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Show TT m a' XT a '"Th.c YOU 3, ham si truhj nology of Mormon history used by Bar" n on. the City of the Sawiis. dates it on the nun Whs lever may be the reasons f w these variations m dates, the fact of Mountain Meadow M W- c i; r j the massacre is now uncontradifted. Second fact. Fifty four Mormons, at that time m good reputo in the organization, whose names are published Br A Pedestrian. the world, but are very certainly not written in the book of life, were on the No 11. ground, and aiding or consenting to the kilting. One does not need to take a very Lng Third fact- Utah in 1857 was in a walk, either figuratively or literally, condition of actual rebellion against the aiiout the Zion of the latter day, to reach authority of the United States. For the conclusion that there must he home four years and more the most terrific very great mistake as to any revelation political harangues had oen delivered LtXVis.1 oGBIl made to Joseph. South, .1 r . in. tabernacles and ward meeting that it should be called the Church of houses throughout the entire extent of Jesus Christ, the Territory. Ileber Kimball had The prophets, seers, revelators, apos- threatened to whip the United States tles, elders, and others with whom we with his wives Brigham told the come in contact in these latter days of Saints that lie should take it, as a wittho Berpetuai ivmgr.ition Society, ness that God designs to cut the thread are so unlike those called tube Saints. " between this people and Ibe United and whoso characters are lelinealeJ in States, when an army undertakes to the New Testament, that we suspect, make its appearance in this Territorythat Joseph Smith Jr., who was a very and that lie wouli taka the liberty - 1 . - funny fellow at U'us, niu'l hive intended it as a joke, when he announced that by revelation' his organization was to bo called the Church of Jesus of Latter Day and added, Christ, Saints, to distinguish it from the Church Our walks of former day saints. about this Zion have revealed to us the blasphemy of those who say they are train1 s. and are nut hut, are of the synagogue of satan. Our last walks, began on the third day of August, and continued to the first day of September, 1857, in the company of the fat, jolly apostle, George A. Smith, was illuminated for us by two The first delivered f his discourses, on the second day of August, the day before starting; the other on the 13th day of September, twelve days after his return. These, with a letter written by James A. Martmeau, and published in the same number of the Deseret News with the discourse of the 13th of September, enable us to get at the true in war lnwV of the journey southward, followe I as it was so quickly by the terrible massacre, of the Mountain Meadow, which took place three days afhr the 8 md ay on which the apostle amused the Saints with the narrative of his journey. lYe kuov what he preached about on tint ivver to to be forgotten jour n,y. I low hi toll the Saint-- ; to keep their p w 'r dry, fin 1 used hi a best io ko'p dive th" spirit of the n pi v SIw be eitj jyed humid! in the g'orious intern ov In had in van n ! ic u wnhth natives tf the "the b itrle axes of tic Lori.'' IT nv h '.vstneml vl'nn tin md eerj diuns drills and was on inspe itary able to report the whole s j r lvrn por talking as he pleased about tic' President of the United States: and so he painted the President iri no very f! itter-ing colors, whi'e Ileber, not to be outdone by the First President shouted, that God knew that Zachary Taylor would strike against us, and he sent him to hell. We hoped that Buchanan would do us justice, but he has issued orders to send troops to kill Brother Brigham and me aad to take the young women to the States.'' Those who might desire to leave were given the privilege to do so in one breath, and then threatened with damnation if they availed themselves of it, and stigmatized by the vilest epithets that the foul vocabulary of these Saints could furnish if they desired to go. They were told that every man who raises his hand against this people will be destroyed. In the midst of this wild excitement prevailing over the Territory, the anni versnry of, Pioneers Day occurred, and A. O Smoot returned from the East bringing the news , confirming the ex pectations of Brigham, that Buchanans appointees to the Federal offices were on their way, accompanied by 2000 United States soldiers. The fires of rebellion played even more fiercely than ever. On the Sabbath following Smoot, gave a fearful report of the darkness and v ic Redness he had found Unit. That the wliI) nation seemed to have wimp, (f'll, find lint !he comparatively speaking, crazy or insan. TSi it u was a daily occurrence for men to be shot ibcvn in the streets The good Bishop grew facetious over the sin ill number of troops that were bnmg to fignt the .Mormons, who would n it when they got here be e breakfast n c.n I uni IrenThai for the i ,, m .i'll and ,,i IT'S 11 iv whip - Wyik. vio u , ar i th i lle-flint such a job u r i A in di w ik m g ,( mil not t im u; from our p'i tful Iv ti uvo ition-- . for e eii (,ne day. And that other-- , ar ns. an i 1 d'T'-in day br 'Co :f it would oY, the Umle 1 States oim- -t v v mt i of She revenue for a mini her which vr si their ' ns i ti in i1 v A c ,t the women and children can so ih wot ry, ml iff urs m flu whip - what will it o-- l them to send an m os i.tcilin' ap'ith'' m c- - i cu irmy La: go enough to whip out our r.'H- - illu-t- i afaon iuilc the ulKr in fonuin. omn or will lit oiu f the jiumptof Undo Sam f i v!iv lit then 'MU th r so niiliil ity I t'n, clear, that a io t ike tho Mormons, ' n pr.no n; voice from Th ; di ring ft is Inw the body of the house bout' 1 , It wo dil co- -) tlicni iimn than or, ar i turn era illy iloi tt'd. First fct. Ovs'.') itci.vi nii, ml they git "Yes, replied the g c ) an mf npo-inchilirmi f uurnl trim Bibvpand c ei'icil, ,, from Vrk ni- - c on rr, i, were put K de ith a! M ev. Ut th. on or a ,o uf Sep! end rr, 57 Brother Gh irk- - W. 1Y 1 for-gul.- len de-ii- t. ill 1 s'-n- t .-H , !- , n I pr-uti- 1 1 i 1 1 -' 1 ea-dl- i S y : n- -t rubn jilpc,; i- f I - lii-- ur Si i -- to-U- j 1 1 1 d'. n f ic lui fie labor i rs are - v. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY, WALKS ABOUT ZfOX. "f is great, oraefee oi til 3 t ats thru,'! J Brother Brigham followe i wnii the same harangue, with which the poetic and el iquent Bishop O, F, Whitney now entertains the Saints when it comes his turn to speak a piece in the Tabernacle, in which be shows wUh equal cleverness that the Kingdom of the Lattei Day Saints is the stone that Daniel saw cut of the mountains that was to fill the whole earth. The good prophet closed his discourse with these words of inspiration: Woe, woe unto that man who comes here ts unlawfully interfere with my affairs. Woe, woe unto those men who come here to unlawfully meddle with me and this people. I swore in Nau-vfl'when my enemies were looking me in the face, that I would send them to hell across lots, if they meddled with me, and I ask nn more of all hell to day. After this pious peroration the eminent Saint subsided with the usual i. prciifti, UUU.J God bleaa v'Ou, hi etui Oil and sisters; amen. The same day Brother Ileber proph cried that thetinm would come when, whether ou belonged to this church or Smith noTr,vi Tviil nrjvrt as the prophet of the living God, and look upon him as a God, and also upon Brother Briglmm Young, our Gov ernor in the Territory of Deseret. Well I will say there is no other man except it be his successor in the priesthood that will ever rule over me as a governor." May the peace of God be with you, and upon your children and your childrens children for ever and ever, and may God Almighty curse our enemies, I feel to curse my enemies, and when Gad wont help them I do not think he will ask me to help them; if I did it would be to put the poor curses to death who have brought death aad destruction on me aad my brethren, and upon my wives aad children. Was there ever anything in the history of the world like this, Tabernacles, resounding with the curses of pandemonium . Tho people every w hare being drilled to meet the enemy. Votes being taken in the midst of infiamatory ha rangues, to bum houses, destroy water courses, if necessary, to retreat to the mountains and carry on a guerrilla warfare from thenc8 with the Government of Jhe United States. If this was not war, what does it take to make war ? From Sabbath to Sabbath day the fires burnt more and more fiercely, under the immediate observation of Brother Penroses Statesman and Philanthroist, hitman of pAice, who dreamed of cutting throats, and lulu ui dreams wills such an unction that even now the very pages on which they are printed seem to grow red as we read. Who wonders that in the South, where they caught the wild ecboe-of his, and Hebers and Woodruff's and Taylors insane sayings, they of blood tj were ready far any rul themselves of tho danger that nimbi, from iLeWe-a- , emne frmn an mva.-io- n at brought about by emigrants, such a time through their Territory, and the spirit of r- hellion that everywhere was mimfe&t. Our greatest danger. the Lit apos tie said to Lee, lies in the people of Cthb'rnia, They ore likely t) come upon us from the Smth an I destroy tic: small settlemnts. Dame and Haight an Kiingn Smith and Lee, under such circumstances. ate lung their inspiration of buck words of fierce denunciation, of hatred, to a government vvilh which Zion was at war, would consider the extermination of such a band uf as tlu were- - led to believe the Arkansas end . grant0, to be, aa a military neces,.-.itThe Kingdom of God is sii dtng'jr, an i prophets and apostles prtcLing mill tary discourses, everywhere i the Terr fnT' v,'V) 'M nwiv Uiiw Ji op'uy , no matter how wild, meeting with responses, there can be no confusion as to the causes that, led to the Mountain Meadow Massacre. A band of emigrants from Arkansas, where Parley T. Pratt, one of the great men of Mormonism bad been assassinated a few months before, for rob s pa-s- - oh-ervi- 1 ( mi-rreu- y - thA' S ;, Ji!,. 12th, r "Uh gues-.t- h it you could rake: good, ISl'J: anl aficiwid hi up bvimrnn'r cffieierst warnors? I toll them I able lies, -- p .ken an written n it b!y by thjughl ise could raise fifty or sixty the prophet J ih'l Taj n nui oher emi With it) 3 it nent Biinis. uatd the 25th of August, However, guess. 1852, is now in ex:e places the late on Sf candidly and believed all I said , The CLro- ani th- - y fdso believe I it . day- - carh tbellth, 1 1 1 I j t. - 1 NO. VII. 1880. bing Hector McLean uf his lawful wfe to iucreue-- the number uf tLoon elec! women, to whom lie proposed to giv eternal concubinage. Travelling through a region wtn-rbirangers and suspected persons were not to bo penmttea to travel; "hero the diabolical spirit of tho reformation was to be kept alive; where George A. Smith had been preaching, uniting ths people in their feelings of faith as wall as works. They, poor emigrants, had no more chance to reach California when driven away from Salt Lake City, than a flock of sheep had to get through a hundred miles of territory crowded with hungry wolves. and statesman Brigham You ag philanthropist, was mad enough in 1S57 to believe that he could success fully defy tho United States, in his mountain fastnesses, with a people who were obedient to counsel; and whom he had no doubt would, at his command-lawaste every thing that would burn, houses, fences, field? and grass, eo that an iavadmg army, as he eboe to consider the United Slates forces, would not find ever, a partieK of my thing that will he of use to them, not even sticks to make a fb'o to cook their supplies. The poor emigrants, leaving Balt Lake City, at or near the time Smith went South, went to death. Meeting Smith on lua way back to Salt Lake City, they were directed by him, or his company, to the very spot where the battle axes of tho Lord might fall upon them, and the e termination take place, without a white Morraan's shedding a single drop of in nocent blood. But the destiny that shapes the ends of organizations, as ws as of individuals, did not intend that Mormonism should accomplish by the agency of allies, a crimes abhorrent to humanity. The Indians under Lee were inefficient, and fifty four Mormons, uLedient to couneel, passive like clay, or like a tailored rag or wick before a fire were united with them, fully determined to obey orders. There are a few events in 1357, whose dates are important to remember. The news of the coming July of the troops, and of the newly ap pointed Federal officers, reached Brigham Young. George A, Smith left August. 2nd. Salt Lake City to visit his family and friends in the southern part of the Territory, attend to his property, inspect tho troops, and preach military dis fOursn and hoop up the brethren gen orally upon the subject of the coming of tho army, and all matters pertaining e 1 -- THE INIH'riTIUA L HOME The statement, that tue progress of Chrtsrian ciriiization is marked evtu y where by thn riiuitiplicatioa of institutions for the care of the unfortunate, will not probably be retarget! as an item of news. It is something which is apparent to all observe! s, and which even the enemies of Christianity are generalThe ly candid enough to admit. traveler in Fagan lauds Is not taken by his guide to visit Orphan Asylums, Homes for the aged, or Asylums fur the blind. The traveler in Utah would enquire in vain for similar institutions, and while this is partly doe to the fact that the Territory has been settled less than forty years, theteare othr reasons why Utah is far behind Colorado or California in the matter of provision for the dependent classes. Th" idea of an Industrial Home and School for this Territory originated with Hon. A. S. Paddock of Nebraska. After his appointment as a member of the Utah Commission, he took some pains to inquire into the condition of tine classes for which provision is made elsewhere by the State, and he learned what old residents knew before, namely, that with the exception of a Lunatic Asylum Utah supported nothing in the shape of public charities, and that aside from the hospitals, there were no organized private charities here. While Commissioner Paddock was poraing his investigations, Mrs. Newman, of the same State, was also making inquiries into the condition of the women and children of this Territory, and while she was asking; What can be done for those whose naeds are so pressing? her attention was arrested by a newspaper report of an interview in which Comrnis-f-- r Paddock recommended an In Iust a I tome for women and an ludu-uria- l School for young girls, .ot one means of solving the Utah robletn.' With the unfolding of the plan 'Mifliried in this nitervKw and the thereto of he organization of the August 25th. George, A, Smith met History In biatrial Home Associarion. your tho emigrants at Corn Crock September 'ead-r- are already familiar. 1st. I Monk it was theedior of the Utah Unm-.- n an Advocate who tir-f- t September 14ti iiiut the pluU 'Ugge-t'-- d de sued bv Bru nominations! a'M.riution hoald give place i that of ,i ?i ormin.zar-oS- . Hili-- e M'upei should tie JLS September 15th. IB vine ctuopas-j- f n, Urn id a the Kith. Mountain Mead'iw JIu ,ioi u lucurJuiue ill tills 'uuaention, li in the light of the f No one can 1 hurt i;u;s of eveiv mum hare bn-- tvi down vntkout ex and i JK-tn- s iU-th- a-- k. at tiuthf'i1 narrative pbihini tion in this pi.ii.i an hrqi"!s onuHe of the who w as u M, ono.Ue foi th- - n nil'-i- j lie have joirse hllll ucU j piO war th it BriaiMio, min a time of war. , k: and Congrc'-sassurvuj wirci Ileber and Well-,- and tho i t Oi the 'BUitenien Phil uithrope is" In la ,e-- Inal edly s,w-- x s )oh leparufjon to the to the., e victim oi a they could su sysfeng that ha been of tli i r e coaipbshui-n- t lie a 'lowed to rxb--t o;i American soil salvation of lie Knuni of Cr,,i for hslf a Vntury, h o- - be-- rt upp.e,ti-e- . that tl e pour enoouvn- - And'! to lor o t, ir i" 3 'aieiocnT heptriijitted t ) !' ive i he leir'tnrv ai.ii'.i rtie King lorn of Go 1. Gi 'tn'enf io be thankful for rh h the Sum:e decreed tber death. Voting wa-- . C onruittce bef,i'e w hich oi;r peii-ts- u) (Vu- - State. H.e --,rat" tnen u; r.o it- - o, b.H Lui .i va f.ivori- repoit--Oil of Utah, ajs AiflJi-ughrtin. ! if is ail ehnreh, lint, ii i.n.v, if R , certainly ad ehnreh mt n, ana s done that mine Ihiginui , q "and that, so harrowed up his feelniu th,,t he could not listen to Ijews o. but v, ith whom he could make arrareuiea'- - to have hi:n write a letter laying it all to the Indians, i the poo, diaa t and in such s way as to make it appar that they had caused their own dpstructma. CvTldudcd Oh p. 1 ( , -- -- -- . - ! ot o ir.h'i-vnt-- tie-d-n- |