| Show Governor Ell Eli H H. Murray in his second annual message to the secretary secretary secretary sec sec- of the interior the first message mes message mea mes- sage was not printed covered what was regarded as the Utah problem In an exhaustive manner After citing what he believed was a discovery discovery dis dis- dis covery that he ho declared showed that from the year 1852 down to the date of his report September 16 1883 there had been at no time a lawful territorial government In Utah He took up the question of church and state and after atter presenting presenting pre pre- seating what the constitution had to say on the question and the amendment thereto which declared that congress shall make no law w respecting an establishment of re religion religion religion re- re ligion or prohibiting the free exercise exercise exercise exer exer- cise thereof Then he ha said that the church then as now and here In Utah needed no protection against the government of the United States for tOr I I the r reason as n that the government then was and now is Is the fortress pf of religions and civil liberty That man or that set of men said Governor Gov Murray Murra be they what they ma may who assert and teach a a. doctrIne doctrine doctrine doc doc- trine so infamous deserve the condemnation con condemnation con con- c n- n of all men and must and will receive the condemnation of or a government that pro protects all men In Inthe Inthe inthe the right t to worship to-worship God according to the he dictates of their own conscience con con- science a guarantee sacr sacred d to all an alland alland annd and nd It should be maintained always everywhere and by all all and nev never r abused REVIEWS CH CHURCH CHURCH- The constitution continued Governor Murray does not say that congress shall not establish religion but it f forbids any law respecting an establishment of of- religion Then he briefs the history o of the Church of f Jesus Christ of ot Latter-day Latter Saints thus What are the facts facts' A band of men many of them good but Undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- misguided professing in common a religious belief ejected from Ohio and going to Missouri ejected ej from Missouri and going to Illinois incorporating in their system tem tern of features and practices more abhorrent than any known then ejected from Illinois turned their backs upon the United States with the avowed purpose of going to the shores of the Pacific ocean cean th then n a foreign country These people were possessed of ofa ofa ofa a fanatical dream of establishing a empire that w was ws s to supplant supplant supplant sup sup- plant this and nd all nIl other governments govern govern- ments meats Helped in their helplessness and poverty and distress across the plains by the guided in their Journey by reports furnished by the war department as Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington whose officers had traversed and surveyed the mountains and roads and valleys the they settled In Inthis Inthis inthis this valley vaHey with river river- and lake VALLEYS INVITING The willows that marked the mountain streams gave evidence that the soil soU needed but a touch of cultivation to yield a ready response a a valley vaIley valley valley-in in which numbers of the early pioneers who had passed further further further fur fur- ther west had looked upon with admiration and left eft for the fortunate fortunate fortu fortu- fortunate nate pioneers that were to follow The purpose of of- going to to- the Pacific co coast st having been abandoned the men who as a tavor favor had been mustered into service by the government paid in hi advance and known as the Mormon battalion having gone on to California by the southern route returned from their march but cr creditable service ser set vice and three days after the arrival arrival ar- ar ar at rival of the pioneers Joined them where Salt Lake City is now situated situ situ- With their pay and horses and arms material aid was given to this settlement which under tinder the flag of or orthe the United States by both pioneers and battalion was made a territory and which un under ler our treaty with Mexico afterwards wards became the property of the United States Then Governor Murray mentions the steps taken to establish the state of ot Deseret cites the acts passed b by bythe the legislative assembly of D Deseret seret among which on February 8 8 1851 was an act chartering and incorporating incorporating incorporating the Church of ot Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints the same being approved by Brigham Young as governor This Governor Murray main main- tamed was the establishing ot of a r re religion rc- rc ligion and it was on ori this phase of conditions that he made a bitter war upon the church |
