M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-05-18

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rules OF decipIine for the people, and
saying 81 ANA gentleman. am a high.
minded gentleman; can you tell me
where | can find a woman to sleep with
me to nightS" and setting up gambling
shops, aud drinking, and csrousing. and
stirring up strife, and Matching up law
suits; hunting out disaffected spirits,
and then lecturilrs the people on moral
ity, wishing them to become like other
communities, and saying TO Mrs. Such.
one or Miss Such.a Que. "won't you
ride with me-yon't you take a sleigh
side tonight with met am a high
minded gentleman" A prudent ia the:
or husband says, "cume here, this is your
place; you have'no business with straa.s
gers" What is the result of thisfA
Why, from most Of the hIgh-nindea
gentlemen yon can hear. God damn the
Morlnans, they are opposed to the feder.
Al government. because they will not
allow US to sleep with their wives aud
daughters"-I am opposed TO such men
and am after them with the bsrbed
arrows Of the Almighty. To what ex-
tentY Let them intrude upon the chas.
tity VI my family. aud, so help me God,
! will use them up. GAN the songre.
CATION said 'Amen.) Such characters
may cry, aliens, aliens; the Mormons
are all hostile TO the government and
Shey may cry it until they are in hell.
Corrupt men cannot walk these streets
with impurity. and il that is alienism
to the government, amen to it. The
Constitution Of the Unild States we
sustain all the day long. aud it will sus.
tain and shield us, while the men who
say we are aliens, and cry out "Morm on
disturbance" will 60 TO hell. There
have been officers here who were not
fit to live in our midst, and they ran
home an6 raised the cry, "Mormon dis.
turbances." Mormon rebellion" "Mor.
mon war;" aud "tIeasoners;" but their
day Is over.
When man Processes 20 be my friend
and the friend Of this people, he will
take my council, instead Of stiting up
strife, and praeticing iniquity. DIS
like the wilfully corrupt. and by and by
will come out thunder like, as have
done upon Others who practicing iniqui-
ty; and as did upon certain individ-
ual when he made his glorious speech,
and insulted this people from the high
est to the lowest, chastised him, and
he ran of and reported as my saving
those which did not say.
1t was told him, while he was on the
plains, that President Zachary Taylor
was dead and damned, and it has gone
through the States from side to side,
that said so. 1t was first given out
that the Mormons said so, and then
that Brigham said so; well ! backed i,
up, because knew it was true. have
just as good right to say .hat Presi
dent Taylor is in hell, as to say that any
other miserable sinner is there. Was
he any more than flesh and blood? ]
have as good right to canvas him, in a
religious point Of view as have to cans
vas The peasant upon the dung.hill. He
has gone there and SO has many others 4;
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and the Lord Almighty is removing the
bitter branches, as lore-tOld in the Book
Of Mormon.
The newspapers are teeming with
statements that said President Pierce
and all hell could not remove me from
Office" Twill tell you what did say,
and what | now do say the Lord reigns
and rules in the armies of the heavens,
and does his pleasure among the inha bi.
tanis OF the earth. He ssls up king.
dom here, and pulls down another there,
at His y leasure. lie walks in the midst
Of the people and they know it not
lie makes kings, presidents and COVER
nors at his pleasure hence | conclude
that shal! be governor of Utah terrific.
Iry just as long as He wants me to be ;
and tor that time, neither the President
OF the United States, nor any other
power can prevent it. Then, brethren
and sisters, be not worried abuu. nv
being dismissed from Office for when
the President appoints another man to
be governor of Utah territory, you may
acknowledge that the Lord has done i,
for we should acknowledge His hand in
all things"