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Show THE MORMON QUESTION. (Correspondence of the Yorkville (N. C.) Enquirer.) An indignation meeting of the citizens of York county, S. C., and of Cleveland county N. C. was held at Whitaker, in York county, on the 21st instant. The meeting was organized by calling B. R. Logan, of Cleveland county, to the chair, and requesting F. H. Dover to act as secretary. The following resolutions and address to the people were read and adopted. We the citizens of York county, S. C., and Cleveland county, N. C., protest against having our community disturbed by the missionaries from Utah now among us. That we are determined that good society and morals shall be protected. That these emissaries, styling themselves Elders in the Church of Latter-Day Saints, are causing disturbance among the people where they are operating. That we earnestly call on them to depart in peace before the indignation of our people becomes uncontrollable and they do them bodily injury. Resolved, That the chairman appoint a committee of eight, as follows: B. J. Gold, E. Hardin, J. R. Dicksen and F. H. Dover, from York county; A. Bettis, A. J. Borders, W. C. Dotters and B. F. Logan, of Cleveland county, to wait upon them and present a copy of these resolutions, and urge upon them the importance of at once leaving the country. Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the Yorkville Enquirer and Shelby Aurora. ADDRESS. It is with sorrow that we see our neighbors and friends being led astray by Mormon missionaries, styling themselves Elders in the Church of the Latter-day Saints. We call upon them to stop and reflect on the course they are taking. We ask them to turn back before they ruin themselves and their families, by connecting themselves with a polygamous and adulterous people, accursed by God and denounced by all good people. We ask them to look at the history of this institution, founded in Manchester, N. Y., on the 6th of April, 1830, when the people looked upon them with indignation at their unparalleled impudence, and compelled them to leave. After various wanderings, they established themselves in Jackson county, Mo., where they remained four years, when their incensed and indignant neighbors compelled them to move again. Their leader, Joe Smith, then settled at a place in Illinois, which they called Nauvoo, or the New Jerusalem, the future home of the Saints. Here their practices provoked the indignation and hostility of the people, and then their leader, Joe Smith, and many of his associates were killed. Brigham Young, who succeeded Joe Smith, in 1847, led the community to the territory of Utah, where they settled in Salt Lake Valley, and since have been carrying on their polygamous practices undisturbed, as they had gotten beyond the pale of civilization. Recently, the government of the United States has commenced efforts to blot out this stain on civilization. We earnestly call on our neighbors and friends to turn back from among them, and remember and think what they are doing. If you join them your neighbors and friends will not associate with you, and you will probably meet with persecution and trouble. Remember that the evil has become so great that the U. S. government has taken steps to suppress it. B. F. Logan, Chairman. T. H. Dover, Secretary. NOT in sympathy with the meeting. |