Show A METHODIST ME THE cincinnati conference ON ONT THE tan following display of ignorance and spleen was the work of a special committee at the methodist confer ence held a short time timo ago in cincinnati cin nati there was no standing committee on this qu question ques earion earlon nion rion but as an afterthought after thought the committee whose names appear below was extemporized end their lengthy piece of bitterness bitt erneN bad grammar and strong bigotry was adopted by ther the conference mormonism is not a religion rell neli glori it it Is ia a crime therefore cannot be entitled to protection and tolerance under the laws and constitution of the united states as a matter of conscience it is not a religious superstition sti tion but a system of masked masted een gallity sua gua lity and hence subversive of every principle of morality and ab horent borent to every feeling of virtue it is not even A spiritual delusions delusion and therefore thero fore foie cannot be ba condoned on the ground that it Is a hallucination or innocent mistake in prophecy it la Is a internal in terna ferna schemes echeme partly mercenary partly political and chiefly licentious it was or igina latna ted in the deepest depravity and Is IB fed feg by linee vinee motives mao tives ma money n ey power and lust lugt it fians aims to diffuse itself by pan dering to the lowest depravities of human nature when this cannot be done directly on account of the natural revolts of instinctive virtue to the monstrous mon strout proposition of the promie intercourse of the bexes sexes under the guise of marriage a resort is had to deception and falsehood they take advantage of the ignorance poverty degradation and fanaticism of some persons and of the credulity of unwary youth they first dupe then doom their victims it is romance and heaven in representation until liberty virtu virtue and respectability are lost then it Is slavery and debauch when tho the so called multitudinous wives nivea become mothers the finest property in human nature Is made the strongest support of this abomination the property of maternal affection being themselves beguiled women disgraced and having entailed that disgrace upon their offspring they eee hee no hope of ra speet ability ity for their children but sy by eng making poly polygamy gauny earny tebie ceble and thau khau can only be done by making a plurality of wives legal and illegitimate children legitimate As this cannot bo be done under the constitution and laws lawa of the united states a necea necessity sity is created for au an independent sovereignty this gen aerates the spirit of rebellion and prompts mormons cormons to ro increase their numbers and strength by imports im porta bons tione illegitimate births and by the corruption cor con r eption and bribery of politicians the work ot increase we are informed la Is going on with alarming rapidity the wretched plague spot is spreading prea ding into all our territories and some of the states by concealment ceal ment and berju perjury ry th they e y a evade v a d a the laws and defeat the commission provided for by congress and appointed by the president to arrest tiie file evil and such are the the meshes tha tho ee se avery and the new now affections and Inte interests involve involved 8 d in the progress of the system that few defections from mormonism occurs occur and still fewer converts to christianity are made from their number it is already so rooted in the eoll soils the politics the and the religious fanaticism DI that part of the country that nothing but prompt and extreme measures will eradicates eradicate the evil and unless the government shall immediately take decisive steps to exterminate the abomination it will soon acquire such buch dimensions and potency as to te render it impossible to remove the evil by legislation or any civil measured measures me asuree indeed it is the belief of s some ome well informed men now that this dreadful ulcer can removed by a resort to arms we may at least conclude that delay in the application of civil remedies will soon boon call into requisition thesa thega the ea orifice of life and the price of bloody blood or we ve must submit to have our virgin soil soll permanently stained with the foulest eystein of corruption and depravity that ever saw the light in a civilized and christian countr country y now with such a huge evil confronting us what is being done to abate the nuisance almost nothing ever lever since the appointment of the congressional there has been ii a seeming lull in out langa dings of repugnance to the tho great in an abatement of interest in the abject shall we not say a guilty i open aa pension sion slon of effort for its ita abolition ife e have gone to E leep sleep on the brink fa a volca volcano nol not wo we seem beem to have set llod ed down and seated our ourselves selves seiver p breathe in the raa ras malaria larla iaria of gormont sm for indefinite yearb years rhile mormon mor mon agents ara exploring esp loring pe worst places of the old world pd d the dark places of our own land il recruiting their deluded foress forces f hundreds every month we re relax ix 1 1 ergy and dismiss the subject ii hile hiie bile lis ils cormons mormons are breathing the t dors tors of their system into the heart henrt r society we como come to tho the discus janof of the subject N with lassitude lassil assi tude ude d feeble convictions mormon waa dropped out of the jt it of at andIng standing committees this ar ar and when a committee waa was temporized temporised sa as an after nite r ir fir it was wag with no deep and stir ig solicitude in relation to an evil bleh bich has been 0 standing menace the purity of boc soc society ety oty for fifty gars ears re unless we awake and bestir our cur gilve it la our oun conviction thattie that the jill dren who are now born will pay lre ire price olour of our apathy with their bod od and life we know that pro babions eions aro are now being made to aca to mormon children and thus ail bil enata alienate ali them from the dle dib solute as a of tha system in this we re ito aco wo we would educato educate cormons mormons Mor mons J and heathen sunder ristian influences il if we could now what Is ia the duty of the pharoh hareb and state states the christla christia n and be lle citizen it is to agitate and dif use lse SQ intelligence to quicken the na tonai knai tonal conscience torome to rouse ronse the chuich chulch Is ia to combine all civil and religious reig ious fo ices i against the stupendous cus ous froage wrong ff and never relax our efforts owita its extirpation from the land mt and branch shall be ee cured secured Vinc iding with daniel webster false fitts statement that the first stop atop bward oward the removal of any evil Is ia to apo 95 jmj it we offer the following proposition for fot adoption turell W 3 the morality peace virtue and of the state resolved Ke solved that mormonism niam is lola loia illative Iola tive ol of every instinct ot of virtue ind md with every 1 ai pj of the christian religion resolved Resolve df that a solemn and im native obligation rests upon all seb res and citizens to labor vigor agnos and incessantly to remove wa thib cancer from the body politic and locial reg eeg alved that a committee of six appointed composed of ministers nd ad laymen laymon with headquarter headquarters sin in anci Inci whose duty it shall bhail be to correspond correa pond nond with omeera officers of 0 the government and other parties to ool kot ett fact sand intelligence and dis teai nate the same to draft cincu la and aud forward to congress Con Coa greba breeb peti nas das against mormon polygamy i iad ind in favor tavor of such measures towards its abolition as the changing exigencies ot of the case from time to time may require and if expenses shall be incurred to have con tiong eon con cited from individual 5 and churches to meet the same A law baw RY ehin shin and sealy B S BENNETT bensett X B P F demmick R H RUST atel itei J F bonimy A U t W 1 len jen D BICE rice committee fia eya eva iya |