| Show only a few months before the martyrdom of the prophet JOSEPH hl baid all our wrongs have arisen under the democratic power and anthonty and I 1 have sworn that nna shall fall from my shoulder and this toogie cleave to the roaf of my mouth before I 1 will boio for them u ilass hay bauke mo satisfaction and I 1 teal it sensibly see Mil leniul 21 all our wrongs have arisen under the democratic power and autto rit such remarks are very sweeping and they may bd particularly forcible if not interesting to tho democratic journals of tho territory which are aado banging bunging up the fearly history of the mormon people seeking IT vindicator vin dicato their party in its course it hatiye to them during the early bist ry of the church but with all their excy e the fact still remains atiat the worda of the prop het which we have just quoted are lei the student study the history of the jackson county missouri mobbing and sea if the fact that the eastern and northern men with abolition ideas did not c fuse hatred to tpring up in the breach of the democrats of jackson county thea were mistrustful of the mor mons of their northern idaus and thua finally decided that the best t do in the interests ef their peculiar institutions and customs was to drive from jackson chanty yet they had the noih in the at ar 1833 ard toe democratic beato officials uphold the lawlessness lionet gover nar booan gleefully eaid after a merciless raid you now know what our jackson county boys can do aid yon must ibave the county well the cormons mormons left jaclson county aad settled in day county with their brethren where the same i U cry waa brought against them that thoy ard eastern men whose inan nere habit customs aad eau dialect were essentially different from the and that thy were non slave holders and opposed to slavery ee hisick oe utah therefore wore re to leave clay county threats of more law beida brought into anso which tho cormons mormons finally dd leaving homes they had improved for three or four yearn the now settled in wag known as the shoal croak country then a wilderness and the alaio legislature filially organized out of it caldwell county here the saints founded far west and the region be citino a gathering alae the county waa distinctively mormon but soon the began I 1 spreading into other counties in daviess county on the north in the fill of 1838 acme cormons mormons tried to vote at a state election in tho town of gallatin Gal litin colonel WM P PENISTON PENIS TON atis the democratic candidate cand idae for representative to ho birli tare he was a man had taken a p part in driving tho mor from U y county and h had na reason to expect the mormon vot agitation 0 o prevent the cormons mormons from castio their ballots bol lots an incendiary a mob and they prevented tho ballots being cast this ettna fiary and lying articles in tha atao press then mostly democratic caused a general mormon uprising up rising arid the were finally driven anin missouri amid euch crudities as have oft been told abia was in the year 1838 and W was baw the governor of the state made so by democratic tw ia the oa of tho sainta from missouri 9 also will lauon no rod resi coi before bo from source and we find the prophet JOSEPH S go ms to the president of the united states also a democrat with fotine result we will iet abo new history of utah written by 6 F ann er tell the latter circumstance it says while there ho bad interviews with tha president VAX amo said after listerine liste nine to the story your cause is juit but I 1 can do nothing to you tah frank democratic the mormon leader have excused himself a I 1 and differing from the president w lh right question involved i ui VAN barsy wisely added if 1 take up for you I 1 ahall lose the vales of mi mii i refining to the presidential election personal Pera onal am bilion quite as much aa loyalty to his p lotical principals was shown to be hi 8 rilling motive for such an admission josepn SMITHS feare UE calculating spirit waa hardly prepared heartsick and at what he deemed a display of pusillanimity in high places he now left washington and the wrongs thus heaped upon tha cormons mormons ander the democratic power and authority were devic redressed furthermore the democratic state of missouri dogged tha prophet in whither tho saints had moved daveral times ha was arrested to be taken back to missouri but aa often freed being thus hounded unto his death little wonder that the JOSEPH SMITH should declare that all the wrongs of aba saints had arisen auder democratic power and authority and swear never to to cast a democratic ballot unless the party did him satisfaction |
