Show till 01 I 1 khlly lit i 14 1 I adress of ishii is lii 1 I p H iiller i litfy ii if ille sall lalie tabernacle july 21 ISM brethren and sisters in aldred 8 I 1 ing a few words to this vast codere ration gation I 1 dball not attempt to dazzle your minds by a display of 0 oratory even were it in in nay my power 1 should not cot deem daem it proper on this thin occasion occasion occa siou among the noblest heroes anil and he be croinea whom history hus bits im mortal tire are those beave rave men and women who have int lerent dif ayea ages of the world refused to surrender their sacred convictions and be untrue to the dictated dicta tea ot of their consciences conscience ii th the 0 auice of C buil oil ill in llie ilia human heart aud and lave lava left bobo and 31 Je spoiled of their possessions 1112 anil 1 I liiva have talen taken their liv lues L a i in n their hands bid adieu to then their native land liand with all the associations and ties of kindred kindled bull affection nod and hiiva goda OD forth to siek seek out it new laud land where they blight enjoy tho the rights of con coil tin anil worship tho god of their tailless fill ta illers ceib ill ilia hill own tip ap poi 11 let way ay such lucli were wem the bellil hil dren drell 0 of 1 israel ra i 11 indent tin who led by the het moses shook oft off the bli ackles of egyptian bond bondage 0 i o and wl went int forth into actu the wilderness to worship god according to his hia command such also were ill the pilgrims 0 ot f new england who in in illa it ct fut Tiry of the he Christ christian inu era ii 11 froidl 1 boin tile ilia I 1 branny ot or the he old add planted I 1 themselves on t alm i ill western shores of the atlantic avre with ith their descendants they were laste menial in in the lianda hands of 0 Provide tIce fit in establishing the great govern mont giuder which wo we ore me now cow living in in founding a nation whose broad wings of protection overshadow the oppress ed the trampled on and distressed ot of a ull 11 rations nations find winch which furnishes famishes till an asyl ilin a place of refugo for the weary wi bay exiles of every land touch also were the pioneers pione eia of utah who nine nine and unity years ago emerged from y ponder onder mountain gorro gorgo into this then 8 silent bant ard desert valley and lifted the ensign of liberty the ilag flag of our oui con country try anti and unfurled led its glorious folds folda from the amit ot of you yon lofty peak living as we do amid I 1 the ho results of their labors labore plucking the tha fruit froit from the tree of their planting cross ing lut with safety anti and ili in ease the chasms they bri bridged aged and aid rejoicing i 9 even in in tiba ahn maidat of sorrow in th ahn blessings bleh bleb Bings sings bequeathed by bea venas as the reward of their cour coinage find and in in enstry we can only conceive to a limited extent the tha greatness of their toils bed and sacrifices sacrifices male made willingly and labors that were patiently performer pei per formed formea from year to year that we their children and posterity in in general might enjoy the rich neb blessings which their valor alor their sell self denial and industry have handed down to ns ais utah to lay day is is tile the gat gar den of 0 the interior ir tenor west thirty nine nine years SRO ago it vas a wilderness a deso lation scorched by the sun BUD and trod den by the roving red man 41 1 1 I 4 and who are those pioneers those founders of utah whose children and associates I 1 havo bave the honor of ad dressing they were exiles for con science sake banished from the con finos ot of civilization driven forth from a land of christian churches by mobs led by christian priests for daring to have opinions opinions of then their own and worship in their own way tho the god of their fathers in in a land of religious liberty thrust forth from the homes their industry had won compelled to fros croaa the frozen Alisis mississippi sippi on tho the ice ILI tho the month of 0 february leaving leav ing their bloody footprints on the ice ice of 0 the river river and upon its frozen shores starving and naked stripped ot of all their possessions they refused either to die clio to become discouraged relin their sacred bights or to lose lor for one ona moment then their faith in in their sublime and glorious destiny leaving their burning lity city BP and ravaged fields in the hands of their merciless I 1 oppressors with wives anti and lit lib tie onus clustered around them dying by scores its tile the debult ot of the inh iahn 11 man treatment to which t they hey had bad been subjected they drew their shattered shata remnants remnant a on out t upon tho the bleak anil and trackless track leaa prairie A journey of 0 1500 miles liver over frozen n rivers and barren plains a journey marked mile after mile by the graves of 0 their aged parents their delicate wives and ten der tier little ones once brought them to tha bocky d on oil the twenty T venty of july 1817 thirty nine years ago this day their wagons tolled rolled down slope anti and encamped up upon on this eilent plain r would have these children ro ra borks of their noble riall rs abd li others in f would havo them reme remember moer tile lineage wacl they have come anil and airle sarh e before god haid and ilia world to in ise worthy of that lineage descended froidl larnel aroll who ott off the bondono tu apt the aej with 14 freedom to ti wit hits chains tile cliff I 1 larell too of 11 ell in ili the iho jill atio came acroca tilt iho mighty luly lily ut li iho tyranny ol of tile the old world 1 and kiihl laid tile the roun dallon upon L llila 11 1 1 c hohti land or of the iha great erent govern under which wo no live elvei I 1 would have them thein ref dunber alao alio that they are tile the sons und and daughters of if patri on hose fleach burn trill ind hoso blood ling bingles lingles les with the and gerdus or liberty that their fathers alid mothers mot tiera oven ove when driven ti and exiled fur for tile tho sake of their religion rell Klon tho the rree free exercise 0 of I 1 WhIch wh ichla ij under the con 4 I 1 ion of our from roni bilu tin t w which hail had refused to in protect them that they still to ro it ined true slid mid loyal to tho bilos a of liberty ll berl thirty years HO ago day utter to 0 o morrow they hounded a louder yonder peak aud and lifted tile tho ensign of freedom upon mexican boil 1 clr thereby p not only I 1 their h e loyalty to fie country which ami ill thrust then them from ltd ila hor bordere dere hut but their determination bosland loi iani b bv I 1 the he principles or of truth aal liberty to maintain the palladium or of equal rights the to the ilia oil least of all nations ot lona tills llila nay my young brethren anti anil sli lers shadowed foreshadowed fore your destiny irio destiny of the children of the vla pi the same groat prophet who ho arl deleted that the later tai day saints would be driven westward an und 1 lie comert a in if lily people lit in tho the alim I t odthe of the rocky mountains ako tie dt clotted larad that trie the time dine would coin i oin when their sons and daughters would rescue the constitution anil thu flag alai tho the gl glorious orinus stars i 1 and I stripes the flag of freedom freedo iu which symbolizes by its stars the glory tin I 1 decess lucieal lucie as and by its stripes t tho ho so faur r inns and trials or of our brave ante anc elors flora that the children of till people would rescue them from the ho i 11 I 1 traitors and tyrants who would trample them in ia tile he mire her therefore your destiny and the great things M expected or of yon ion you tire lire not the of this land of liberty you tire arn not tho foes of if free ano I 1 low lm you iou are not traitors to id your our are the sons and daugh lers of flee men and free women of patriots und pil pilgrims grimi und and pioneers plo an anu it devolves devol vei upon you ou to lie be worthy of bour noble lineage und and I 1 lift I 1 ft thos ilia standard of liberty and aluth to bit all the world |