M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-05-18
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.l
Brigham YOung's Manifesto

from tue Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Brigham YOung's Manifesto.
ln;rinsically the sayings and doings
OF The Mormsns are Of no great account,
only as showing the length 10 which hu.
man ersduli'y can go, when stroug ap.
peals are made to the faith rather than
10 The reason Of mankind. But the DO .
liticsl bearings Of The extraordinary Sc n .
timents OF that peculiar people, are mat
ters oi gfeat.and continually increasing
interest," inasmuch as they present for
public consideration questions which
have never, as yet, been definitely set
tied, and TO settle which may require d
proioander wisdom Than is often put in
requsitlon to meet the exigeuces of hu
man governments. Their government
is neither more nor lesi than a Theocra
eJ-goVernment professedly derived
from God himself; aud Brigham Young
is thsPfephet, the vicsgereut Of Goo. =
He combines in himself all the preroga
lives OF Prophet, Priest, and king. He
is Law-giver potent than Moses; a
Priest at least equal to Aaron, and a
King equal to David or Solomon. Aud
besides, as Patriarch he places him
sci on the platform with Abraha m.
Isaac, and Jacob, setting aside the teach
ings of Christ and the Apostles, who
gently lnsiDuaIed tina: one wife was sul.
hcleut, aud in the face of civiliza tion
asserting that pOlysamy. though a dia.
bolical thing for the men ana women OF
the world, is capital thing for the tat
ter Day Saints. And here is a sec,
more thoroughly imbusd with the spirit
OF proselytism than any other under
heaven--more assuming as regards po.
litlcal matters than any other class oI
men, and more bold in the declarat on
OF their assumptions. And it is one OF
the questions OF the day, how are the
people of this country TO manage and
dispose Of this matter1
Doubtless Mormonism will endeavol
to conform itsel to the spirit of ouI
laws and Institutions, and for the pres.
ent, at all events, it will do so, SO far as
externals are concerned. And still il
will contain, in the very body and sou
of its church, that which will forever bt
in opposition 10 Republican form oI
government. This is distinctly evi
dent from the nature of these things
A people ruled by God through divine
ly appointed ihstrumentalities, are the
last TO submit TO the laws aud institu
tiuns OF men outside Of their sectariaI
enclosure. And it is no new thing uu
der the sun for religioniSts sufferin,
from plethora of divine light ant
grace, to become exocling in their de-
mands, and 9usnatious in the mainte
nance OF their assumed superiority. Ii
our midst are those who are prone Il
appeal from the laws Of the land to tn
and TO the higher law which their in
terpretatlons have put into the mout
oil Goa, and the Catholic Church is sal,
to be a dangerous institution because it
Authority is supposed TO override tha
of human rulers. What, then, shall W,
say OF Mormonism2 1t is bold, frank
and Ineligible in the utterance of it,
doclri PES anu dogmas. Armed with in
vincibe determinations, ard seemingl,
CONSCIOUS alike of its power and tn,
righteousness Of its cause, it does no
resorvto the Subterfuges Of bypocracy
but declares its object in the face of tn,
world and defies the powers Of eartl
anu hell topreyent the accomplishment
of its mission. What shall be done9-
Let i alone. Force, the usual weapon
Of ign prance, will only multiply the vic
Tins Of the delusion. 1t must be ;oler
ated, a common with all other errors o
.opiuiSn or belief But il must be KEEP
within due bounds. II ii becomes med
dlesone, aggressive, belIigerant. or die
tatoritl, then let it be driven bacI
within the sunctum sanctOrum of it
own $ctarian sphere, and kept there
| I'LL it learns how 20 behave itself. Til
then, allow it 10 "have free course, ru
and be gIorifed or be otherwise dispos
I'D Of according to the verdict which al
enlightened world shall bring in, aGte
due Consideration.
ASP matter of general interiSt. W
subjoln the following extracts from
Speech delivered in Great Salt LAX
City, by Brigham Young, in FeSruar
last. Taken as whole, it is a strang
admi4ture of piety, philosophy, humili
ty, aud slang-a rare speciman of ora
tory illustrative Of the relation betwee
the stblime aud the ridiculous.
"BteIhern and Sis.ers--Our friend
wish TO know our feeling towards tn
government. answer they are first
rate, and. we will prove it, too, as yol
will see if you only live long enough
for that we shall live to prove it is cer
tain; and when the Constitution Of th
United Statss hangs, as il were, upon
single thread, they will have to call 70
the Mormon elders to save i. from ute
destruction; aud they will sic p fort
and dc it,
We love the Constitution of ou
county; it is all we could ask; thoug
in some few instances there might
some amendments made which woul
betterit. We love the federal govern
ment aud the laws of Congress. Thsr
is nothing ia those laws that in the lea
initiate against us, not even our exclu
ding common law from this territory
} can inlorm our lawyers who plead q
the bar here. that the Congress of II
United States have passed laws givir
up the privilege of excluding commo
| law at our pleasure, and that too will