| Show j wyma F balt SALT lame laue clayy nov 13 1871 istl wait edit 02 of the mews news sir sir having been a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day alnas faints since bince may 1832 and having had bad a fair and reasor reabon reason able opportunity of understanding their thein doc doe doctrines religious and civil and as one of their doctrines is now being put on tr trial triai lalI I 1 deem it a it duty I 1 owe to myself to my brethren and to my myr country to write a few lines on the subject of this doctrine and the mear means qa which are being bainy used to suppress it and anda 1 first I 1 will say that it ia Is now and it always has been one of their ruling principles that of two evils accept the least another is that god has a right aright to rule in the affairs of men ano anc and of oj nations a third is that godhan god hag has given revelations to man in which many commands have been given and these it is bis his and the na nations tiona duty to obey and another ia to that god is immutable from this last it follows as a logical deduction that hebeling Hebel ng unchangeable may yet give more revelations which if he do man must obey or take the consequence of disobedience whatever that consequence may be in these sentiments many may now be found who concur with us in the abstract but not in the concrete A very able english writer has said aben rhen al inking waking 0 of cluty jhb duty ahers li io Is the to doubt squire and discover and wh when an discovery of or a prin principle elpie tiple is madei made t to of hold fast to that th through r 0 ug h e evil IL tepo a as wel wei aa as through goo d tepo rep nep 10 rg t that an kart worthiest d lor I 1 fd for r I 1 Is noe liboy nov wort ahe i V af I 1 P pf ay iy y this to a revelation given of go god W hi I 1 sh b 1 is only a reiteration v qt 0 tha the tho a apo 0 S atlis tl till a A and d it follows not baly baily a an A vu logical deduction but aa a philo sop aop ii cai cat argument that a revelation is ilot riot i ot worth giving norbet of believing w when U given thatis that is not worth wort b practicing a aad d holding fash faste fast tad th bugh evil lepor portas re as welk welt R aa ehrl through gag dag good report T the h esa ab lien 1 V b brough rought tj astall 9 eg in which t hey they are forced to elce hice tice accept ea or dr anake mak eia ela a choice 04 0 libua of revolutions b gives 1 a a fda instances the conditto condition n ork jofh protestants when seceding fr fram frim m the catholic cha chi tha protest protestant nt disa entera I 1 aheu mtr be ceding seceding from iha iba ho episcopal church and the americans when they threw ur off the english yoke and declared themselves liter independent in all thesa be he i says a fe few men good men first doubted doub d th then on enquired and afterwards discovered ando undo and on discovery had chad the he moral courage to speak but bul jie he aads aads all these those had two eulls evils bev set before thom them one was to reject the principles and thus injure themselves res tes their posterity and their country or to speak out let the principle be known enter into auto its practice and take the risk of opposition sitio on which is sure to come suek and in many instances hot all resist by forde force of arms an and thus j their dawd lived and 3 many bf gi the their cou and it might be cause a great evil to io come upon themselves Vei I 1 their p posterity pst erity and their country 6 1 1 bacu Such has haa be endur dur bar 66 condition mt ar editors Edi edl torn tonn manyi instances of past pas tiye and such it beems seems staking T aking external n signs as a guide is our eig fig condition one of two great and serious evils we now have laid before us or at least such seems to be the case we K are tolu told in substance you mormons cormons are indus industrious tilous honest and upright in deal but yo you u are ignorant and fanatical you have been deceived you must now renounce renounce pul e part pant pa of your real though misjudged nilso judged religions religious bellef belief or your leaders must be arraigned by federal authority i be brought before lefore a federal judge jub be indicted byra byla by federal grand jury for sor adultery or for lowd lewd and lascivious association soe sob lation an and d cohabitation with woman women not lawfully married td 6 thus them be tried by a it federal traverse ary jury all summoned by ai 0 federal marshal and on od the triai trial the testimony against them shall come come in part at least leti from their lawful wives in lt part from those nd those lewd and lascivious qua women and I 1 la part pari from the sons and bad daughters of bf those women whom we wd will compel to coito court and tell what they tiley may inay efio know arbe ar be at the discretion of the judge an incarcerated in a prison ruled over by a federal feder i al officer if they resist federal troops are to 6 be sent into ybur your country to aid in the due observance of the law as expounded by these judges one thing more shall befall youn your leaders loaders if any persons happen to be summoned on the grand or petit jury aury who in ail all respects may be good med men if they believe as you do on religious 1 us subjects and abd the therefore reford not as we do they are incompetent In compete n t to serve on the jury and must be re rejected j acted and if any cormons mormons shall be es called ed as witnesses on their behalf we will permit them to be aborn worn but you must remember sueh such sue h witnesses wan ee sea stand disgraced ills graced before the law and before the th e bar par of civilized meni men and their testimony will be weak eak eau indeed in fact riou riot worth one bi such now mr editor is our condi condl uon as is supposed to deny and reject he the doctrine of plural marriages marria geis tol tot deny what we believe the god of gods goda has commanded ed ua us io to receive and practice and by so denying bring upon up onus us and upon our posterity and sud our country not only ruia rula run in this life bu bud bur in the life to come and so far aa as respects ourselves from the presence of god dod G od arid arld the glory of his power to reject and resist these federal of meers officers and thus bring on collision between us and the united states whose govern ment when kept within its constitutional limits is beyond all doubt the best human government the sun ever shone upon is in like mannesto manner mannen to injure if not destroy ourselves and our families lie lle lieland sand and to be alders and abettors abet tors in destroying that government which of all others athers we wish most to preserve such now as I 1 have before said seems by the external signs to be our condition such evidently some perhaps many firmly believe is at this time our actual condition and those somei or many as the case may be apparently paren patently ly rejoice over if it but jr I 1 a an individual do not concur condur with these I 1 do not fear being brought to tb the point po int of seeing many mahy if an any j of badr bili bur I 1 leaders tried in the manner I 1 I 1 have indicated indicated though bough a aseen seen been or one te member of the church awkins hawkins jo so tried wo or ix do I 1 jear fear being weing compelled resist th tile tiie government the united states stated not noa notria 71 the jeas beast ta though dah many an an external sign fain indicates 1 di cates eates what ibave I 1 have benore before kald said g sald bald so po niue nine much 1 6 on jq this thi subject 9 of accepting ting evils I 1 olota now proceed pid Vid peed to some bler of thel them af of tife theo other abstract jaba tract sen sentiments mentioned in 1 a so doing endeavor I 1 ta 0 a b aw y A 1 few examples that thes thebo eib tib abstract sentiments eland on alm belief bellef resting on evidence on the one ade ardd arid unbelief nf J lef denying thed accuracy of that evidence on the other so that to contend about aboul or war oyer ft t is simply to fb contend or war about that which te contention or war cannou cannot possibly bettle settle discussion eliciting light is often convincing but conto controversy ery abary controversy i oy I 1 ersy and war settie settle nothing U I 1 on sui sit such buch A subject while war may subdue yet it doea does not settle scientific rules nor hor establish or over th throw row a revelation the time was when men inen thought it a duty to propagate their creed creeds by the sword without considering if they had the right so to act those upon urion whom the sword was wag destined to fall had the same natural right to pu put it the sword that which they were frying to sustain the only effect of which would be to kill 0 off f each other 1 unhesitatingly say h neither el ther then right exists s 4 more ano another th er time j yours youra ac a zynow A u omia ouia sn rahe 1 the anea bui bul ago if pika d sidi b ila guld guid A |
