| Show from the tho new york toris world of march AND THE MORMONS 31 INISTER OF christ CLAmoR wi eor FOR A BLOODY persecution osian OSIAH QUINCY ON THE amb AND wore WORK WOKE OF JOSEPH SMITH 0 o the editor of the world bir sir sib on sunday evening the st an advertisement induced the titer riter to attend a lecture delivered 3 the rev bev alfred H moment a clergyman at spring chapel on Mor mormonism monts niam its doctrines and life As your bissu iesue if f monday gave only a synopsis byno of we ule lecture it will no doubt be agreeable to many of your readers to larn arn some other features of the everend gent lemans production nour four correspondent took a steno a aphie aaphie report and willva will vouch touch uch for its correct ness nesb the tha lecturer began his discourse by mading gading that chapter in st bt rauis pauls Splat isalo lo to the corinthian Corinth lans jans in the new translation where all things are said to be absolutely useless ueless without love during darlng this thia reading the writer was waa grappling with the conundrum how much love will this thib professing minister of jesus jebus christ mani manifest fiest towards the subjects of his lecture to assist your readers in its solution it may be said the reverend gentleman ended his hib lecture by invoking tho the general government to crush the mormons cormons in utah by special legislation legislations but in the event of this measure failing as happened in the case of the tho ed munds mund siaw slaw law he urged the settlement jentof of the question in tho the same bame manner as that in which slavery was settled so the pious lecturer commenced with the gospel of love and ended with the gospel of blood he declaimed vehemently against blood atonement which he perversely misrepresented in its ultra phases as the accepted doctrine of the mormon church while he advocated the use of the dogs of carnal warfare as the most certain and effectual means of destroying the objects of hla his hatred this thia so eo called christian minister revelled bevelled revel led in a blood atonement while mobbing and murdering the mormons cormons in missouri and illinois the lecturer set forth briefly the cardinal principles of the mormon creed as contained in their meir church books such buch sueh buch as the trinity the fall of mat mac the atonement absolute and complete for tho the original sin of mankind the four conditions required of all t except young children namely falth faith repentance baptism the laying un on of hands for the reception of the holy ghost he spoke of the tha ministration of ange angels bj the healing ot vae mae hiek hick of prophecy and revelations of the or cr of the church with ap postles pasties and prophets tw teachers and deacons until these officers had bad increased to 2300 2500 but what was to him tho the most moat lamentable of all was that they were all governed and controlled by john caylor raylor the head of the gnat mormon empire as he was pleased to term it these were the doctrines and this was the organization said the lecturer with which the ei ders of the mormon church had traveled through the united states and the nations of the old world and which had met with a success that was unequalled unequal led in religious history their work was simply wonderful wondern a under the teaching of these doctrine 3 mormonism carried everything before it for never was A purer morality taught than by these elders when they first went among the people proclaiming their doctrines for anese were the special tenets ot their faith and these are tho doctrines taught when the elders go out now such were the comments made by the lecturer upon tiie tile doctrine doot rhae the organization and the extraordinary success of mormonism in which is fulfilled a prophecy of issiah isiaah 14 concerning a similar work behold I 1 will proceed to do a marvel cus work anong among this people peoples even a mar mai marvelous work and a wonder it will be seen by reading the whole chapter that this marvel bug eug work and wonder was to follow directly the discovery and translation tf of some extraordinary book such for example as the book of mormon for the prophet says in verse IS 18 glyn ilyn in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see seo out of obscurity and out of darkness the lecturer said bald athe the work was simply wonderful and was attended with a success unequalled unequal led in religious hist history ozy and carried everything before it up to this thia point your correspondent listened with pleasure and satisfaction tub tut here the lecturer made a complete sommer somme sault and became as lavish laviah in misrepresentation and abuse as he had been in the indorsement endorsement indor bement of their doctrines organization and extraordinary success I 1 will present bome bime items of the lecturer la declamations and bald assertions that your readers may look on this picture and on that he quoted the well known scripture text A tree may be known by its it fruits but instead of showing the fruit of thib this prolific trea tree whose branches are extending through all I 1 civilized nations and are conceded to be more thrifty blooming and pro than most moat of th tha trees in the christian wilderness ho he commenced a violent and vicious attack on the character of joseph smith and his successor brigham young who were but twigs compared with the great tree they were instrumental in again planting among the bons sons of men that joseph smith the first finst elder i in this latter day work should be stigmatized and charged with as many crimes as the illustrious nazarine was waa charged with by his ious opponents la Is regarded as aa a matter of course as the same bame causewell cau cause sewill will always produce the same effects but to conceive it pos poe possible sIble that josephs lifelong life long friend the late president young who loved his predecessor de cessor with sueh buch intensity throughout gout his public career who labored s incessantly from the year 1832 until the day of ochia his death in 1877 to propagate the doctrines and principles and to build on the foundation that was laid by this bosom friend friends to conceive it possible that he should ch charge ar ge that friend with being anything th n g but buta a saint that his virtues were wera few and his vices many among tho the least of which were gambling gamb lingi seduction that he was moreover a public blackguard as aa asserted on sunday night by alfred H moment and reported in your journal is a thing absolutely absurd and is a falsehood of the most malignant type thies thib however is but one of the many absurdities crow crowded dezi into the latter part of this lecture as will appear in this correspondence the lecturer charged joseph smith with gith killing a governor of missouri Missour ls while the fact la that said bald governor the tha notorious Boggs who issued the order to exterminate the mormons cormons in 1838 ISM died a natural death in california several years af after ter the exodus of the mormons cormons from nauvoo in whereas the eald bald joseph smith emith waa wa assassinated in the year 1844 president brigham young in speaking of joseph smith said he lived great and he died great in the eyes of god and hia bia people and speaking of him and his brother hyrum said they were innocent of any crime and were proved eo so they lived for glory they died for glory and glory ia their eternal reward from age to age shall their names go down to posterity as gems for the 12 and this has been teen published to the ends of the earth as tho tha testimony of the late president young conc concerning eming his friend jozeph joseph buith it may not bo be out of place in this connection to quote from a book written by josiah quincy of harvard colleges college who in company with the hon charles francis adams paid mr joseph smith a visit only forty three days before his assassination on page of this book entitled figures of tho past patt mr quincy say says it is by no means improbable that some future textbook booky books for the use of generations unborn will contain a question something like this what cihat historical american of tho the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of hia his countrymen and it is by no means improbable that the answer to that interrogatory may bo be thus written moseph eph smith smiths the mormon prophet the man who established a relf reif religion gIon glon in this age of free debate who was and is today to day accepted hy by hundreds of thousands as a direct emissary from the most high such a rare human being la Is not to be dispo disposed ed of by pelting his memory with unsavory une avory epithets the late president young was next assailed by the and your readers will no doubt pardon the gentleman for using the kind of weapon that slew the philistines he first charged the illustrious chief with putting into his own pocket moneys that should have been used for those who suffered in the handcart company whereas the said E aid enid brigham young paid for the outfit of the several companies and emigration expenses for that years transportation which accounts were placed in jw inthe the writers hands for settlement tl the most flagrant palpable wanton and malignant fahe fabe falsehood hood uttered bythe by the lecturer ho however weyer weTer was perhaps the assertion that nhat brigham young put one of his own wives to deith death 11 the government hab has had governors marshals prosecuting attorneys tor commissioners and judges in the territory for thirty years and no such euch charges havo have been brought against that great statesman sta teeman until gow now now I 1 have no hesitation in denouncing noun cing his abber asEer assertion tion as false in every particular and though the lecturer may seek to mitigate the accusation cusa eusa causation tion by charging some bome other pious christian as the author of the charge it is no less a base and ajl wilful falsehood and like other of his hla utterances made out of whole cloth his next reckless and groundless charge was that the massacre at the mountain meadows was executed by the direct command of the said president of the mormon church now lov let us hear what george C bates the united states district attorney for utah has haa said on this subject on the trial of john D lee who was convicted by a mormon jury as aa one of the murderous wretches who took tools as prominent part partin in that foul and bloody deed the said attorney stated to the court substantially as foj fol follows lowd lowe he ha had during several beveral months fully examined tha the case and had thoroughly sifted all ail the evidence in relation to the massacre and he felt bound to say that there was not one ono particle of evidence that Pros president ident brigham young was connected with it in the remotest way either dh directly estly or indirectly who shall be ba believed in this case the united states district attorney for utah who personally examined witnesses and thoroughly sifted tho the charges during several months and pronounced him innocent or this presbyterian self constituted judge who on last sabbath evening had the audacity to say he was guilty the common law assumes every man to bo be innocent until ho he is proved guilty the nev rev alfred H moment adjudges these two great mormon leaders to be ba guilty of all the crimea crimes charged against them by their enemies although proven innocent by every court ot of competent jurisdiction baroro before which they have been arraigned this is reversing the rules of jurisprudence with a vengence and would lead us to bay say moat most fervently from this kind hind of christians good lord deliver us for we should much prefer to fall into the hands bands of colonel ingersoll and the infidels other statements were made de that were equally as rabid and false as those already mentioned but this article is already too extended to permit more than the mention of cf one or two and when this is done I 1 shall leave the rever rover ened falsifier to the stings and arrows of an outraged conscience although t he said the mormons cormons were so generous as to be baptized baptised sed for ho he may rest assured that no mormon will ever be baptised baptized sed for him he told the audience that bome presbyterian doctor had been put to death in utah by the dl direct command of the president of the mormon church ho he Is ia asked to present his evidence or hold his peace for out of his mouth he will be judged for every rech roch lesa slander and every false assertion he so eo wantonly makes against men meu who are hla hig superiors in morality intelligence and in every other quality that tends to nobility and human perfection neither of these great men have been regarded by the cormons mormons only as men nor do they regard adam adain in any other view than as a grodt grent chief of his posterity a mighty prince or god gody subordinate to our biord jesus christ and his eternal father and all the polytheism poly theism charged against the mor mons by the lectures may be charged with aquel force against the early christians I 1 need hardly say bay that tha lecture thus reviewed was preceded by the inevitable collection and the last pa appeal was waa for more money to help the Presbyterian cause in Utah and as aa a sop bop for the tho doubting he hald haid there were children attending the sectarian schools in utah 80 per cent of them from mormon fa families milles I 1 hazard nothing by the assertion that they do not have 6 5 per cent or mormon children in these schools throughout the whole territory much lees less 80 per cent or as stated by our pious presbyterian brother but it must be remembered that the jesuits are not the only christians who believe belleve the end ju justifies stifles the means and the means in this case reminds the writer of the description given by the late brigham young of tho old secta sectarian rinn minister who whilo while rak his capacious pockets the COI col lt on gave out with much pathos the hymn commencing this inthis god Is the god I 1 adore we are bound to admit from these observations that sectarianism tarlan tar tan ism Is true to its old instincts dinst money and blood both were features of the lecture and predicated on the gospel of charity I 1 submit to your readers the quest question lon ion whether the tender mercies of christians christiana of this type are less cruel than mercenary and if the toufe touts ensemble Is not incompatible with true liue christianity ti yours etc gamim ii HAET HART |
