Show MORMONISM demagogues AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTS BY AN OLD moemon of all the strange and wonderful developments recorded in the worlds calendar that has given celebrity to the century none has been more astonishing to the beholder than that which has been misnamed 4 mormonism since bince its first inception fifty years ago ngo it has become world renowned like a city set upon a hill bill that could not be hid the cynosure of all eyes the most conspicuous target for the venomous shafts of the profligate and ignorant of religious and political parties in its rise and progress it has had to contend with moire more blind religious bigotry and prejudice more vindictive party spirit more opposition ana and anu ana unlawful eions and persecutions more expenditure pend iture of pious anathemas ana themas and political torpedoes directed to its utter extermination than has ever been displayed before the expectant millions of the world since once the days of galileo and copernicus and for what only forsooth because its humble followers have dared to believe that the earth actually revolved upon its own axis and to belleve believe in its annual revolution around its great luminary or in other words they believe in the divine right of every elvery one to worship god according to the dictates of his own conscience ll to worship the only true and living god that made the heavens the earth the seas beas and the fountains of water the god of Abraha abraham mj isaac and jacob what other crime has this strange community been guilty of to arouse this blind fury against them thrice have they been ex satiated patia ted and driven from their homes thrice have they sett seti settled ledi utilized improved and beautified territories of the wild lands of the country and thrice have hate they been bien despoiled of their hard earned substance and now again with forbearance patience toil and most indefatigable energy they have settled and made this vast interior desert teem jhb of virgin soil coie coic covered re d w with it h enterprising cities towns villages an and dham hamlets humming with the tho industry of df its active and aud busy occupants creating out of the parched desert many thousands of happy homes for the destitute and poor and done more fon for or the consolidation and financial interests of the government and more for the physical and moral advancement and improvement pro of the condition of tha the people than all the religious and political parties of the country combined have done for the last half century this unique system called mormonism r moni bas has habits basics its peculiarity and one that is a specia specialty lt y enot not common with any other religious organization can uan it is A this that from its first appearance upon the earth whoever or wherever anyone commenced to dabble in it with personal bonal antipathies antipa thies and impure mo uio ivea af pf seit to gain popular applause they have seemed invariably to be smitten as with leprosy and at once their most intimate bud aud devoted friends turn away from them in fear and disgust and though they may jubilantly soar away for a while their wings soon become paralyzed and they suddenly drop into oblivion ibis this may seem beam mere more fallacy to some but the experience of 50 years yearb has proved it to be nothing but the unvarnished truth let us take a brief review of the pa parts ts assumed by the more prominent nt and in some Instance instances ss the mere more popular actors in this ever widely heralded mormon drama let us bloz blog biographically graphically inquire as to the fate of some of those greedy speculators in mormon stock we will pas pass fj over all the small fry such as the literary lite iary productions in yellow covered Mor mormon mon mor 11 romance such as the originators of the spaulding story mrs secretary ferris and bili hickmans liick ilick mans novels down to the very ingenious ingeni ous oua production of colfax and bowles bowies A crosb the continent with all the pothouse political hucksters pharisaical hypocrites tenth rate broken down lawyers and official debauchees debau chees and the productions of all the weak backed apostates apostate sy and open en up at once in a more exalted ap aph sphere e of political life and learn from the history of those ambitious aspirants for mormon fame when their light began to be shorn ot of its brillh brilliancy llucy and oblivion we will begin at the expulsion of the cormons mormons Mor mons from missouri and the once gotori ous exterminating governor lil burn W boggs though the insignificance ance of his light may leave it doubtful if it ever had bad any brilliancy to dim but he was once olace the governor of the great state ef Missouri and his light if he ever had any ha hab long since gone out he is physically and morally dead so 80 died poor pool tom Ford once governor of illinois the weak and pliant tool of the rank and bloodthirsty blood thirsty hounds of at the barbarous massacre of joseph and hyrum smith in carthage jail that too while under the protection of the law and plighted faith ef of the state he heu also and many of his miserable associates socia tes have gone down to the bides sides of the pit ay thien thlen follows the hon stephen of little bittle giant memory sei bei senator benator for illinois in inthe tho the height of his ambition just jim ready to grasp that most moat potent of k keys the key of the white gyc hoube house u 6 e 73 but he unfortunately permitted to be affixed t to 0 his otherwise patriotic banner cut off that loathsome ulcer from the body politic who does not remember how suddenly that brilliant luminary went down to utter darkness then comes the sona sons senator from Miso misouri url uri the hon thos H benton even in the high position in which he stood side by side with statesmen like daniel webster websters henry claytorn clay john john mcalhoun andrew jackson cass casa and others a nobler galaxy of illustrious statesmen never graced another country yet in that last most moat de desperate sperate sperato struggle to retain the lustre of a long and brilliant career made that fatal move towards the extermination of the mormons cormons Mor mons by calling out that unprecedented quota even for the largest and most populous of the states A battalion of able bodied men to the hlex Blex mexican ican war just at the mo it were only three months from the departure from nauvoo of these ex patr pati patria ted saints of their disfranchisement chi and expulsion from illinois while still exhausted and weak from their long tedious and painful winter journey across neross iowa kroin from the banks of the mississippi to council bluffs it was adding one ono more turn to tho the tortuous screw almost beyond endurance but the deadly blow was grandly met and nobly parried that mormon battalion crossed the desert on foot to mexican territory and mexican war and left its indelible impress upon american history now safely deposited in the archives at washington much to the chagrin of its enemies but much to the gratification and pride of its friends that most table ungenerous move instigated by the senator from missouri was from some subtle invisible overruling caubo cause fatal to the future of that brilliant statesman his atar ata r also set in darkness and then succeeded in grim array james JK polk james nr and other lesser leaser lights where whore are they thoy and echo answers only where wo would drav dray tho kindly vall vail of sorow nod mild tor for ess ovar the sickly puny st struggles ruggies of the utah judiciary for mormon fame from the debauched and notorious drummond with his brazen faced prostitute sitting together upon the judicial bench with the subsequent long line of ghastly judicial skeletons of missionary judged and political gamesters ga to the spasmodic and painful contortions of its late occupants and look to other and higher candidates ambitious of fame and glory upon the mormon battlefield again we hear resounding through tile the land the distant reveille of tub the coming political con fllch and the notes of preparation flash along the wires signifying that one of the contending parties intend to fill its haversacks haver baver sacks backs with Mormon ammunition if credence can be given to the report of such stupendous folly coined and issued from the cabinet at washing ton the most imbecile of all political jugglery it is said to tb ba be the most abject appeal in circulars circular sj by no less than efian the astute laws or and cunning politician secretary Evarta from this great to form an alliance offensive and defensive with the crown cnown crowned heads 0 of europe against the insidious power of these strange ubiquitous wor cormons mormons Mor mons p if this report is correct it places plates this widely respected government in an unenviable and most ludicrous attitude before the world it amounts to a modest to foreign powers to waive all questions of dignity and attention to their own state affairs and assume the role of a common detective to hold by the wrists all the mormons Mor mons within their several realms to stand hands off to look on and see eee Bomba Bom bastes stes etes Fur eur furioso loAn with good and strong free born children of columbia handle with surprising skill ignorant Mormon sj all told meD women and children oh my how are tile the mighty fallen in the eyes of the diplomats of europe and the polygamous dependencies cies of great britain and rance ranee how bow have they tinged the swarthy cheeks of the envoys of furkey japan and china with the blu biu blush ah of another fe feature liture lu in the approaching campaign the ex ex x vice president ler len le Colfax ordered to the front with a powerful battery of veteran quill drivers and experienced penny a late dispatches bring us the important information that the elon ron rf chuyler colfax has kindly con 1 to canvass the country for the republican party and deliver or smile through a series of stump speeches sp f eche ls upon hla hia veracious deeply interesting and highly live travels across the continent arranged and classified for the enlightened public by the late samuel bowles esq that means a special grenade thrown in for the amusement of the citizens of utah and as the hon i speaker continues to introduce sam bum bowles igmos mormon thunder to td the bublic public p for his own or party purposes common justice to the heirs deman dsa pro per royalty to the decea deceased fled lied bowles estate what a promotion promo ulon ilon for BO so great a i the dispatch above brings to mind the publication in the new york independence of dec deca 1869 in which schuyler colfax stands forth in bold relief tho the apologist and open and avowed advocate of the and murderers of missouri and illinois in his excruciatingly elaborate disquisition upon the mormons cormons Mor mons brigham young and utah inam including also a display of the deep and penetrating power of ibi his vast intellect in the important discovery that water water alone solely constituted the sum and substance of the bone muscle and nerve of mormon prosperity we should not have reverted again to the ex speaker but to point a mo al and adorn a tale as his hia influence in public affairs is non cst est but sa as showing another example of the fatal effects upon those who unfortunately become inoculated with that fatal disease anti antl momon leprosy at the date of the publication of the above 1869 mr C had risen to within one step of the goal of his hopes the very pinnacle of his ambition at that moment be grimed loaded down and blinded with unfounded prejudice and hate against again aba sta a community of his own countrymen he be liko like ben edict arnold fell to rise no more forever and the epitaph written upon his tor tot tomb 4 b ilk lik like ilke 0 11 eish A z S r sla Is N ll 11 P F i |