Show MASS convention at a mass coave tion of the gentiles of cedar county held at calif rai ifield beld near camp floyd ri U T on oil saturday july 1859 dr garland IN unit it moved seconded by mr S P Jones that lion andrew humphreys be president it was mas of indiana appointed corned carried unanimously on oil taking the chair lie said friends and fellow citizens of utah territory tory it b if an all act of ingratitude on oil my part to remain silent on oil the present occasion returning to each and every sincere and heartfelt heart beart felt ac olle oie or of you iou my for the lionor honor you have conferred upon me that of unanimously selecting g roe me to preside over the deliberations of your our convention contention and the more so because it is the fust filst convention that has haa ever eier assembled ill in this thia territory that was u vill ill and gordei should prevail arg 11 g that law it will nill be expected of me that I 1 should state the he objects of the meeting but my recent arrival cival in in tb the e territory pren presents ants tae me from sufficiently f understanding ahat your our objects are I 1 therefore content myself by presiding g over the convention contention to the best of my ay ability abi liy on oil motion of oe sir mr kirk mr G I 1 II 11 1 crossman junior and mr john E risley were appointed to act as secretaries Sicre lanes dr hurt seconded by mr SP SP jones moved that a committee of eight be appointed to draft an address and resolutions the committee consisted of dr garland hurt hart IV 11 lent john bigler IV D kirk C L Cr chairs airS S P jones jone JI al VV ilan iian 1 lcy icy P nd J E risley the hie following is 11 a copy of et tho the address and up by this committee ADDRESS As citizens of tile united states devoted to OUT our form rort arf the docil socil soei organization of its people it becomes busm us M lien hen in in mass masi convention contention assembled to declare to our fellow citizens the causes cause s chich anci induce us 13 to dissent from iii and aoi 0 beirn practices hostile to the letter an and spirit ait 0 of I 1 our oar constitution aril and subversive of our tights rights as freemen we declare approval of that tha religious liberty entitles entities every eiery ma man I 1 to worship G god od according to the dictates of his I 1 own conscience and me v e most solemnly declare that we have not and mill ill not interfere ith that rilia ri ait in any religious iou 3 sect hect lietner liet ber jewish I 1 ilagan fagin fag in mornion or ch ns tian but with v tile the simple exel so ot of that 1 right engham brigham young and lis his followers loners lol have not been and alij avill not be content they have haic practiced intolerance and perse cautions hitherto therla hi in our coi couil try and unequaled unequal cd elsewhere else elsei here in th thel nineteenth century A fundamental annc nelile pic in their organization orga DiLation is an all union or of church ch and tate they acknowledge art an ecclesiastical head vi boin they profess to believe a vicegerent of divinity v mil ill is is higher than all il law even human collaci conscience eDee itself and m whose lose command is a sufficient justification for crimes of every grale grade nor are they content to support their ob obnoxious 9 system by voluntary from its adherents but lai e bei eto fore anil and et ct do levy taxes cpr n as and compel a an a ilig people to pay tribute to support an organization that they despise 33 legislative enactments enactment they have granted to church officials the exclusive privilege of 0 establishing ferries and brid bridges over ofer the principal rivers and a large per of the enormous tolls exacted from emigrants goes to their emigration fund they ceaf confiscate isgate to the same use stray property found within the territory they escheat the property of deceased persons 3 to tile the use of the church they have assumed the right to dispose oi of the timber and grasi the water and its privileges for tho the exclusive support of church dignitaries they have grantell gran teil large barge and valuable tracts of pubic r lands to church officials to the exclusion of all others they lave created a corporation by chartering their church investing it with powers destructive of the best interests and dangerous to the liberties of 0 its inhabitants three fourths of their population are aliens abo know nothing of our institutions and care nothing for them they emigrated emigrate il to our coutry cou try not to enjoy tho the freedom fredom it at af fords but merely because it was the home and centre or of many of them boast that they are not and never intend to be american citizens they tave lave imprisoned american citizens for no no other oilier cause ause r than that of refusing to attach themselves to their revolting ins titu eions in their attempts to establish a theocracy founded on the divine right of their priests to gov govern lern they were led in 1857 to declare vair ill tle states after hiving having killed some and imprisoned others of our fellow citizens stolen the property of the united states as well no 09 ol of private privat e individuals I 1 they accepted the pardon of the president without making restitution or in any way accounting for the property stolen and without surrendering or attempting to surrendering rend ering their hostilities to the GoWn government Ment of the united we declare our full conviction from all we e have witnessed that the mormon peopled people are no more loyal lo 10 al to the constitution of the states today to day than thana A hen they declared their independence of that government raa t defied its powers levied a military c chesty hest organized their army and fortified echo kanyon they have murdered and then robbed whole trains of emigrants not sparing de fenceless women and children alose CT lose cries for mercy found no ear to hear bear no heart to feel and no arm to bring deliverance they have debauched and then murdered helpless women they have taken the lives of american citizens by order ot of their priesthood they have made eunuchs under church authority tho rity and they still clam claim the right to continue the diabolical practice they have incited the merciless savages to rob and murder unprotected people they have prevented the execl execution tion or of the law by conferring criminal jurisdiction upon courts of their own creation in violation of the organic act they have dis franchised american citizens fio serving on jaries they have refused to provide jails or other t her means tor for the safe keeping of prisoners they have steadily refused to provide money to enable the federal courts to try and punish offenders they have lit in nearly every instance prevented presented the arrest of af criminals and when a fcc ere arrested their officers have peri per i bitted them to escape they have witnesses and jurors mith fearby threat of 0 terrible meaning 1 witnesses AVit it nesses have not dared to testify in eo courts art of justice urless unless they could be protected by the army and when that protection was afforded them the mormons cormons Mor mons fearful that the truth would be made known and their leaders punished have falsely I 1 pretended that they thet were afraid of 0 the soli diers ard and that they th vi were ere persecuted on 01 account of their religion they practice incest and polygamy in ill its most horrifying forma setting at defiance ancel a all 11 the laws of consanguinity instances being known of men high in their confente con conan fence ence having married the mother a ami 1111 her daughters and cohabited with them it at the sa same me time where they L lave ave thus Lna marr cd their half sisters bisters and nieces ai d to justify this outrageous practice they denounce as prostitutes the women forcen of the slates sacs among amo g are our mothers our sisters our daughters and our friends they have stolen large quantities of public lic property since their pretended treaty of peace mith the united states they have made no restitution ncr in in any way whatever accounted forthe for the vast amount of property they thy hase hae stolen or destroyed and for none of the crimes we haie hae enumerated have the perpetrators been brought to punishment nor has the public accuser appointed by the federal gove ment taken any ally of the necessary steps to do so the united states marshal for the territory has used every means within his power to male make arrests where prosecutions prosecution 8 lave have been set on foot by individuals but the means placed at ins iks disposal are foai d wholly anad I 1 quate we cannot too highly commend the exertions of the federal judges in in their attempts to to do their duty in executing the law nor the action of gen A S johnston in in affording protection to the civil authorities generally I 1 but especially to the court held at provo 0 nor can we ve too deeply regret the action which the president has felt it his duty to take in in depriving the courts of or similar assistance in 1 future thereby extinguishing all hope of maintaining the supremacy of the law for 1 if f th the 01 law ever was it certainly is 13 not now king in utah these are some of the wrongs which we as american citizens have a right to complain in doing so we lia ha ye ve been compelled by the limits of such a eiling to deal in in general rather than detailed diate statements but for the truth of our assertions we vre stand pledged to the civilized world resolved that we hold the mormon people responsible for tile blood of american citizens so wantonly sled upon american soil so long ai the real perpetrators perpetrator rato rs alders and abettors abet tors are protected by them flora the just penalties of tile the law resolved sad that polygamy my is 3 an abom in the st tight bt of god a violation of 0 the laws of nature tending to degenerate and sexualize senu alize our race aratea a crime t pu leht or law in every in tile the liuo rJ 1111 e ir T it and not lot be tolerated in ill tle the territories ati Kc solved d 31 aliat a union of oe I 1 chuard biall P state anil and especially one making tile 1 by subservient to the former is 13 inc income om t 11 0 o u with ith our republican institutions institution anil aj 4 1 ll 11 tempt to establish such auch an union be lieis liei 1 ally al 1 ersie or of our rights we w will ill resit resist th 11 81 by all means iu in wr our power laatt resolved solved ath that in ill our opinion ax I 1 gross gress has the power to secure to ai 0 li a aa a P lican form of 0 government and i I 1 call on that honorable budy to ex exert arcise le chereb tin b iv b i i 1 bl power of resolved ath that the gentile pipii do ot of this territory be re requested to 1 0 1 1 bel aid iii j aa 4 effort to organized maintain out our rill iiii utah i dr resolved JM Ored ath that we deplore to 1 bece nee cs si i ty that existed for the he severance of t X anderson Es J from the valley tan Z hew paper that we appreciate his hia clort fl ort 01 1 0 behalf and that our regards regarda will wil 1 u it folio ii tb him resolved icso iced ath that we w heartily endorse 11 88 b the sentiments expressed by the 11 lion on j lathes T S green of mo in a rece recent at speech pih dila dell ven 0 by liim him at jefferson city relative to utah al af f IV fairs on the motion of mr C L craig abi n D convention contention then proceeded to t romi nominate liale ca i t W dilates for the offices office various u hen after in a spirited contest the folio following ing perso perform 8 iver PT declared duly nominated r for I 1 legate to Coli gress ess 1 DR GARLAND HURT for council MR dirt WM wai 11 II LENT LEM 11 11 11 JOHN cagler GLEa representatives SAMULL it C IV CROCKER J al ta sheriff 0 P upon motion ut of geo gen 11 II Cs osamah esq b 1 I ha we will support the dr nees of this convention in resolved thit the editors of 91 throughout tile the union fi fendly to our cal caca te be reu requested ested to publish the proceedings of i ir this convention contention resolved that our thanks are due adlie to llor hor A the able at and fin impartial manner in he has presided 0 our erfur ow 1 Rt resolved solved that the p of this chit convention be signed by tile tie arid aid t Se secretaries cretal les A 11 PROSE MIS Se cretai ies I 1 1 JOHN E ri itcy S AS 11 EYOUL CO HIMS POND ENT J cheadl dr hurt moved that a clause in in ue ad i dress be struck astruck out aa reflecting ori 01 tb tin president pres ent al mr r thomas moved that it be passed as in is the original origin jl address mr risley stated that lie le did not waa stand it atas as reflecting in in any liay vi ay on oil the president mr S P jones 1 it the facts were it ere amatea lie he for one would vote for its retention i he her it reflected on oil the president or rot I 1 1 chier chief justice I 1 cannot see la in what manner this paragraph pary graph reflects on the tha president I 1 judge cradlebaugh Cradle langh I 1 du do not helie c that a a reflection eP ecio is is intended to be east cast on the art silent but so far as that lause is s concern fi I 1 know its truth al and give it my sup support lort I 1 f on the ath resolution meet ing w dr hurt said altho tigh fully ciulo sug the opinions as expressed by senator gree greca in tile the speech fereri ed to objected object ed to the motion unless some gentleman gent lemin would stale stal te tile the meeting the sentiments contained ill in it it would be better if they the were made ac quai with mith what they were botn g forfar for for in the event of its bearg lost it would alpeat as if ir the colive convention did not endorse it i mr osborn here handed a synopsis orfan speech in the valley tan which was real by mr risley the address and resolutions vere mere then adopted OP ted with acclamation dit DB FORNEY superintendent OF AFFAIRS dear sir agreeable to your request that I 1 should rth inform you whenever any movement of atit th indians took place of any importance 1 IN this part of 0 your I 1 vall to say to you yon that some indians Ini lians calne in i yesterday from the north with reports that alia some whites had been murdered some 20 miles north of this on the california the reports yere were so vague and contradictory that at first I 1 did not consider thrill worthy of oe credence but having afterward f learned that some indians had in their possession some horses mules males oxen and other property unusual for them to traffic in i sul it ing to trade the same to citizens in the sue urba arbs of tile the city I 1 thought best to an inquiry in ie ference to to the matter I 1 the report is too true though there Is I 1 much |