| Show CHALLENGE lP Pdt of if lion shaby aln iby 31 Cull ilat sanator Sin from I 1 1111 he state of illinois on ills bill to de utah and girt her a Cuu ucil lu in the V U S semite senate friday JA jan 1884 1881 the president pro I 1 tempore e m pore the chair under stam py clial ila t t the senator ator fr froan lin illinois mr cullom desires ti to liae have o dfred at this time for lie the i pnra rp so beof or submitting sub millin rei remark narks the I 1 till it recognize the tile tiye pw ei 8 nr the territory of utah mr cullom yes sir air the president ro pro tem import port the senator from illinois a asks sk a unanimous consent coment to take up tip for consideration at sit this time he the bill the title of f ft which the he chair has stated ig Is thera there object objection in the chair hears none an and that bill is before the senate as in committee of or the whole M mccullom Mr r cullom mr president I 1 ask the indulgence of the honorable senate for fora a brief time while I 1 submit some remarks on an a subject involving a problem in american politics per hapa as difficult to solve as any we shall have to contend i with in the tile near future A careful examination of the history I 1 oatlie mormon church or hierarchy rc ly from its organization down to the tile present day ought wight I 1 think bocon to con binte every senator that it is our bounden duty as of the tile people and a cju part responsible for forche ilia perpetuity of our christian civilization to take such legislative action as will result in the certain and speedy subjection of the latter day saints as they are called to the laws of the tile nation A rapid review of the history of mormonism is decem necessary to a good understanding of the dancers that threaten the country by reason of the lawless spirit and treasonable designs offbeat of that organization in 1820 ISLo joseph smith im illier illi jr an ignorant youth thriftless trifling flins and land a debauchee accord ink ay to history who lived near palmyra nt N Y professed to possess the power of di divination v in alion and for many acara made uso use of this pretended power to deceive the ignorant and n ut and thereby secure a 11 living ving U lien he lie had succeeded in obtaining of a following by these smith pretended in 1827 thai lie had discovered hidden in the earth a aU Ur olden ilden bible or the lite book of or Mor mormon moti eo so sacred that certain leeoth would anime to any who saw it except the tile prophet prop liei himself him belf it was wall aon to modify this declaration and anti smith had a r cevela evela lion tion witnesses ever bince that dav it has been the frari irv ice i r if f this ela boic liun li it organization t make eq equally tally rail ival cht gea in its d or 0 r i wi eaver ver ii it became e exie exi e H nw nt esary es ary itie end justl ties IH H aln it 11 can lug always beun been le after elih publication of the book if r Hrin oi in ili 1830 a col culina riv nf of morn nor ona ois wit i established ln d at kilt land ohio awl a system alle orgain liidi aaion li iii afi nallie lie mortman Mori bler archy wils effected smith senith an that at kirtland were ere it aliu e gilt of aa and to be the 1 11 heri of of lio people forever tiit il ppe alv f this cy cv dit did n not shake tho confidence of liis lils followers iu in the self st led la pl liet et yu hii a liliie itt niile a bean bewail between lite und ki fiand ali die lite 31 rinnis rin iii and lite prophet siet i essary feary to doir so lie ladd an 1111 ther n acid thi time lit lie 1 prix r ed falat that ice e MI has he I 1 of 4 r inise and ahe place lace lor for the city cf zion and 1 n JM IB unil in mis uri and IM iiii ry a contant cont atil warfare wit 4 ali it tho rf re edento or like locality me of 4 thu the state ich calli dilated in ill their expulsion in lliel nar kierol il ti alie et tate in ili 1833 i fijn ueral lark w lio ho commanded hit the bent to governor vernor B ifsits u dl in ili which he lie ar ur aai alitt follows there if is no rime crime from treason do ii to petit la ceby but these peo 11 lle e or a niad rity of 0 I 1 them hein have been guilty alty of all too under ibe the of S V seph sil smith lith jr the prophet they llam lm ti tr eason mur dwir araon i burgl burgamy My robbery larceny lari any and perjury they leave societies formed under the most bi covenants Coy coye enante nants in u fauld and he the most horrid oaths to circumvent tile laws and put them to def defiant lance cand and to plunder murder I 1 burn I 1 and divido tile spoils for the use of the church buo governor boea in a special ines sAge to tile legis kattire tati ire in 1840 referring ferrini re to the mor blur uon use used tins language s these peo people le ila violated ahe the laws of the land by 0 open en force and avowed resistance to t them iem they had undertaken without the aidon the civil authorities to redress their real or fancied grievance grievances they bad basti buted among a government m of their owna oan independent of and in opposition to the government of thia this state they had at an inclement season of tho tile bear year driven the inhabitants afan entire co county anty from their homes ravaged their crops and Jes destroyed troyed their dwellings under these obese circumstances a it became the im operative Pera tive duty of tile executive to interfere and exercise the tile powers with I 1 which ho li was invested to to protect tile lives and property of our ci citizens to t restore or anler derand and tranquillity to the country and maintain the supremacy of the tile laws leavle g misso missouri rl auder another convenient divine inspiration from smith the prophet them thet a people crossed the tile river rive anio illinois and pitched ditched itched their tents at pub fie ie sym sympathy pIthy was enlisted in their behill beca berduxe tige of their supposed e d per a 8 ution and anti they belci welcomed ii by ohe people missionaries and preach rc were again sent our out and in the spring of 1841 Brig brayham hain young shipped from liverpool over saven seven han dred proe urn lytes lia lie liml hadi gather ather eduwin drope liu ope kauv eirew with ith yal aal P 1104 I 1 mint d another revelation to the effect thai tha t a great temple should be built there in 1843 the lh first authora tive amento in favor of polygamy waa is sued by loy smith as it revelation tile blo mormon church flourished smith mith seat sent up at nauvoo an fade pendent to the tile state assli assuming tin g powers and the nauvoo legion was increased men within the city of nauvoo joseph smith was an absolute despot lie H was not only the spiritual and temporal bead head of the Cli church but was also mayor of the city judge of the mayo mayors rss court presiding officer of the council and commander of the lefon legion with a higher rank than was given at that time to any onifer in the tile united states stat es army the municipal pal court assumed jurisdiction in all cabes of arrests arr estil kaade in ill the rity city by any process ever and I 1 believe once or twice released joe smith when he had been arrested rested nr as a 4 fugitive from justice under tinder warrants issued by the governor of illinois upon requisition from the gover missouri not satisfied with even this unwarranted assumption of authority the council had the audacity to pass pan an ordinance providing that no writ issued from any place other than nancoo lor tor the arrest arrest of any person persa there should be executed in the city without an ap indorsed endorsed Indor sed thereon by the mayor it was also provided that if any officer should attempt to make anar an ar the city under any such foreign writ without the mayors ap of his process he should ar be a subject to imprisonment for life and that the governor could not pardon him without the consent of the mayor these highhanded high handed proceedings were appropriately supplemented by the petition presented to congress by the cormons mormons Mor mons in which they asked lor jor authority to set up an Inae independent pend state about this time dissensions bean began to develop among the leaders and bitter hostilities sprang up between the tire mormons cormons and the citizens of the surrounding country the mormons cormons era ere charged with stealing property of every description the cattle of farmer farmers were taken and it is related that on one occasion when the olli cers of the law were reported as coming to nauvoo in search or stolen property an order was sent forth to the faithful laith ful to assemble at once to hear brigham young declare the mysteries odthe of the kingdom the tile batory is hat that when the people assembled young took off hta h auit cui t went upon the he stand and said brethren tho tile mysteries of the kingdom of god are hat that ye shall all let lot down the bars those who had hud stolen cattle under this hint the bars were let down and when the officers of the law aw came the farmers cattle were roaming the streets and no man could be proven guilty of having stolen them I 1 these difficulties finally culminated in n war and the tile death of brilli the tie prophet and hiram smith t the 11 ie path patri ancl at 1 l the ii of a moti governor furd ford in his fill ii history 1 nf of illinois states that fro from in I 1 the I 1 I 1 a b best lie could get et he lie believed hat that had the idea of amik I 1 inn ill himself a temporal prince as well a spiritual leader leade of hii his hi i people lie alsed to bacr be craned and an ki king g and n d priest fa far the reit ret 11 iio lie 1 luither u t h r bays says that he tire mor nor mons trion s openly denounced the govern men mt antol t I 1 he a united states as utterly i corrupt aal about tu pass pam away tn ile w replace rei lacel I bv the tile government of god to be ile administered by his servant joeph eph tile remit of the war wai was that that the no Mor inona left illinois while writs and for lorol property mirty stolen were threatening them and pitched their tents at council bluffed a liwa ima as wi a realm Flare history says adyn aliat the hu country around that city I 1 WO eparnell 81 arcely settled complaints comp lainta were alloin bli n heard from citizens zens wh charred the he will their stuck and committing other delpreda binns ti ins the Mor niona moved rn und the advance colu column ilin of LA tier slay saints arrived arri veil in the valley of S alt laef in july 1847 they soon became a people their iiii mi marteo and preach ers rs in till aire tiou i aud martn olllie w wald r for the mormon ch church arch they beautiful city erected a burcat stormon mo temple ia in tile ibe city cily and sao ezi in ili other portius us of the territory aid aud cultivated the fertile valleys or that great and rich burtion olour country but mr pre ident there is scarcely a pae page of their history tliatha not marred by a j re It some foul deed the aimle history ili i tor Y of the mormon church abound 0 in illustrations 6 sel fishiness fish ness deceit a and nd of its leaders anti members embere tu founded on fraud built up L by ly the mot most audacious deception this organization lias been notoriously 1 so corrupt and immoral in its I 1 if alcea leo teachings teach ineSt and tendencies as to justify tile government in assuming assum ind absolute control of the territory and in giving to the church or its follow cr ers no voice in the administration of public affairs the progress of mormonism to its present strength and power lias has been attended by a continual series of murder murders in ur rober leg and outrages of ever every description IOU but there is one dar dark spot in record that can never beetch be I 1 one crime BO heinous that the blood of the betrayed victims litell call calls aloud for vengeance familiar as s you all must ba be with the story of the mountain meadow massacre its detale cannot be recalled without a shudder of honest andl aaion at tha the brutal and barbaric spirit pir adis a ral by choso it who w a could coolly y pla plan and cruelly perpetrate r errato such an n un unparalleled a ralle buic butchery be r th the e records of or contress Cony agress ress furnish su clent evidence to prove aa M I 1 believe conclusively clu that this most atrocious massacre was planned and decreed by the mormon nion priesthood and that reveral of the leaders personally participated in ili the horrify horrifying in scenes of carnage and bloodshed witnessed witness eAl in the mountain meadow valley on that fateful jtb of september 1857 of that luckless band of one hundred and forty men inen women and children none were left to tell the tory story of the massacre maimore but seventeen helpless little role children from three to teven seven yea years rs old the savages who for four days assailed thoe those brave lonjers pl oneas from arkansas would have beba teen routed bad itt not ben been foreba for the assistance of their mormon allies had instigated th them ern to the attack these n fan alica by of treachery even more mort despicable than the kutchery out chery hint that followed proposed a trita the immigrants from their barricade Zarri barricade cade and and secured their arms arins so that they could be slaughtered without resistance lance no adequate punishment wai was ever meted out to those dastardly murderers john D lee one of the leaders and chief instigators of the plot fell out with his fellow priests waa was fiade the tile scapegoat goat for their sins an anelons and d I 1 lons on afterward was shot for hi his confessed participation in th la Is mass vre othera others equally guilty were ere allowed to escape and the government utterly failed to enforce the itt atonement which Jil justice stice demanded for such an unparalleled crime my object mr president in presenting this bi lef history of the mor mons is to show the spirit that has governed the whole organization from the tile beginning and to make it apparent that their religious philos philosophy aeda ay iy is is at abnar vi ar with good society ami Js with our institutions of government and that these people can not safely be permitted to continue the course they nave aye pursued in the past their teachings lead to an utter disregard of the government and its laws and to an tin utter titter contempt odthe of the rights of those w who ho do not embrace their religion they were driven from place to enot beca because tise of their religious belief but because by their conduct aa nut individuals and as in an organization they defied the law and nd trampled upon the rights of or others they have been at war with aoud society and with rod good morals wherever they have sect secured irda a foothold they are today to day building up tip a government in ili thi this republic which is hostile to tha govern anent of the ilia states State and sand to our civilization which instead of being republican in in form and and spirit is es essentially at tit war with republican ivan principles our pioneers pion eera not cormons mormons have been oppressed by the power of or those arrogant priests pr iesta their teachings in tho the pulpit and in the tile press pre are that the tire gentiles as they are denom those are the foes of the mormon people and that every device that craft and crime can suggest is justified tar for their overthrow by a well organized system of immigration they are brinnin bringing to this country ever year thousands of haupers paupers from the old world sub jet jetts t of offee the mormon mornion taught by mormon preachers and teachers to hate this government these immigrants know ri nothing thing of our institutions except i such tini aa as emanate arm t the lie church and wherever mor ninn societies exist the tile laws of the united states are a dead lead letter their pr im achte proclaim and their people believe that it god that our civilization al ail perish and be 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