| Show REMARKS hy ny prest rnest eri erl hanf hani youns young bowery pm of june jane 79 7 1857 REPORTED BY ny geo GEO reo 1 D WATT I 1 can bear witness to the truth of what br avile has said with regard to the principle of government and I 1 wish to add my testimony in these word words there is no people on this ibis earth in a national capacity but what have been operated upon to return to what they themselves in heir own government have prepared the way to accomplish c com that is tha overruling hand ofed of god in the tiie midst of the people p when they know it not pertaining perua peria inma to the officers that br hyde has al ended to there is ii no statute law in the united states in neither the constitution nor the statutes at large but what allows the latter dav saints J every prerogative they could ask for there is no right night or privilege that we could ask to enjoy none that any apy other people could reasonably ask to enjoy but what is guaranteed unto us by the constitution and laws of the united states officials who feel to traduce the name and charac character ter tIr of the latter dai day saints whether they be judges marshals marshal indian agents agent or holding any other office under tiit tilt united states government in this territory have to violate and trample under their feet beet their oaths to be loyal to the government and arid laws by which they profess to be governed in iii order to intrude in the east least on the rights of this or any other peaceful law abid abiding in g anity to the honor of a fe few of those officials that have come here we can say that they have honored the law under which they came while have trampled it under their feet andhor and for officers to infringe upon any of our right the they y have got to trans trang transgress tr angress ress he the law that they are sworn sword to maintain these are facts if men will only observe the laws of c the united states will only honor the laws they are sworn to honor liquor we alej safe it if would please me much if the congregation that thai assembles here from flom sabbath to sabbath atif atly cou could id hear ilear the details of the foul slanders of mend menn that have been here that they inight know what they illey will spew out bout the gi areat great eat majority majo nit rit of this people have no rottenness those characters carry within them and they did not find i it here they brought 11 it from the places whence they came they come here as full of foul matter as any shell sheli or skin gan can be stuffed and yet I 1 have heard some of the saints say that buch such and such a one of we the lot was a perfect gentleman speaking as tile the world view men and th thing in id tile the eyes cf the vast majority y of mankind t lie the devil is the greatest gentleman that ever madenis appearance oil on this earth in accordance with their estimate you cannot begin to produce a per son on who wilo is so much of a gentleman as the devil himself himself I 1 th there thre re are but few here hat that actually actual know the face of a saint from that of a devil dev dei il and that is i one reason why by we are exhorting the people all the time to obtain tile he spirit of revelation hat that they may know whether they tiley are right themselves or not and v whether nether their neighbors are right or not rot and that when truth is is presented to them they can partake of it and receive it with a keen keens appetite asgood as food which their spirits rejoice in in and that wheal wh envil evil is is presented they can detect iti ivi i but there wre a ale ile so many who profess lo 10 be saints I 1 that their heir privileges ea that hat it beco becomes mesi mese a cons constant fant task on me and arid others to plead with the people to repent to forsake their thein heartman hear heart twan wanderings and return to the lord their god and seek seeks his face and favor and rind never stop antil they get the spirit of revelation rev elation within them iley 1112 1 that hat they may know for themselves who are gentlemen and ladies i who he are anc ang angels hels gels or devil and ard know and understand der stand the truth from error en or light from darkness and be able to detect ev every e ry deception i and every deceptive character how long shall we e labor we will labor on until we are worn out I 1 am exceedingly thankful that the tile excessive e labors that have hive been upon me are not on me now as they have been the spirit of reformation has taken hol hoi I 1 oil on the people it has kindled the fine fie fi gie gge e of the almighty in in mount zion to burn out many of the tile un ungodly odly that could not riot stand it and 11 they ae y have fled I 1 feel teel happy happ it is is a test to me I 1 feel as though I 1 should endure yet for many years but the labor that has been upon me id in observing ving virg the of the latter day saint to see where they were going was indeed bard to be endured if is is not ting long iong ince many of our bishops and other leading men in in this community could not tell a saint froni flom i a devil do vou you oj riot not suppose that that danger 13 before me alethe all ali the time but within the tile lasi iasi last six months comparatively a hundred tons of care and anxiety have been removed from my shoulders deis and I 1 hope that this tins fire will continue 1 to 6 burr burn amons amous this people until those poor miserable curses those poor miserable gentlemen shag shau all leave leavens us I J pray that the tie fire of god may burn them out I 1 apra for this continually there are a few men who like myself feel the burden of his ibis but take the mass of the community and it is how do you ou do mr devil and for tor a pound of tea or a pint p nt of Y it seems that many might be bo bought u lit ana and arid when a mormon undertakes undertake to sell sel 1 goods here many of the think that lie ought to give div e them anav awa 11 or sell to them upon credit which they never try to cancel arid and if the mormon merchant deag deals deais upon a business busine s principle the peo people le will flock to the gentile stores where they wi wili will 1 trust them why 1 will I tiley the trust them because they know krow th that at I 1 hey will get their nay pay pa I 1 know of alj men bearing the character of latter day saints who because a I 1 mormon 1 dealer would woula not let his hii hi goods go out of tile uie stoie without pay or a good prospect of pay would go to the gentile stores and get trusted and anen say 10 0 what a good mail man that gentile is i while at a the same time lime be he is as full of hell bell as an egg is is full of meat meath aird ayd all ali all ali he be wants watts is is a chance to spew it out ou ta they edw will I 1 meet you with wilh bland express expressions ioris wilh soft silky hands and velvet lips and blarney around you ou but let a mob come and they are ready to point out their victims liere here and there and be glad to see us destroyed N those whom the government sends here are a most miserable set get and as a general thing they they do know enough to tell a decent lie but this is is not altogether to be wondered at for they are under the same difficulty as we ave are sometime sometimes it is is hard for them to tell a man mail who has got brains in in his head from one vi chos bo s filed filled with pudding the president and his cabinet kilow noting about the characters whom they send seid here it if they did many who have come here never would have been sent if we cannot always way s discern the children chil chii dien of men it is is no wonder d er that hat they are aie blind aid ai ald d cannot send mm men here capable of making a decent lie it if they have not already told every falsehood about ils us that thai they can call invent they will be ani mighty lity city sorry when they think of it for if they could could have told any more they would hav has have e done to so t o they have made and md told every lie that they the knew how to and if there is any blame on them for not lying more it mut must attributed to their ignorance 10 j I 1 would like to come here next sunday morning at about eight and read to you 5 on those beautiful stories they have invented inv dinv anted and published 0 they are lovely lov iov el and let you understand how little sense they contain they have us eaten up by cria crickets ts then by grasshoppers grasshopper 1 J I suppose that the grasshoppers must have beaten the crickets keti and when they found that the grasshoppers hop bop ers and crickets had not e eaten iten jusup ihen then the drouth came and destroyed us and after all that the cry from one ode end phd of the nation to the other now is is to destroy the mormons cormons Mor mons 2 they will have quite a job for there is more than one that can cari work at that game what do you ou suppose the government thinks about those funosas and ai d heir beir lies the government feels about that matter some as a friend felt towards morrill who was going to d deliver eliver that GREAT but I 1 cannot hollow loud enough that GREAT speech that he thought was S so 0 rull full of thunder but behold when the sheil shell cracked it made no noise I 1 hare have no doubt but what his fi lends were determined to have the speech hushed up they saw its shallowness and were satisfied that it would axt nc t accomplish one thing that he designed designedly lt sli sll ouid mentho men ho think know that all such persons persona are devoid of the principal item viz good sense to discern that the they d do 0 riot not rightly understand things themselves they hey are like the chap who thought he knew it all and a doctor said sald to him between you sou ou and I 1 we ave know everything the young oung man thought that was first rate and ep calculated to find bout tout what the doctor knew sava says sasche the doctor 1 t I cannot think of but one thing that you ou do not abt know 10 0 doctor will vv ill lii you reveal rev eal eai that to me if I 1 thought it v would ouid duld do dominich domi much ich good or if you would profit by it i I 1 would reveal it to you perhaps I 1 may as 3 well veil tell vou you for there is is one thing you do not know though I 1 believe that you know everyl everything hini bini else and that is is that you are a foo which 1 bhae hav e le learned affied since since I 1 began to converse with you anti and now between you and me we do know the whole of it government knows full well the miserable nonsense tira tirade deor of abuse that is 13 heaped u upon on us but what ft hat do they care about it it if they had hal ad the power of putting such chara characters eters on chips chipe as we are do and carrying them out perhaps they would never give them office but bill they have not that faculty as we have we can look men merl out of our ow community and they will run and howl thin thinking Icing that their lives lues are in in danger I 1 presume that there are still hundreds and thou thousands ands ards of communications daily sent to the president of the united sates states by applicants for office whom if he could take up on chips as we can and set them out of washington he would most gladly so dispose of but what is to be done why give the thie poor miserable dog a crumb or an old bone and say get out now and that is the way they get gel here to the praise of a few who have bave hav e been here be it said they kept the law but bill almost universally the t government overa officers that have come here have trampled the laws hinder under their feet and have spurned them to derision it if officers of the law will keep the law it is all we ask of them while they are here but if they do not keep the law we ave will make them suffer the penalty they are afraid of mormonism like the irishman who was arraigned before a court for a misdemeanor he lamen lamented ted fed bitterly bitt eily and the judge told him not to mourn for he would see that lie he had justice done to him and sure that is what I 1 am afraid of replied paddy so it is with the them they are all the time afraid of justice when the they come here they are afraid that justice 1 ustice is is goi gol going to overtake them instead of the cormons mormons Mor mons doing them harm barm and they do not like justice 1 I will wili now say a few words in regard to the breth rens helping us on the public works I 1 think that scores of men have come to me and said br abr briham dont you want avant a team to work on the public works I 1 reau beauy want to let a team go on to the public works we have not needed them until now we are going to sell our oxen to pay our debts and we will now let the brethren work with their teams as they have desired we shall now prove them by their works james said show shew me we your faith falth with wilh out your v arks and I 1 will show you my faith by my works we will apply that scripture to you sou ou it if you will avill show your faith without your works we will show you our our f aith faith by our works and see bow many will follow the example there are horse teams and mule teams in abard ance and the spring work is 13 pretty nigh done horse teams and mule teams will haul baul rock as well as oxen though it is generally supposed that they cannot we will sell our cattle to debts for if some poor miserable people tell truth and we ave have to leave here I 1 do not want to go away in debt to oui our oun enemies for the has told us not to go in debt to our enemies if can get the brethren to do as we want them to do 7 in a short time we will not owe a gentile one i dollar we never would have been in debt our enemies if I 1 could collid have had bad my plans carried I 1 out some others have e had haj their way and I 1 with a few others have had bad to stand and lift I 1 load if I 1 could be permitted to hare have my way 1 1 I would always have the dollar on hand band to b my enemy instead of owing him a dollar ac having to 0 o be besold behold sold for it I 1 w would 0 uld always have purse ready to buy those who are for sale of being i out of means at the sale I 1 would eve ever rj ia thousand dollars return two whereas 1 cannot do t that thae lat while lettin letting 11 others have their way we want you to A report yourselves forthwith brethren you yoa can tell your neighbors and word will wil lg go through the city and county counts we do not want men to come her here and say is a horse 2 or 11 1 I will tur tui n out an ox or I 1 br wells I 1 will send a team if you will support and hire a man roan to drive if it we to not want such proffered blessings but we want avant them proffered er up upon n the principle that 3 ou hire your b board 0 rob ing it with you and bring your feed and maintain yourselves just as YOU vou do home about your own work and come and do labor necessary to be done we do not wish man inan to say here I 1 am ain I 1 want you to board me and I 1 want some horse feed stable room reins reins and arld everything else we want to stay at home unless they them cometo come to do the work and provide for tor themselves and animals anin anic nala we hare have haie wagons rigged for transporting heavy blocks of stone and we are going to try hauling them with Ifor horses borses ses if you do not believe that horses and mules can haul hatli heavy stones as well wail as oxen come conne and see my iny horses and mules do it they will do it better than oxen would like to assemble here next sunday mornin morning gand and hear bear those pretty stories read they toey are delightful IE if that thit is your wish you will all I 1 signify it by being here by eight next sunday morning when you shall hear hose those beautiful stories and learn how delightful y you ou appear in the eyes of the world according to their representations in the absence of important news I 1 thlik think the reading of those stories will cheen cheer you so much there is but one fact that make |
