| Show IS THE lav nav LAW naw OB OF THE land nand I 1 IDEAS OF THE josephites ON infallibility OF THE COURT THAT tuat OVERLOOK THEIR CHIEF ZEAL OPPOSING THE SAINTS IN UTAH BOYNE boyse charlevoix county michigan oct 12 1883 1885 editor delet dewet de wet let iveas A As 8 u usual s bat the saints hams herald to us burdened with its anti antl mor alor nou non inon opposition to the people utah utan one should think that for the ake ake of novel novelty if nothing else we get at least one copy of paper in twenty years without a virulent and malicious attack upon the utah mormons cormons Mor mons 9 and their ako faith tn if these feorg reorganized a leaders were leading in the direction themselves we should have a much higher rezard for their teachings than we 1 low now have let any man open the doctrine trine and covenants and read joseph smith smiths two letters on BAPTISM FOR tire THE DEAD and the revelations of god chewing its necessity and consider the importance a c attach attached ed by both the almighty tol por in if lit tit up and his prophet to this areat ord ordinance y nce and then consider that for the full twenty tiya tiva tire lire years of the tho reorganizations existence not a single soul in that body has received that ordinance for any of at his dead and that they neither trouble themselves nor do nor say anything about it and if he has any regard for these things his eyes eye 8 will be open opened ed I 1 think as to the real character of these so called rc re organized mormons cormons Mor Ator mons 19 baptism for the dead is of as much importance as the baptism of the living flying yet there is 18 no attention paid to it in lile ilie the feorg reorganisation reorganization animation they have also emphatically repudiated and S REJECTED REJECT EDTHE THE ORDINANCE ondi NA W OF SEALING why bliss my nay soui souli I 1 joseph the martyr says that tha thau this ordinance is of suet such great importance that unless the dead are ire redeemed by it the whole earth will be smitten with a curse cursy see sec 18 of 2nd and letter whatever else may be said of the utah people they have shown a much higner higher regard for the things of god than the reorganization there is again THE thu GATHERING of the saints to the places appointed for their dwelling what importance do they attach to this very nearly next to none their ceet ambition seems to be to build up meeting homes here and there all ali over the lauded landed leave their converts there blighting influences around them the next thin thing heard of at them 14 quarrel quarrelling lim about hairsplitting hair splitting niceties of at authority etc etc and in many instance they th ae become quite dead in their faith falth and have no meetings at all it is written that when Christ cones comes many who strongly imagine here that they are christs followers will be most surely rejected as workers of iniquity hy by him iwa wal wak hungry and ye gave m me 1610 no meat thirsty and ye gave me roe no drink naked and jc te clothed clothine me not sick khi ant and in frison t and ye visited me not for I 1 gue ILE as ye did it nov not unto one of ol the least of these my brethren ye did it not unto me 19 are the tife reasons tor for or which these very good people will te be rejected in prison implies as i matter of course that the saints of oi f god will be cast into prison for thic P that appear veri verk very good reasons to who imprison t them em and who aid ala BJ abet in their imprisonment oh 1 course th they e were guilty of violates the laws of 1 the land landt and the con com inon man rules of right and decency dc rency ot or otherwise we would not have impe boned them of course not this gasun was m questionably question atly the excuse in all ages for lor THE GOD when the prophet isaiah in looking lo olsia down to the latter latte r days said gaid thesis aloof a eople people robbed and spoiled they lre ire all ail of them thern snared in holes and they are hid bid in prison ou houses they are tv loo a prey and none dellver deli dell ct for a BUO and none restore who had k t reference to the reorganization no they congratulate themselves vesa a the fact that they are arc living by the iam lam of their country are good citizen saim salm have not the most distant thought 0 d going gain to prison or of bein oiled oil or robbed but how about ut the utah mormons cormons Mor Alor mons does anybody now look upon them as being about fat enough in wealth to h s spoiled wiled and does anybody say and aud if t whom whoa restore unto them not only what they th c Y have been robe rohe of d during u ra a these late but also anat t lat nat of which they ime ine been shamefully robbed and spoiled to in the years gone by some body answer no my friends the reorganization cannot in days to come either cither chim claim the blessing of being imprisoned for christs sake or ministering td taase who ano have if t they went to such i prison to visit such prisoners it would only be to add insult to injury to tantalize or to be personally gratified at their misfortune having eliminated everything from their faith calcai calca to give offense or by which they might lose caste in an ad adulterous en eu cration it is not to be ulak wondered d jj tt i that they should be found hurline scorn fro mothe rothe large and spacious buil bull dins 11 against innocent and honest mey met ati and prating about the laws ol 01 in etc in 1833 the almighty through th the prophet joseph enjoined upon tie thi saints the necessity of regarding the constitutional LAW raw OF THE LAM nam and said that it should be maint aine alne for the ritz rights hits lits and protection of ri f flesh that all rn men n might be free sw aa be their own agents in regard to tie the principles ot at their religion and thu that the bill of rights named in that instrument belonged to all mankind of whatever whoever nation or people they might te be and that whatsoever was more or less in law than guaranteed these glorious glor gior ioas privileges came of evil now the Josephl josephites tes hold that no DO matter what law is enacted by this nation and approved by its supreme court it is binding on th the C sa sainta int 4 add and a n 0 upon all its citizens and that god 14 I 1 tr tio be so understood under tood as commanding all the saints to atilde abide and keep all guca suca laws Is tats true we shall see first W when hen the almighty twice in isis told th the saints in missouri that tiie tile rights guaranteed in the vt roseita titu altu t tion on of this lana land belonged to all mi nia kind and dibe the tights rights tigh and protection of all nil fash rt shand and ans was justifiable before him liim 11 did he not know that these ery very cry revelations were utterly denied not only in missouri but in lit all the other slave state states of the union by G the law of toe the land and did he not know that in giving these two revelations that ile he w uli was 21 actually actually actual lr jeopardizing the lives of the saint saints in I 1 n missouri and other states in byln saying that the rights of the constitution t or belonged ci 0 aged to all flesh and should be maln malu maintained bained for that very purpose LOOK on the statute books ot all the slave states at that time anduce and see it if you tind find in those statute books the laws of the land according to tile tiie views of the any acknowledgment there of the truth ot at these revelations ions lons see il it you will not find them in the most bar these barous things conflict with the almighty ty on why it was in those days about AS 31 MUCH UCH AS A maxs MANS 1111 LIFE E WAS WORTH eyen even lisp SP the idea that the rights 0 i 4 the constitution belonged to the black man just as well as to the white does it need any to convince the saints who still live and remember those times in missouri cf this tact fact in the senate of the united states march 4 senator charles sumner ll ott lud rud ind madea 11 most elaborate searching 0 and telling speech against THE IS ol 01 in that speech are various quotations from the statute books of the slave states and standard authors who have written in defense of slavery unhappily says mr air sumner there th ereis is barbarism elsewhere in the world but american slavery as defined by y existing 0 law lav is the greatest org in IX axed e dby barbarism r on which the sun now enines bhines tt it Is without a fingl singla peer its author authar af after ter making it broke the die As quoted inthis in this speech I 1 will insert the following from strouds law of slavery p 2311 2211 2 J the cardinal principle of slavery that the slave is not to be ranked among aifong sent gent sentient lent beings but among thin s is an article of property a chaw chattel te personal obtains as undoubted ted law in all of these slave siave states commenting upon these various laws mr sumner says nor is there anything within the limit of life inflicted upon a beast that may not be inflicted inflicted on the slave lie ile maybe may be marked like a hog branded like a moie mole yoked joked like an ox hobbled like a horse druen driven like ilke an ass sheared like a sheep malmed maimed like a cur and constantly cons beatea like a brute all according to lae law Putting putli ng bloda bioda bloodhounds hounds upon his trail when fleeing from ther most galling gallin gallingani gand and oppressive slavery pulling out his bla toe nails with pinchers pin pla chers one forthe for the first offense of lof running away two for the second anad our for the third etc ete dropping blaking wax on his bare back und and pulling maud maddened ened and infuriate infuriated a cats by the tall over it were among the many REFINED TORTURE tortures I 1 inflicted and allowed by law to be in by the slave owner upon his slaves here then are the laws of the land as defined and interpreted by joseph smith and his ve r dear brethren of the reorganization god being made by them the commander of the saints to keep support and uphold these most infamous inhuman and barbarous lawsl laws I 1 where in heavens name were the eagle eyes of clark dark bradden in his debate with kiy kly I 1 that they see this what a can 0 of nitro glycerine this item would have been heen in his argument I 1 I 1 delight in the great truths of mormonism and its overwhelming ab ability it to sustain itself against any 0 odds dds butruce once convince me roe that the prophet joseph or any other prophet has comman commanded cled the saints to sustain uphold and keep the laws of the land ip holding bolding the great tree of amer fean slavery I 1 would then spurn it from irom me with eternal contempt but I 1 have nt not the slightest or most distant thought that any of ahe he kroph ets ever dl did anything of the kind or ever will and I 1 1 regard on the other bandaly hand band dany any set of 11 mormons cormons Mor mons who accuse the prophet joseph of teaching or commanding command inz the kee keeping pinc sustaining in or upholding of ot the unholy and di diabolical I 1 bo lical laws of ot slavery c or r any other iain law that violates either the spirit or letter ietter of the constitution of the united states as blasphemers blaspheme rs of the most alost high in a very high 11 degree TO BLASPHEME GOD OF HEAVEN heaves is to blind men and lead them to hate bate him and disregard his counsels second the almighty in 1830 32 told the saints that he had given the bible in connection with the book of mormon to be his law to govern his church adding very emphatically that he that did according to these things should be saved and he that did them not should be damned if he continued to disregard them see that given october 1830 ism par 3 feb 1831 16 sep 22 and 2 8 that bein being I 1 the case then we turn to these scriptures and find written thus thou not deliver unto his master masler the servant which is 19 escaped from his master unto thee be he shall dwell with thee even among that place which he he shall choose I 1 in n one of thy stes gates where it lileth him best thou not oppress him daut deut 24 14 there are at least fifty other things written in the holy scriptures of equal force and importance with this I 1 the orP OF or SERVANTS or of any other human being and many of them have the roost most severe penalties of gods judgment attached to them and now when the almighty Almilli ty with the rest of the holy scriptures zave tave these things to the saints bad he been asleep or drunk that he iid ild lid did not dot know what he was about when he be commanded us in 1832 not to break the laws of the land did he really command us in so many words to be slave catchers and slave oppressors in the tho interest and behalf of a body of men merethe the most brutish and inhuman that ever trod the earth or did he only mean the plain and just constitutional laws of the land if it the latter then he be is in harmony with himself in all that he has commanded to be written from beginning lo 10 end but if on the otner hand lue ite according cording to the interpretation OF THE the almighty has commanded u ur f to sustain aln ain and flud uphold and keep all state aud and national law laws no matter matten what they maybe may be and ind fe regard th the tho supreme in e court of the nation as infallible like the popes of 0 rome or the old british kings who could do no wrong what whal are we then and where are we ill tell you where we are then as well as I 1 can we are arc in an eternal hunt after gaddys paddys flea that Is all simply and plain plainly y that when you get your finger ringer on your duty ditty y you u may lilay be satisfied that it there by the vayas it not a very grant grand discovery to find that the Supreme Court of the united states is infallible can the saints differ long iong ion lon upon questions of theology now when they have an unerring court to appeal to tor for an unerring I 1 solution of their very knotty questions lord bless us why has hag no religious rell reil lous ious body thought of ol this before and there is joseph smith the marr he actually went and inquired of the ie lord to settle all great and important questions arising in the church in his day instead of referring such questions to that infallible and unerring court yes sir church after church has been divided and subdivided and then divided again and ag again aln ain upon one question and another arasin ari arl in or out of their thein religious views f in these latter days antin and in not a single case casts have they ever carried their differences up before that court for settlement it must be that they have never been informed in relation to the power and prerogatives of that great and wise body of men if it the albl almighty illy lily really requires ills his people to obey the VILE A AD LAWS of this land lando it is only right that ile he should have required th them eill elli to submit to such laws in other lands I 1 but what do we find written in those scriptures as an example at the risk of his life daniel and his fellows opposed and disregarded the laws of the government meni mene on n two different occasions constitutional and just too they were for the supreme court of that day and the josephites joseph Joaeph ites and christians of those times all insisted that they were and were firm and dete determined mIned that they must be obeyed or the penalty must follow when charged with their disloyalty band and a refusal to obe obey the law they were admonished and re threatened with a most dreadful death if they did not obey their answer was we are not careful to answer thee in this matter and that they would not obey the august mandate iv hether whether gad god would deliver dellver them from the fiery furnace or not when threatened mth with the lions den it was just the same you will perceive that the laws they disregarded in the these e two cases were oi the highest authority look at the 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