Show I 1 the follow following ing song gong composed by james bond was vas then sung by J kay I 1 SONG FOR THE PIONEERS I 1 i ht diee now ye saints lot your henits be rande slad ond let zion rejoice and give thanks to the lord I 1 for her rest now has come though the pan wag once sad I 1 our songs shall be given our god be adored I 1 we will hallow this ibis day as from strife I 1 its bright brightness aad aid glory eich countenance cheers and these valle s tell ell as they teem with new fife odthe of the happy success of f the brave oer the plains and the mountains they ihly fearlessly trod when fareld from our homes and by mothers robbers oppressed through their arduous toil they still trusted in gid GA As he whispered of for far bettez better lands iu in the west went the day of deliverance burst bu on our view that day to our hearts every blessing endears en dearr and LIBERTY here shall her ber splendor renew in the valleys out by the brave dinners Pin ners when the gloom clouds were gathered in thickness around I 1 and the storm rose in fury the saints to overthrow oer oler throw when no friend could be seen arid and no shelter be found the lord wrought his power to show ift he led le forth this band with their valiant hearts he stretched streU bed forth his bis arru arm and his bis glory appears new hopes he inspires fresh vigor impart As he pointed the way for these brave pioneers Pion eera to the lords chosen chambers chamber his people are come where the standard stan daid of pence peace to the earth shall be reared no mobs shall molest us in our mountain home where the laws and commandments of god tire are revered here the lio LION ic shall roar and his voice be our guide well rejoice with the angels and prophets and seers scars we will share in the blessings the lord has supplied through the labors labora and toils toile of the brave pioneers t we shall yet live to se see a far happ happier ier day when zion shall spread and her ber kingdom inc increase our enemies then will be waheed away and earth universal be crowned with pence peace the return of this day shall be greeted with joy its glories revived through the numberless years and then in the 4 mountain where nought shall destroy well sing odthe of the faithful and brave PIONEERS hon geo A smith then delivered the following ORATION MY FRIENDS it is with a heart bear lifted up in gratitude to him who reigns above for the pm ilee elege of 0 rising before you to express my gratitude and of be beholding bolding so many persons hap happily ily situated in the enjoyment of civil arid and religious liberty that I 1 have the privilege this day in the company of the thousands that surround me of rejoicing in in the celebration of the of july it being the first day for 17 years since the 0 organization niza tion of the church of jesus ghrist of latter day saints that they could lay down to rest in pernet perfect peace i without being disturbed by the cruel hand of persecution yes my friends after 17 years of cruel bloody persecution inflicted in the most ruthless and savage manner upon the people of the church of latter day saints they had ad at last the privilege on the of july 1847 a few pioneers in number of laying down in this secluded valley in this desolate and mountain country of establishing institutions that insure freedom to all liberty to every person the liberty of conscience as well as every privilege which can be desired heaired by any citizens of this earth As I 1 walked with the procession from the habitation of the president to this thi p place la e with heart and eyes filled with weeping I 1 saw the beamut beauty y i and the glory of the liberty and vie happiness that s surrounded us m my mind was caught back in an instant to the days of bloody y persecution erg elution ec ution joseph was not there hiram was no not t there there david is not here in the procession where aie they sleeping in the silent tomb they were murdered cruelly murdered in the violation of all law and every principle of justice cruelly murdered for their religion and we survive vive their ashes that are mingling with the lie dust afeei being sacrificed after as martyrs sealing their testimony we are even permitted to live anti and enjoy five years of our lives w where ere n no 0 man hath bath power to murder or to rob roba or to burn our houses or destroy our property or ravish our women and kill our hildren children no man has had the power to do it without justice overtaking him the history of our p persecutions are unparalleled in the history of past ages to be sure eions have existed in countries where religion was established by law and where any other religion than the one e established was decreed by law to be her edical and its votaries vot aries doomed to persecution and the flames but in the countries where we suffered our persecution peise cution there is a good government there are good institutions 7 that are calculated to 10 protect every person in the enjoyment of evera ever rig right 11 t that is dear to man the persecutions we have suffered were in violation 4 of every good institution of every wholesome tome baw law of every institution and constitution which exist in the countries where they athly have been inflicted and what is more singular out of the hundreds of mur ders which have been committed upon in dpn women arid and children in the most barba barbarous rou r ruthless ae s I 1 and reckless manner not one murderer has ever been brought to justice not a single single man who has shed I 1 the glood blood of a latter day saint has ever been punished or brought to justice ustica but they are permitted to run at large in an ahe he face and eyes of 0 every officer of government who are directly concerned to preserve deserve the laws and see them faithfully executed the the history of no country on the earth affords a parallel ar to this it cannot be found that is such a wholesale in robbery house burning butcher i ing or of men women and children and binally the w wholesale banishment of tens of thousands thousands of souls from their homes anil and country this has actually been effected in violation of the laws and regulations of the country where it occurred and not one person has ever been punished for these crimes cinnes I 1 challenge the world to produce the record upon the face of the earth that shows in all these murders cold blooded butcheries but cheries house burnings and wholesale robberies rib eries ries that a single person has stif suffered ered the just penalty Pell alty of the law that a solitary criminal was that any of the unprincipled savages who were guilty L of these highhanded high handed depredations were ever al brought aught to ju justice tice ought i vp not then to rejoice e that there is is a spot upon tie ff footstool of god w where ere law is respected where the cc constitution institution for which our fathers bled is revered where he people who dwell here can enjoy liberty and wo worship hip god in three or in twenty different ways and TIO no map man be permitted to plague his head about aboa it I 1 dejoice ej oice that this is the case and when bade back and erkd reflect upon the scenes we have passed through aid realize our ity my heart is filled fied wit with joy I 1 have looked ww set nes that are calculated to stir up tip the stoutest heart without shedding a tear but I 1 cannot look the procession of this lay day and consider the baess effs t tact now ow surround sar round this people without shedding tears of if gratitude that god keople has as so kindly delivered vered us 0 all our distresses and aven given to us our liberty to b be sure aure after working our 11 way way into these valleys the roads through mountains seeking out the alite aad coming ing here our persecutions did not coash cias fc our enemies enemies were like the good old quaker when he burned med the dog out of doors said he be 1 I wont kill thou hast haht got out of my read reach I 1 cannot kill thee but I 1 will give thee a bad name and he ballmes out bad dog and somebody supposing the dog to fo be nad shot him bici so with us after robbing us of gillims of property and driving us cruelly from the jand fc our birth after violating every solitary law oi of the government in which miny many of the officers were par takers expelling us into the wilderness where they thought we would actually perish and there is wt not to be found dun i in the history of the world a parallel c ase e of suffering u f ermio t that this people en endured dared and while in the midst of it the cry of mad dog was raised to finish as they thought the work of destruction and murder without a guide without a knowledge of the country without reading even the notes of any traveler upon this earth or seeing the face of a be being ing who ever set foot upon this land we were led by the hand band of god through his servant brigham threading the difficult passes of these mountains until we set our foot upon this place which was at that time a desert containing conta inin gpo thing but a few bune bunches hes of dead grass and crickets enough to fence the land we were more than one ofie thousand miles from where provisions conla be obtained abid not game enough to support an indian population we se set down hei here and we called upon god to bless our undertakings we formed a government here and a government has been in existence in this Territory of utah for 5 years I 1 now want to ask a few grave questions upon this subject it is customary fertile for the tile general government to extend a fostering hand and parental care to all new territories when we Wi first settled here I 1 I 1 I 1 this was mexican territory t but it was soon af after ter acquired by treaty and bec became e U S territory four years and a half a government has been supported here governmental laws and and regulations have been kept t up I 1 i inquire quire has the government of the U S everea ever expended pend one dollar to support that government no 0 i with the exception of the U S officers in the tori a little over one year for the erection 1 of public buildings and sow for a library I 1 has the boo legislative gillat tive department ever received ae one dollar no and why 15 because they are mormon and fugitive officers coald drun run home to see their mammy and cry out bad do dor bad dog do they are mormons cormons Mor mons they are mormons cormons Mor mons what is the reason that a citizen of this territory cannot get a foot of ganito to cull his own for there theris is in reality no such thing why has not the indian title been extinguished and the people here have been permitted to hold titles to IW let the people answer why is ia it that the inhabitants of this territory have never had bad one ona dime expended to defray the expenses of their legislature pour four or five winters they have held their session and not one solitary dime has bris been ex expended pende I 1 by the general government as has been done in all other territories what is the reason what is the reason depson that the oregon land law was no not extended over utah which gives to the citizens who broke up the bew grou ground rid a home free for themselves as was the case in other territories why are these hardworking hard working pioneers who dug down the mountains mointa ins not permit a title to their homes let me ask again the people here have sustain ed cd three indian wars at their own expense who pays for the indian wars of oregon the indian wars in california or in new mexico for the difficult ties in minnesota and other sundry wars and difficulties that have or may occur in the territories whose duty I 1 ask is it to pay for them it is the duy duty of the government of the united states why has not utah the same eriv privilege elege the saile same treatment why is it that these three wars have nave 0 o be totally and entirely sustained by those citizens citi citizens zent without a dollar of aid from the parental government I 1 need not follow up this train of reflection but f t will add one cin question estion more more I 1 why was it that the juo judges and the secretary re turned home last year without berf performing arming i one pat particle ti of their duty you can read it in their own report says they when we got there we found that the people were all mormon 11 as if we were horses or elep elephants bauts or cyclops whose business it was to get up into these mountains and forge thunderbolts oh we will run home again because when we got there we found the people aft all cormons mormons Mor mons will say with all re reverence virence to the constituted authority that exists in the general government that I 1 do believe that the same s spirit ti rit of tradition the same s spirit iri iff 0 of per persecution mention that has as ever followed the people p I 1 e of god has more or less influence with them and that it if we would actually go to work and alter our name we might possibly be treated as other men be this as it may I 1 feel while I 1 stand upon the face of the earth determined to defend my right and the rights of my friends and brethren I 1 know that there is n no 0 mor mormonism ani nim m known in the constitution of the U S but all men are there considered free and equal to worship god according to the dictates of their own enjoy e equal ual rights and privileges anere is one item of history tory which I 1 have observed among this people the very men who were the murderers of our fathers and our brothers the burners of our houses have come here among this people since that time lime where they have received protection they have been fed when they were hungry the very man who burned the house of elder moses clawson cla ason at lima came to him and said mr clawson I 1 want to get some provisions from you now these very persecutors knew that our religion was true and that we were men of sterling integrity or else they never would have thrown themselves idour way and call upon us for aid afterwards and I 1 am proud to say that kind aid and assistance on their journey to the gold mines has been extended to hundreds of these robbers and thus coals of fire have been heaped upon their heads but their skulls were so thick it never burned many of them a bit I 1 have but a few more remarks to make which will be directed to the 24 young men and the braves and warriors of these moun mountains bains young men braves and warriors who set before me this day let me admonish you never to let the hand of tyranny or oppression rise rise in theae but stand unflinchingly in angly iv true by the constitution of the fhe united states which sich our fathers sealed with their blood never sw suffer its provisions to be infringed upon and it if any man or set of men form themselves into a mob in these thes e mountains to violate that sacred document by taking away the civil oi or religious rights ot of any man if it should be one of the at most anfe interior bior bein beins beings s that exists upon the face of the earth be sure you crush it or spend the last drop of blood in your veins veins with the words of truth and liberty liberty and truth forever governor youngs grand march composed by capt ballo was then played by his band A solo on bass drum by col duzette concluded in our next |