Show editorials peculiarly persuasive r tite THE cincinnati cemes times star says there must be something peculia ally atly persuasive in the mormon i blo Sion bion narles aries they have shipped isaore more converts to america the persuasion is not so much in A the missionaries as in tho the doctrines that they teach and the spirit which accompanies the reception thereof the secret of mormon success is in the teaching of scrip tural truth truths with a profound convie rs tion of their divinity and the pos session of divine au authority to top promulgate romul them we have no trained preachers sent out outto to persuade any one to come to utah many of our missionaries are very young men who have never addressed a large assembly who go forth trembling at the prospect of contact with the world but they have an abiding assurance that the work in which they are engaged is divine and they labor without pay to convince all A 0 who will listen to their testimony that god has commenced the latter day work referred to by the ancient prophets they do not offer any such inducements to emigrants as is supposed they simply preach the gospel those who believe belleve and obey become possessed of the same spirit as the preachers enjoy they at once desire y to gather with the saints and cast rin their lot with the church which they tire are convinced Is the Ij lords that thatis is all there Is of it mormon ism lam is viewed by those who mar vei vel at its spread as a transparent y r tri trl fraud but they have never looked into it for the source of its power and so go on blindly striking at something which they have imag ined but never touching the thing itself because they have not exam ined it and do not understand it mormon ormon missionaries have truths to offer to the world and they present them with the earnestness of f an unselfish flah aud and devoted certainty of their divine origin their converts reach the same assurance and hence the bond of union that draws them together and the attraction which utah exercises over the lat ter tor day saints in every part of the globe and mark it the influence which draws and binds them together is beyond the power of men or nations what fiat ions lons to prevent prevents destroy or ol I 1 1 e IS THIS A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY itam IT seems ms that many of the white iziver utes are returning to their ald home in colorado it will be a m difficult matter to keep them within 1 rf 4 46 the bounds of their new re reservation ion lon they are attached to their former hunting grounds by ties that hold them just as close as the love of fatherland cherished by some of otheir ct their white brothers and they i 1 will ba be drawn to the spot where the they y first had breath and where their ti forefathers have died by influences more inore potent than t the h e regulations i ac that tb at hold them wem to the new fa agency gency s bishop dishop whipple who has always i stood forward in defense of the red men and who has been more outspoken than any prominent man in the country upon tho iniquities of the christian whites towards the conquered race has the following to say concerning this latest wrong to the indians in the columns of the new york sun sum 1141 1111 the scenes which have accod f j p panted acied the expulsion of the utes from their homes in the buncom pathre valley are a fit climax for the scheme of spoliation that drove them away the attachment of the indian for his birthplace and the graves of his ancestors is well known on the night before the expulsion of the utes the women passionately kissed hissed the ground and gave vent to their feelings in moans and shrieks the men pleaded with gen mckenzie a against raa dinst being banished beyond reach of their homes pledging themselves to give up the mountain region and its mineral wealth if they could only stay jn in their valleys before the indians had fully left their camp fires the greedy settlers poured in crowding each other for the best pick of tb the e lands and were corallee coral led by macken kies kles bayonets to await awalt the time set SOMETHING NEW FOR THE FAIE FAIR THE following communication is commended to the notice of those who were so severely bitten last season heason by the eastern fruit tree drummers and who paid big prices for plants and trees that peti perished shed before planting while they could have obtained live goods of better varieties at a less price at home editor deseret news As at our territorial fair the various products fr fru ilits its vegetables as well as the arts science mechanical skill will be exhibited to mark our progress in improvement improvements would it not be well for those who have been victimized by magnified pictures of fruits trees and ornamental shrubs fh rubs to collect all the lifeless stalks with their tags and labels together with the price list and name of firm and reliable agent whose eloquence eclipsed that of the lightning rod man ma n book agent or pill peddler whose graces and accomplishments would equal that of a corn doctor with a cheek like a battering ram and the brass of a mountain howitzer the above combination of talent has faithfully canvassed this country and alid palmed off wild strawberries also wild cranberries at fabulous prices and trees that failed to honor the sales mans warrant it would bo be well for the victims to collect the fragments of dead stalks procure a suitable place and exhibit t them to the next batch of nursery drummers and for the benefit of this territory in the future V THE SPAULDING STORY KILLED AGAIN scribners Scrib neta nera magazine for august contained an article on the book of mormon by ellen E dickenson in which ther the writer revived the known as the spaulding story 11 in the october number of the same magazine the lady has another communication on the same subject containing letters nud aud affidavits which we reproduce as they form important links in the chain of evidence which encircles the spaulding romance fixes it as a it failure and holds it up as a baseless attempt to account for the origin of the book of mormon the lady may not see eee it in this light 0 but it will so appear to all unprejudiced eyes in order that tho the reader not acquainted quain ted with the spaulding story may understand what follows we will briefly recapitulate I 1 11 t is alleged that a preacher named rev bev solomon spaulding j just us t after the opening of the present century wrote tor for pastime a work called 11 manuscript found or the lost tribes it purported to be a transcript t fro from in parchment written in latin found ii in a cave and giving the history of the ten lost tribes of israel in a jou IOU journey iney from the old world to tais continent it described them as an in Idolat ido latious ious tous people and the builders of the mounds now seen in ohio it is said that in 1811 12 it was read by mr air donaldson to several persons and the preacher handed the manu manuscript t shortly afterwards to a printer frn fin in Pitt Pitta pittsburg burg iburg named patterson who did not think it wo worth rth printing at his own risk and so returned it HI widow who afterwards became mrs davison had it in 1834 when it was obtained from her by one cne D P hurlburt hurn Huri burt from which time it seems to have disappeared the tho reason for Hurl burts acquisition of the manuscript was this after the rook book of mormon was published the preachers of ot different denominations min win being very much stirred up concerning it made strenuous efforts to account for its origin people who had heard mr spaulding read the manuscript in 1811 and 1812 about twenty years previous were interrogated as to their remembrance of the mormon moroni lehl lehi Ija La manite manito etc and they thought they c could remember those names upon repetition they became sure they had heard them it was then assumed that while in the possession of the grinter printer patterson some one must have ave copied it and from him the matter must have been conveyed to joseph smith sidney rigdon was the person selected as the probable go between and it was given out that he had been a printer had worked for patterson had copied the 3 and with joseph smith mormon the story obtained no credit in ohio where it was started because the known facts did not bear out the theory there was no connection between rigdon and patterson nor between the former and joseph smith until long after the book of mormon was published Parle parie parley P pratt an old associate of sidney bagdons Rig Big dons in the Cam church being the first person to acquaint sidney in ohio several beveral donlia after the book of mormon was printed of the discovery of the plates platea in new york and the trans translation a made by joseph smith but bu t in the year 1831 1 D 11 hurlburt I 1 who had bean a member of our church and had had been escom for adultery swore vengeance against joseph smith and thu tho saints and formeca partnership partner shi ap with one E 1 D ilowe ho we of gainesville painesville Paines ville ohio to get UP up a work exposing mormonism he it was who obtained the manuscript from the relict of mr spaulding but it was never published no comp comparison arlson arison was wat made between it and the book of mormon but when hurlburt huni Huri burt and howes pamphlet was published they had evidently abandoned the spaulding theory which has since been resurrected several times by anti mormons cormons in frantic endeavors to account for a work which thousands know to be of divine origin the writer in scribners obtained from mrs davison and her daughter mrs mckinstry Kinstry dic Alc affidavits about their knowledge of the manuscript and in the october number adds the following to which we invite special attention algir in the number of this magazine for august 1880 appeared an article by myself entitled I 1 fhe book of mormon 1 that article contained a statement together with evidence substantiating it in part by mrs airs Me a daughter of the rev solomon spaulding that the book called the manuscript found written by her father iu in 1812 and that the manuscript of this novel was in 1834 delivered to one D P hurlburt when the article appeared there seemed to be 4 other proof that this manuscript script was delivered to hurlburt believing it to be important to follow up this clue I 1 recently visited hurlburt Huri hurl burt bunt at his home near sandusky in I 1 company with oscar kellogg esq a well known lawyer of that vicinity As the result of this visit I 1 have received the following sworn sworn sta stadement statement ohio january 1881 to on au it may concern in antho the year eighteen hundred and thirty four 1830 1831 1 I went from geauga geaugh to brun munson sont hampden county mass blass where I 1 found fund mrs davison bavi Davi sony sont lato jato widow of the tho rev solomon spaulding late of conneaut Conne aut ashtabula county ohio of her I 1 obtained a m manuscript supposing it to be the mautis manuscript of the romance written wn tte n by the said bald solomon spaulding called the manuscript found which was reported to be the foundation of I 1 did not examine the manuscript till I 1 got home when upon examination I 1 found it to contain nothing of the kind but being a manuscript upon an entirely different subject this manuscript I 1 left with E D howe ho we or of Pains vilie ville geauga county ohio now lake county counts ohio with the understanding that when he had bad examined it he should return it to the widow sald said howe howo ays the tha manuscript was destroyed by flie flue o and further the tho t saith not signed D P S worn to and subscribed before me thib this loth day of january 1881 signed J kniager amger naGER mayor of tho the village of G lb sandusky county ohio in this statement Huri hurl hurlburt burt gives the impression that he procured procured this manuscript from mrs davison at munson massachusetts but mrs aie Me Kinstry in her statement says he got it by an order addressed to jerome clark dark at hartwick otsego county new york and this is undoubtedly the truth in fact fast hurlburt admitted as much to me before be fore mr air kellogg in the conversation I 1 had with him at his house in gib this is further confirmed by george clark dark a son of the above mentioned jerome clark dark and his wife in two letters copied below in a former statement signed by hurlburt the original of which is in my possession dated august 19 1880 he says sil III t do not know whether or not the document I 1 received from mrs davison was dings gys manuscript found as I 1 never read it in the conversation I 1 had with hurlburt at his hia house and before mr kellogg he admitted that he just peeped into the manuscript and saw the names mormon maroni nephi and Ij La menite the original manuscript found was in existence at onondaga val airn nymn tv mew new york in 1818 as appears in the following statement never before published mrs redfield 1 1 now living at syracuse new york juno june 1880 in inthe tho the year 1818 1 was principal of the tho onondaga valley academy and res ded in tho house housa of wilham H SabIne Esq I 1 remember mrs spaulding dingy dings mr air Sa sabi blues bines nes nea sister perfectly and hearing her and family talk of a manuscript in her possession a which her husband the hev bev af sir r L span spaulddng iding had bad written somewhere in t tho he IN west est I 1 did not read the tho manuscript but its substance was so often mentioned and the peculiarity of the story that years afterward dt when the mormon bible was published I 1 procured a copy aad bad at once recognized the resemblance be tween it and anil mrs urs i rs 8 Paul dings account of the i manuscript found pound I 1 remember L m iber also to have heard beard mr air sabane ta talk taik 1 k of ethe the romance andy and that he be and mrs spaulding ad d it had been written in the tha leisure hours of an invalid who read it to his neighbors for their thet r amusement mrs spaulding believed bell beli eved that sidney rigdon higdon had copied the manuscript rt it was in Patter bona sona printing office in pittsburgh she spoke of it with regret I 1 never saw her after her marriage with mr davison Davis cn at hardwick hard wick signed ambr AKST tru Teu rin Rit orrEm the original manuscript found was in existence at hartwick IT N Y I 1 in 1831 1631 as appears by the following letters never before published of george clark dark the son of the ahe above referred to IF car cat dec aoth 11 him IRS eix fim F DEAB MADAM madau MAD mab I 1 remember that mrs davison spent a winter in la my fathers house nearly fifty years ago and left there to go to munson A year or two later sh sho wrote rote to my rather father er to sell her effect effects st bureau featherbed feather bed linen e etc and remit the proceeds to her which ho be did the old trunk still remained in the garret when I 1 sold the farm in 1864 ism and was given away to whom I 1 know not it was worthless and empty my sly wire wife remembers that mrs davison gave hera her a manuscript to read during her stay with us and that she sha read a part of it and returned it to mrs airs Dav davison lson who told her awas it was written by mr spaulding as a pastime to while away awat the days of sickness respectfully yours GEORGE clark lerr lecter LETTER NO 2 cal jan 1881 IBM MRS E F IS dear madam wy wife does not remember the words mormon maroni etc nor anything else of the contents of the spaulding manus manuscript critt in question sho she kemem bm bera perfectly that it looked soiled and worn on the outside she thought it dry reading ands anos ind and aster alter rea ling ting a rew lew pages laid it a aside side she remembered perfectly tco what mrs davison said about it as being the origin ot at the mormon bible nible and she eho thought it would afe ale out in a few years yeam jt it was in 1831 mrs nim davison left our house for munson massachusetts chu GEORGE |