| Show hi H ti reveille neveille ani ant THE i in the river elver r we ve find a rejoinder to our remarks on the comments made in th that at isper paper concerning the killing of lias aias field it is refreshing itil just st n now 0 w to read anything about the ai mormons cormons Mor AloY mons that is characterized by y that courteous style sty lef iff in which the reveille article Is written wr itten ilten we behave have had occasion before now to appreciate the fair straightforward and gentlemanly manner in which its editor has spoken of us as a people and take pleasure in expressing that appreciation there ar are some som e points in the article of the mt uit which demand special notice being not merely pertinent to the case referred to but to the great question at issue ria regarding garding us the reu Rev efio eilo says that we cannot deny but the killing of Brassf brassfield feid feld was done by high authority jf if by this he means some man mall high in authority here we do most emphatically deny it lt if lie he means by high authority the judge judie of all the ther earlb earth we would not ilke like ilk 6 to td be go so pointed in our denial taking the he action in a general sense and not as an individual deed for lie se has expressly declared cla ela red the adulterer shall shail S surely ure lidle die dle 11 we have no wish to traduce the dead nor hor have we any evidence to show that brassfield was a vic viciously tou lou bously fou sly siy wicked inh man n we ie are more inclined to the belief bellef be I 1 lef that he was made a cats catl paw by worse men than himself but the man who invades the sanctity oi of therb therm the arrigo marriage bed and pollutes it is an adulterer adu sterei beyond the tho shadow of a doubt doudt alid and however monogamists may look upon plural plura i 1 marriages with esthey us they are sacred and nd holy there is a law and custom of divorce in this territory as elsewhere and until abhat law is honored the marriage r litti hitti intact ct and ard 1 ed f 1 brasfield knew of of ilis this yet he sought to invade a relationship the most sagi sadi edland one regulated by direct divine bi vicia con imand to us we r repeat ep 04 again do not know who killed him whether a friend of the injured man manor or refi reri social enemy whether i r a mormon 1 or a bente iben 6 ente tile tiie but mut he could not 4 haye have alft r any ax I 1 ay iy other othen result knowing as he did the sanctity with with which we view the marriage maTrIa gd neif relationship f p and ine e 01 whitby universal consents 4 the adulterer speaking of polygamy rely jely kimy the evelUe reveille Ji gershe whole the op opposition to it fn an anut anui sheu sher he says RZ a more natural ciatu ral rai stale state k fete lete of 0 f social I 1 more productive of happiness or good morals or whether revealed by y divine it matters nol not the age is against a polygamy lyga ja but feao who are at variance with us on oft this point t I 1 have the honest manliness it to m akeshia ak ethla ethia avowal yet it is the mainspring aln ain of their opposition and when it the they thes v find the strong host of arguments scriptural social moral and physiological by b which the principal palis palls is sustained hied fied instead of honorably admitting their truthfulness or openly hv dwing a i repudiation of them they take tahe li ke gli ili shelter elter eiter behind a a mass of vulgar adjectives and vituperative slanders the thir aae dae case ease is put plainly by the the tile opposition waged against the k I 1 I 1 trine practically says rays as lie he does openly you cormons mormons Mor mons have embodied in your falth faith faitha a K principle hicie 16 which eh inn inay be a more natural state of social than wh what at we have adopted it may produce greater happiness and a higher status of morality nay even god may have revealed rev aled it to you and commanded it all these do not jn matter atter it is ban an innovation upon our established usage the age la Is against it and for these causes yow you must give it up and yield to our notions we ve do not care if ibbe it be true it is something which we wet have not adopted and we cannot allow you to adopt iti itt you must not be and purer than thail we are i this is putting the he t matter in ai plain plin language but it sounds rather strange in a land inhere perfect freedom of conscience is ly guaranteed io fo all the respects the sincerity of our belief arnd arid acknowledges our dur right to it but cannot admit that the marriage relation has anything to do with worshipping wor shipping god venerable as the doctrine may be that friend ret Pet feille is where we differ that is where whore ere ore your faith takes one direction direct idu dours landours an takes another and our right to do s so 0 differ is the very thing the constitution guarantees to both you and us we deem if ii an essential and a very vital part of rel rei religion rellison lilon underlying as it does the very foundation of that earthly existence which thi creator has given us us yo you aa say marriage ma niage is is a civil contract 0 if and is at least in Pro protestant countries regulated ted idd by civil and not by ecclesiastic lawi law u if this were even so while our revealed faith teaches us differently we have th the fullest right to the efe ene exercise reise of that faith yet in one of those protestant countries it is but recently that marriage was recognized aa contract and th that 4 i recognition was allowed to meet a growing want caused by a growing dissent from the form of religion established by civil aud and abl bj ecclesiastic lair in 14 pro P id it ji Is 0 only a few years pince ince none but an ardaine pr daine ecclesiastic dared to perform the ceremony of arriage marriage In and a mar marriage I 1 ate age solemnized by tile the most reprobate I 1 and outcast ecclesiastic aftic c who was wag not en entirely stripped of his sacerdotal orders was held valid in law IW but to meet thet them the wants and wishes of a f large age and growing body of dissenters nonconformists and freethinkers thi auker luker sit it was recognized for the sake of those who so 0 desired it a as s a civil cofi contract after much auch fruitless opposition on the part of the anglican episcopacy arla arid the people who believed bell beil eved with them it must be 6 remembered too til that at the anglican angile an episcopal church was lish edby acton act of and owns as its it head a woman who I 1 is a lay liy person and the head also of the civil power jn rix roman homan catholic countries coundrie coun trie tnie s matrimony is one of the sacraments always id way preceded by confession and absolution alid and can oni only be performed b by an ecclesiastic the who TheAon roman aan aaa catholic dare not recognize it as a civil contract without abjuring one of the essential articles Q this his faith you say pay that ghen ahen when any religious doctrine demands to invade the customs of society tso Iso biety or the laws of the thie country i on the grounds of conscience it jt tra transcends the limits of religious freedom guaranteed by b the constitution and claims rights destruct destructive ive ite of any government 7 71 kow now what religion r does not in bome ome some of its doctrines invade the customs of some other portion of society A little over oer twenty years ago the baptists fists endured the most virulent persecution persa q in scandinavia in europe for dipping their converts because that doctrine was an invasion of the customs of society the fhe there re monkish processions professions process ions and carrying the tha host are invasions invasion of the customs of protestant countries the shakers inculcate celibacy which i invades ades tile ilie th e custo customs i m of nil nii all ail c countries oun irles fries and if universally adopted d euid would leave the earth uninhabited in about acen a century unless illicit intercourse was practiced our doctrine of marr marn marriage lage lago does not inv dinv invade ade the customs of ot society more than this and if it did what then thil it if the customs of society are wrong ft degrading r ading abing degenerating and corrupt shall shail lwe iwo we be compelled to endorse and adopt them while god has taught us a better etter way one of the customs of society is open and general licentiousness licentiousness must we wo bo be compelled to adopt it when hen we know it leads to destruction we in might ight ahme name namo othen other customs that are flagrantly and admittedly wrong which the most philanthropic men of the aad age are seriously and sedulously trying in to invade and every right thinking man the editor of the amongst the num number heit beir wishes them gods godspeed speed p eed As for invading the fhe laws of the coti country we have bave never done so but congress after our falth faith had been avowed and the file ite Itt revelation enjoining plurality of wives upon us had been published strove to stigmatize us as crim criminals anais by passing an act prohibitory of a part of our religious faith and with wilh us a most vital and sacred ordinance the Bev cilie cille further say says 8 what what is 1 in incorrectly said oni ont conall all ali hands that polygamy is no part of bf any religion there you must allow us to correct you it is a part of our religion directly commanded by god and observance nonobservance non of it under divinely imposed conditions condition would ensure hie the wre vre wreck ek of or our hopes of salvation we have said before what is is conceded from all quarters that the constitution guarantees r aran tees to us the fullest exercise of 0 our r religion so long as that tiit religion does not infringe upon the constitutional tights of an any other person or people if it can call be shown that any person is compelled to practice plurality of w wives vives ives or ia is coerced into it if it can be shown that all the parties are not free agents I 1 in fi their obedi obedience ence to the doctrine taft khenso D so ri far its ils as th that at is the cise case case lye ive are willing to admit thie there is is a wrong j and an infringement of constitutional 1 rights 1 such case can be shown the tho doctrine asan as an article articie arti cleof of our faith and aud a n d a part of our religion has been voluntarily embraced by the latter iatter day dak saints who tilo recognize n az 0 it aa as a comma command d from jehovah and to endeavor to compel their abandonment of it though the age be against it is to seek to rob them of their constitutional rights and band prescribe the mardner mariner in which they shall worship god and the number of his revelations ions lons which they may receive with t the he number they must reject we shall be pleased to see the e editor stor of the re fie when he pays his purposed visit to great salt lake city and to td greet him in iii our sanctum if he comes with his eyes bion fion honestly esli esil open he will wili find that the mormons cormons Mor mons have bee been n traducer traduced trad and arid lied about most tremendously s |
