Show SPEECH of aion jion tamos tamas IF ivye aye of nevada on the utah bill in inthe the dhe senate fab cb 26 1873 the object I 1 suppose in all this legislation c is to stop polygamous intercourse ter course in in the tilo territory of utah for twelve years I 1 have havo lived a neighbor to utah the state that I 1 have the honor in part to represent only for a day or two morenas more was taken from this territory of letah utah and made into a territory by itself my intercourse with the people of utah and my acquaintance with their peculiar institution have therefore been quite intimate there was a schism upon this question when I 1 first went to nevada it has lias remained ever since and will until these people abandon the poly polygamous gainous part of their falth faith for the last seven years every yearl year I 1 have listened to long and earnest petitions and as to what it was best to do for utah I 1 join with everybody in an honest and earnest desire that the institution of poly polygamy amy should be stopped and when 1 I 1 say that I 1 am not unmindful as I 1 cast my e eye Y 0 over the history of the past of the tenacity with which from the organization 21 of society aad the tile organization of churches devotees adhere to their views even amid the darkest adversity that has dver ever even been witnessed being a roundhead round Bound head a direct descendant from the roundheads Round heads I 1 sympathize with that earnest earnestness ness neEs and with that tenacity with which all denominations cau caa sympathize and all christian associations have ilav e summered suffered red trial th there ere ero is something I 1 do not know what it is in the human heart there is something in humanity itself that causes the tenacity with which men adhere to religious opinions and to me it is wonderful and unaccountable I 1 have observed this with the mor mons I 1 think that their basis is and wrong vron 0 but yet when wilen I 1 see honest men teil tell me that they know their faith is so and so that they tiley received such buch and such revelations from that mysterious source that the world has inquired in vain to know its origin the tile older I 1 grow tile the more charitable I 1 am in my conclusions conclusion they think they are right I 1 think they are wrong now the tile question comes how is this tilis to be remedied all tile tiie gentile world taking the tile M mormon ormon appellation the outsiders from mormonism 3 say that this must be broken brohen down and t lie the whole power of the tiie government exerted for fiorite its destruction or we are lost in the moral momi standard as viewed by the world there is no law for faith there is no law for belief but there are laws for the tile government of people eople and when they do a thing trat that that is offensive sive to the tiie order of society they ought to expect or at least will receive the tile condemnation of the tile majority the mormon faith falth with the exception of these modern revelations which my friend the delegate from utah who I 1 see here will excuse me if I 1 say I 1 do not believe 4 the tile old bible bibie doctrine of the old and new testaments they believe in the same game god and in the same samo savior in whom we believe but they have got ot additions to their faith falth which I 1 say gay t I 1 question As a man thin keth heth so is is he and that measure that we mete out to others shall bo be me measured asur unto us I 1 am a presbyterian 3 mr president iwas I 1 was baptized zeda a presbyterian and I 1 stand by the old presbyterian platform but ut once in a while 17 I 1 get got hold of a man in conversation that shakes my faith falth my mother was a presbyterian and my father wasa was a presbyterian and I 1 saw them launched into the tile other world in a perfect honesty of belief that bore them up in the trying hour I 1 shall not yield my present faith either to mormonism crany other ism and yet I 1 think the history of the world will convict pres byte rians of being rather a sordid set but sir to me it isa is a feitli to the mormons cormons their belief is a faith in the investigation before the tile committee of which I 1 have the tile honor liolio r to be a member we examined all the tile grades of mormons cormons Mor mons and they told us that they tiley regarded it as a religious duty mistaken men mistaken taken associations mistaken church if you please but yet oil on that conviction they tiley rest as firmly as you mr nir president on oil any other doctrine they say my they tiley have ity perhaps they have bible example am pie they say that their belief lief ilef is in accordance witla the who whole lo 10 lives of those who make up the old testament they say that daniels vision points in this aliis way I 1 heard it demonstrated in the tab at salt sait lake lawe by a very able man that daniel discovered precisely where ills his religion was to be reborn and that the same mountains cled by him surrounded salt lake now I 1 doubt myself whether daniel wandered by py alkaline waters having ills liis choice of a large territory where he lib resided laughter I 1 do not believe this tilis thing and yet they do as honestly as I 1 believe it is not so now the point in this whole legislation is this how is polygamy to be stopped I 1 would stop it by con law but when and how to stop it is another thing the honorable senator from ohio nearest to me mr sherman told toia tola you mr president a great truth when wilen he said wd that these mormons had performed what was almost providential in its character for the settlement of this continent driven or taking themselves I 1 will not say driven but taking themselves from their surroundings in old eastern states they wandered away across the trackless continent to the valley of salt lake as sterile as any deserts upon which which man can tread as uninviting as anything you can imagine and with nothing save the light or of the stars by which they steered they sought a home away from the persecutions of their old states stales here herie and settled god knows how in that valley of salt lake and alere there in the midst of the desert they have made the fields to bud and blossom as the rose and the busi bush busy lium hum of industry is seen and heard icard all around there the weary emig emigrant 0 as he was winding wind ing his ills way to the golden land found a green spot upon which lie he could rest his foot the child found milk and oh sir how the children of the emi omi emigrant ant languished for that the men found meat which is intended fon foe strong men the traveler found rest and the weary repose and sir much of it was by the charity of the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 linger upon these therse kindly recollections I 1 speak a little in the evarts spirit t of gratitude with which the hearts of fathers and mothers and children were filled and you see there now one of the most prosperous cities of our continent certainly of tile the entirely internal cities there sir you see the mormon temple and there the Chr ehr christian isthan church the chimes of the episcopal church there ring out with as copal fu fuli full I 1 clearness and with as much gusto as they ring anywhere and the services of the tiie christian aunch church are never disturbed by the meddling of the mormons Mormon Mor mons sand and so vice versa but mr president the peculiar institution of I 1 mormonism yo rin 0 cism is a great sore that never can be cured by one dose you must give alternatives altera tives you must give sedatives seda tives you must change the current of the blood and put it in another direction and you jou are doing what wise niell men ought to do we might apply to them the words of moore Li kethe stained web that whitens in the grow groi c sun gun pure hy by being pure lurdy ay shone upon surround them as they are now being surrounded with gentile influences fluen ces show them by the very different dif dlf lerent example of the gentile world that they tiley are but human beings after all and scein seeing the com eom campara comparatively para dively resplendent glory reflected from the gentile world the young 17 mormons cormons will flee from that ark like a drowning rat therefore sir after the I 1 long iong ong years that I 1 have had to do with this question I 1 have come to the conclusion that gentle means are the tile besl best I 1 remember when they were driven from nauvoo and that made te men ten 11 mormons cormons where it saved a single man manfrom from being one that tha t little band when they started ct out went clothed in the habiliment ament a as they believed of faith they were armed for all emergencies through throng 11 this falth faith it was the star by which they steered and the garment with which 1 ch they were clothed now sir sin the time lias has come when I 1 say bay 1 I y t to 0 t the lie lle mormons cormons Mor mons you must aba abandon n that idea throw tilrow up that fool isrl isri whim or prejudice whichever it may be reject your modern prophesies and re return to the tile prophesies of the olden times 11 when that is done thi this will swill be all settled but that friction that has been goin going on ori for yeam yeara between the gentiles and find tile the Brolin mormons cormons olis has biado blade it for men with their judgment to mount above their prejudices ire lre joicey and an d they have b become clannish th tilis tills is 14 is a natural resultant resul result tand and one entirely in keeping and in consistence with the history of these frictions wherever they have haare occurred now we wo have come to the point where something must be done what is my advice mr president you may ask or some one may do methe mothe me the honor to enquire my tyty advice is to do justas just as little as possible not inconsistent with the public sen sentiment aimont and nothing that is cruel or oppressive lv towards the flie mormons cormons Mor mons NV when oTreSs i you come to look at this bill there thero ale are some features of it that require attention the main point is secured to prevent polygamy but there are some features of this bill that look a little as if they were born in some other spelt spirit than a desire for quiet for in instance I 1 refer to the fifteenth section where if a mormon is guilty of this impropriety lie never shall become a citizen of the united states my liy rry friend from new jersey shakes ills his head I 1 thought it was further than lib lie would go mr Freling huy en the language of the section is while in the practice of polygamy mr nye though your sins eins be as scarlet they shall shail be as white snow 11 does the tile senator forget that but here if a rian man has ever had any polygamous polygamous intentions he shall not be e a citizen mr Freling huysen oil oli no mr nye but that is tile the sentiment shadowed forth by that sec tion you foreigner you that come from england oi 01 wales or norway ox or any other country if you have ever imbibed or believed this his mormon doctrine and have lave practiced therein the gates of american citizenship are closed against you what an imposing penalty I 1 is that you have sinned in this one thing and no other and therefore you shall not be an american citizen mr president the tile essence of american citizenship is incalculable in its value will vill you say to the man that leaves ills his own country and after kissing the last tear from the check of his mother endures the dangers of the sea to come to this country to find a home if yu im imbibe for one hour ilour this doctrine of polygamous intercourse you are a re a lost man forever 39 sir that is not in accordance with the judgments ments of our master ile tie said of jowo the woman who sinned let the mail man who is is without sin cast the first stone and history lias has failed to record that there was a stone thrown laughter she ni was assor sorry for lier her sins ancho and no mail man dared stone her so I 1 say as to the man who lias has been a little too thick with poly polygamy amy let the senate stone him let no the world stone him win under the same limitation and it will not hurt him much I 1 am sorry to say nay now mr president there Is the tile sin and hero is tile the punishment shutting ab the gates rates of mercy to the penitent against that I 1 protest in my own manhood the mormons cormons are fully as anxious to have bave this matter as the gentile world what they want want nant na is that it at s all be settled so as not to humilia humiliate tc or destroy them for I 1 hold that the nate docs does not mean to lc legislate isgate that brigham young shall not have his rell reli religion cion zion all ail we w e want is that they shall drop this plague spot upon modern civilization let us reach that object in the most direct way it seem seems to me that a E enactment a sincle single section Bec sec tion can reach it providing that they shall not indulge hi in the practice and that if they do they tiley shall receive the severest penalties prescribed by the tile law the gentile world out there are arc get getting a little selfish too my aly colleague has lias hah had some empet experience lenco ienco in that when lar large larce ge losses are incurred and large business interests are in tim tle tie scale this thia jealousy that has haf always existed between the outside world and mormonism becomes quickened into action the gen gentiles tiles say they cannot creta act a fair jury iury trial wilh with mormons cormons Mor mons and the mormons cormons say eay they cannot ret get a fair jury jug trial with the gentiles my impression is is at the present moment that they cannot either of them that is my judgment they have need to be bd always suspicious D of I 1 the results of trials conducted in that may way now it is proposed bythe by the liono honorable r a bie ble senator from new jersey n ho tcp resents e ants here one of the most important committees in our oar catalogue of committees that we shail shrill have three persons to draw the jury the he original bill provided if I 1 im ain correct that those persons should be the judge the clerk and the mari mara maralian lial ilni I 1 think if I 1 were a mormon I 1 should be a little suspicious pic pie 6 0 of lf that tribunal it seems beems to me that such c a provision w would ouid endanger the thle line of dern dein demarcation that has always existed between courts and juries all AlI lawyers and observers have witnessed abd tbd th groat benefits gulled resulted from tile ulc entire se separation and severance of the courts and the jud jurdes juries es geve give a bad man the office of judge and ho he can secure just such sueh verdicts as he would make himself give a careless man a audgo shin ship and he can secure verdicts that will endanger the peace of your community give an evil man thid power poter and the glory ot of the judiciary will fade his buu ence 1 I would not have mormon juries nor gentile juries but I 1 hope the time has arrived when the mormons cormons and gentiles have come to the conclusion like ilke sensible men that they will take their jurors from the best citizens they have and abide their ver vcr diets like men siry sir language cannot des cribe the benefits to the world of 0 trial by jury in its arity purity and ita its isolation as well f from rom ju judilla judicial dlela diela power as any others other consists its principal g glory niver river 0 o ory the tha T I 1 judge ju ae has no more business to hold bold b 0 id intercourse with the jury when it is cai cal called led out than a stranger unless unless he doe does it in the presence of the parties the jury is the bulwark of protection it has kno cleed clied the sh ackless froni from off the g supposed u p posed criminal and it has bound fir irr chain chains s t the be guilty as lt it ought to do I 1 am suspicious suspicions ot any influence enesto to break its power it is better 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