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Show HAY'S FRUITFUL TESTIMONY; Pursuing his narrative of events at Nauvoo immediately following the destruction de-struction of tho Nauvoo Expositor, Hon. John Hay (tho witness brought into this discussion by the Dcserct News) goes on in this fashion: Foster and Law Mod. like the vanquished van-quished Mnrlus, to Cart base. Althoush tho county authorities, who had bcpn elected on the Democratic ticket and had received the solid .Mormon vol p. weru disponed to deal as gently as possible with the autocrat of Nauvoo. they could not rciuse the warrants of arrest for which tho fugitives applied. Those were srant-ejl srant-ejl apain.it Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and .sixteen other of the rioters. But when tho deputy sheriff went to Xanvoo the -dormons -smiled at his simplicity, and wont throuph the forms of arrest, habeas corpus, trial, and acquittal before that singular municipal court of which tho prophet was Judpe. jury, counsel and prisoner, with a promptness and celerllv that astonished the officer. Thev sent him back to Carthago, with significant admonitions. For a space wc will here leave Mr. Hay's recital nnd turn to tho Journal of Discourses, volume 2, pages 1GI and 165. "Wc do this for the purpose of gottiug from Iho lips of .loseph Smith himself confirmation of what Mr.-Hay says. While the speech which Joseph made, and from -which wc quote, was delivered just a year prior to the events narrated by Mr. Hay, it establishes the defiant attitude and riotous conduct of Joseph under tho protection of that wonderful Nauvoo charter and his personal per-sonal municipal court, and its famous (or infamous) habeas corpus manipulations. In that address Joseph said: I have (trapped these men here bv my hand, and will do II npain; but 'l swear 1 will not deal so mildly with them again: for the tlmr has come when forbearance for-bearance Is no longer a virtue: and If vou or ,i.a,' naln taken unlawfullv, vou "are at liberty to give loose to blood and thunder. thun-der. But bo cool, be deliberate, ho wl?e. act with almighty power, and when vou pull, oo It effectually mako a sweepstakes sweep-stakes for oncel , 1 have no doubt but 1 shall be discharged dis-charged by tho municipal court. fCcr- ' . I wish the lawyer who savs we hav lio powers in Nauvoo may bo choked t'o death with his own words. Don't, omplov lawyors. or pay them inonev fnr theiV knowledge, for I have lenrnt they don't know anything. I know moro than they all. ( These expressions are indicative of the rebellious spirit that ran riot in the midst of tho Mormon lenders at Nauvoo, and of which Joseph Smith was tho chief example. Threats were made in profusion against what Smith and other vicious lawbreakers called "enemies." "ene-mies." Evidence of the murderous na-tnro na-tnro of the fooling there at tho time is given in the precipitate flight of Poster and Law. And it must bo noted that it was theso men who procured I he issue of the warrants, Iho ultifiiatc consequence conse-quence of which came in tho murdors ni Carthage. And, it must not be forgotten, for-gotten, those men wcro Mormons. ' It avails nothing for the News lo say that thoy were excommunicate, because all of their acts loading up to the bloody climax tvero consummated whilo they wcro hold as in . good stnnding. But now to Mr. Hay again, who describes the intense feeling aronricd, as well as the violent outbursts on tho part of sorno of tho outsido press, demanding immediate and sanguino vengeance, and then proceeds as follows: Of courpo the destruction of th" Expositor Ex-positor was not . enough, or Itself, to kindle so Intense a popular passion. It takes a preat denl of hammering to heat an Iron bar, but It rddens very rapldlv at Inst. For four yearn the. entire county coun-ty hnd been kept m n state of unwhole-iiome unwhole-iiome excitement by thefc people. AFTER AH. THAT MAY BE SAID OF THE FAFlrS OF BOTH SIDES. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE IM-POSSIBLE TO DENY THAT THE MORMON'S MOR-MON'S WERE BAD NEIGHBORS. The largo majority wero Ignorant, honest, hard-working folk, who were harmless and peaceable. But the thieves and vagrants who in other communities are forae naturae, wero in Nnuvoo patronized and protected, for several reasons. The city charter, grontnd by tho legislature in a sordid subserviency, gave to the municipal court a wide Jurlydlrtlon. The accused Mormon always appealed to this court for protection against tho persecuting perse-cuting Gentile, and ho always pot off scot-free. Smith rather enjoyed dcfvlnp the outr.ldc world, and perhaps felt also a tferrct sympathy with loafers in trouble. For yars scarcely a criminal had been brought out of Nnuvoo. The evil was growing every day less endurable. endura-ble. Is thcro any wonder that tho people woro aroused, both tho outsiders who wero outraged Ivy this fearful condition of affairs, and tho Mormons whoso disaffection dis-affection caused thorn to bo also victims vic-tims of ln damnablo system! More and moro it becomes plain that there was a determination to ignore all law, defy all government, commit aft sorts of crime, override the people aud play havoc generally. Tho majority of the Mormon people were, as Mr. Ilaj says, good oven if ignorant; but it was fhc de.vilishness of their leaders that eontinualb dragged them into trouble nnd kept thorn constant!) at sword's-point sword's-point with their neighbors. Hocauso of their leaders tho Mormons woro bad neighbors. There were men prominent in the church who could see into the source of all the trouble, and they desperately des-perately determined to end it and end it thej' did at Carthage on Juno -i IS 14. Wc submit that all of the presentations presenta-tions made, hy Mr. Uny must bo accepted ac-cepted b3 tho Dcserct News, for it was that papnr that brought him into the controversy. Meantime, wc -assure our readers that we shall have further recourse re-course to this fruitful witness. |