Show THEN NOW here are certain ACLU sours fours is coll H el ted ur u r history as a church chau r ell eli alid and people thal that are an anything y thing but PI pleasa easan nUo refer to or look back upon but few can calmly contemplate the tragedy of their brethren and friends mur deredin cold blood their homes homed destroyed their property taken themselves imprisoned e apa I 1 t ri eted and bitterly persecuted their weary pathway as they fled from that persecution marked with the blood of the inno innocent cent cont and the graves of the aged infirm and helpless who sank down b by y the wayside way side the victims victim of i violence xeva veva ll 11 this and much more we cannot hel hei help heip p at C times imes but think of af and think of vividly for tor all has been borne aud and suffered ered by this thi s people as a church and though many of us hae ha not been I 1 exposed to such envenomed and bitter persecution all or nearly all have had to suffer for the truths sake the discourses delivered by elder geo A smith for a few rew new sunday mornings past in n have induced thought and reflection I 1 and farlly excite a comparison between between the course pursued by the missouri of twenty ago and the feeling which animates those who would destroy troyas us now clark dark commanding an nn armed lob dob called militia after some edme of the principal men of the church had been taken prisoners by them though innocent of any leri lerl crime me i an deef used oven even en tho the ordinary ary course of bf law in in venal courts addressed the citizens t of ear far westin a speech shiell is worthy of ot record being as it is illustrative of he spirit P manifested the then theu and and aud now how by our ou enemies he ire had no fault to nind find wi alithe the ohe oris oils a s citizion citizens eitl citI I 1 5 they were energetic dwi I 1 mid and I 1 persevering persever 1 lug jug they had settled sealed the afie worst land in missouri and in a remarkably short time they had ma madeia de it the hio hlo most 84 prod productive best dail cultivated and ana dd I most aftos t I 1 jn n 7 I 1 ming citing part of the tb slate sut e and they th ay were peaceable quiet and orderly does not this thiis sound bound very verb lil lii ilke like 0 o the encomiums comi passed upon us loday today lo to day was ayas it not something like ilke thi this ahai that speaker colfax C 0 cifax and nd party said in the front of salt lake house one monday evening last june transpose the dates and panics name sand and the sentiments uttered might be taken for the same but said mark dark you must never expect ag again alnio aiato to organize with presidents and bishops in a church organization or the people will totally destroy apu you must not even meet in twos or threes for the purpose purpose of prayer or for any other purpose you must give tip up your faitha faith falth your religion your church or organization F a your gad why because we lwe will not summer suffer it baid gad sad missouri through this doughty general isyou if you do we will ill lii destroy you ve we will summer suffer er you wona wonderful erful condescension s ka 0 o reside among us ils and oc occupy cupy your farms and the he property which your indomitable perseverance and anil industry have gathered around y you 44 but you musk renounce YO your I 1 ur religion apostatize from your faith and deny your prophet and then turning pious he invoked the spir spin spirit ift of the unknown god lika like the athenians of old to rest upon dion the mor mons molls 11 and remove from their minds their fanaticism i this clark dark who thus trampled on every principle of civil and religious liberty and who utterly disregarded our constitutional rights I 1 like othe others rs who aji then and since have sought to ride over oyer the constitution thab thau they might accomplish their debi desi debins designs ns on the mor mons 11 wat valet heart a traitor subsequent pars years developed in him as in 0 t hers a nd as it kiil do in still more the rank ank treason which animated him his fits na me on the roll of ocho tho the rebel congress as a member he was at the tim time e refer referred ped rew XeA to sustained and a aided Ide ilby liby by men calling calli nag tag themselves minister ministers I 1 of tle the gospel of dr I 1 christ 1 wh wb 1 ore wore active participators participatory the atrocious i deeds the scenes to chwe ai are bie tie now so determined was wa s the missoura MiSso M url uri mob urged on by politicians 1 ans bad whisky and the spirit of wickedness to carry out the pro gramme they had ar ranged breakup the mormon church destroy as ars us leaders and appropriate their property that they proceeded in a ser series serles lesof of acts the most dam damnable pabio pable and bloody that have evert ever been recorded in the annals of any people making the least pretensions to civil and religious liberty eventually driving the mormons cormons Mor mons from the state stater fo for i no i other cause but that they chose to worship god according to the dictates of their own consciences there were infants children meli mell and wom women en and r revolutionary evolutionary fathers murdered in cold blood men who had fought for that liberty thus ruthlessly and fiendishly abused were killed by the ve very vers ry men for whose liberty they had struggled one old gentleman who had fought with washington was hewn to pieces with a corn orul cutter at hauns mill milt while proclaiming himself one of the till bodyguard body pody guard of the father of his country mit but recapitulation i is needless r these kliese things andriany and many more have bl been dil ell before the public c from then till now cill civil alid and religious liberty were trampled under foot the constitution spit p it upon and defied its provisions derided and an unoffending people subjected to th most horrible bakai bakal barbarities tiei which have bave been contina continued i pd with M more ai 1 ordess or jess violence as opportunity offered until today to day I 1 4 there bere wasl was no jio poly gamio le bugbear bub hug bear bean i thon thou at which people could pelt velt and raise a cry of hate wate plurality al 01 wives was unknown aad undreamed of but we believed jin a prophet of god cdon concerning whose divine calling and mission ivd we had bad the most indubitably testimony we appealed to ahe he state government for redress and protection but received neither they said guilty or innocent we must execute some bof lof their lend lead leaders e rs or the character ten ter of fhe the he state tate i is s irretrievably damned 11 the denara general 1 government was applied to with no better beafter success we jve were vere referred ba baek back fk to the nnie state w where here the outrage i occurred a and nd the offenders enders were shielded for all the enormities committed on the mormons cormons Morn Mor mons long then not an arrest was made nor an individual I 1 punished n no matter lio ilo how bow w black his hig turpitude now we are told that the only object conable feature in our social religious or moral polity is polygamy that there is no enmity manifested against a 9 ainest us asa as a people q but bui only against this single article bour u i faith falth anda and practice ra gilce ge gentlemen j you bpck our past pat miser amer t I 1 ies les ins insult u lt our past sufferings by such a it declaration we know and you are well award that we cannot help held know ap ing how y baseless I 1 it I 1 t is when we look at the past or else you must be ig igi 1 borant of the history of a people concerning whom you pretend so m much i uch knowledge you insult our manhood by asking that we shall shail sacrifice our dur faith today to day when for years we clun elun clung 0 to it with oun our lives ilves hourly in leru peril ieru but god and he alone su sustained us then and is our help now it 1 is a mistake to suppose that plurality iti of wives wives is the cause se of the opposition that acts against us it is the hus hut hostility of error to truth of daik dail darkness nd 0 to light 0 of i f corruption to wickedness it is simply beaus e god ha haq bestowed bhe the priesthood upon man on ion the eaith earth ad atad restored the everlasting gospel and le ve ri those who wiio iii til have embraced that have confidence an n the men who imd idd that priesthood that we nye are hated and md perse eun cun we know it we are aw te 0 that we are hated cordially iia lla hafed fe d by many but we are used to it an and id it neither robs us of our sleep nor destroys our appetite we can read the slanders perpetrated against us without bei bel bring being much annoy annoyed ed we read in the telegraphic c dispatches lately that it was I 1 stated in lh washington that a brigade of soldiers would be required iu in utah to keep the people in subjection subjection to what we knew then and know now that th the es lanes slander iander ianes was as base BS it was false we know know as our enemies know that there Is not a more mode lav ian lawr layr abiding quiet orderly deop people I 1 e ain in the nation than the inhabitants of utah but we object to being led by the loseby nose by every self conceited silly ass who thinks he is capable of c pl playing ay ing the g grand rand mogul among us and we have sense and knowledge enough to know that the constitution has given us the tha rights and liberties of ican citizens however much some people may strive to rob us of them we lire have with the heip help help heip of god opened up this wilderness rind placed one of the brightest jewels in the nations diadem we have done this in n privation suffering 8 eferin C and tin untold told tola dangers we have clung 0 to our country and the constitution through trials and persecutions the most wot bitter and virulent but we would sooner again meet the unknown wn dangers of an untried ihn lah daml a and hew out for ourselves a home where white men had never lived oi or lay aay our bodies on the soil wo we had conbeer consecrated abed to god gd and I 1 virtue than prove recreant to our god our oun faith falth and our hopes of eternal salvation 1 1 r aa r MIXING INGI MINING 4 what fussing and ana nd fuming fuming about mines adl niini mining 1 n 1 gl placer diggings quartz ve veins us lodes leads ana and so on as though tho the acquisition of gold and silver sliver was fhe the hig hid mw important object 1 of human n p I 1 gold and sil cpr are co convenient an dhave a proper sphere of bof usefulness 1 but wh why try to have haxe everybody go 1 oc crazy 1 raYj 1 about them antl anil abuse themselves and others in their acquisition and use iong long long years year sago ago 7 we kaw of the lead ore coinson b both oth slopes af the mo mountains bound bounding lil ili i g f his this valley on t the h e westi of the mineral veins at gat an dother and other plages places and also knew know sliver that they contained a perc percentage c bilag 0 of silver did we then want to have anay anything jio do with them no do we now no Wh why yiAo not rot because we can ean sult suit ourselves better bettor at other occupations tio Is A proverb say says S it costs a mine mixie to to work a mine audi andi and aside from a knowledge of the general correctness oi that proverb our own personal and practical experience of some eight years n mining with spade pick shovel shovel drilli drill gad zad ac above the water in and under t the lie water llvy nas proved quite curative of ally aby aking iii fil u 1 g we had llad for tor that raf rat pursuit do 0 lie vve we ob object eject to others engaging enia gink in lii nili n hing hii 3 most r ost certainly not though in Tf utah ah s so far as mining for gold and silver has yet proven our precept is as our example has uniformly been that any aby other laudable occupation is not only more blore pleasant and useful but is alo also aio more inore profitable than mining for tor the precious metals within our borders bordens rs Is there anything intrinsically cally caily wrong in mining abstractly considered no 20 but it is is too uncertain and when unprofitable as is the case with the very great grgat majority almost the he only reminiscence tending to gild past arduous self denying and profitless toil is the memory df th the e accompanying excitement at the time me Is that kind of pov poy payment payin pavin in 6 nt sati satisfactory f c tory f if f so f fry try ry I 1 it all ali who prefer so doing |