| Show REMARKS C KI 31 hanl nall nowery cowery sundar bundar morning motul ng july 7 igi UE REPORTED ported BY 1 V LONG r I 1 isak isaa irhe ithe ideas that have been teen addan advanced ced by pre sob sot young are strictly true and they avill avil W ear to every avery one w who ho has a knowledge ade ilvie aae condition of this worl world dand and they will specially p appear so to thosa those who have P 1 appear 0 of the kingdom of god as it has been leea estah dished in these last days daya in regard reg ard to the united states state great britain and european nations gener pener ally aily they nave bave a knowledge or a history f th tb s people I 1 england and commenced preaching the gospel twenty four years ago last june and of 0 course there was only a few Saints in that land but the grapel g has spread among most ot the nations ot of europe it has aso been sounded in asia africa australasian alasia and i in 1 hundreds ot of the islands of the bea sea the people generally loolu loo upon us as a a set of fanatics and theado not consider us worthy of 0 their attention still there are some who occasionally sio nally become convinced and embrace tile the truth when the church was first organized in lanc hester in the state of new york the people rose roae up agaibi against t us and were determined we should not there and we went to kirtland Kitt kirt land in the state of 0 ohio hio hlo 1 where we had peace for a little season teason and then we went to jackson County Missouri but the brethren found we could not say stay there and hence we bad to move over into clay county we stayed there a short time and afterwards went into caldwell count county remained in those thore r c 4 tsuwa lime V ya Z or r ged to 0 o to such a degree decree that the people considered ea we were not fit to live upon the earth fourteen thousand troops were called out and took a few of us prisoners and made us irn sign isn a all our property to our her per 1 Becu tors in the state of missouri to pay the tx expenses pense of our persecutors they commenced their thele cruelties cruel ties and perpetrated the most dia dla iio lio lical outrages upon our people that were ever known among amon civilized nations men women and children were indiscriminately indiscriminate Jy despoiled cofall they possessed they were mob bed and whipped some were tarred and fia sia feathered and mose who could not readily escape vure dure were massacred irrespective of age ape or ilex gex and anait if the almighty had not interfered they thy would have killed us all we then went into illinois and had not been there long before they began to serve us in like manner they gave us a city charter and then took it om us again and that too without any just j ast cause the tile gave us a charter for a aia Ala alamoni masonic soni lodge lodges and then than went to work and killed so some me edthe men to whom the charter was given I 1 tae tie rage ant and fer ci y of our enemies dd no not nob f ceabe cease there but it soon manifested itself in mobs assembling by thousands ands who finally I 1 acce eded in driving us iv out of that state also leaving us in the wilderness to perish but th elord assisted us his protecting hond hand was oyer over us for good and by his power we were preserved after all these hardships and trials we darted for this tins country and what did the government r ament then require of us five hundred q were called tg to go and nd take part in the alexi can war and that too at a time when we were all ail living in our wagons many were sick and Isome were dying and in fact hundreds and thousands have died in consequence of the hird hardships ships and privations brought on them by our on ruthless persecutors joseph smith lost ilis liis mis life by the hands bands of assassins and he was ane one of oe the best men that ever trod the toot toof stool of 0 the alm aim aty he was the m man an t tealley teai Teal led to open up this last dispensation but the world at laige loge would not receive him we have passed through h many grievious jurial igals jl rial but ido ado I 1 rdo dio not feel feet that I 1 want to say much about our sufferings this morning but limply to remind you of some of the prominent acts or of our enemies that you may know that i m haire nothing to expect frem them in in the jn ture but pe and inis representation many of you are sarr strangers agers to these thi ams a and elders because 1 W tre at baptized into the h until af er wards warda buu bua I 1 you can see what the world have jato oneto us and everything in iru the shape of gil cution ii or afflic ign bich which A tha tita orld h have ave lo 10 ht upon us will corne cou coc e back upon their pinheads tenfold ten fold and anti this nation in parti arwill cr Otar Avill will reap what they have sown and ani belt beit WN heit rubles rubies have already commenced but I 1 s irilee to see them thein broken brok en to s a great d di worse thin trey are now and so will win of you our sons rona an daughters la viive to s see pe the complete overthrow of the mi tion and they will avedge oun our wrongs wrong alny r of them werf weri b brn rn tn while hileke we were un teg fa ng those afflictions and ahe dhe blood of altye ave justice lusti iusti cef is in them and lienow this a 3 v 0 had bad bli sil know that ulve irive a and add d divell upon tipon i al r e en enles emles know not what they ore are dol doing e e and aind people it it is true they are doing no abre more than was done by the wicked Lima Lama nivea nitea who once lived upon this canti continent nent r nd who were a flourishing and prosper prosperous oui people they persecuted the peo pie composing the church pe of christ the ne philes departed from the faith and the two parties wasted ea each ch other away avay until only a 1 remnant was ler lef t and as such we no nov v see them wan wandering derin 6 about in filthy darkness i and the very lowest owe A state of degradation the Jared ites itea who preceded receded the israelite s upon this tb the same thin things a they rough foug ohi and contended with each other until the whole people were destro destroyed yeti and we are going to 1 live to see similar things befall this nation 1 alt ait although 1 0 u 1 many any may fall vixay aw ay from the truth a and 0 others g e may embrace it il yet the destruct 1 tion ot of this nation is ia sealed except thay will repent which is not very probable stand this thia nation has been favored with the revelations of heaven yet they never knew god Gody they never knew that joseph smith w wag was a a prophet of the most alost high and they do not now know that the lea iea leaders ders of this P eople people are inspired from on high now I 1 will say one thing that is in this good old book the book that they wont worst have in the congress of the united states for you kemem remember er it t is sf only a short abort time iago go that they would neither have a priest t to pray for them I 1 nor receive the bible as eviden evidence ce this book the bible says for with what judgment ye indge ye ahall be judged anal anai with what zat bat 1 sure ye mete it shan sharl be measured to you again the nation of oe the united states have got to reap that which thy thoy th y have eown fown own and to receive that measure which they out to 11 li ii boa aa vrn att a over and ay s enel onney 7 designed 1 to wipe us out of existence with the flower of the army which they sant b here re t that hat destruction shall bhail come upon themselves iv I 1 am perfectly willing that the they y shoud know what I 1 think of t them h e m th that at army was sent here by james bachanan buchanan to wipe us out but they might as well try to move the sun out oat of his place still we know that that was their design and brother brigham declared it at the time yet vet although you know that those poor creatures creati lrea ires came here for the purpose of cutting our throats throat ayou will i feed teed eed ead them at heir own price instead of mak ing inc them pay handsomely for all ret i if the brethren had acted wisely they might have helped the melve elvas a great deal and have bave got ot together means for the building bui bul ldinA up of the kingdom of god upon the earth but some were determined not to take counsel now as feeble and poor a creature as I 1 am I 1 would like to know where there is a man who could hrim ining up p one circumstance to show that I 1 have ever violated the law of the land I 1 know thag that I 1 have been true to my country to my masonic bret brethren breng and also to my breth reir in I 1 this his church are there a any ny of my countrymen who would injure me yes scores and thousands of them they have now got masonic institute ns against masonic institutions and presby operate against presbyterian and episcopalians Episcopal ians against episcopalians Episcopal ians lans and finally it will be every man agair agati st at his neigh bor but while they are being 0 divided one against another this people e are raiding the standard dof of king emanuel and we will sustain the constitution of the united states and alo all good and hol hoi wholesome bol esome laws you 1211 my tell it to the nations for as god lives this this people will do it and I 1 say amen |
