Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-07-05
From the Cincinnati Daily Mems, June IS
MORMON MEETING.


AgrceabIy TO public notice meeting was
held in the College Chapel last evening.
which was opened by few remarks from a
gentleman accompanying Mr.. Greene after
which MIR. Greene gave statement Of the
early settlement oftbe Mormons in Missouri,
and history oftheir persecution, which has
hardly a parallel even in the persecution Of
the primitive Christians. They were ruth.
lessly driven from their homes, their proper
" destroyed, the women and children forced
into the woods. without any shelter from the
inclemency Of the weather (il being in the
month Of january where they roamed about
I'LL their feet became so sore that their seni-
mics traced them BY footprints Of blood The
men we're in many instances cruelty murder
ed On one occasion the mob attacked a
smith shop. into which nine the Mo.mons
and two boys had taken refuge; it being a
log house, the mob fred between the logs
and killed every individual OF the nine men
they then entered and dragged the two boys
from under the bellows who begged for mer
cy in most piteous terms one OF the mis-
creants applying his rifle to the ear OF the
youngest, (who was but nine years old, said.
MY lad we have no time to quarter you, but
we will halve you." and Immediately shot a.
way the whole upper part ofhis head. The
other boy was severely wounded in the hip,
but had the presence OF mind to fall and re-
main quiet and so escaped ; he is still living
and is at Quincy, Ill. Speaking of the mas
sacre, be said. They had killed my father
and brother, and was afraid il moved they
would kill me too" To cap The climax, the
villains pnndered the dead bodies of their
clothes, &c. In another instance part of
the mob pursued an aged man, who finding
he could not escape turned, and raising his
hands 10 Heaven begged for mercy; the re-
ply he received was shot from rifle, and
he Tell MORALLY wounded; no still besoight
them to spare him, when one OF the party
picked up scythc or sickle, and literally
hacked him 10 pieces as he lay on the ground
This man assisted in The achievement OF
our Liberties in the revolutionary war Mr..
Greene's narrative contained many such in
stances, and was indeed tale Of woe and
suffering at which the heart sickens.
Hon. Thomas Morris then addressed the
meeting. He said he had been in the vcin-
ity ofthese transactions, and had TAX some
pains to acquaint himself with the facts and
from all he could learn. the Mormons were
an industrious and harmless people. that no
specific charges had been brought against
them by the executive OF Missouri. but their
religion gave offence TO mob--for causes
which may at any time induce the same per-
seculion of any religious sec, in our land
He said he believed the statements made by
the gentleman to betrue. and that they were
corroborated by those who resided in the viz.
entity oftheir occurrence.
On motion a chairman and secretary were
appointed, and resolutions passed condemn
ing the conduct oflhe executive Of Missouri;
appointing committee TO prepare state
ment Of the treatment by this distressed poo
pie, and recommending them to the favora-
BILE notice ofthe people of Cincinnati
The meeting then adjourned, to meet next
Monday evening at the same ploce
Colonel Johnson says no is not partieu-
lary conscious of any good reason why he
should decline a reelection il he have the
chanca He ie ,usllino 30 laa Nm tho Gala