Show MOB VIOLENCE IN ALABAMA some soma of the iha experience met with by elder david bonnett Bo unett wo we hid had a very pleasant pleas int call yes yesterday from 1 elder adir D david iv id bonnett who n ho has juat returned home froin croul a lengthy length and successful mission lius siou to the southern states brother bonnett bennett left for or ilia his mission on the alst day of april pal 1886 via the D I 1 au t it 0 V R it in ill coin pany with elder ElderO george IV cache county count and two other elders nil all bound for or the southern it utes arising in chattanooga tenn on tile list dav d iv 1 may following hera lie nas appointed by prest jolin john morgan organ in fit coulman ciui adv v with elder win vim woodbury woodbur bur to fr in I 1 the state of 0 alabama i brother bannett bonnell arrived in this ibis field of labor t two lo 10 dabs da a later and commenced in earliest ear riest ins ilia mis sion don alter after traveling in 1 mar farion on count guntli yAa 1 lor for a few woodbury and himself went vent into winston county of lf the farne anie state and opened the Gop tl 1 door to 10 the people hero here in be met with considerable persecution beins being threatened by inobe to leave a the district oi 01 take the consequences affet laboring diligently however how ever for far some time this feeling of 0 mob violence died out bout about a m month anth after preaching in in winston bounty COUII ty brother wood woodbury bury was called to lo preside over tile iho conference bonk aniie ind and an all elder fron roin nevada and A 0 lee as appointed brother bonnelea Bon nelta trave traveling I 1 edg A ahoi t timo after this brother Brot lier bonnett had tile tho pleasure pl ensure of baptizing two persons pr iona who nho had become convinced of tile the truth of the message nies sage for which i aich ho he had left ills his home to proclaim Aino A month liter brother bonnett went to cullinan countr county and re reorganized 0 r the branch brandli br anili or of the chuili C there t I 1 e r 3 and it bunday school besides baptizing baptism three per moos and in in the n of six others until january of this acar cir winston and frank 11 in counties ala W alii here re tho ilia scene of brother bonnetts Bonnett Ps operations at it which aich time lie mas called to labor in in the southern coition pot tion of the same state in fit connection with elder alder W I 1 11 1 bi blood of Nav aville considerable IV trouble groub 1 a was met with liere here for the ab rive months at winch which tune time it cu culminated at t a meeting eiling ni on oil tho lelh ot of august held for the purpose of allowing t lo 10 wo reveren reverend d gentlemen on to a air i r cheni silves sel ves on the mormon question v aiho ito concluded their remarks by stating th that 1 t there was no law to protect the mor r mons in Alft alabama baina but that the people would you id bo be justified in in d r ing them front from the state neither either bro brother ther Bu bonnett linett nur nor his companion were allowed the brivil ego of refuting the vile slanders slander a uttered by those divines tito the next day some of tile fruits of the ilia meeting va eather cd round in a the shape of a things looked strange for a while as several ot of the friends of the elders were there and they began to talk as aa though they meant buRi business bess after some loud talk tile the crowd di dispersed Is eased but immediately sent gent back word that tile the elders must leave tile the county inside of forty eight hours instead of leaving bo however wever brother Biot liei bonnett went to troy pine aine county a and rid wrote to governor seay of alabama requesting him for protection to lo chis al a very gentlemanly answer was received rece iveA stating caery 1 n that the law demanded they be protected and that it wai nai the duty of f th the 10 ariff to shield them from any violence cooc concluding luding by saying saving it if they were not protected to address ili liim in a aaen gain previous to the trouble ansing from this meeting howe however vor the ilia mob had t torn orn down a schoolhouse t that hat the brethren had used for holding meetings in and partially destroyed another strut tire tira by fire the latter being the property of a wealth wealthy gentleman who has le t f ened the ears elders and for which action lie ha has been excommunicated from the baptist church the county officials ficiala of did not manifest mani feat a I 1 a feeling of protection towards the elders ars an and encouraged e t thereby cereby a mob 0 organized r anize t themselves e selves for r tho ilia purpose of aw swinging ingin u up the tha brethren et ren despite these leso threats elder idera bonnett e tan and his seem corn panion staved in the vicinity three days at which time brother bonnett went to troy where ho he secured a letter notifying him that he had been honorably honorably released rates a L a from lna ills labors after two tuo weeks at brov lie ho returned to his field of labor toree three muro days daya were spent there visiting friends at tile the expiration of which time elder bonnet started for home arriving at provo on tile the ath of the present month |