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AN OVERLAND JOURNEY,
xxr.
Two Hours with Brigham Young
Salt Lake City, Utah, July 13, 1859.
Mv friend Dr. Bernhisel. M. C, took
me this afternoon, by appointmcut,
to
meet Brighara Young, President of the
Mormon Church, who had expressed
willingness to receive mc at 2 p. m. Wo
wro verv cordiallv welcomed at the door
bv tho Pre.-ideut,who led usiutotliP second
ctnrrt nirlnr rf thn lnri."st (if lily lirnicnc u
(he has three), where 1 was introduced to
Hebcr C. Kimball, Gc. Wells, G-n Fer-
cusou Albert Carringlou, Eiias Siith,
and several other bradins men iu the
Church with two fu!l-'rowti f-oii of the
Presideut. After some unimportantcou-
,.n.,nr,i .r.;.. T i ii ! t
I had come in quet of iulier knowledge'
: .t. .i t,k n tun ;
Mormou Church, and would like to ak
Knc nue-tion, beariu? dircetlv on these. I
if there Was no objection. 1 rcaiueilt . ;y hiiim.mvi ui iug vjuuicu um uis aiwaya wuu gtuujuiaiiuai uuuuiuuy, vui
Y"oung avowed his willingness to respond ' Pcr calling by which ha earns the bread with no appearance of hesitation or re-
to all pertinent inquiries the conversa- ! f "is family, be who cannot or will not seve, and with no apparent desire to con-
tion proceeded substantially a follows: jlJo le Church's work for nothing is not ccal anjthing, nor did he repel any of
jl q A.oi I to regard Mormonim ' wanted in her services; even our lawyers my questions as impertinent. He was
(po-calle'd; t.a a new religion, or as sim- j (pointing to Gen. Ferguson and another very plainly dressed in thinsumrner cloth
ply a ncw'devclopment ol" Christianity I present, who are the regular lawyers of ing, and with no air of sanctimony or
jr y. We hold that there can be no tuo Church), are paid nothing for their fanaticism. In appcaranco, be is a port
true Christian Church without a priest- ! serviers; I am the only person in tho ly, frank, good-natured, rather thick-set
hood directly commiioned by and in : Church who has not a regular calling man of fifty-five, seeming to enjoy life,
i . . .. i
im
mediate communication with the Son of 1
God and Saviour of maukind. Such a
church is that of the Latter-Day Saints
called by their enemies Mormon; we
know no other that even pretends to have
present and direct revelations of God's
ttill.
JL G. Then I am to understand that
you regard all other churches professing
to be Christian as tho Church of Home
resards all churches not m communion
with itself as schismatic heretical and !
.rmr nf thn tout nf Q-iWnfinri 7 1
13. 1. Yes, substantiully,
Jl. G. Ansrt from this, in what res
pect do your doctrines differ essentially
from those of our Orthodox Protestaut
Churches -the Batitt or Methodist, for
example !
B. Y. We hold the doctrines of Chris
tianity, as revealed in the Old and New
Testaments also in the Book of Mormon,
which teaches the same cardinal truths,
and those only.
JL G Do you believe in the doctrine
of the Trinity I
jj e (0. tut not Exactly as it
is held by otlur churches. Wo believe
in the Father, tho Son, and the Holy
Ghost, as equal, but not identical not as
one person (being). We believe in all
the Bible teaches on this bubject.
11. G. Do you believe in a personal
deiil a distinct, conncious, spiritual be
ing, whoso nature and act are essentially
malignant and evil!
JJ. Ir. We do.
H. G. Do you bold the doctrine of E-
tcrnal Punishment!
v w,. rln-tfiniitrh nprhans not py-!
nctly as other churches do. We believe of tbeir Bcct as tho offscouring of tho j do one has spoken of his wife (or wives)
it as the Bible teaches it. ', eartbi Jefc 1 CBnnot remember that either j desiring tojee me, or his desiring mo to
H. G I underhtnnd that you regard , of them were over generally represented j make her (or their) acquaintance, or vol
Bantism by Immersion as essential. &ttd regarded by tho older sects ofthoir untafily indicated the e'xihtenco of such a
it v w
JL G. Do you practice infant Bap
tism!
7? VTn
Jl G Do yoa make removal to these
talleys obligatory on your converts!
ralleys obligatory on your
B. Y. They would consider them
selves greatly aggrieved if they were not
invited hither. Wo hold to such a gath
ering together of God's People as tbe Bi
bloforetells, and that this is the place,
and now ia tbe time appointed for its
ooncumation.
11. G Tbe predictions to which you
refer have usually, I think, been under
utood to indicate Jerusalem (or Judea)
as the place of such gathering.
B. Y. Y"es, for the Jews not for
others.
H. G. What is the portion of your
Cb.urch with respect to Slavcryl
B. Y. We consider it of Divine insti
tution, and not to be abolished until tbe
curse pronounced on Ham shall havo
been removed from his descendants.
H. G. Are apy slaved now held in
this Territory!
B. Y. They are.
H. G. Do your Territorial laws up
hold Slavery!
li. Y. Those aws arc
printed you
can read for yourself. If slaves are those present heads of the Ghurch have
brought hero by those who owned them 'each but one wife; others have more:
in the States, we do not favor their es- j each determines what iV his individual
cape from tbe scrvico of those owners.- 'Jduty. r
II. G Am I to infer that Utah, if ad
mitted as a member of the Federal Union,
will be a Slave State?
13. Y. No; she will bo a Free State.
Slavery here would prove useless and un
profitable. I regard it generally as a
curse to iho masters. I myself hire ma
ny laborers and pay them fair wages; I
could not afford to own them. 1 can do
: better than subject myself to an obliga
; lion to feed and clothe their families, to
! provide and care for them ip sickness and
health. Utah is not adapted to Slave
, Labor.
j II. (x.r Let mo now tc enlightened
with regard moro especially to your
. Church polity: I understand that you re
j quire each member to pay over one-tenth
J of all he produces or earn-, to the Church.
I B. Y. That is a requirement of our
frit". There is no compulsion as to the
psyllium. jiucii uiciuuui ct.- iu tuc
j premises according to his pleasure, under
the dictates of his own conscience
II. G. What is done with the proceeds
of this tithing!
B. Y. Part of it is devoted to build
ing temples and other place of worship;
part to helping the poor and needy con- j
verts on thoir way to this country; and I
the largest portion to tho support of the
poor atuong the Saints. j
II. G. Is none of it paid to Bishops ;
end other dignitaries of the Church! t
B Y. Not one penny. No Bishop, I
no Iider, no Deacon, or other church of-
cr, receives
any compensation
for his
cflicial Fervicef. A Bishop is often re-
n-iirod to put his hand in his own pocket
J,,',l provido therelrom lor ine poor oi his
'harc; but he never receives anything
for his services.
- G. How, then, do your ministers
live!
B. Y. By the labor of theirown bands,
like the first Anotles. Every Bishop,
cry Mdcv, may be daily seen at worK
c held or ttiefnop, HKe nis neignoors;
r nt u
Part lrom tue "urcu a service, and l
never received one larthing irem her neaven. 11 is associates are plain men,
treasury; if I obtain anjthing from tho evidently born and reared to a life of la-lithing-house,
I am charged with and pay bor, and looking as little like crafty hy-
jlurit, just as any one else would; tho
clerks in tho tithing-store are paid like
other clerks, but no one is ever paid for
any pcrvice pertaining to the ministry.
j Wc think a man who cannot make bia
J living aMile from the Ministry of Christ
! unuitcd to that office. I am called rich,
an' consider myself worth $250,000; but
"o dollar oi it was ever pam me by tnc
Church or for any service as a minister
of the Everlasting Gospel. I lost nearly If I hazard any oriticisms on Mormon
all I had when we were broken up in ism generally, I reserve them for a sepe
Mi'souri aud driven from that State; I rato letter, being determined to make
was nearly stripped again when Joseph this a fair and full expose of the dootrioe
Saiith was murdered and we were driven and polity, in the very words of its Proph
from Illinois; but nothing was ever et, bo far as 1 can recall them. I do not
made up to me by the Church, nor by believe President Young himself could
any one. I believe I know how to ac- present them in terms calculated to reri
quire property and how to take care of der them less obnoxious to the Gentile
it. I world than the above. But I have a
n. G. Can you give mc any rational right to add here, because I said it to the
explantion of the aversion and hatred assembled chiefs at the close of the above
witQ which your people are generally re-
garuea uy inoe amoug wuom tney navo
lived and with whom they have been
brought directly in contact!
b. x. No other explanation than is
afforded by the crucifixion of Christ and observed u sign in the streets, an adver
the kindred treatment of God's ministers, tisemcut in tho journals of this Mormon
propufts and e&iuta in an ages.
; II. G. I know that a new sect is al-
I , 1 1. 3 1 Jl.
vsays aecriea ana iraauceu tua& u is
hardly ever deemed respectable to belong
to one that the Baptists, Quakers, Meth-
odists, Uuivcrsalists, &o., have each in
w,s,r lura Deeu regaroca in tno miancy
early days as thieves, robbers, murder-
era.
B. Y. If you will consult the cotcmpo-
rary Jewish accounts of the life and acts
' of Jesua Cbri.t, you will find that he and
I h dUciplea were accused of every aboin-
niablo deed and purpose robbery and
murder included, bucb a work is still ex
tant, and may bo found by those who
seek it.
H. G. What do you say of the so call
ed Dauites, or Destroying Angels, belong
ing to your Church!
B. Y. What do you say! I know of !
no such band, no such persons or organ
ization. I hear of them only iu the slan
ders of our enemies.
H. G. With rpgard, then, to tho grave
question on which your doctrines and
practices are avowedly at war with those
of the .Christain world that of a plurality
of wives is the system of your Church
acceptable to tho majority of its women!
B. x. They could not be more averse
to it than I was when it was first ieveal
ed to us as the Divine will. I think they
generally accept it, aa I do, as tho will of
God.
II. G. How .general, is polygamy a
Eaong you!
B. Y. I could not , say. Somo of
II. G. What is tho largest numbor of tercourse between family and family I after text from the Prophets, which be ci- the sunshine of His peculiar favor. Who
wives belonging to any one man! judge that there iscomparativelylittlchero; ted as predictions of the writing and di- ; ever obstructs or impedes them in this
B. Y. I havo fifteen; I know no one between Mormons and Gentiles or stran- , covery of this book. j work, then, is God's enemy, who must b"e
who has more; but some of those sealed gers'. of courso still less. Their religious! Tho congregation consisted at cither ' made to gt out of the way of the estab
to me are old ladies whom I regard rath- services are niuoh like those that may be service of some fifteen hundred to two lifhnieiit of Cbrist'fi kingdom on earth
er as mothers than wives, but whom I shared, or witnessed in the churches of thou-and persons more in the morning made to do to by lawful and peaceful!
havo taken home to cherish and support, most of our popular sects; the music rath-j than in tho aflornoon, A large majori- menntrjf possible, but "by .any means that
II. G. Does not the Apostle Paul say er better than yoa will hear in an avo-jty of them (not including the Elders and may ultimntely be found necessary. The
that a Bishop should bo "tha husband of rage worshiping assemblage in tho States; ' chief men, of whom a dozen or po were Parishes were npotle."? bad they been1
one wife!" . the prayers pertinent and full of unction; preaent)were evidently of European birth: allowed to pursue their journey to tho
B. Y. So we bold. Wo do not re- the sermons adapted to tastes or need i I think a majority of the males were pact States, they would have met many Saints
gard any but a married man as fitted for different from mine. They seemed to ! the meridian of life. All gaveearnest heed coming up tho road, whoeo minds they
the office of bishop. But tho Apostle' mo rambling, dogmatic, and ill-digested; to the exercises throughout; in fact, I have would havo troubled if not poisoned; and
does not forbid a bishop having more in fact, Elder Orson Pratt, who preached jseldom seen a more devout and intent as- they would hate told stories after reach
wives than one. in the morning, prefaced bis harangue by a Bemblage. I had been told that the Mor- ing their destination which would havo'
II. G. Doso not Christ say that ho : statement that ha had been hard at work.mons were remarkably ignorant, super.-ti- , deepened the general prejudices again6
who put1. away his wife, or marries one.
whom another has put away commits a
dulterv!
-15. i. les: and l hold that no manvOno oi ine xweive; at all events he is a
should ever put away a wife except for
adultry not always even lor mat. ouontoi
- - . M j
is my individual view ot the matter. ijwise in tne aiternoon with little or no , position wouiu mate a better appearance, over to destruction, far be it iron no
do not say that wives have never been premeditation. Now, I believe that eve- Not that Europeans are le.-fs intellectual , to hint that one-fifth, one tenth, one twen
put away in our Church, but that I do ry preacher should bo also worker; I or comely than Americans; but our im- tietb,of the Mormons over boro any part
not approve of the practice. jliketosee one mowing or pitching hay I migrants are mainly of the poorer classes: in these bloody deeds, or even know to
II. G. How do you regard what is iu his shirtsleeves; and I bear with odifi-jand poverty, privation, and rugged toil tlm day that they were perpetrated. -commonly
termed the Christoin Sabbath! ; cation an unlettered but devout and earn- j plow hard, forbidding lines in the human : The great body of the Saints undoubting-
B. Y. As a divinely appointed day of; est evangelist who, having worked a part countenanco elswhero than in Utah. ; ly believe all the current imputations of
res-t. Wo enioin all to rest from secular ' of the week for tho subsistence of his fain-; Brigbam Young was not prescut at either Normon homicide and outrage to bo a-
labor on that day. Wo wouldhave no
man enslaved to tho babbath, but wo en
join all to respect and enjoy it.
Such is, as nearly as I can rcccollect,
tho substance of nearly two hours' con
versation, wherein much was said inoi
dentally that would not be worth report
ino-. even if I could remember and repro-
duco it, and wherein others bore a part; ; jliukc vuy j.aoernaoic, i insist, uiac a aue
but, as President Young is tho first min- regard to tho economy of time requires
ister of tho Mormon Church, and bore j that ho should prepare himself, by study
the principal part in tho conversation, Jjand reflection, if not by writing, to speak
have reported his answers alone to mv (directly to the point. This mortal life is
questions and observations. The others'
anneared uniformly to defer to bis views,
and
to acquiesce fully in bis responses angues, or oven those which severally ; that of earnest conviction. If tbe pro
ixplanations. He epoke readily, not consume an hour in tbe utterance, when jjector and two or three of his chief con-
and ex
.i :t. :..!
and bo in no particular hurry to get to
poarities or swindlers as any body of men
I ever met. The absence of cant or snuf-
fle from their manner was marked and
general, yet, I think I may fairly say
that their Mormonism has not impover-
ished them that they were generally
poor men when they embraced it, and are
now in very comfortable circumstances
as men averacing three or tour wives a-
piece certainly need to be.
' colloquy, that the degredation (or, if you
please, tho restriction; or Woman to the
single office of child-boaring and its ac-
! ccssorics, is an inevitable consequence of
the system here paramount. I have not
i metropolis, whereby a woman proposes
to do anything whatover. No Mormon
..1. !
uas ever cited to me his wire s or any
j woman's opinion on any subject; no Mor-
ruon woman has been introduced or has
; spoken to me; and, though I havo been
asked to visit Mormons in their houses,
j heme or beings. I will not attempt to
report bur talk on this subject, because,
unlike what 1 have above given, it as
sumcd somewhat the character of a dis
i putation, and I conld hardly give it im
j partially; but ono remark made by Pres
j ident Young 1 think I can givo accurate
ly and it may serve as a sample of all
that was offered on that sido. It was in
these words, I think exactly: "If I did
not consider mjself competent to transact
acortain business without taking my wife's
or pny woman's counsel with regard to it,
I think I ought to lot that business alone."
The spirit with regard to Woman, of the
entire Mormon, as of all other polygamic
systems, is fairly displayed in this avow
al. Let any such system become estab
lished and prevalent, and Woman will
soon 'be confined to the harem, and her
appearance in tho street with unveiled
face will bo accounted immodest. I joy
fully trust that the genious of the Nine
teenth Century tends to a solution of the
problem of Woman's sphero and destiny
radically different from this.
XXII.
The Mormons and Mormonism.
Salt Lake City, July 18, 1859.
Sinoo my interview with Bringhain
Young, I'havo cpjoyed opportunities for
studying the Mormons in their social or
festive and in their devotional assemblies.
Of private social intercourse -that, is in-j
on bis iarm throughout tbe week, and Ja-
bored under consequent physical exhaua-1
tion. Elder John lavlor (I believe ho is!
high dignitary in the Church, and a man
like-
. , r i
ueciaeu naiurai aouuy; spouo
ily, devotes the rest of it to preaching the
gospel to small school-house or wayside
gatherings of hearers, simply for tho Mormons as knaves and hypocrites ! As
good of their souls. Let him only beistuedly not. I do not believe there was
sure to talk good senso, and I will excuse ever a religion whereof the great mass of
some bad grammar. But when a preach-! the adherents were not honest and sincere.
er is to address a congregation of one to ;
.three thousand persons, like that which
assembles twice each Sabbath in the Salt I
too short and precious to be wasted in j
listening to ramblinc. loose iointed bar-1
hoy might be boiled down and clarified
until ihey wore brought within tho com
pass of half an hour each. A thousand
half-hours, Bev Sir! have you ever pon
dered their value ! Supposo your time to '
1 . 1 . . m
oe worth ten limes that ot an average
hearer; still, to take an extra half hour
from a thousand hearers in order to save
yourself one or fifteen hours' labor in the
due and careful preparation of a sermon,
is a scandalous waste, which I see not how
to justify. Be entreated to repent and a
mend 1
Tho discourses to which I listened
wero both intensely and exclusively Mor
mon. That is, thev assumed that the
Mormons were God's peculiar, chosen,
beloved people, and that all tho rest of
mankind aro out of the ark of safety and
floundering in heathen darknesn. I am
not edified by this sort of preaching. It
reminds me forcibly of the Pharisee's
prayer: "Lord, I thank thee that I am not
as other men are, unjust, extortioners,"
ko. I do not think good men delizht in
this assumption of an exclusive patent for
the grace of God, and I am quite sure it
is not well adapted to tho transformation
of bad men into good. It is too well cal
culated to puff up its disciples with self
conceit and spiritual pride. That Jesus
Christ is about to reappear on the earth
in all the pomp and splendor of a mighty
conqueror that be will then proceod to
take vengeance on his enemies (mankind
in general, whether heathen or nominally
Christian) and to glorify his elect (the
Latter-Day Saints or Mormons) were
treated by tho Tabernacle preachers as
propositions too self-evident to need dem
onstration. Having thus obastised bis
enemies and "gathered his elect from the
four winds of Heaven," the Saviour is to
reign over thorn here on earth for a thou
sand years; at the end of which pe
riod, they are together to be transferred
to heaven. Of course, I had heard the
like of this before, but it always seems to
mo a very gross and wooden perversion
of the magnificent imagery whereby tbe
Bible foreshadows great spiritual trans
formation But the spirit of tbe Mormon
religion appears to mo Judaic rather than
Christian; and I really bolieve that Heber
Kimball, or at any rate ono of the great
lights of the Church, once said in conver
sation with a Gentilo "I do pray for my
enemies: I pray that they may all go to
hell." Neither from the pulpit nor else
where have I heard from a Mormon ono
spontaneous, hearty recognition of the es
sential brotherhood of the entire Human
Race one generous prayer for the en
lightenment and salvation of all mankind
Qn the other hand, I have boon distinct
ly given to understand that my interlocu
tors expect to pit on thrones and to bear
rule over multitudes in tho approaching
kingdom of God. In fact", one sincere,
devout man has to-day assigned that to
mo as a reason for polygamy: he wants to
qualify himself, by ruling a largo and di
versified family here, for beafinir rule o-
verbis principality in tho "new earth,"
that ho knows to be at band. I think he
rai"ht far better devoto a . few years to
pandering Christ's saying to this effect,
"Ho who would bo least in the kingdom
of Heaven, the samo shall bogroatest."
I was undeceived with regard to the
Book of Mormon. I had understood that
it is now virtually discarded, or at lelist
. . 1 1 si O K v A tk tit ito QifrinAa
neglected, by tho Church. in jta services
and ministrations. But Elder Pratt gave
- f :,a ,i v-fJr
' iL,t nfrtrtnl on.l.nrJtn.i.Lattor.dav Sa bts. or Mormons. They
imnortanco with the Old and New T&ia -
O '
ments. He did not read from it, howoV -
ever, but from Wahohi, and quoted text(up-buildlug ma uiugaom,
nous and brutalized; but the aspect of
these congregations did not sustain that
assertion. Very few rural conerei-ations
would exhibit more heads evincing dcci- had in some way abused tbe baints, or in
ded ability; and I doubt whether any as- j tcrposcd obstacles to tho progress of God'i
semblage so largoly European in its com- ! work, and they were consequently givn
j a r :
service. t
Do I regard the great body of theso 1
Hypocrites and knaves there are in all
sects; it ia quite possible thatfomc of the
magnates of the Mormon Church regard
this so-called religion ( with all o.ther-;a a
contrivance for tho enslavement and flee-
cing of the many and the aggrandizement
of the few; but I cannot believe that a sect
bo considerable and s-o ligorousastbe Mor-
roon was ever founded in conscious impos-
turc or built up on any other basis than
federates were knaves, the great body of
their followers were dupes.
Nor do I accept the current Gentile
presumption that the Mormons arc an or
ganized banditti a horde of robbers and
! assassins. Thieves and murderers main
ly haunt the purlieus of great cities or
hide in caverns and forests adjacent to
the great routes of travel. But when the
Mormon leaders decided to eet up their
Zion in these parched mountain vales and
canons", the said valleys were utterly se
cluded and remote from all Gentile ap
proach away from any mail-route or
channel of emigration. That tho Mor
mons wished to escape Gentile control,
scrutiny, jurisprudence, is evident; that
tbey meant to abuse their inaccessibility,
to the detriment and plunder of wayfarers
is not orcdible.
Do I, then, discredit the tales of Mor
mon outrage and crime of tho murder
of the Parishes, tbe Mountain Meadow
massacre, &c, &c. where with tho gen
eral ear has recently been shocked ! No,
I do not. Some of these may have been
fabricated by Gentilo malice otheru,
are doubtless exagerated but there is
some basis of trutb for the current Gen
tile conviction that 'Mormons have robbed,
maimed, and even killed persons in this
Territory, under circumstances xchich
shotdd sulnect the pciyetrators to condign
punishment, but that JIor?no?i witnesses,
grand jurors, petit jurors and magistrates
determinedly screen the guillii. I deeply
regret tho necessity of believing this; but
tbc facts are incontestable. That a large
party of emigrants not less than eighty
from Arkansas to California, were foul
ly massacred at Mountain Meadows in
September, 1857, more immediately by
Indinns, but unecr the direct inspiration
and direction of tho Mormon settlers in
that vicinity to whom, .and not to the
savages, the emigrants had surrendered,
after a siege, on the strength of assurances
that their lives at least should be spared
is established by evidence that caunot (I
think) bo invalidated tho evidence of
conscience-smitten partakers in the crime,
both Indian and ex-mormon, and of chil
dren of the slaughtered emigrants, who
were spared as too young to be danger
ous even as witnesses, and of whom tho
groat majority have been tent down to!
tho States as unable to sivo testimony;
but two boys aro retained here as witness- j Church. The Church is rich, and is hour
cs, who distinctly remember that their ly increasing in wealth; tho Church set
parents surrendered to white men, and ! tics all civil controversies which elsewhere
that these white men did not attompt to j cause lawsuits; tho Cburse spends little or '
prevent their pcrfidous massacre. Theso j nothing, yet rules everything; while tho
ohildren, moreover, were all found in tho j Federal Government, though spending
possession of Mormons not one of them i Two or Three Millions per aunum here,
in the bands of Indians; and, though tho ' and keeping up a fussy parade of author
Mormons say they ransomed them from j ity, is powerless and despised. If, then,
the hands of Indians, the children de- j via aro to havo "Popular Sovereignty,"
ny it, Baying that they never lived with in the Territories, let us havo it pure and
nor wero in the keeping of suvages; and without shams. Let Brigham be reap
tho Indians bear concurrent testimony, pointed Governor; withdraw tho proseutt"
So in the Parish case : The family had Federal office holders and Vrmyrpu
been Mormons, but had apostatized and , shorter and better roads to Caliruia.
undertook to return to the States; they ! through tho country north of Bridger,
j-were warned that they wold be killed if
thoy persisted in that resolution: they
did persist, and were killed. Of course
nobody will ever bo convicted of their
lint iIiohd who warned them of
their fate on which they were rushing
know whv thev woro killed, and could
f thov would, who killed them.
The vital fact iu the case is just this: l ho
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'groat ma3 of those people, as a body,
' mean to be' honest, just, and humane; but
body,
,!,- nrr before and above all things else,
f - . t i i 1 1.' i 1 1. u v.t f. v . I - .
I devoutly believe that tuey are uouspe-
feuliar and especial poople, doing His work
and basking in
the bamt?; so the up-building and well
being of Christ's kingdom required that
they should die. lhc Arknnsas ctnicrants
i
bominablc calumnies. Many of tho high.
est dignitaries of tho church may bo in
ciuaea in this number. iiut there aro
men in the Church who know that
they arc not calumnies who know that
Gentiles and apootates have been killed
for the Church's and for Christ's sake
and who firmly believe that they ought to
have been. I grieve to say it, but I hold
these more consistent and logical Mor
mons than their innocent and unsuspicious
brethren. For if I wero a Latter-Day
Saint, undoubtiogly believing all oppa
sers of tbe Mormon Church to be God's
enemies, obnoxious to His wrath and
curse, and powerfully obstructing the res
cue of souls from eternal perdition and
torture, I should be strongly impelled to
help put those opposers of God's purpo
ses out of tbe way of -sending more im
mortal souls to everlasting fire. I should
feel it my duty so to act, as a lover of
God a"nd Man. And I confidently pre
dict that not one Mormon who has killed
a Gentile or apostate under a like view of
his duty will ever be fairly convicted in
this Territory. No jury can bo drawn
here, unless in flagrant defiance of the
Territorial laws, which is not mainly com
posed of Mormons; and no snch jury will
convict a Mormon of crime for any act
done in behalf of God's kingdom that is
of the Mormon Church.
I ask, then, tho advocates of "Popular
Sovereignty" in the Territories to - say
what thoy propose to do in tho premises.
How do they intend to adapt their prin
ciple to the existing state of facts I They
have superseded Brigbam Y"oung, with a
full knowledge that at least nine-tenth?
of the People of Utah earnestly desired
his retention as Governor. They have
sent hither a batch of Judges, who would
like to earn their salaries; but the Mor
mon Legislature devotes its sessions prin
cipally to tho work of crippling and fet
tering these Judges so that they shall
remain here as mere dummies or bo dri
ven into resignation. Their juries are all
drawn for them by mormon officials, un
der regulations which virtually exclude
all but Mormons from each panel; it is a
violation of the laws of Utah to cite in
argument before any Judge or jury bore
sj . t .
J the decisions of any court-
even the Su-
prcme Court of tho United States bnt
llinimiptj nf Tlfnli an f.Knti ooon tYtn Tiro?'
Scott decision could not lawfully be cited
here in a Fugitive Slave case; in short,
the Federal Judiciary, the Federal Ex
ecutive, and the Federal Army, as now
exiting in Utah, are three transparent
shacos three egregious farces; they aro
costing the Treasury very largo sums to
no purpose; and the sooner the Governor,
Marshal, Judges, &s., resign, and the
Army is withdrawn, tbe better for all but
a handful of contractors. "Popular Sov
ereignty" has such full swing here that
Brigham Young carries tbe Territory in
his breeches pocket without a shadow of
opposition ho governs without responsi
bility to either law or publio opinion; for
there is no real power here but that .of
! "tho Church," and be is practically the
; and notify tho emigrants that, if thoy
; choose to pass through tab, thoy wilU
oo so ai ineir own rib&. uv uic iuor.-yt
mons have tho Territory to themselves
it is worth very little to otheri, but re-
duce its area by cutting off Carson Val-
loy on tho ono sido, and making a llocky
I Mountain
Territory on tho otucr, aud
i . .t
men tec mem go on iucir way
rejoiomg.
i I beliofo this is uot only by la
; I belioo this is uot only
; pest but the safest and be
far the ohea.-
st mode of dca-
ing with tbe difficulties already developed
. aud daily developing here, unless the. no-
I t if I'nriil lit
tion of "Popular Sovereignty" in the, 'm
ritories is to bo utterly exploded ahulJgT
on'up. "Popular Sovereignty' iu"