| Show freedom of conscience toleration I 1 in the concluding paragraphs of the leading article in harpers magazine for november entitled the massacre of st bartholomew written by john S C abbott abbot wil will be found th foll foil follow folloni ovi oAi ng ing quotations q rotations I 1 there is one great greit truth anth which this narrative enforces it is 13 the doctrine of FREEDOM ov OF conscience it was the denial of his this t truth which deluged france in blood and w woe 0 I 1 let lis its elob ejob emblazon lazon upon our banner the lavole noble nords toleration perfect civil and religious toleration I 1 Z let lt us its geant grant toleration ion lon perfect and a nd antram I 1 meled to one and atri all to all religions to all politics to all ali li ii 11 humanities to th the e young fanatic in his sleepless Slee dream to the old fogy in hib his dreamless sleep there is a self evident consist consistency oncy in a tae the truth of the above named doctrine y a fitness and justice in the motto counseled for our national I 1 baerer 1 and a loving kindness in the the exhortation hor bor tation to grant toleration that are truly refreshing in this period of maddened politics frenzied fanaticism commercial peculation and sycophantic juggling jugo jugg ling for place and power and these truths of universal benefit and cind applicability are by bv no means less refreshing because published in in a periodical of nuch puch wide circulation and well earned celebrity even though choti h its monthly record of current events its editors table and its Editors easy chair do not at all times appear strictly strict Jy mindful of be the preat great reat pi pt inci ples now so zealously and beautifully promulgated by mr abbott and in thebe these days of de degeneracy e beracy rather than true enlightenment I 1 lighten imhuf emment ment of t tyranny y ranny rather thad kindness kind nesSi when ahen the alver adversary sary is lashing the civil political and professedly I 1 gedly religious elements into fury have mr abbott and clarp harper i erys erla magazine the nerve and moral stamina to enable them to stem stein the wild will sur bur burzes besof of the whirlpool of temptation and corruption and to defend the principles they proclaim and aad call upon the world to apply future events will avill answer in the meantime we ve extend the right hand of fel rel felloni fellowship lovi ship to all ali who rwal tenly tiNly sup tup port Freed freedom lorn of conscience the wide wido world over and joyfully anticipate the day when this earths bal bai niel rici shall freely float over land and sea bearing upon its broad folds the worde FREEDOM OF conscience toleration PERFECT CT CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS toleration 11 the world in their ignorance may stare at seeing their advocacy alvo aho cacy of human advancement so readily and cheerfully responded sofrom to from the desert is and rocky bulwarks Bulwa of utah more especially as they have classed her citizens into sleeplessly sleep easly dreaming di earm earn ing fanatics and dreamlessly I 1 sleeping fogies bogies had those thosa thus classifying ing us possessed but a small email bhare share of the game same love of truth truth that they do of sop sophistry hiltry and error of happiness that they thel do of pleasure 0 of f the just rights of others ethers that they do of their own set sel selfish purposes of the welfare and exaltation of their they do of their I 1 misery and degradation they would long iong since have haie thrown throw n off the shackles of bigotry inhumanity and trad superstitions superstitious 1 and unsullied ti uth arid aia unalloyed freedom have I 1 r ov on ir r and free course but it in this dawna r ii 1 now nw era cra in in pr oreas os of the dispensation of the of times and j anid auld the maddening corruption that is la waxing 1 1 gros zos rosr ros her ter r and grosser urmit upon the earth we hail hati ui wi h 1 lly ity ily ay iy cn car the th e ad y irl in th tb w 1 i 1 r t 9 of a c can arl t ald alj ai J ira tra tru iru alfil aie gie f t lc cr C cc did all writena writers upon kindred topics let the i spirit of truth and the 10 ioie loie e of mail man jicie their I 1 pika pria as did mr ablott lil ill in the tile q doted para paral I 1 rip rapha ln tilt tili n ai moil voil oot ool 1 po divri er pt p ss a ese ege ease to 0 oi in ilu tir w 8 wh 6 f 1 4 j ilo iio 11 A t a 4 i 1 I 1 ae as what shall bhail be done with otili when all the th e time it is ig a I 1 bright example to ali aher 0 her starra and aid nd terri torri tori torl bibin 11 i bire lire 8 11 hosp bose asi is i i oos ti e r i n fi n b pvn for he ube sa a i of m noail aa it k A r CL sll sli sil ory de ide i ludell fanatics knaves and dupes when then those I 1 j vilify vilified d prong foisiy ly the world inthe most moat talo raio nabie I 1 r f fo nation i iamon then would cn Can C congress n gress incite ps tIHon for admission I 1 into tija tiie th 1 union unton anil an d at P nce adt act 1 1 ona on binate instead of f stretching arbitrary power over and plotting to disfranchise chize a portion of citizens descended from the same revolutionary sires and ri rightfully ht tully fully claiming 11 the privileges 11 guaranteed by an equably cical y inherited constitution 4 toleration to all religions 11 to all politics to all humanities would for ever stop I 1 that canting whining whited sepulchre cry abo abolt alons afons in uta VIA 1 by those sho who are either elther as is ignorant lynor art or as corrupt or both i as the devil dev d wishes vis hes them to be and who delight in efforts to stretch or ar shorten the fair proportions of eternal truths to suit the iron bedstead dimensions of their own narrow contracted creeds and notions away with wib wih all shackles upon thought speech and action that infringe upon the natural ani and inalienable rights of others south carolina has more right to say to massachusetts laboi abolish ish your white slavery arising from the raiful ful fui bordin lording 0 of the I 1 rich over the poor and abolish your wide spread and foul adai adal ad teries and who whore doms redoing and the intolerable religious bigotry of your hireling priests than massachusetts has to meddle with slavery in south carolina african slavery in south carolina is a legalized t domestic i institution and was and is at least permitted so ho to be by the federal compact to which massachusetts was a party while white slav glav slavery ery cry adultery whore whoredom dorn doin und antt and other gross though A not together altogether legalized in mas blasi nor even so much as sanctioned by the constitution of the united State slates sare bare are never extensively practiced and securely domesticated therein and are most severe bankers cankers upon the body politic of any community either state has a perfect right to ask counsel and aid to enable her to cope with what w hat sh bhe she e may deem evils either state has also aiso also aiso the liberty to kindly proffer its counsel aad sad aid to or abolish what she may kaow inow to be evil eyll but no state nor territory nor all combined save cave one have hare the lie least shadow of just right to di dictatorially interfere with w ith the internal in terna policy and domestic practices and wid institutions of another state or jr territory nor to in any wise vise endeavor to ga gag neighboring L ra citizens inherently herent ly possessed of the same constitutional nights rights with themselves it will be understood that in commenting upon governmental OT rights and policies in this article r and nd previous ones we are treat of governments as tinman irions and not as aft though they were instituted guide dand controlled by b the spirit 1 of that being whose is the eaith beaith and aid the ful 1 nests nebb therea thereof 1 i civil and religious religh us intolerance and ard that too in a professed republic harrasser harr barr assed joseph the prophet and the saints in new york and ohio j expelled them from missouri Blis at the point of the bayonet their defail ture from illinois after having massacred tile the prophet joseph and patriarch Patri arell areli hyrum and aud is still unrelentingly len tingly pur Dur pursuing suing them in their secluded and tm uninviting inviting location true the vach watch words of I 1 i the onslaught ont taught are soude soule somewhat what chail chati changed ged bit bit the i bame same spirit is still suli leading forth the persecution and is i striving to enlist all other states ald and j Tem Terr itri til against one me and that one well I 1 known to be the purest and most patriotic of all the thea ri the farcical spalding il story and the i changes zealously zeal outly oatly rang upon the goi iden goldben gol ulen ideo bible 1 ira irn jia fa natica ac maisL aled kled the i aanas of the intolerant a and cheered them in in spoiling and opp oppressing tile the ignoc nt aulee dulee those terms teran have proved too toa ri lk culous to I 1 longer rouse attention a speakers akeis akeia ni liters and publishers from maine alaine to texla texia tex ia ami awl through 1 I 1 out the breadth of our land most e s olgy asly alsy elevate their eyes clasi clas ein eln ci tin cin n hands and anti I 1 j gran filly exclaim 10 0 O pol poi plin im 10 0 O the I 1 lons ions of th mf awe 1 crupt M mor mar r I 1 jonew being tolerably well acquainted with the chyr chir character acter of those who thus exclaim aso ago it col cot conversant versant with the doctrie acid ai d practical wui kins kinga of poly dieny blui vve e tr ura uda lib ac il agg wing nil all a tb the A vord ord th thit lt th ii a oll oiin oil w vilet vilot vi i let lot iet at e bunk sunk in ignorance depravity and intolerance almost almott if not et bey be ond redemption I 1 ti tig is being the if fact a in ti il reind may way w wl 11 ri 11 l eier baer tier mij uy s acu icu pigi a dle die deu dauid id wor tit V of no tio 1 K v V i ae e A ci ill ulf ule i hv ave h V e ready repeatedly in our oar day plundered driven 1 and killed the 8 vanika of the livin living gud those who were ww to walk ili ill in ob to the acir trienke of a jwj raa R a d vve ave ut 01 i i dj aj t tar ir as ah ra i iol lul CP all al earn ty oy c ciolk xvi ins ivnik ai to 10 ic rr ai aan fon foa i the commission of so go great offen of fences cea and td side aide ia in behalf of perfect Tole 1 all bi hie readers are ara aware that many of the ancient t worthies had more wives ihan han ban one and aad that on this point th hai coadus of DWI uriah and his wife is alone condemned now what is is man that he should call in question the sanctions of jehovah or by what authority does he presume to dictate the almighty or circumscribe the revelations of his will and the institution of his hia plans but aside from those questions aside from frona all the arguments that have haie been used for and against a plurality of wives wn ea and even granting teat that polygamy be solely a humak human human institution whom does it now concern except the inhabitants of utah and who nho has the right to curtail those inhabitants in in the privileges of even civil toleration to say nothing of those fyr dearer rights of freedom of con conscience cs clence and those higher privileges 0 of religious toleration 1 those who cannot frankly answer no one bad better reflect upon the lda ira immense mense and cruel destruction of lives in the massacre of st bartholomew when the roman Catholic catholics 3 butchered ey many thousand presbyterians rians on account of their religious faith and also upon the bitter acrimony desperate atrocities and unsatisfying results attending all religious wara warn and persecutions neither may it be altogether unprofitable to bear in mind the truth couch couth ed in in the couplet thit that A man convinced against ainest his bis will Is I 1 of the same opinion still and the verity of or an important scriptural ds d c cl la ration that what measure ye mete b measured to you again P the spirits of mankind tre arb sent bent here to taka take bodies and undergo a state of probation in in accordance accor cor d dance an ce with a plan devised in in the councile coun cout clia cila of clemit ct eternity emit those spirits are given an agency in in their choice between good and etil evil and are ara surrounded and influenced by disembodied embodied dua dia evil spirits by angels or 01 resurrected banga and by spirits which minister to such as will prove prom themselves worthy of becoming he ra rs to salvation it is is well known that from the begin ding cing and from the day in which carn cain slew siew el tr his hi brother abel eili eill spirits have fi strenuously ci eis ein deavo red to counterfeit the teachings and appearance pe arance of bengela geik geli of ligh ligha have striven to possess the taberna tabernacles cleg clea given to beings in in probation and to gain and r exclusive control of this earth and its affair affairs sand band and that to accomplish all this th Is they have haxe not only nn un scrupulously resorted 10 craft and all ail manner of deceit bit have often bitterly persecuted and killed the righteous in addition we wish all people to fully understand that evil spirita and those persons who are deceived by bethem ahem or prefer p efer to bolow them are always the one onea ft ho are at the bottom of all persecutions and oppress oppre loni ioni idd and are ever seeking to destroy the he righted ig ts from the earth when has ii Former or latter day saint beon been known know nto to unlawfully kill to persecute orto or to oppress his revow ferow being if it i at an any y tims tima gich sich atch a ich an oie 0 ie has ever been overt ken len in eo so great a fault it has been because lie he was waa overcome of evil and ceased to be a saint the sainte saints de dmm light liht in in truth and liberty 15 in Fre freedom edorn edoin of conscience C a science in perfect civil and religious toleration in in every true principle revealed to inlo raan for his ilia guidance mal wai dance and intend most moat manfully under providence to extend the bies bles blessings aings of those glorious rights to the humblest being belag bein that lh it may come coine within their sphere of action act ioa loa F to use another quotation from mi mr abbotte abbo simply changing I 1 to we we 11 giant glant 11 at TO YOU perfect liberty of opinion and of ol and we demand demind or you TOP the loime v arld arid no also perfect act liberty of worship and ard aa tiou so far as guaranteed gna rante zante d by the constitution by b all other lawa and the will w ill of tb A mighty have mr M abbott or wa endeavored in this la ater itter to set forth any new nc truths for hunna human i dance or to exhort to aught but a kind cop cor root and ii nh conduct towards all human i ivies veril venit y no 10 but the human family are BO so constituted that they need line upon linell line and if we have succeed succeeded cd in presenting the least leat of these thess principles of eternal truth ia r stich s icci a p mit of cf view aa t to excite the thought though ta and ealis ealia e i a the action of any in in Us its favor tavor thea then indeed i tt I 1 h is it me good been accomplished A ald aid id lil ill a I 1 1 arrange arrangement mc meat it of the liades of battla battis bet ih th and error for the gnal final iesue pro pr r T tra ira to the us hering ushering in of f the millennial mil lenial reaf reef of a thousand yera let all bear in mind I 1 th at there are but two c churches on this thib earth the ch arch of chrs cha and the church of the tha th loi lol v I 1 that tint oil oll ui lau iau C U it t two leadin leading goo gool I 1 i it tl PM evi ai ali i that the chirch charch of the tle devil devit ad am lite ue erple ef raf evil eigil are e even ever ver ren found nd enlist enlisted ted led under tinder the bunner b inner matto la Is in tolerance perfect civil antl anil rr legious 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