Show REMARKS M riest liam YOUNG ta tabernacle bernace ber naci K 8 ism 1563 E t BT 0 D nf it rdo d 0 no not t wish to confine myself to any 1 par I 1 I 1 ibis Mer vernoon woon noon nse ose of orthe the church of jesus christ of lafee laffe lat t er day saints and its history up t to 0 this i loay loav ay are vi villy portrayed in my memol memory I 1 deterred lefer zefer ted to subject this thia morning and to lie abe A i e je r A te ie as a bave have received nd the persecuting the tbt prophet joseph smith J ngo janto nto deat death h I 1 have haie also ailo in my mind the con CO COD cf the christian Chrt stian world as well wel as the VC reve teve revealed a led religion of the savior also the jew knall k ish nall as the forerunner of ChriatIan the levigton I 1 referred to the intelligence ve have and the rosi position ro tion of th world the tho to h know know now a great deal they want A to leow know allbut it cannot ai 11 1 be learned in one in a short bort period of 0 time we ex hect to learn to all eternity this chib p ople opie ate an object of derision and yi astonishment ent to our christian neigh neighbors bots ard aid awse jollye he wb whole ole world an object of reflection and serious tb thought ought almost every ivery man occupy inga public position in the political religious is af heath heathen en world wishes to possess great in elance mience and to extend his power there is oais ont ony oaly one way to obtain power and influence I 1 inthe fh e kingdom of god and only one wa vay yay to a tain maln obtain fore foreknowledge knowledg 9 and that is to so glive live that influence vil vii I 1 come from our crea tor enlightening the in mind i ind and revealing revea lug ing things A that are arft past presen tand future pertaining to V gabe gahe earth and its inhabitants inh abitante and to the deal ids ISs Bf god a ildren children ct lidren of men in short littiere ellere fitti tl lere ere era it ia DO source of 0 true information outs oats e ike yke J of the e spirit of revelation it matule matiie st a t 4 all things and reve aleth the dispositions ot of I 1 s r communities and of individuals by l ta ing this spirit can obtain po ron vor cr that fiat 2 iBur abIe able beneficial and that chatwill th atwill will result reau wina Uina ina lna b higher bagher ille state ot of knowledge knowledg m of dionot ad and of oglory ory this can be obtained blaine d on only ly ka by strictly markin the path of truth and w walking a I 1 g faith tular therein weara veara weare weira objection objectionably ablo ahlo to our neighbor neighbors we ba As the apostle bays saya for or we wreaths not against flesh and blood but a ga drist principalities and against powers against the rulers of the tha darkness of this ty orld orid against wickedness in high P acea J commences ithe uthe W e spirits that live in these tabernacles yere vereas yeTe aa pure as at the heavens im when hen they en ahm they came to tabernacles that arg a are r e contaminated pertaining pertain indr inar to the fleig py by Ih fail fall of man mar the I 1 psalmist says s beh ach Bc hild ibis in iniquity ald in eln ein did my mother conceive me this scripture has established tab liMed in the minds of some the doctrine of total ue that it is possible impossible trl tit for theal to have one good thought that they are altogether z tiler 9 e sinful that there is no good no soundness n and no ilo spiritual spir itna health ia in them this is inot not correct yet we have a warfare with inus iaus x we have to contend against evil passions or athe ethe seeds of iniquity that are sown eown in the h the fall the pure pare spirits that yoc Hoc mccu cupy capy PY these tabernacles are operated upon and ind it is the right of him that sent them into these tabernacles aclis acids to preeminence ani an I 1 td to always give the sp nt tit of truth to influence the spirits of 0 men that it may tripi kripl tri pl and ia in our tabernacles the J god and lord of every motion we rot only have bave this warfare continually day by day within althin wl thin ourselves but we also have an outside influence nce nee or kressu pressure re to resist both the re 14 lillous tous lous and the political world have influences co contend agA against irist tha that very much resemble each each other chev are more orlea or jes je jeb s a exercised 1 governed influent ices CM we latter day saints have an th fluence influence 1 of this kind to contend against athe ethe 1 the inqui inquiry has often been made of us in the J course coarse of our history why we do not contradict such and aud anc tsuch such statements why dodou not confute this or that why do you not en ahe the people in legard begard ta tor certain state 4 1 I meats which are urged against you and disabuse the uhe public mind our position at the M present trient day ia is far superior to what babi hati it aras linteen lix sixteen teen twenty and thirty years ago SK six ago we were on the inhospitable adries pra rl ii and in an indian radian country five hun de dot dof our able bodied men had been taken from ansby the call of the government and wont wint the batiles of their country there are ate women and children sitting sitten here to husbands sops and fathers went on r campaign to prove to our government that ewa alwa were loyal foyal who became widows and ora era lip tiana in consequence of that requisition those noble men left their wives and children and aid their agid aped fatherland and mabers mahers houseless and wIthout protection upon the ibe wild prairies surrounded and by savages exposed to all the rigors ard and changes changas of the weather to heat fatal and coid to raids rains and storms stereos without wi thoat kotec tors until ti many sank under it and left their lifeless remains to he laid beneath the prairie sod when men this call was made upon u to put to the test our loyalty we bad traveled from nauvoo and were resting testing id in the western part of tamie county iowa had we boots and shoes to our feet no Afew A had but the majority of the people bad not had our wives cloi clothing clo cio hinz thins to last las them five years no had our onn child en clothing to last them that length of time no the tae great majority of the people bad not clothing norb noro nor hoes shoes to make them comfortable a a dge agle day we were obliged to teave leave eave our property behind us with the lame ard and blind ans and feeble who were pounced upon while w e atre absent to find them a safe abiding place 1 thid this his hib ia is the outside pressure it farced forced us from ohio to missouri to illinois and from illinois inta into he wilderness we were accused of disloyalty att a ena enanian natian nati tian an a and apo apostasy stacy from the constitution of our country ci we were accused of being feces zionists I 1 am so help me roe god and ever expect to be a secessionist from their wickedness edness 3 unrighteousness dishonesty and nn hallowed principles in a religious point of view but am I 1 or this people secessionists with regard to the glorious constitution of our coun country tri no were we secessionists when we so promptly responded to the call of the general government when we were houseless hous eleas eliss arid and friendless on the wild prairies of I 1 think not we there told the brethren to enlist and they obeyed without a murmur with regard to our going into the ibe wilderness and our there being called upon to turn out five hundred able bodied men to go to Al mexico exico we had then seen every religious and wid politic alright trampled under to it t by mo boc rats there were none node left to defend out rights we were driven from every right which freemen ought to possess la forming that battalion ol 01 five bundred hundred men br kim 1 bau bah I I 1 and nd myse I 1 rode day lay fay and night until we ive had bad raised ai sed the full fuh number of men the government called for captain allen alien sald said to me using his own word ill ili 1 have fallen in love with t your people I 1 love jove them as I 1 never loved a people before he was waa a friend to the uttermost when he had bad marched that mormon battalion as far as fort leaven worth he was thrown upon a sick bed where I 1 then believed and do now he be was nursed taken care doctored to the silent tomb and the battalion went on with god for their friend that battalion took up their line of from fort leavenworth by way pray of 0 santa fe and over a desert and dreary route and planted themselves in the lower part of california to teejay the jey jay of all the officers and men hat that bat loyal at the thy time of their arrival kearney was in a straitened position col P st george cook promptly in the battalion to his relief and nd said to him we have the bo 0 g s here now that can put things P the boys in that battalion performed heir their duty faithfully I 1 think ot of that little company y of men the next heing belne god bless blesa thin thia ever and for ever ali alt this we did to prove to the government that we were loyal previous to thia when k e left nauvoo we knew that they were going to call upon us and we were prepare prepared d for it in our faith arla aria and abd in our feelings I 1 knew then as well as I 1 do new now that the tie govern government t elit eilt would call for a batta battalion aon don of men out of that part of I raef raeto to test oni our oer loyalty to the government thomas H benton it if I 1 have beert informed obtained the requisition to call cali for that battalion and in case cage of compliance noncompliance non with that re requisition ulal to call on the militia of missouri Alis sour and alid fg rowa iowa avay and other states it necessary and to call volunteers from illinois from which state slate we had b ben been en driven to destroy tha the camp of israel this same mr air benton said eaid to the Pros president ident of the uni ual ed states in the presence of some other persons sir they are a pestilential race and ought to become extinct I 1 will again urge upon this people to eo so live that they will have the knowledge they desire as we have knowl knowledge edgo not of all but bat only ot that which is necessary have we not shown to the world that w we love iove the coo of our country and its institutions better than do those who have been and are now distracting the nation cation you cannot fiod a community placed under the circumstances that we were that would have done arwe as we did on the occasion of furnishing the mormon battalion atter after our leading men bad been slain and we vre had bad been compelled to leave our farms gardens gar dene home homeland sand saud fireside or at the bame same time the general government was called upon in vain yain to put a stop to buch asih asi h a series berles of abuse against an innocent people the people said give us redress for our wrongs 13 Govern government merll meril D d you a ay anything hard of hearing bearing cant baar hear a single word dousay A mr mc President Mr senator ble Ale sers every else can you hear bear the cries of the d government did sott yott speak cant hear bear you gentlemen mark what I 1 say I 1 cant hear you after all au taisto prove our loyalty to the constitution ution and not to their infernal internal meanness we went to fi feht ht the battles of a free country to give it power and influence and to extend our happy institutions in other parts of thia this widely extended republic in this way we have proved our loyalty we have done ev everything ery thing that has been required of 01 us ua can there thero t anything reasonable and constitutional be asked that we would not perform no but if the government of the united states united states should now ask for a battalion of men to fight in the present battlefields battle fields of the nation while there is a camp of soldiers from abroad located within the corporate limits of this thia city I 1 would not ask one man to go f I 1 would see them in hell bell first mat was the result a yar year y ar ago when gur cur then gover nor bor wa and I 1 thank god for such a governor as we ha had 3 a year y barago ao called for men 1 to 0 go and ard guard the mail route X were vere they promptly oo 00 hand yes and when preg Pres president lincoln wrote la to me toe requesting me to fit out one hundred bundred men to guard the mail route we at once enlisted the one hundred men for bidet days on monday evening I 1 received the inet instruction ruction and on 0 n wednesday afternoon that hundred men inen were nvere mustered info into service and du camped encamped ready for tor moving but all ail this does not prove any loyalty to political tyrants we guarded the mail maii route they do not know what we know with reg gad ard to guarding this route and they will find and tb that a to out ut by and by we do not nee t f any sol gol alers ellerb here from any other spates or or territories to perform that service it either neither does t the he government as woud khow know if they were wise I 1 will comparative ope speaking aking take one plug ping of tobacco a ebirt and three cents worth of paint and save gave more life and binder hinder more indian depredations than they can by expending millions of dollars vested in an army to loest night fight and kell kilt the be indians feed and mottie dottie them a little and sou you will save life ilfe lif fiat them and you pave the t he way for chedes the destruction truc tion of rhe the innocent this will be foar fount I 1 oat out after a while but now no v it ignot is not known except t by comparatively a few we V e complain of the barbarity of the red men for killing innocent men inen women and children especially for gilld killing women and children they are to blame for this tills but bat remember that they ate SaVil savages geff and that it is in an usage morg among a them to kill the iD innocent for fori acts of the guilty t I 1 will ak alc a lc k every person perdon who ig is acquainted with the history of the bolor colonization 1 tation of the tho continent of north and south america if they ever knew any colony of whites to get along any better jtb their savage neighbors than 1 le e inhabitants of utah have done talk about making treaties tweatie 9 with the indian indians has there been any a ny one treaty ath ruh ith the indians fulfilled in good g aou faith by the government if thare there is one I 1 wish you would let me know but we call then savages while at the same barme thae the whites too often do aa as badly as they have don and worse when diere difference nce of intelligence tell telli lihas gence nce nee and training are taken into account abi nas oas been so in almost every case of difficulty with the red sk na when soldiers sol bol diera have pounced upon th se poor ignorant row low ow degraded miserable creatures mention a time tim if it you youcan can when they have spared their women ana children th they ey b have ave indis india indiscriminate criminate tie ly I 1 massacred the helpless th thae blind the old the infant and the mother I 1 am a human being and I 1 have the care of human beings I 1 with who to a sive ive life and have no d sire to destroy life it if I 1 had my wish I 1 should entirely stop the shedding of human blood the people abroad do not genera ly understand this but they will like paul they do that thit the thi they couil not do and leave undone that they would do because of the sin that reigns ia their members the nations of the world may apply this ibis same bame to their th ein eln own case thi y want to do something bat but what to do rightly they do not find we have not only the man of sin to contend with auf also the oits ide pressede pres sere now then what should we say concerning this people I 1 will arys ails answer there hag haa never been a time or circumstance since this territory was organized bub but what nhat the civil law has reigned triumphantly in 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