Show by president 14 ai ident briz Brie hani hanl young bowery aug 9 l 6 1 t BY y G D WATT 1 so 0 far as I 1 am an conserved conser arned ned I 1 with regard to p the I 1 performance of duties bythe by the elders of lir israel el the duties which have been placed upon them and required at their hands handa upon their miss missions ions lons for y the gratification of the brethren just referred to v b by elder taylor I 1 will say if there has been no thing hitherto expressed here manifesting the feel ings of the first presidency of the church curch and the members in general generah on I 1 this hig his point I 1 can an awer for the people by asking and answering a question sr br taylor br georce george me A smith and ard br bern bem hisel did you do your duty in congress in lefer refer ence to presenting our petition for a state st tt I 1 think that I 1 can answer for this committee as well weil as for the people and say gay that they dis char chai charged ed their duty man manfully hilly and satisfactorily to their god and to their brethren I 1 can answer for the people and say that they are most per factly satisfied with the labors of our committee commit tee when a man nian can say of a truth 11 1 I have bave done the very best that I 1 could in my mission 1 the healt of every saint on earth acquainted with the circumstances Clim cum stances stance tha the angels angela in heaven and our beav 11 enly father are we all satisfied there is no more required require dof of us its than we are capable of performing the first presidency are satisfied and I 1 can s say that the th e people are satisfied with regard to the tiie labors of br bf taylor in editing the paper called the Ilk mormon lormon published in the ilie city of new york I 1 have heard many remarks concerning the editorials in in that paper t not only from saints but from those who do not profess to believe the religion we have embraced and it is probably one of the strongest edited pa pers that is now published I 1 can say as to its editorials that it is one of the strongest papers ever published so far as my information extends and I 1 h have haye ave aye never read one sentence in them but what oat my my heart could bid success to it and beat a h appy response to every sentence that I 1 have re read or heard read br taylor that is for you and I 1 believe that these are the feelings and th the e sentiments of all in this community who have perused that paper we are ara satis fatis satisfied fied with the labors of 0 the elders generally true it is not every one that knows and understands tards all things thing si it is also true that men are liable to falter and fail in their judg met but that is nothing against the teai real char acter of the man if he ig doing the he best lie knows how it is true that at times limes elders need correcting rec ting og and they receive connection in this pla pia place ce it is 13 also true that when you correct an individual in his errors and try lo 10 place him in better i circumstances pertaining to judgment and diacre rl tion it is annoying it is grievous it is painful to the sAsa sensation tion of eat that iti individual it is is very true that chastisements are grievous when they are nat nav received but if it they are rice received ived in patience they will work out salvation for those who cheerfully submit to them if the time lime was that the elders of israel could not be chasteney chastened chast ened and corrected for their wrongs anabe and be sef sel se right you may know that they have proved recreant to the faith and anil if those who are appointed to lead this peo people dare not rise up and tell them of their iniquity and chastise them i and teach them the way of life and salvation vati on you may know that your leaders have fallen from their station the lord has bestowed the everlasting priest hood hool ij upon the children of men for their salv salvation atida it is not believed beli bell evel fon foe a moment by any ariy person who believes in the bible that a man or woman can be saved in their sins they have to be sep abated flom hom their sins and iniquity they have to put off the old man with all his bis deeds and put on the new man christ jesus if ever we see the f time that we dare dara not tell teil men of their evils and ana correct them when in fault you may despair of salvation in this kingdom az one grand cause of the enmity entertained ao to 1 wards us by officials sent here by the General government has simply been that I 1 take the lib arty of telling men where they do wrong v and sherein they do wrong both those who are in in the church and those who are out of it arid and my bret blen bien take the same liberty homen romen if men do evil we tell them of their finness min ness whereas in the other portion of our government man dare not speak their minds they are tied up tip bound up they are in fetters and chains in every particular as much so as br taylor has bas told you and a great deal deai more thore he said that ifa if a man was found 11 uc arg ress who dare dizie speak in favor of innocence justice ustice truth and mercy be lie dare not speak it there were any there when our petition was expected to be presented who feltin their hearts tp favor it they thes dae dare not noi open their mouths iu in favor of its being granted ge gran anted fo r if they spoke at all they must speak according to to the he popular notions of the tiie people they must go with the tide of popularity la rity tilla tills is 13 the case with wid the whole world but we are chosen out of the world and if we accept salvation on the terms it is offered to us we vve have got to bs be honest ii it every thought in our reflections in our meditations in our private circles in our deal in our declarations and in ever every y act of mir our lives fearless and regard regardless iese lesE of every princ prine principle ale of error of every principle of falsehood be presented we have no wi thour government we never have had any iny i ny difficulties willi v ieli any government under which we v bave tave have lived but there has been a difficulty and what isil is il i tho tilo I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons have got so sonie sonae thine thins that tiie the rest of course counse have not and land we will k n efiem out of he the way 3 we will rol rot have them abr A abr br agy lon lor has said sald s ald iid speaking of the wisdom and by the thie people of the world liere there aie cie min mii ma 1 11 of talent of p op reflection arld arid knowledge in all punning i mechanism they are expert in that thou I 1 ehney ebney gh ney do not know whence they tiley receive dimo intelligence th f nit vil ia 1 of ote thi wa br has as riot et t e entirely in ing Is the people offering them kno kho knowledge ieda 1 and ana intelligence consequently it reveals unto them in instructs Js them teaches them and guides them even in the wai way they thy like to travel men know how to construct ral railroads and all manner of nia machinery y they understand cunning workmanship etc but that is is all revealed to thiem by the spirit of the lord though they know it not you can an find in the minds of the people most admirable intelligence in things pertaining to the world worlds but i lien llen you touch the intelligence that pertains to other worlds to the kingdom of heaven and heavenly things they are dark as midnight darkness so dark as this that let ever so good a thing thina be revealed to them no matter how good foi for a nation a people a community or an individual let a man have i it t revealed to him how he can benefit the whole nation they turn around and deny god in if it they are arc so dark as that when they never received a particle of intelligence but what came from god they are fil led with darkness instead of bihin wishing to come on them my heart ij i pained for them when I 1 behold their situation they are drunk not with strong drink but with their own anger and rage and the spirit of the tiie enemy which they have received aney areas are n as wild as california horses when a lasso lisso is thrown on them they will run madly against a fence or a stone wall or over a person or anything they are frantic and would break brdak their own necks it i lust so with the inhabitants of or the earth and especially so with our government and they are arc hastening with all possible speed with t the he larriet around their necks to jump the precipice and destroy themselves I 1 can tell you one thing that I 1 know concerning the inhabitants of the united states it has come to this that the honest among them thim men women and chil chii children drin have dreams foreboding foreboding evil eiji the visions of their minds are troubled they are in sorrow they feel melancholy and have li av a presentiment merit that hat something evil is going to bei be i fall fali ihie the ifie people and if you yu could discern the thoughts of their hearts this day you would pr probably find millions of such persons in in our government ern ment when they reflect upon the maddened zeal of the leaders they know that they can endure but a little litlie while and nd query w what at will comiel corne corce what will th the eLord lord bring on the people upon this happy government what evil cat is about to befall us will there be war will wiil we fight thelMor mons and will labe the lord give the he mormons cormons Mor mons power to fight agaj agal against A uso us will the north make war upon the will they take the sword one a against ainest the other othni what will become of egl uil us th these es e fore forebodings beddings are up upon 1 1 t lie tiie people they have dreams in the night wb which i v h f lighten them and reflections inthe in the day time which give them sorrow and they are har from day to day they are to b pitied for sorrow woe destruction shaine shame and misery await them I 1 am sorry for them they are to be AV pitied tied to be prayed for tor almost most every anaa that has come from froia the east of late is telling you the political feelings and desire desires of the government towards this ise lie people br taylor has just related that a gentleman he lie met on the road remarked what can you you Mor mormons cormons mons fight the united states can you contend with them you had hid better take a more moi P pacific policy than you have do dd not speak about the president nor abou about tany any of the boffl officials meshall we ahall shall talk as we please about them for th this is is the right and privilege granted to us by the con constitution ution of the united states and abd as asmin gnip aisters of salvation we shall take the libi liberty erty of ot telling teli men of their sins I 1 1 ashall L shall take the liberty of talking as I 1 please about the president of the united states states and I 1 expect that I 1 know his character better than he knows it himself I 1 will tell you in a a few words a little of it james buchanan who is now sitting in the chair of slate state and presiding over this great republic is naturally a passive docile kind benevolent and good man that is bj his hig natural disposition I 1 will ventina venture s arouse him and he has been a man who could make nake haming speeches he is now bound up they have thil the fetters upon lna lua feet he is handcuffed hi his elbows are pinioned he is bound on evily every side and they make him do as they please Is he to do so no ND Is a man fit to be Pr eident president of the T united states who will bow and succumb to the whims of the people no A president should learn the true situation of his constituents and deal out even b handed banded justice to all utterly regardless of the clamor of party suppose the president to be be under clamor lamor and dictation of several parties he would order out a company today to day and tomorrow to morrow call them back he would make a decree today to day and next week revoke it and make another to suit another party he ought not to pay attention to any party but dut ba consider the nation as a family and deal out justice and mercy to them equally and in independently depend antly I 1 wish that hickory jackson was wa now our president for he would kick some of those rotten hearted sneaks out or rather order his negroes to do it ian if ve vladam had a man in the chair wiio wilo really was a man and capable of magnifying hi his bis office he would call servants and order them to kick those mean miserable sneaks out of 0 the residential presidential mansion off from its grounds and into the streets but bat the president he be arkens tc c the clamor ground around him and as iid ild lid ald pontius pilate in in the cafeo jesus chrit christ has washed bis his handsh hands saying clam lim aim clear of the blood of those these latter day saints gentlemen you have dictated and I 1 wiil will order a aldier soldiery soldiers ol dier 3 and officials to utah 11 is said in n the bible that whosoever y ye e yield yourselves to obey his bis servants ye are the president has yielded 1 himself a servant to cliques and parti parties eQ and the ther ir servants he be shall be and uil all that has been spoken of him by br kimball ft IE t the name of jesus christ shall come upon km Nim do you think that we ive shall be called treason ers for fon fon for rebul rebuking cing him ahin as in i n his kinf sinful ul course yes yea falkof talk of loyalty lo 10 government hardly a mar among them cares for tb ih ap gov government t united Sta tsany more than he do docs does es for the tim uso i less card that thai bled lied lies lles 0 on fhe he able table lehe lahe A is playing out his liand laud land they disregard ard the constitution as they would any old fable in ni ariy arly any old school book scarcely a member on the floor of congress cares anything t about it while br T laynor lauror was referring to the conduct ot of officers of the tile government to the pistols the bowl bowie knives the oyster ouster suppers the pleasant little nick nack nuch gaud saud gand vaud this that and the other I 1 was reminded of ofa a circumstance that transpired in the region of the salt works in the he state of new hew york in that section there was a place called salt point one one of the roughest in the world for drunkenness gambling fighting and pursing and within a few miles froin roin salt point was a place called hollow and the people in i n tilo 1110 those places used to be in a constant strife arife to see which should act the worst As a man named thadeus woods who had become considerably wealthy by making and selling salt was going from hollow to salt point he stopped at a tavern half way between the tho two places and when he and his traveling companions compa had rested themselves and fed their horses woods told one of his teamsters who was one of the wickedest wick edest men to be found in lit those two places that he would treat him if he lie would say three of the wickedest wick edest words that lie could think of the man mau agreed that lie he wouida would and when nhen he had bad the attention and eyes of the company fixed upon him hi 1 m he ild shouted ont oat Ona daga hollow thad woo woods ds and salt point remarking that those were three of the worst vorst words that he be could think A of br taylor says that language cannot express the conduct the feelings fee cee linga abathe and the spirit that are are upon the people in the states well suppose you take up a labor and andlar swear about them then 3 what are the worst words that can be spoken en stealing mobs or vigilance committees and rotten hearted administrators of a government are three of 0 the meanest and wickedest wick iest edest words that tian cdan can cah be I 1 expect that somebody will write that back to ta the states as being treasonable because B spoken by a latter day saint sa t with regard to the present contention and strife and to our position and 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