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Show Th Dftwrtt News Church Edition, Saturday, Sfajr The Stephen A: Doug las f-'i'o- IDO Pitge 3 100 Years Ago . ph ,V;, On this page E- ... jet y lder Joseph Fielding Smith lof the Council v s ' O s ' '"'4 -' XtxA51,' SA. ' s "Judge Douglas stated that nal of the Prophet Lundec the of the Twelve and it was possibleto revoke date; of the eighteenth. ' Joseph Fielding l political charters, but not Dined with Judge Stephen Church Historian, j ! company charters.-'A. Douglas, who is presiding argued Twriteiin detail of That If a legislat ure had at court. After dinner Judge E hundred years ago Ste-- power to grant a charter for Douglas requested President the prophecy mode phen A. Douglas was a teu years, it had no power to to give him a history Joseph u h jironnsing young attorney who revoke it until after by the Prophet of the MiSsourT persecutions, thereof. at the early age of twenty-nine- , which he did in a ..very Smith to :hiL when the prophecy under con- - On another occasion the Pro- minute manner,,, for - about alteration was uttered, had phet records the young lawyer friend,' following;' . three, hours. He also" gaveo a considerable promi-"- " rism relation f his" journey-thalf-paAt fiveTocIook nence in the practice of law Stephen A. Douglas, Washington City, and his aprode in Mr, Prentices car , He I , in the state of Illinois. accomplication in behalf of the one hundred years eras born in Brandon, Vermont, riage to his house to Mr. Saints Van the Buren, General Law and panied by April 23, ISIS. His birthplace Elder Orson ago on May 1 8. President of the United Hyde, where I was only about thirty miles had a ELDER SMITH States, for redress and Mr. very interesting visit from Sharon, the birthplace of with Mr. Van Burrns pusillanimous famPrentice and the Prophet Joseph Smith. ily, Judge Douglas, propriety of President ment of which he is head, as Esquires 'reply, Gentlemen, your cause His father died when he was is jnpt, but I can do nothing Smiths Lamborn and Butterfield, paramount to ' that of the remarks,. about three months of age and Edwards, for unfeeland cold the RECORDED you; PROPHECY United States, in civil as well Judge Pope's son, about the year 1S30, his moth- and manner in which he was conversa- as . religious affairs; 'and ing this At of time the of others; many partook they er moved to Canandaigua, New a splendid treated by most of the sention Judge Douglas had just will in due time, and under supper; there were York.- - Here young Douglas ators and representatives in turned thirty years of age. It the direction of their many interesting anecdotes, must have been brought into and relation to the subject. Clay is doubtful if any such aspira- use all the means inleaders, to render the everything their some contact with the Church, and visit agreeable; saying, you had better go to tion towards the presidency power to subvert the governfor Canandaigua Is only about repast Oregon,' and Calhoun shakand returned to Judge before this time had entered ment of the United States, and thirteen miles from Palmyra Adams about eleven oclock. his head solemnly, saying his mind. This prophecy was resist its authority. the home of the Smiths and nice a a Its ing, recorded in the manuscript of question BEAR WITNESS Third, that the Mormon less than thirty miles from will the Church at, or near, the time critical it but question, In the course of the trial bewith . Brigham government, Fiyette, where the Church was fore not do to agitate it, it was uttered, and it appeared at an its affidavit oung is now Judge Pope, head, organised. The judge listened with in the published history of forming alliance from Stephen A. Douglas, with Indian Since there was a great deal James H. Ralston, Almeron triles in Utah and adjoining of excitement over Joseph Wheat B. territories stimulating the Inand J. Bakenstos was of . Smith and the coming forth dians to acts of hostility and before the court in presented these Book of Mormon, the which these persons state Jhat organizing hands Of hisbwrt facts could not have escaped "each for himself, says they A. followers. under the name of the keen mind of Stephen were atTfarrvoo in the county Danites or destroying imwhatever apgels, Douglas, but The Prophet to of Hancock, in this state on prosecute a system of robat had have he may pressions the day of May last; Joseph Smith bery and murders upon Amerthat time will remain a secret and seventh saw Joseph Smith en ican citizens who support the they 1S33, In know. we as as far whose that the Nauvoo day reviewing authority of the United States, when he was but twenty years at in that Legion and denounce the infamous the place to prophecy of age he left Canandaigua of several presence and persons. west disgusting practices of the further fortune' seek his on Douglas Mormon The import of this i3 that government. first going to Winchester, e was made Let us have these facts in and later to Jacksonville Joseph Smith could not be a from a crime commitan official shape before the In the same state. He was fugitive 100 fears ted the day before, for there ? short of stature with a delicate was no mortal present and Congress, and means by which ago. the country will learn that in constitution, but with a re- a person could travel from In the performance of the high markable intellect. He stud-- j to Nauvoo in so dependence and solemn duty devolving upled law, and within a year from short a time. on the executive and Congress, his arrival in Jacksonville he On other occasions Judge there will be no vacillating or became proseputing attorney be- Douglas had defended Joseph time short a It will be but policy. hesitating having Smith against the attacks of his as prompt as the peal that folfore reached his majority. and the the greatest attention and Joseph Smith in the Deseret lows the flash and stern and Later he was sent to the enemies,these two menfeeling was corstate legislature and through dial and spoke warmly in depreciation News, September 24, 1856. unyielding as death. Should friendly. moved 12th On of of conduct June l8574 Governor of the the a state of things actually exist day appointment political THE PROPHECY his readence to Springfield Boggsand theauthorities oL Judge. Douglas who was anx- as we are led - to--- fnferi from Thetime'of the prophetic Missouri, who had taken ious to succeed himself in the the reports and such informawhere he" became, acquainted with Abraham Lincoln and the declaration by the Prophet, part in the extermination, United States Senate, made a tion comes in an official shape and said that any people that political speech in Springfield, the knife must be applied to Prophet Joseph Smith. In 1841 which - is here given, Joseph was in Smith jon judg-shir would do as the mobs of MisCarthage to the Illinois, which was published this pestiferous, was he appointed disgusting of the supreme court of legal matters, Carthage being souri had done onght to be in full in the Missouri Repub- cancer which is gnawing into he very vitals of the body minors, where he served two the county, seat of Hancock brought to judgment: they lican on the 18th of June : the 18th ought to be punished. It must be cut out politic. years and later was elected to County. This was - Cbogress. day of May, 1843, one hundred MALICE TERMS and seared over OP the roots, conin by President Smith, years ago this month, and at FALSELY AOCVSKD Iron of stern, the red hot by said course In his this of the remarks, speech cluding In the year 1812, the Prophet the particular time he was the that if 1 the - government which covered several unflinching law., J,i3eph Smith was falsely ac guest, erf' Judge Douglas who which' received into its cofof the campaign, this honWELL INFORMED Lilbum was in Carthage holding court fers the cused by for citizens of his reorable money paid gentleman can be little question There W. Itoggs of Missouri as an Of this event Elder William its public lands, while its of- spect to the Latter-daSaints raised the of records! Douglas did following ficials are Clayton .Iaccessory to the shooting, rolling in 'luxury In no uncertain terms of ' mal not know that what he was of the CL 1842. became Missouri which jourpart Mav ISoggs at the expense of its public ice, false and vitriolic lanstating was utterly false; but ssought his extradition as a treasury, cannot protect such guage In part as follows: he was Speaking that which he case fugitive from justice. The s citizens in their lives and of the - would aid his candi- - ' First, that thoughtin before was tried : Judge Pope property, it is an old granny inhabitants.,(of Utah) are aliens dacy by following the popular Springfidd and the Prophet anyhow. . , . Jndge, yon by birth who have refused to clamor. Few men who have . was freed as the evidence was will aspire to the presidency become naturalized, or to take to prominence in public-lif- e too flimsy to hold him. Beof the United States; and if the oath of allegiance, or do risen, have been better Informed fore.. this event the Prophet ever you turn yonr hand any other act recognizing the correct knowledge- - conwith had- become intimately acLatter-dathe op against me, government of the United the true doctrines and quainted with Judge Douglas Saints, you will feel the States as the paramount au- cerning of the 'Latter-dacharacter and records In his history that of the thority in that territory. weight of the hand - on several occasions he was In had been intimate He Saints. Almighty upon you; and you Second,' that .the inhabi with the Prophet Joseph Smith of the judge the company will live to see and know tants whether native or alien Mormon the and people in where matters of law and reli.truth that I have testified the known as Mormons (and Illinois; he had listened to re--, born7 discussed. gion had been freely to yon; for the conversation they constitute the whole peooitals of their fundamental docOn one of these occasions, of this day will stick to yon bound are of the territory) ple trines and their history. He the Prophet records, that while 'oaths-an- d through life. terrible had shown kindness and sym- horrible by waiting, trial before Judge He (Judge Douglas)- - a penaltlesr- - to recognize and vfhv for this downtrodden Pope be discussed several red very friendly, and ac- - maiptain the authority of Brig-points of law with Jqdge Doug (Continued on Page Five) knowledged the truth and ham Young,, and the govern Stcphea A. 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