Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-01-01

strewn with building stone-eyery where
was heard the sound of the hammer and
chisel. Strong arms, nerved with fanati-
cal energy, were working them into shape.
Smith had been slain, and every good Nor
mon was bound to obey his dying injunc-
ton" finish the temple" He had been
seen over the city with drawn sword,
mounted on a white horse; and he that did
not work to finish the temple, was to be
destroyed with the heather round about
that is, the Suckers.
They generally entertained the belief,
that the heather would be destroyed, and
every body who did not seek refuge in
Nauyoo would be cut off A woman told
me that this destruction was to be accom-
plished by the melting Of a mountain of ice
in the north; the river had been very high
the past spring, which she believed was ow-
ing to the liquefaction of some fragments of
this chained avalanche. A passenger told
her that this flood would be of great benefit
TO the Mississippi. Their hatred to their
enemies, especially towards the murderers
of Smith, was as fierce as Satan ever felt.
81 wish could see them chained up hun
dred years, till the sun and rain wore away
all their flesh from their bones" No
earthly ingenuity could have inflicted pain
and agony enough to crafty such revenge.
But Notwithstanding these follies, could
not the Mormons be good citizens? The
Mormons had another article of faith SINH
lar to that of modern democrats; not that
the world by divine appointment belonged
to the Anglo Saxons, but to the slater day
saints" This is not spoken to traduce or
SANDER this unfortunate sect, but it was
Smiths great hobby-his bait to catch his
deluded followers. He promised them all
the kingdoms of the world and the glory of
them. Hence when you went on the deck
Of steamboat and saw a suIlen, sour, sus-
picious looking fellow, leaning on the guard
railing and looking towards Nauvoo, you
knew he was Mormon. He regarded you
as a trespasser on his rights. Your money
and your property were all his, and you
kept them in fraud of his God-given title
Smith kept up a regular telegraphic com
munication with the invisible world; he al
ways had revelations adapted to the desires
of the saints. In the name of God, the
saints were allowed to enter upon the prem
ises of the heather and rob pantries, pig
sites and hen roosts, of what they pleased.
As much as we may condemn the Illinoians
for their violence, it is as impossible for a
people practising such principles to live at
peace with the rest of mankind, as band of
pirates.
That portion of the city next the river
had a neat appearance; there were the free
masons' hall, with the All seeing eye over
the door-the long hall of the seventy, and
mother Smiths residence, where fora quar-
ter, she showed you the embalmed bodies OF
Pharoah, his daughter whom she politely
called Miss Pharoah, Miss Cumanus Pha-
roah and other Egyptian bellies. The re-
moter part of the city was built of huts, and
the scum of Adams race were congregated
there. There were boys untutored and
wild, and girls bare-footed and bare-legged
with hair so matted and tangled, that vermin
could not thread the labyrinth. The city
was like Millions personifcation of Sin,
"Woman TO the waist and fair,
But ending foul in many scaly fold"
j. T. NJ.