie states thai "The demand of the fraud, and that this statement is a perverpeople of Utah Territory for immediate sion, for the bank was not opened until admission into the Union, as a State, made several years after the tarring and featherac uaetr receni oonrensooe meeting ana to be ing referred to. But did the bank fail? yes, by their dlrate at the approach-lu- g in 1337, about five years after, in the great presented session of CongrsM compels the nation financial crisis; and so did most of the to meet face to face, A question which It has banks in tho United States, in Canada, a endeavored to Ignore." apparently great many in Kngland, Franco and other La there anything remarkable in a Terriparts of Europe. Is is ao much more tory apptytag for admission into the Union? criminal for the Mormons to make a fail- How hare other States entered the Union u re than others? Their bank was swallow since the admission of the'flrst thirteen? ed in the general financial maelstrom, and Were they not ail Territories in their some time after the failure of the bank. and generally applied to Congress for,turn, and the bills were principally redeemed. obtained admission?! Why should Utah be "They fled to Missouri, their followers an exception? She fcns from time to time, Joined were soon accused them there, as a constitutional requisition, presented a of plundering and they habitations and Darning constitution containing a with ajtoMit uMMlnittAna'' Wa tham no petition, with republican form of government. Since her law in Missouri? The Mlssourians cerapplication California, Nevada, Kansas, tainly did not lack either the will or the Minnesota, Oregon and Nebraska, hare power to enforce it. .Why were not these been admitted. And: why should Congress, robbers, incendiaries, and assassins dealt Coif ax says: 2 f Endeavor to ignore with? Mr. C Continues: Tor do these "Mr. Utah? And why should It be ao dilllcult charges against them rest on the testimony to facer lias it aqueAtlou to meet-fac- e become so very ri insult for Congress to do faith; in October 1838, T. B. Marsh, of the twelve apostles of their right? What Is the rbatter? Some remarkable conversation wm had between Brig-bai- n church, and ' Orson Hyde, one of the an officer made affidavits before Xoung and Serator Tram ball. Now, Iapostles, esr fs trH Xff ei T7ei v Mnnnlw as I did not happen to hear this converv va a ( a swirl ouK y. iif In uivt t'n ASaeajf itj cannot was. swore what One say it and Ilyae corroborated it, sation, I, thing... however, I do know, that I have hare among them a company con"They seen nunareas or distinguished gentlemen sisting of all that are true Mormons, called call on President 3foung and they hare the Danltes, who havo taken an oath to been uniformly better; treated than has been support the heads of the church in all reciprocated. Illut ? something was said things, Whether right or wreng. I have about United States officers. 1 am sorry heard the prophet say that he would yet to aay that many United States officers tread down hia enemies and walk over hare so deported themselves that they their dead bodies; that, if he was not let havsj not been xnncti a bore par with us. alone he would be a second Mohammed to They may indeed W satraps and require this generation, and that he would make it homage and obeisance; but we hare vet to one gore of blood from the Itocky Mounlsacn. to bow the knee. Brigbani 1'oang tains to the Atlantic Ocean," I am sorry does not generally speak even to a United to asy that Thomas B. Marsh, did make HUtns Senator! with. (honeyed words and that affidarlt, and that Orson Hyde stated measured sentences but as an in gen nous that he knew part of It and believed the and honest man. B at we are told that "the other; and it would be disingenuous in me recent expulsion of prominent member of to deny it; but it is not true that these his church for doubting his Infallibility things existed, for I was there and knew to proves that he regards his power as equal the contrary; and so did the people of to any emergency e4d has a will equal to Missouri, and ao did the Governor of his power." Missouri. How do you account for their X ana sorry to hav to aay that Mr. Colfax acts? Only on the score of the weakness is mistaken here. No person was ever of our common humanity. We were livdltmlseed from the (Church of Jesus Christ ing ln troublous times, and all men's disbelieving in the nerves are not proof against such shocks infallibility of President Young. I do not as we then had to endure. Mobs were surbelieve he is infallible, for one; and haye so rounding us on every hand, burning our taught publicly. I (an In the Church yet. houses, murdering our people, destroying Neather hare lever neard PresidsntYouag our crops, killing our cattle. About this tuak any such pretensions. Mi. Col tax time that horrible massacre at Haans Mill a good politician, but he mikes sad blun- took place, where men, women and childders la polemics. I makes a magnificent ren, were Indiscriminately butchered, and Speaker and President of the Senate; lam theit remains, for want of other sepulture, afraid, however, thatms a preacher he would thrown into a well. Messages were comnot be so success rul.. The honorable genin frem all parts, of fire, devastation, tleman now proceed to divide his subject ing blood and deatn. We threw up a few a and commences: logs and fences for protection; this, I what Mr. Colfax calls, ''fortifysuppose, "i. taxis rnmu(wa or desert. ing their is towns and defying the officers of For this they claim great credit, and I law." If wagons and fences and a few would not detract ax tou from ail they are house logs are fortifications, we were fortilegitimately entitled! to. It wo a desert fied; and if the mob, whose hands were wnen they first emigrated thither. dripping with the blood of men, women hare made large po Colons of It fruitfulThey and and children, whom they had murdered In blood, were "officers of the law" then prod active, and theft- chief city Is beautiful cold in location and attractive in its gardens and we are guilty of the charge. I cannot the acts of Thomas B. Marsh or Orson shrubbery. Bat th eolation of it all is In one word water. What seemed to the eye Uyde, although the latter had been labora desert became fruihul when lrrigatedAnd ing under a severe fever, and was at the the moan tains, wbte crests are clothed in time only Just recovering, no mordthan I defend the acts of Peter when he perpetual snow, furnished. In the unfailing could the necessary cursed and swore and denied Jesus; nor supplies ' of their tfaTines, ff the acts of Judas who betrayed Him; but, rerun!-.Wateri 3iro5(f4)titcra.V Here I must if Peter, after going out and 'weeping bitterly was restored, and was afterwards help Mr. C out. This wonderful Utile water nymph, after a chief apostle; so did Orson Hyde repent playing with the dotuia on our mountain sincerely and weep bltterly.and was restops, frolicking withthe snow and rain In tored and has since been to Palestine Ger our rugged gorges fcr generations, coquet- many) and other nations. Themaa B. a poor broken down man, ting with the sun and dancing to the sheen Marsh returned oftne moon,' about the time the "Mor- and begged to live with us; he got up be mons' came here Ctook upon herself to fore assembled thousands and stated: 'If iverform a great mUracle,and descending to you wish to see the effect of apoatacy, look the Yalley with a w&ve of her magic wand at me." He was a poor wreck of a man, a helpless drivelling child and he is since and the mysterious- words, "hiccory, dock clUee'snd streeU were laid dead.: A people are not to be Judged by out, crystal waters iiowed in tea thousand such acts as these. But the Governor of saw rippling streams, frMt trees and ahrubeery Missouri in his messajre "These people had violated the laws of and orchards gahlaaa sprang! up, abounded, cottagevC and mansions were the land by open and armed' resistance to themorganised, fruits. Cowers and grain in all them; they had instituted among their elysian glory appeared and the desert selves a government of their own. indeblossomed as therOfe; and this little frolick- pendent of, and In opposition to, the goso long confined to the mountains vernment of this 8 tat (false); "they had, ing elf, and water courses proved herself far more at an inclement season of the year, driven than Cinderella or Aladdin. Oh! the inhabitants of an entire county from yowerful greeo-eve- d monster! Can no their homes, ravaging their crops and station in life be protected irom. the shim- destroyin g their dwellings,' mer of thy glamour? must our talented Now, if the Governor had reversed this be subjected statement it would have been true; the and honorable to thyjaandlced touch? Bat to be serious, falsity of it 1 stand prepared to prove anydid water tunnel through our mountains, where. Mr. Governor,! t was your bull construct dams, canals and ditches, lay out that gored our ox. we were robbed, men, our cities and Import and plant pillaged and exiled, were you? Our withtOns, ' shrubs and flowers, v women and children were murdered choice cultivate the land, and cover it with the out redress; driven from their homes in an of the year, and died by rattle on a thousand hills, erect churches, Inclement seasonState echool-bousof Illinois, in conand fActorlesnd transform a hundreds, in the hardahl a and of Into fruitful field wilderness and sequence exposure. ps howling rardeu? If , "Why does not the Green The legislature of Missouri, to cover their monuxceat sum lUTcr, the? Saake rarer, Bear IUvsr, infamy, appropriated 1 w-- at J i j les-Mje- d J i lj th"al r y. j ex-presid- ent . sW ei . i IV orlaUter-daySalntsf- ar 1 thi - de-fe- ud - i : - die-cor- y, -- - - Vice-Preside- nt i ' fruit-trees- ea ui L' I i and killed our hogs, which we were then reveutedfrom doingmd breughlthem to eed the poor "Mormons" as par? of the This legislative appropriation. I saw: . On this subject I could quote volumes. I wiu only ssv that when authenticated testi mony was presented to Martin Van Buren, the President of the United States, be re plied. "Your cause is iutti but I can u nothing for vou." Mr. Colfax, in summing up, says.There Read the folio win Tuesday. November 6th, 183S, General Clark made the followine remarks to a number of men in FutWmL Mn.; "Gentlemen, you whose names are not attached to this list of names will now nave the privlleire of iroinsr to vour fields ana providing corn and woodfor your families. Another article yet remains for you to comply with, that is, that you leave the 8Ute forthwith, and whatever may be vour feeilnirs concernlnir this, or whatever yovr Innocence is nothing to me. The orders of the Cover nor to me were that you should be exterminated. I would advise vou to scatter abroad and never again organize yourselves with bishops, presidents, etc., lest you excite the jealousies of the people." M Is not this persecution for religion? Mr. Colfax next takes us to Nauvoo and remained, until 1SK; Nanroo they aays.'In the disturbances which finally caused them to leave the city were" not in consequence of their religious creed. Foster and Law, who had been Mormons, renounced the pafaith and established an In per at Nauvoo, called the Expositor.of his May, 1844, the prophet and a party followers, on the publication of his first number, attacked the office, tore it down and destroyed the press." This is a mistake. The Krpositor was an infamous sheet, containing vile and libelous atUcks upon individuals, and the citizens generally, and would not hare been allowed to exist in anv other com a day. Tho people complained to munity the authorities about it and after mature deliberation the City Council passed an as a ordinance ordering, its - removal nuisance, ana it was removed. In a conversation with Governor Ford, on this subject, afterwards, when informed of the circumstances, he aaid to me. "I cannot blame you for destroying it, but i wisn it naa oeen aone Dy a mob." l tola him that we preferred a legal coarse and that Biackatone described a libelous press as a nuisance and liable to be removed; that our city charter gave ns the power to re move nuisances; sua that if it was suppos ed we had contravened the law, we were amenable for our acts and refused not an investigation. Mr. Colfax's history says. The authorities thereupon called out the militia to enforce the law, and the Mormons armed themselves to resist It." The facts were that armed mobs were organized in the neighborhood or uarth&ge ana war- saw. The Governor came to uartnago ami sent a deputation to Joseph Smith, request ing nun to send another to mm, wuu authentic documents in relation to tho late difficulties. Dr. J. M. Bernhisel, our late wero dedelegateasto aCongress andtomyself, wait committee upon the puted Governor. His Kxcellency thought it lxt (although wo had had a hearing before) for us to havo a rehearing on the press question. We called his attention to the un settled state of the country, and the gene ral mob spirit that prevailed: and aked if we must bring a guard; that we felt fully competent to protect ourselves, but were afraid it would create a collision, lie ia, "We had better come entirely unarmed," and pledged his faith and the frith of the State for our protection. We went unarmed to Carthage, trusting in the Governor's word. Owing to the unsettled state of affairs we ontered into recognizances to was appear at anether time. A warrant Hy-rum issued for the arrest of of Joseph and rewere treason. for They Smith, manded to jail, and while there were murdered. Not "by a party of mob," as Mr. Colfax's history states, "from Miswho, with souri," but by men in Illinois,the hellish blackened faces, perpetrated deed; they did not overpower the guard, as stated, tho guard helped them in the performance of their fiendish act. I saw them for I was there at the time. I could a tale unfold that would implicate editors, officers, military and civil, ministers of the gospel, and other wolves in sheep's clothing. The following will show in part what our position was: "A proclamation to the citizens of Hancock County: Whereas, a mob of from one to two hundred men, under arms, have gathered themselves together in the south west part of Hancock county, and are at this time destroying the dwellings, and other buildings, stacks grain and other property, or a portion of our citizens in the most inhuman manner, compelling defenceless women and children Ut leave their sick beds and exposing them to the rays of the parching sun, there to lie and suffer without aid or assistance of a friendly hand, to minister to their wants, in their sufferingoondition.The rioters spare not the widow nor orphan, and while I am writing this proclamatlon,the smoke is arising to the clouds, and the name is devouring four set on fire, buildings which have just been of Thousands the rioters. dollars worth by of property has already, been consumed, an entire settlement of about sixty or seventy families laid waste, the inhabitants thereof are fired upon, narrowly escaping with their lives, and forced to flee before the comravages ofthe mob. Therefore I mand said rioters and other peace breakers to desist, forthwith, and 1 hereby call upon the citizens, as mpoase commtiatuM of Hancock county ,to give their united aid in suppressing the rioters and maintaining the supremacy of the law. , anti-Morm- law-abidi- on ng J. B. Backexstos, ) Sheriff of Hancock County, Ills.' i M r. Backenstos was not a Mormon. . We aet out in search of an asylum, in some far off wilderness, where we hoped we could enjoy religious liberty. Previous to our departure a committee com- of Stephen A. Douglas, Gen. John both members of Congress, the Attorney General of Illinois, Major Warren and others, met in my house, in Nauvoo, in conference with the Twelve, to consult about our departure. They were then presented the picture of devastation that would follow our exodus, and felt ashamed to have to acknowledge that State and United States authorities had to ask a persecuted and outraged people to leave their property, homes, and firesides for their oppressor to enjoy; not because we had not a good Constitution and liberal government, but because 'there was not virtue and power in the State and United States authorities to protect them in their rights. We made a treaty with them to leave; after this treaty, when the strong men and the majority of the people had left, and there was nothing but old and infirm men. boys, women and children to battle with, like ravenous wolves, impatient for their prey, they violated their treaty by making war upon them, and houseless, homeless, and driving them destitute across the M ississippl river. The archaeologist, the antiquarian, and traveler need not then have gone to to Pompeii, to Egypt or Yucatan, in search of ruins, or deserted cities, temple, they could have found a deserted forsaken family altars, desolate hearth a deserted city much stones and homes, easier: the time, the nineteenth century: the place, the United States of America: the State, Illinois, and the city, Nauvoe.; red Her-culaneu- m, , the very nation to whose territory were fleeing in our exile; wd supplied the demand and though despoiled and expatriated, were the principal agents in planting the United States flag in Upper ; gardens, orchard, vineyards, fields, wives and daughters were to be the spoils. Instead of this Mr. Buchanan kept them too long about Kansas; the Lord put a hook in their Jaws, and instead of revelling in sacked towns and cities and glutting their libidinous and riotous desires in ravishing, desand waste, they knawed troying dead mules'!laying legs at Bridger, rendered palatable by the ice, frost and snow of a mountain winter, seasoned by the pestiferous exhalations of hecatombs of dead animals, the debris of a ruined army, at a cost t3 the nation of about millions. We had reason to say then forty Lord reigns, 'The let the earth be glad.", Ob, how wicked it was for President Young to resist an army like the above, prostituted by the guardians of a free and enlightened Republic to the capacity of buccaneers and brigands! In the spring rumors prevailed of an intended advance of the army. Preferring compromise to conflict, we left Salt Lake and the northern of the Territory City en masse and prepared part for ourselves, we then considered, a coming conflict. what Af-tcombustible materials preparing and leaving a sufficient number of men in every settlement to destroy! everything; had we been driven to it we should have made such a as never was witnessed in theconflagration U.S. Every house would have been burned and leveled to the ground, every barn, grain and hay stack, every meeting house, court house and store demolished; every fruit tree and shrub would have been cut. down;. every fence burned . . uu ii.. wg wuiiixy wuuiu nave peen leit a howling wilderness as we found it. We were determined that if we could not en our nomes m peace, tnat never again joy should our enemies revel in our poasesnuua. I now come to Mr. Colfax's next heading lioston. iiee and ohepherd. Under the head of "Fashionable . M urj, By the advertisements of almost 31 paper, city and village in the land, medicines to ofW : California. be effectual "from vh, causes" it is needed; by the shameless I again quote: oui "In September. 1850, Congress organized notorious great establishments, ntt Utah Territory, and President Fillmore and advertised as places where any wo&7 civ at Smith's appointed Brigbam Young (who may resort to effect the end desired 7S bai inf which now number in the death, had become President of the ofNewVoi pre the alone over four hundred,city church) as Governor. The next year advertised njt 1DX Federal Judges were, compelled by Brig-hahouses abundantly devoted? wit patronized, flee to the work of abortionatlng; by the YouBg's threats of violence coufJ: from the Territory, and the laws of. the slons Of hundreds of women made 7 mo United States were openly defied. CoL n" who have been injurfed. by physicians, or .. . Governor: in unci hvltiB nrnAMR! Steptoe was commissioned : .uv auuvnt wuoianc mj cri inj after with of but wintering place Young, unblushing applications made to the to a battalion of soldiers at Salt Lake, he refession from 'women in all classes fri y to or not it safe, deeming , prudent signed, X1C7" Go icu j this far from being the case, poor and otherwise, good, bad or ind,?. offl accept." Sowas on the best of terms with CoL Steptoe ent,' to aid them in the thing do we kw tru our community, and previous to his apof the frequency of this crime?' P. 4 and our would not advise anyone to challenih VO' "I pointment as Governor, a number ef Col. judges, gentile citizens, further disclosures, else we can show thi th( prominent inf a officers some his of and signed Steptoe to France, with all her atheism, that Pari? am the President lor the with all her license, is not as guilty, iatht of praying petition continuance of President 1 oung in office. as is staid New England at tb ir respect, a mob He continues: "In February, 1806,sermons hour. Facts can be adduced th W present of armed Mormons insUgated by will make the ears tingle; but we don, ;! from the heads of the church, broke into want to divulge them; but we do want thi it the United SUtes court room and at the womanhood of our day to understand that of the bowie knife compelled Judge the thing can be no longer concealed; that point rim mm And tn oiniirn hla court sine die;" commonness or fashion cannot do awtv fabrication, there never with its awful guilt; it is deliberate and (this is a sheer was such an occurrence in Utah) "and very murder." P. 13 and 14. soon all the United States officers, except These facts are corroborated by Ir the Indian Agent, were compelled Story in a book, entitled, Whv ot. lZ and Shepherd, Boston. By the New York from the Territory.!' Now this same ami Medical Journal, September, 1866 bv th urumiuouu able and persecuted Juage from Wash- KMnirht Boston Commonwealth, Smingfield (Mass? " rtr7n U4WUU nrfth him a. rvm inirfnn whom h introdnced as his wife. Worster rulladium, Northampton JvTi and had her with him on the bench. The Press, Salem Observer and, as stated abor following will ahow the miatafce in regard "by the advertisements of almost everr to Col. Steptoe ana otners: paper, city and village in the land." J hT -"THE1B POLTOAMT." statistics before me now, from a physician "To His Excellency Franklin Pierce, the amount of prostitution, foeticide stating As this is fora rehash his of simply President of the United States. mer and infanticide in Chicago; but bad as Chicawithout answeiing mine, go is to be, these statements are "Vour netitioners would respectfully re I begarguments, represented to be excused his very leng- so enormous and revolting inserting that I cannot present that, Whereas Governor Brlgham thy quotation as this article is already believe them. Neither is the statement to our In rezard toleration of all long. the people or mis xermory, wiiuouv uus- -- religions," Mr. C. entertains very singular made by some of the papers, in regard to Mr. Colfax's association with the RichardtlnMtnn rt nirtv nr KAft. anil from TM)rson- meas. we ao invite men or almost au per- son case, reliable. Men in his position have al acquaintance and social Intercourse, yre suasions to preach to us in our tabernacles, their and it is not credible that a tind him to in? a nrm supporter oi me enemies, but we are not so latitudinarisn in our such strong prejudice laws of the United States, and principles as to furnish gentleman holding for what he the immorality a tried puiar of itepubiican institutions; all; we never consideredmeetinghouses about, considers, this a part of the of the Mormons," and whose moral ideas and having repeatedly listened to his re- programme. Meeting houses are generally In relation to virtue and chastity, are so public as- closed against us everywhere, and marks, iu private as well as in men as an accomplice could lend himself pure, are semblies, do know he is the warm friend advised to not we hear and us; go open to the very worst and most revoliini? and able supporter of Constitutional liber- ours, and say to eur and go congregatiens to in And I would the rumors IjOvelsm. the States, published hear we ty, to do not but furnish fhase of Free them, engage the aid of Mr. with hi. Colfax, the contrary, notwithstanding; and having all. Neither is the statement his brilliant talent canvassed to our satisfaction, his doings as correct. "About the following 'Intelligence, superior same he time (Mr. and honorable position, to helD stop th Governor and Superintendent of Indian Taylor) was writing It, God be and others affairs, and also' the distribution of appro- were being expelled from the church for blighting, withering curse of prostitution Terand infanticide. buildings for thecheerpriationswofor public the infallibility of Brigham foeticide disbelieving call I and most do upon philosophers and philanthro cordially No person Tas I before stared, was ritory, to been ex- Young." it: know ye not that the stop pists ever fully represent that the sameofhas from for the church doubting transgression of expelled the best interest to the nation, every law of nature brings. or pended the infallibility it is PresidentYoung; himbdu mac as nooio a and, whereas, his appointment would bet- but just to ivsunupuuuumeui, Yonna. that President say race men as oi ever on the earth existed ter subserve the Territorial interest than self disclaims C. ais it. Mr. again repents becoming cmaculatAl and HMtm. the appointment of any other man." ' in argument in relation or burn- are it? to tne suttee, 1 ta! "We therefore take great pleasure by npou physicians to stop Itryou of widows in India, and after giving a are the of the neonl' hnh recommending him to your favorable con ing guardians elaborate correct and account of its and sideration, and do earnestly request bis very justice requires, that, you should use English by says: suppression authority as Governor, and Superlnten all your endeavors to stop the demoralh- appointment "Wherever is power English recognized dent or Indian affairs for this Territory.. destruction of our race. I ' caiv there this religious rite is now ationand Hitv. Utah Territorv. Decern "Salt I forbidden and prevented. England upon ministers of the eospel to stop it: ber 30th, 1SVL J. F. Kinney, Chief Justice sternly with ye not the wall of murdered infants united voice aaid 'stop' and India know Assist- obeyed." Leonid&s shaver. is into the ears of the Lord of Court, Supreme ascending CoL U. S. Sabaoth and that the whole nation is hastant JustU-e- , K. J. Steptoe, lit.Mftl To Mr. Colfax's present argument fairly, IttlfllH rin'v .Inhn V T!vnlr llvt. whilst you are singit stands thus: The of Hindoo ening to destruction to murderers and mur Ingales, Cspt.,Sylve8ter Mo wry, La Chett, widows was consideredburning songs lullaby ing a rite, by deresses? 1 call statesmen to stop it; Ji. Y1USU)U, UU. V. tiUUUUI, XWUOI b V. the Hindoos. The Britishreligious upon were horrified inform us not statisticians know the Lieutenants; Chas. that ye Tyler, Benj. Allston, at the practice, and suppressed it. The that our A. Perry, Wm. G. Rankin, Horace : It. Mormons stock is out, and ' running original to believe a be religpolygamy U. we are J. crime A. this of Medical js. Stair, Kirby, Jienry, ious rite. The American nation consider that in consequence and tha foreigners, being supplanted by it a scandal and that they ought to put it race are Lucian L. Bedell, Wm. Mac, J. M. Hocka-da- down. Without of the the enemies negro already into all the details, ex-- 4 and other strangers." I think the entering above a fair statement exulting in the hope of their speedy "I call There wss really no more cau se for an army of vices; your tinction, esyping by the He question. faith- says "the claim upon the lair daughters of America and then than there is now. and there; is no that religious commanded it theirabettors their husbands and paramours more reason now, in reality, than there was and it went down, to powerless, was then, and the i bills ofr Messrs. Cragin as a relic of barbarism. He says: pause in their career of crime; you came . A r i i an honorable and pure stock, your ana uauom are omy a senta ui uioi b&iuu tells us what a civilized nation. akin"History of to ours, infamies that we have before experienced, actually did, where and grandmothers' hands were had the power." not stained with they and are designed, as all unbiassed men I wish to treat this argument the blood of innocence; with candor, could their pillows in peace, press know, to create a difficulty and collision, they do not look I the British upon a visit from the shades aided by the clamor of speculators and con- although of the without fear as a nation fit example for us; it was not so of their call upon tractors, who have of course, a very dis- thought in the time wailing offspring. of theRe volution. I hope municipal and State authoritiesI and interested desire to relieve their venerated we would not follow them in espectheir uncle by thrusting! their patriotic hands cannon withSepovs.and shoo charging ially upon Congress to stop this withering, off. them tine into his pockets. and damning blight. I call upon in this same India. I am glad, also, to And cursing T am aorrv tn be ntifler the Toalnf nl neces honorable men and women to use their our Administration views and acts all that of repudiating jjur. (joiiax's mstory. upon the question of neutrality more hon- influence' to stop this growing evil. ' I consity i e t si eja in tnar rvtrvvirnT.inTii nnvniiniinniii the ties of : than our cousins. But jure you by the lovea of God, by are -not proverbially conscienti- - orably and nations Vm?our race for respect consanguinity, to by the The British suppressed the and a love for our point. Ana w. W"r1in. suttee in moans v v.vi .1 w nr the of WW aKnnf nation, WW ' ' ' nnmannlihirA by we must therefore and be India, an infants the murdered and fear of avengDiplomacy generally finds language suited equally moral and suppress polygamy in stop this cursed evil! Hold! not so fast; let us ing retribution, the United States. their In the provincehelp of Gazaret, Hindostan, granted to the Bast India Company sub-- state facts as they are and remove the dust. have been In the habit of destroy- that Company stupendous monopoly, u.1t the suttee, but toi parents a aAsJaMt The British suppressed Ing infant children as soon as born: and at ana Drougat reauy mm wuiuou eighty-thre- e millions of polygamists the erated jugaiea about one hundred millions or numan In India. The suppression of the suttee and werefestival held at Ganga Sergoor, children sacrmcea to the; Ganges from time : and compelled many to raise poison that of polygamy are two very different calls both of these tho British nabread. instead of immemorial; History are to indeed be our tion (opium) things. If the British Shall we practice crimes that "trade and commerce" After the examples, suppressed. had better wait until Congress civilized and in Christian ; America, that Chinese had passed a law making the is India. in But it polygamy suppressed rf nnlnm r.nn traband. in ofdefi to compare the suttee to nolv England will not allow: heathens tq per- is absurd " the gamy; one is murder and the destructfonwof form.but put them down by the strong arm ance of this law, they sent cargoes You indeed tell us that these tabooed arucie ana uuciuy mvruuuwu the other is national economy and the of the law? are Tka ihlnu. nnwillinfr to be lire, "banned things by you, banned by the increase and life. of Suttee perpetuation these and banned confiscated law, destroyed morality by are but aand publio opin-a ranks truly with infanticide, both of which poisoned, calls it a cojtuj- - are bans contraband ion;" your mockery and goods. History destructive of human rolvaamv sa t life, ... . a. a.. w MilllirA New is we wnen fraud.are ana Deui. viuuww your England.temperance is salvation comparea witn either, ami force, that tends k. .JnowMwi MMiatArt thA Britishuunius even more than monogamy to in- - laws; your law reaches one in a thousand of who is so unfortunate as to be publicly exthem, nation slaughtered vast hordes These crimes, of which I write, run because they had the power; history calls I have now waded through Mr. Colfax's posed. to pay the in riot cursinc: blizht. it tear. When they forced them and have proven the falsity of his The affectedlancLa withering, of the nation is a myth; 1 millions of dollars for the trouble tney charges purity or ana assertions his the tergiversation had in killing them, history; calls ; it historical data; . I will not say his. but his like the whlted walls and painted senul- indemnification for the expenses cjuic tear. adopted history; for it is but fair to say that chers, qf which Jesus spake, ' within there is nothingbut rottenness and dead men's When President Polk wanted to possess he disclaims vouching for its accuracy. of bones.' Who, and what ls banned by you? ' Mexican then the himself of territory Permit me here again to assert my right What sent Gen. power is there In your interdiction L he as a to address California, Con xayior, Upper public teacher,to myself over the Into thousand and of disputed an cau ana tee nation, ana to with occupation, army their at mistressesthirty New Yorkandprostitutes of ? their amiable Torritnrv wall icnowimr that an gress more tnat to demoralis tention something and What the of paramours?pimps honorable nation would-b- e obllwd to re izing, debasing,, destructive and than sent it as an insult, ana tnat wouia De con- polygamy. As an offset to my former re- thousands in the city of brotherly love, in Boston, in your larire eastern, northern a casus belli and afford a pretext marks on these things, we are, referred to and sidered wvtarilrf nrs "ssren nrvtn fha wMilr nation, and cities? What of Washington? . our mortality of inlanta as "exceeding any Whatsouthern of four hundred murder your terri coveted the ourselves of else Known." possessing cans thing lishments New in York and yon r New ana it conquest reynscus. Mr. Colfax is certainly in error here. In tory; mstory in Tou ' J the same liner England operations atatiatical to honorably It is true that we acted more some late reports are virtuous are vou? God France, according us from deliver comfrom were at than Great Britain, in awarding rated on la mortar en ants, they be well to talk about e It may to Buchanan, goaded fifty to eighty per cent of the whole, under such virtue. and pensation. President those who are igbans wished to show them one year old. ine rouowing is irera wo your purity too Republicans, by the d for the inform- is it norant; tv.a MorAaoni dared he nurvrrl tAth in for Lake Salt sexton's mA mm T mmtA hafnM UrllW fist. T iotj: report City 434 Herod, by fitting i up an army the year, "Total interments stop this damning, cursed evil? I am re-- ' to make war upon we uonawu, mu n Deducting personsdaring from brought minded of the Shakesperian spouter who was necessary to have a pretext. It would the country places tor interment cried, 1 can call spirits from the vastv v A MnnUrbi otrov a wholfl 93 isnd transients, "So can L" said his hearer, "but a ao sent out deep!, he community in cold blood, comer xyow we do control wont for they and minions 391 raegadoes miserable few Leavinar the mortality of this city. horrid vices and crimes, do you want these These collision. a the purpose of provoking Jos. E. Taylor, Sexton. to force them upon us? Such things are : ; but here acted infamously men not only the asked often been question: the "Having A blot that will remain a blot in spite. statements throughout was not considera Eubllshed false and every kind of infamy,- Whether the death-rat- e kji au uiat grave apologists may write; families than such charao- bly irreater among polygamic And done Just now as though a bishop try to cleanse the is by beinjr . will answer; Of the 293 chilImtA mmr tti I Annr monogamic, - nf th. MorfflODI. , mw w stain, ten. we hsd dren buried from Salt' Lake City last year that the and He other crimson rubs In scours, : said things, among spot They (18G9), 64 'were children or polygamists; vain." burned tne u. a. rawrun. 223 were children of monogamists; while ments were afterwards denied by Governor and We! have now a Territory out of debt: that out of this .number, there another further, had Buchanan Mr. Cummings. case or lntanuciae. one our was even not cities, counties and towns are out of Mr. J. and B.Floyd,SeoM object in view, i We have no , debt, Besi3ectfully, gambling, pq drunken war, naa, axu was considered a ' retary orwhole i' E. Jos. foeticide nor infantiTatxob." ness, noprosutution,' combined and the f We maintain our wives and child season a last We Ihad cide, year alckly necessary coup d'etat. It. is. hardly arand ILI. tinIO. among children; but when it is considered ren, and we have made the "desert to bios- to inform Air. ixjuajt was that we have twice as many children as any somas the rose.' We are at peace with pretence of subjugating the Mormons, or Kansas to other place, in proportion to the number of ourselves, and with all the world. Whom Intended to coerce the people not is very low, es- have we injured? Why cau we not be let detained, Inhabitants, the death-rat- e his views, and that they were . , which alone? What are we offered by you in pecially among polygamists. as stated by Mr. Colfax's history was armtmenBat it true'the supposing slowly proposed legislation? for it is well moving said "the troops necessarily tum ad Kbminum," which Mr.Colfax says he your for us to count the cost. First confiscawere overtaken by the snows in November m intion of property, our lands, houses, gard"might use," would scarcely be an and wintered at Bridger." I need not all children ad for this if of the iegisjudicium; ens, neids, vmeyaras, ana orcnaras. form Mr. Colfax that another part Lake in or Salt of Utah desire would it the lated away by men who have no property, in died, City tableau originated grand the U. S. forces certainly not do away with that horrible pettifoggers, adventurers, robbers, for you Secretary Floyd to scatter for fraud and arms, preparatory to the Confederate crime, infanticide. Would Mr. Coifax say offer by your bills, a premium us our proof robs a are first because that such of children number The and in is history great and robbery. rebellion. Bach -- ' f Utah, who were children of polygamists, perty and leaves us the privilege, though facts. and of We were well informed as to the object died,' that, therefore, infanticide in the despoiled , of retaining ourtohonor, the dictates we had men In United States is 'Justifiable? and. that the worshipping God according of the coming of the army, We have been .11 rr Ka ramna and V nATJT vViat U In. acts of Madame Restelle and her pupils of our own conscience. could we stand again. this were was would boast a continual robbed before; and ha know tended. There among right proper? I . a 1 vi the the and second, great are his more ideas for Now! privilege uie menanuoiucon, oicu uciuio pure .generous Itia irUannrl exalted. Mr. Colfax says of us, I do not which you offer by obedience. Loss of rt rht thtr wnnH in not, a: renunciation of The houses were with the Mormons. picked charge infant murder, of course.', Now I honor and self respect;the ..I . 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