| Show 1 11 r I 1 copyright secured HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH 1 liy IIA JANU JANUARY ary AnY 1814 V ff Mon Jayr 1 11 l A cold blustering rain storm ushered in the nev year at sunrise thomas miller james leach james bridges and john frodsham were brought before me by the police char charged ed with olis mils orderly conduct filled fined miller the others were discharged A large party took a new years supper slipper at my house and had music and dancing till morning mornin I 1 was in my private room with my family elder joh job n taylor and 0 oher her friends tuesday 2 1 two pm hiram dayton was brought lit before mayors court for disorderly conduct in ih resisting and abusing the police I 1 dined ned 25 and costs his sion fion lysander dayton for the thestine saine of fence was sentenced to 10 days biard hard labor and subsequently for contempt of court 10 days moreon more on the public reAs streets st snow one inch deep I 1 here insert mr calhound Cal houns answer to my letter of inquiry dated nov 4 1843 fort hillend hill hili 2nd and dec 1843 sir youash me what whit would be my rule of action relative to the Alor mormons cormons mons or latter day saints should I 1 be elected president to which I 1 answer that if I 1 should be elected I 1 would strive to administer the government according to the constitution and the laws of the union and that as they make no distinction between citizen dif dil different ferent religious creeds I 1 should make none rione As far as it depends on the executive department all hould should f have the full fuli f ull uil benefit of both and none should be exempt from their operation but as you refer to the case of missouri me to repeat what I 1 said to you atVas i hington that according to my views ue the case as e does not come within the i jurisdiction jurisdiction uris diction of the federal government whick which which is one of limited and specific powers with respect I 1 am ac ac mcjoseph Mr Joseph soseph smith J C CALHOUN to which I 1 wrote the following reply nauvoo Nati illinois III ili anois jan 9 1844 sir your reply to my roy letter of last november concerning your rule of action towards th the eL atter Latter day saints if elected president is at hand and ind that you and your friends of the same opinion relative to the matter in question may not be disappointed as to me or my mind upon so grave a subject permit me as a law daw abiding man mai as awell a well weli wisher to the per pettily pet fetu ully liy ity of constitutional rights and liberty and as a friend to the free worship of almighty iced god icod by all according to the dictates of every persons conscience to say I 1 am surprised that a man or men in the highest stations of public pub ile lie lifer life ilfe should have made up lip such a fragile view vew of a a case ease than which aich there i 9 not one on the face of the globe fraught with so much consequence qu I 1 ence to the happiness of men in this world or the world to come to be sure the first paragraph of your letter appears very complacent and fair on a white sheet of paper and who that is ambitious for greatness and power would not have said the sa same mithi thag your oath would woold bind you to support the constitution and laws and as all creeds and religions are alike tolerated they of course all be justified or condemned according to merit or demerit but why tell mi me why are all the principal men held up for public siblie stations so cautiously careful not to publish to the world that they wilt will judge a righteous r judgment law or no law for laws and opinions like the vanes of steeples change r one congress passes a law and another repeals it and one statesman says that the constitution ution means this and another that and who does not know that all may be wrongs wrong the opinion and pledge therefore in the first tara Iara paragraph graph of your reply to my question like the forced steam from the engine of a steam boat makes the show of a bright cloud at first but when it comes in contact with a purer atmosphere mo ino sphere dissolves to common air again your yur second paragraph leaves you naked before yourself like a likeness in a mirror when you say that according to 0 your view the federal government is one of limited and specific powers 1 and has no jurisdiction in the case of the mormons cormons Mor mons so then a state can at any time expel any portion of her citizens with im impunity punit y and in the language of mr van buren frosted over with your gracious aleus af 0 the raley raiel case though the cause is is ever so just government can do nothing for them because it has had no power go on then missouri after another set of inhabitants as is the latter day saints did dij have lave entered some two or three hundred th thousand u dollars worth of land and maddex en Y sive improvements thereon go on say av banish the occupants or owners or kill them ea 1 as the robbers did many of the latter I 1 D day saints and t take ake their lands and property as a spoil arid and let the le legislature 9 as in the case e of the mormons cormons Mor mons appropriate a couple of hundred thousand dollars to pay the mob for tor doing the job for the renow renowned ned senator from south carolina mr J C calhoun says the powers of the federal government govern ment cent are so specific and limited that it has no jurisdiction of the case oh ye people who groan under tinder the oppression of tyrants ye exiled poles who have felt the iron hand of russian grasp ye poor and unfortunate amoia all nations come to the asylum of the oppressed buy y ye e lands of the general government pay in your money to the treasury to strengthen the army and the navy worship god according to the dictates of your own consciences pay jn in your taxes to support the great heads beads of a glorious nation but remember a icove sovereign zeab stated is so much more powerful than the united states th the parent government that it can exile you at pleasure pleasure mob you with impunity confiscate your lands and property have the legislature sanction sancton it yea even murder you aa as an edict of an emperor emper orf and it does no wrong for the noble senator of south carolina says the power of the federal gov government rn is so limited and specific that it has no jurisdiction juris jui fui ris fiction diction of the case what think ye of impe gium in imperia ye spirits of the blessed of all ages hark harka ye shades of departed statesmen listen abraham moses homer socrates solon solomon and all that ever thought of right and wrong look down from your exaltations if you have any for it is sai sal said sald d in the midst of counselors there is safety and when you have learned that fifteen thousand thou innocent citizens after having purchased their lands of the united states and paid for them xv were ere exuded expelled from a idov sovereign state slate by order of t the e governor at the point of the bayonet deir keir their arms taken from i them by the same authority and their right of migration into said state denied under tinder pain of imprisonment whipping robbing mobbing and even death and no justice stice or recompense allowed and from the legislature with the governor at the head down to the justice of the peace with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a bowie bowle knife in the other hear them all declare that there is no justice for a mormon in that state and judge ye a righteous judgment z and tell me when the thid virtue of the st states ates was sto stolen lerr leri where the honor of the general en government lies hid and what clobes a senator with wisdom oh nullifying carolina oh little tempestuous rhode island would it not be well for the great men of the nation to read the fable of the partial judge and when part of the free citizens of a state had been bean expelled contrary to the constitution mobbed robbed plundered and many murdered instead of into the course taken with joanna Southe ott ann lee the french prophets tile the quakers of new england and rebellious nig gers gets in the slave state states s to hear both sides and then judge r ather rather than have the mortification to say t 0 oh it is my bull that has bas killed your ox that alters the tha case I 1 must enquire into it and if and ifal if if the general government has no power to reinstate expelled citizens to their rights there is a monstrous hypocrite fed and fostered d from the hard earnings of the people A real bull be beggar begar gar upheld by sycophants and although you may wink to the priests to stigmatise stigmatism stig matise wheedle the drunkards to swear and raise th the hue and cry of imi impostor loster false prophet god damn danin old oll joe smith yet remember if the latter day saints are no restored to all their rights and paid for all their losses according to the known rilles rules of justice and judgment reciprocation cipro cation and common honesty among men that god will come out of his hi hiding place and vex this nation with acore vexation yea the consuming wrath of an offended god shall smoke through the nation with as much distress and woe as independence has blazed through with plea piea pleasure and delight where is the strength of government where is the patriotism of a washington a warren and adams and where ia is a spark from the watch fire of 76 by which one candle might be lit that would glimmer upon the confines confine of demo demor r cra well may it be said that one man Is B not a state nor one state the nation in the days of general jackson when france refused the first instalment installment for eions there was power force and honor enough to resent injustice and insult and the money came and shall missouri filled with negro drivers and white men stealers steamers ste alers go tun lun un aped of justice for ten fold greater sins than france no verily no while I 1 have powers of body and mind while water runs and grass crows grows while virtue is lovely and vice hateful and while a stone points out a sacred spot where a fragment of american liberty once was I 1 or my posterity will plead the cause of injured innocence until missouri makes atonement for all her sins or sinks disgraced degraded and damned to hell where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched 1 why sir the power liot riot delegated to the united states and the states belongs to the people and congress sent to do the peo peoples pleys business have all power and shall fifteen thousand citi citizens ens groan in in exile oh vain vin 9 ei will y ye e not Z ot if it ye do db not ilot restore them to si air e ir rights and arid worth of property r in squish uis nis to them the latter day saints a as b 0 their portion of power that belongs to it ISem em ac according cordin to the constitution S power has its convenience as well as inconvenience the world was not made for caesar alone but titus toy too 1 1 I 1 will give you a parable A certain lord had a vineyard in a goodly land which men labored in at their pleas pleasure a few meek men also went and purchased with money from some sowe of these chief men that labored labore d at pleasure sur a portion of land ladd in the vineyard at a very remote part parac of it and began to improve it and to eat and drink the fruit thereof when n some vile persons who regarded not man neither feared the lord of the vineyard rose up suddenly and robbed these meek men and drove them from their possessions killing man many this barbarous act made no small smail stir among the men in the vineyard and all that portion who were vere attached to that part of the vineyard yar I 1 where th the anen men were robbed rose up in grand council with their chief man N nho who bo ue had ad firstly ordered the deed to be done and made a covenant not to the cruel deed deeo but to keep the spoil and never let those meek men set their feet on that soil soll again awain 11 neither recompense them for it now these meek men in their distress wisely sought redress of those wicked men in every possible manner and got none they then supplicated sup the chief men who held heft the vineyard at pleasure and who had the power to sell and defend it for redress and redemption and those men loving th the e fame and favor of the multitude more than the glory of the lord of the vineyard answered your cause is just but we can do nothing for you because we have no power 1 now when the lord of the vineyard saw that virtue and innocence was not regarded and his vineyard occupied by wicked men he sent men and took the possession of it to himself and destroyed these unfaithful servants 1 and appointed them their portion among hypocrites and let me say that all men who say that congress has no power to restore and defend the rights of b her er citizens have ha veriot riat the love of the truth abiding in them Con congress greis gregs has power to protect the nation a against ast foreign invasion and internal broil and whenever that body passes an act to maintain right with any power or to restore right to any portion of her citizens IT is THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND and should a state refuse submission that state is guilty of insurrection or 02 rebellion and the tile president has lias as much power ower to r repel e pel pei it as washington had to marci march against the whiskey boys of pittsburg pittsburgh or general jacks son don on had to send an armed forceno force to suppress the rebellion of south carolina to close I 1 would admonish you before you let your candor compel you again to write upon a subject great as the salvation ial kal of man consequential as the life of the savior broad as the principles of eternal truth and valuable as the jewels of eter eternity nily to read in the ath section and article of the constitution of the united states the first fourteenth and seventeenth entee ertee nth specific 5 and not very limited powers of tile the federal government what can be done to protect the lives property and rights of a virtuous people when the administrators of the law and law makers are an bought by bribes uncorrupted ted by patronage by gold una X by fear and uncontaminated b by tan tangling ling alliances even like wife not oily only ouy unspotted but unsuspected and god who cooled the beat of a furnace or shut the mouths of lions for the honor of a daniel will raise your mind above the narrow notion that the general government has no power alto to tile the sublime idea that congress with the president as executor is as almighty in its sphere as jehovah is in liis his with great respect I 1 have the honor to be your obedient servant JOSEPH SMITH hon mr J C calhoun fort hili hill S C S jonathan sen and thomas cartwright discharged by judge whitehead at chester england the judge would not allow the costs of prosecution of or witnesses to be paid by the crown it was very evident that the church of ministers were at the bottom of the machinations and were sorely discomfit fitted ted at the result I 1 insert the tho statement of the unfortunate occurrence given by jonathan junior thomas cartwight was baptized november 6 1813 unknown to his wife by elder jonathan sen but she had hud mistrusted he had gone to the water and went to pu pug 9 mires house the same evening and inquired where tom was wasa ine meaning aning her husband mrs answered she did not know after this tin s mrs cartwright went out and met them returning from the waters of baptism and shouted damn cdamon you ill lii dip ye 1 and expressing her determination to have revenge revenge upon Pug mires family she used a great deal of very bad language some of the neighbors not belonging to the church advised her not to speak so much against the latter day saints as she might yet become convinced of the truth of their doctrines and be baptized herself she replied 11 1 I hope ho e to td god if ever I 1 0 ol 01 that kil kii ill ill iii le be drowned in th the L attempt A short time 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