Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1851-07-08

Of the sale ofthe Gold Bible until he was ful
ly reimbursed in the sum Of 50 500, the cos
Of prioting.
The after thought has been alluded to-
the enlargiug OF original inten,io hs--was a
the suggestion Of Sidney Rigdon, of Ohio
who made his appearance, and blended him
self with the poorly devised scheme Of impos
ture. about the time the book was ISSUED
from the press. He unworihily bore ih,
title ofa Baptist elder. but had by some PIE
vious freak, If the author is rightly inform
ed forfeited his standing with that respecta
bic religious denomination. Designing, am
bilious and dishonest, under the semblauc,
Of sanctity and assumed spirituality. he wa!
just the man for the use Of the Smith house
hold aud their half dupe and half designing
abe,tors; aud they were just the fit instru.
ments he desiied. He became at once the
Hamlet, or more appropriately the Nav.
worm Of the clay. Like the veled Prophe,
Makanna, he may be supposed thus TO have
soliloquised:
eye too believers Of incredible creeds.
Whose faith enshrines the monsters which il breeds
Who bolder, even than Nimrod thinks TO rise
BY nonsense heaped on nonsense TO the Skies
Ye shall have miracles, aye sound ones too,
Seen, heard, attested, everything but true,
One glance of meaning fr the things they speak,
Your martyrs ready TO shed their blood
For truths too heavenly to be understood"
"They shall have mysteries-aye precious stuff
For knaves 10 thrive by-mysterlous enough
Dark tangled doctrines, dark as fraud can weave,
Which simple votaries shall on trust receive,
While craftier feign belief, till they believe"
Under the auspices of Rigdon, new sect,
the Mormons was projected. Prophecies
fell thick and fast from the lips Of Joseph;
old Mrs. Smith assumed all the airs of a
mother of Prophet; that particular family
Of the Smiths were singled out and became
exalted above all their legion Of namesskes.
The bald, clumsey cheat, found here and
there an enthusiast. a mouomanlac or a
knave IN and around its primitive locality. To-
cality, to help il upon its start; aud soon, like
another scheme Of imposture, (that had lit
tie OF dignity and plausibiity in i,) IL had
its Hegira, or fight, 10 Kirkland, then TO
a sholt resting place in Missouri--and then
on over the Rocky Mountains to Utah, or
the Salt Lake. Banks, printing Offices,
temples, cities. and finally State, have ar
isen under ls auspices Converts have mul.
tplied TO tens Of thousands. In several Of
the countries Of Europe there are preachers
and organized sec,s of Mormons; believers
iu the divine mission Of Joseph Smith & Co.
And here the subject must be dismissed =
If it has neen treated ligh,y-with SEEM
ing leoty-it is because il will admit of no
other treatment. There is 90 dignity about
the whole thing; nothing to enti.le il to mild
treatment. Ii deserves none of the charity
extended 10 ordinary religious fanatacism, for
knsvery and fraId has b cen with it incipient
ly and progressively. II has not the poor
merit of ingenuity. It's success is slur up
on the age. Fanaticism promoted it at FIRST;
bf uehApdgdes NaI6e sGIL'o5c then the designs
suffrage of its followers; until fnally an A
merican Congress has abetted the fraud aud
imposition By its acts. and We are to have a
state of our proud Uniop--ir this boasted
era of light and knowledge-the very name
Of which will sanction and dignity the fraud
and falsehood Of Mormon Hill, the gold plates
and the spurious revelation. This much, at
least, might have been omitted out OF decent
respect to the moral and religious sense OF
the people of the old States.