Show I 1 copy Secure dJ eis els history HIS tory TOay omi S smite SMITH inia iyla MARCH adl 1844 jit y t thursday 7 A A splendid entend id day wind avind from the h g OFA OFA I 1 G GENERAL alm MEETING I 1 reported by eders elders richards and wil wit ford woodruff I 1 A vast assembly of saints met at the tempie temple ae of odthe lile llie lord at 9 61 clock al am by a special ip a p nii nil of president joseph smith for the tile pitr purpose pose of bf advancing I 1 he progress of the temple ac I 1 the patriarch hyrum smith wl was tas aas present ent also of or the twelve apostles B young pirt PITT H C kimball P P pratt 0 pratt W richard richards W woodruff john taylor and geo asmith also the we temie temple tempie committee and about eight thousand 9 aint dint I 1 A ayn was wag sung by the choir prayer hy by elder PP pratt another hymn was sung still patriarch hyrum smith took the stand ind and baid eaid The object of the inee to stir tip up your m minds I 1 by way avay oe of remembran remembrance ee it is ne nee essary lessary L to have a starting hig fig joint which is ft to build we temple wilh with the assistance of the sisters we ex get got the nails and anti glass and with the assistance of the brethren we ave expect to do the rest I 1 will proclaim in public and in private that the sisters bought the glass and nails ly by penny subscription choose ye this day whom ye will serve we shall call upon this vast multitude for a donation to buy powder and fuse rope to blast the rocks irr in the quarry we want the brethren to at least do as much as the sisters we do not intend to finish the nauvoo house this season but to take all the hands bands and fir irish the tempie Temple this summer or the walls of I 1 i and geathe roof oil on by december and do off the inide inside next winter writer and about a year from this spring we ave will dedicate it we can do anything we ave undertake we ave have power and we ave can do great things in ili five 1 vears years to come the worx work will progress more than thin it has done for ten years past isaiah said we should perform a marvellous marcellous marv ellous work and a wonder I 1 dont wonder he said ao so it i he saw this vast multitude and I 1 think this people is abundantly able to build this temple timple e ami and much depends upon it for our endowments dow ments and sealing powers and many bless irs lib depend upon it I 1 I 1 president joseph smith took look the stand arose and after requesting orson pratt prate to the ther stand and his post ilala baid bald ado A do not know whether the object of the 1 maetin meeting has been told you or not 71 I apologize for not coming sooner I 1 so much on my mind since rince I 1 saw yoa you you that rh ardly know where to begin or aliat t to olay ofay s ay b but ut I 1 ol 01 one A of the grand obie objects outs rats I 1 had in view in i calling this meeting asab ysab wab was to make a few remarks relative to the laws and ordinances odthe city and the building of the temple the reason I 1 want to 0 o speak of the city ordinances is that the officers have difficulty in administer administering ing inZ them waa weare re republicans and wish to have the people rule but they must iule lule in righteousness ness some would complain with mat what god himself would do the laws or ordinances are enacted by the city council on petition of the people and hey they can all be repeated if they wish it and petition accordingly at all events the people ought not to complain P lain iain of the officers officer but if they are not satisfied they should complain to the law makers by petition I 1 am instructed by tle tie tha city council to tell this people that if there is any law passed by us which you dislike we ave will repeal it for we ave are your servants tf those N wiio wilo llo iio complain of our rah rights ts and ana charters are wicked and corrupt and the dendis in them the realton reason I 1 called up this subject is we have bave a gano sang of simple fellows here who do not know where aher their elbows or beads heads are if you preach virtue to them they will oppose that i or if you preach a methodist god to them they will oppose that and the same if you preach anything else and if there is any case tried by the authorities of nauvoo they want it appealed to carthage to the circuit court mr bir orsemus F Bost wicks case had to go to carthage our lawyers will appeal anything to the tho circuit court I 1 want the people to speak out and say whether such men should be tolerated and i supported in our midst and I 1 want to know if the citizens will sustain me when my hands are raised to heaven for and in behalf of the people froin from this time I 1 design to bring such characters who act against the inte interests rests of ake th e cily cly before a cu committee of the whole andri will have llave the voice 1 of the people which is re publican and is likely to be the voice of god and as long as I 1 have a tongue to speak I 1 will expose the iniquity of the lawyers and wicked men I 1 fear not their boiling ove over r nor the boiling over nver ochell their thunders nor the lightning 0 of the their forked tongues 1 if these thit thi gs cannot be put a stop to I 1 will give such men into the he hantl hanti hanas hands ls of the missouri moi moh the handa hands of the officers of the city falter and are palsied by their conduct i there is another person I 1 will speak about he be if is a mormon a certain man who lived here before we came here herp the two first letters of his name are ate hiram elin Kiin kimball ball bali when a man is baptized d an and beco becomes s a member of the church I 1 have a right to talk about him and reprove him in public or private whenever never it is feces garv or he deserves c it when the city passed an ordinance to collect from steamboats he goes and tells th the captains of the steamboats that he owned the landing W and that they need not pay I 1 I 1 despise the man who will betray you with a kles kies and I 1 am determined to use lip ap such men nien it if they will not stop their operations if this is not true let him come kor forward ward and throw off the imputation when they appeal to carthage I 1 will appeal appal to this lieo lleo people aie rie ate which is the tho he highest higi lest iest court I 1 despi despise e the lawyers who hag on lawsuits law lair suits i arid and I 1 would ouid rather die a thousand deaths than appeal to 0 o mcartha carthage ge kimball and morrison say they own ther thee wharves but the fact is the city own them 61 feet from hi high h water mark from the printing office to the northern limits of the city is bublic public ground as water street runs along the each beach and the beach belou belon belongs s to the city and not to individuals 4 another want to speak about the lawyers of this city I 1 have good feelings towards them nevertheless I 1 vili aill reprove he lawyers and doctors anyhow jesus did and every prophet has and if I 1 am a prophet I 1 shall do it at any rate I 1 shall do it for I 1 profess to be a prophet prop liet ilet the maritime laws of the united states have ceded up the ri krisht lit to regulate all tolls ac to the respective corporations who have jurisdiction and not to individuals our lawver lawvere s have read that they are ard ignorant ignoc ant of this they have never stuck I 1 their lei lel r noses into hito a book on maritime lav law in their lives and aa as pope says shallow draughts intoxicate the brain drink deep or taste not the spring our oar city lawyers are fools to undertake to practice law when they I know pow mow nothing about it J I 1 want from this time forth every fool to stay at home and leg lef le the steam boats and captains alone no vessel could land any whereof reif relf subject to laws lawa the corporation owns the streets of the city and have ae as much right to tax the boats to make wharves ss as to tax citizens to make roads let every man in this city stay at home and let the boat captains peace officers and every body alone how now howare we we to keep peace in the city defend ourselves ag against mobs and keep innocent blood from being shed 13 by striking 0 a alloys biga at everything that ribes rises up io disorder I 1 will avill wage an eternal warfare with those that oppose me while I 1 am laboring in ir behalf of the city I 1 will dib dis disgrace race every man by publishing him on the house top who ho will not P be e still and bind mind his own business let them eb eft entirely alone and they will vill themselves use up I 1 was vis visited cited by an old gentleman this morning it g ii who vrho to told I 1 d me that the spirit or of was aagut about subsiding A co couple coupie uple of merchants in this thia city 1 I will not tell their names have to told I 1 d the country people not to bring butter eggs ac to nauvoo for sale lie at least so 0 the people abroad say now if they will avill not let the people bring in their produce the people will not buy their goods and the result will be the merchants will get the spirit of another man 1 I will not call cin his name has been writing to the new york tribune some cf of the mos most t disgraceful thin things possible to name he says in that article that there area are a great many donations to the temple which have flave been beeh appropriated to oher purposes his object evidently was to stigmatize the traz trustee tee and excite prejudice against again us abroad but bat I 1 pledge myself that who whoever ever has contributed any old shoes harness horses wag gons or anything else if he will come forward I 1 will show that ayery farthing is on the tha book and has been appropriated for for the building of ok the temple I 1 pledge myself that if he finds the first farthing that we cannot show where it has been appropriated 1 I will give him hiim m rny iny y head for a foot ball ile he also baates st ates that the temple tempie cannot be built it costs so much who does not know that we ave cin can rut gut put the roof on the baildon building g this season if we have ave a mind to by turning all the means from the narvoo house ardd arid doubli i in ing our diligence we call can do it there are men in our midst who ate aye are trying to build tip up themselves at our expense and others who are watching for iniquity and will make a man an offender ender for fora a word the best way for such men is to be still it if I 1 did not love men inen I 1 L would not reprove them but would work in the dark as they do As to who is the author of the article in the Tri trl tribune bund budd read it and you will see for yourselves he is ignot not a lawyer a nyer he be is nearer neater related to a doctor a small man inan mr me afe neil inquired if he was the man no I 1 do not know you you are a stranger but I 1 will rest myself f and gi give way wax for others prest west hyrum smith made a afew jew remarks he compared the lawyer lawyers sto to polli 0 anti and toads he said saia they would rould dr dry up next fall fail those characters I 1 presume were made in gizzard making time when it was cheaper to get gizzards giz than souls for if a soul cost coat 5 a gizzard would cost nothing like tree toads they change color dolor to suit the object they are upon they ought tobe tabe ferreted out like rats rate you could describe dc scriba them aa as you yet would a hedgehog they ther are in every hedge stinking like the skunk I 1 charles foster asked if joseph meant him joseph said 1 I will reply by asking you a question forter foster thit that is no way joseph yes that thab thattis is the way the quakers do debut but jesus said whose image and superscription is this why did you apply to you yourself reif relf why did you ask if we meant you foster then I 1 understand you meant me joseph you yon you yon said it foster poster you shall hear from 1 me e 2 joseph as mayor 11 1 I fine you 10 foi for that threat and for disturbing the meeting 1 doctor foster spoke in palliation of his brother charles and asked joseph lo 10 await awalt ac ile he said iha he has not threatened yoi joseph josaph said lle lie ile he has doctor foster said no ino one has abe heard 1 ard him threaten yon yul n when hundreds cried 11 1 I have havell doctor F continued co to speak wie ale when the mayor called him lo 10 order or said he 1 I will fine you win IV phelps then read gen smithy smiths views of othe the powers and policy of the general govern ant of the united states after which it was voted unanimously with one exception to uphold gen smith for the presidency presidency cl of th the x united states an article was also read by W W phelps entitled A voice of innocence from nauvoo lund and all the assembly asi embly said amen twice at 30 minutes past 12 the meeting 0 adjourned till 2 pm t when the the people keople assembled assen bled accordia according to adjournment journ ment c choir choin air aung sung a hymn prayer bf b elder 0 pratt singing president brigham Bri ghant young addressed addre saed the congregation gre gation he ire said 1 I 1 wish to speak upon the duty of lawers lawyers as they have bee been spoken of morning they were fird first among the children of bf fsr ysrael israel 1 to explain the laws of noses Moses to the common people I 1 class myself aj aal a lawyer in israel my business is to make peace among the people and when wien any man who calls hims leif telf a lawyer takes a course to breakspeare break peace peare instead 0 of mak ing it he is out but of the line of ha his duty A labye ra duty is to read the law well himself then tell the laople what it Is and let them act let upon it and keep keep peace and let them receive pay like any laboring man min it is desirable for tor justices of the peace when men call for fop writs to enquire ino info the merits of the caad and tell the parties how to settle settie it and thug thus p putdown ut lawsuits to cure lawing let us pay to our own bual when we hear bear a story never tell it again ig aln ain and it will be a perfect cure if your 5 our br brother t b er mi mistreats mrs st treats you let him ala alone ne if your our enemy cheats chean you jou let it go cease to deal with men who abuse you ou if it all ail I 1 11 men had taken tho the sta straightforward straight tra bt forward course that some have we not have such disorderly men in in our midch I 1 have no objection to any man coming here but I 1 will ill lii have nothing to do with men who will abuse me at midnight and at noon day our difficulties and persecutions have always aris arisen enTrom from men right in in our midst itis it is the lust of individuals to rob us of everything 0 and to take advantage of divisions that may arise among us to build themselves uj up I 1 feel that I 1 want every ev ery man should stay and lift up holy hands without dubiety wrath or doubting to th the e men mn m n wha who own land here I 1 would sa say y do not think you ou can sell your lands here and then go off and spend it somewhere else ele in abu abusing slig the INform mormons cormons Mor mons mods ons I 1 tell you ou nay for know it ye people that israel is here and they ahey are the head and anti not rot the tail tai 1 and the people must learn it all those w who b 1 have 1 ve gone from rom us have gone from the ahe head bead to the tail the grand object before us s is is to build the temple T emp e this season we have heard the effects of sl slander blander antler ancier and an 1 we want a cure and balm and I 1 carry one with me all the ibe while and I 1 want all of you vou to do the same I 1 will wilf tell you what it is it if cisto is to mind our own oun business and let others alone and suffer wrong rattler rattier than do da wrong if any one takes your youir property away avva let them alone anc and have nothing to do with them A i S spirit has his been manifest to divide he the sa saints it was manifest in in the last election it wab was washid said sald 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