The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-08-04
from st. Louis Reporter. |

The PROPHET JOE SMIrH.-Joe Smith has sur
passed Mohammed IN every respect. He has COM
creed, and sent forth distinct and restless people
in the very teeth OF opposition and persecution.
while, better than ALL il any thing were wanting to
hallow his memory, he has "borne testimony with
ly have avoided this deviation from the Arabian's
career, but, it is his Santshp is the more sacred
for it. Twill not be long ere pilgrimagss are made
to Nauvoo, and miracles announced. quite as mar
The creed OF Mohammed was, comparatively,
light Of truth to the tribes surrounding; but thrice
potent, Mormonism prevails amid the radiance,
philosophical and religious, of the nineteenth CEN
fury If it's founder be but lucky in his success
sors, the impostor Of DID, there will be consider
able of sclearing out" Of Hancock county, and
few others, as well
There can be no doubt but that the crime of
Smiths neighbors, in killing him, has made tho
Prophet falrer character in the minds of ALL while
the imagination or his own people is already In
vesting him with the robes Of deathess glory.
Twenty years, In spite OF printing, will make Joe
mythlc parsonage among the MormOns
The following extracts show that blind fanatcal
devotion which clings to its object through all
evidently has some stuff in her, albeit her spirit IS
as far from the really poetica, as Joe's was from
the divine.
From the Times and Seasonal
The AssAssINATIoN GENERALS JOSEPH SMITH AND
HYRuM SMITH, frs Presidents Of the Church of Latter
Day Saints who massacred by amob, in Carthage,
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"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under
the altar the souls of them that slain for the word OF
God and for the testimony which they held:
And they cried with loud voice, saying, How long O.
Lord holy and true dost thou judge and avenge our
blood. ON them that dwell on the ca til I
And white robes were given unto every of them
that they should rest yet Tor little season, until their
fellow servants also and their brethren that should be
killed they were, should be flled"-Rey. VIZ TO-
IL.
For never since the son of God was slain
Has FLOOD SO noble, How'd from human vein,
As that which now on God for vengeance calls
From Freedoms ground" from Carthage prison walls
oh, wretched murders fierce for human blood.
You've slain the prophets OF the living God,
Who've borne oppression from their early youth,
To plant on earth the principles Of truth.
Great men have falrn and mighty men have died.
But TWO, so wise, so vrtuous, great and good,
Before on earth, at once, have never stood
Since the creation-men whom God oraaind
To publish truth where error long had reigned.
A depth Of thought, no human art could reach
From time to time, rold in sublimest speech.
From the celestial fountain through his mind,
To purify and elevate mankind.
The rich intelligence by him brought FORTH
Is like the sunbeam, spreading DER the earth.
Now Zion mourns-shc mourns an earthly head:
The Prophet and the Patriarch are dead
The blacklist deed that men devils know
Since Calv'ry1 scene, has laid the brothers low.
The noble mar. yrs now have gone to move
The cause of Zion in the courts above
NAuvoo, July |, 1874