Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-06-12
Sketches Of MOrmOnism, as drawn by
their own Hands.


From discourse delivered by President
Brigham Young, on the 10th day Of March,
at the Tabernacle OF Salt Lake City, and re-
ported in the News, we should conclude that
there has been much suffering for the necessa-
ries of life. at Salt Lake City He says
Starring them to IT,
Those of you who have come here without
breakfast this morning, do not go more than
FIVE days without eaticg, When you have
gone that long without food, make your wants
known to your neighbors and tell them that
you need something to eat, and if, you come to
me will feed you. | have sustained my fam
lily comfortably with eight ounces Of bread stuff
day TO each individual. have had my chill.
dren come to me and ask, "shall 1 give away
my rations to-day ?" We have plenty of po.
tatoes, and presume that my family does not
consume on an average, more than FIVE ounces
of bread stuff day to each person. We have
had plenty ever since the first year we came
here.
Be mindful, and do not go too long withou
eating. Notwithstanding the scarcity; l say
to those who send their children to beg from
house to house, and who are Juggling home a
dozen loads day, stop thvt. There are fam,
lilies now in this city, who profess to be out OF
prov isions, sending their children out to beg
and selling -four and meat for money to carry
them to the devil; now stop that. say to
you bishops, appoint assistants to visit every
house in your wards, and instruct them to take
the liberty of litingup the chest lids. and oI
looking under the floors and under the beds,
for tell you that some will hide their provs.
ions and lie to you, aad tell you that they have
nothing, while they are getting money for the
-four, ETC., which their children beg from this
community, to carry them to hell, or back 10
the States or to England say to such as are
compelled to beg, when you have received a
suficiency to supply your wants, stop.
.". A Large Family. 6ardensome.
Elder KimbAll thus discourses upon the
care of his family:
What are my cares? I said sometime since
that my immediate family consisted of seventy
nine persons which feed, clothe and shelter,
and furnish thirteen fires all the time. This
care and expense should be borne by the
church, and left free to attend to the labors
more directly pertaining to the Priesthood
But as it is l now assist many, besides entire
ly supporting my large family. feed widows
and their families who do not belong to me
any more than they belong to you.
Has Mr. Brigham got a heavier load than l
have? Yes, he feeds his hundreds, besides
aiding other hundreds who do not directly be-
long to Instantly.
l wish you bishops to take soma OF these
loads. sometimes feel as though | could not
live, still I get along with those l am obliged to
feed. There is nosa member in my family,
with the exception Of my first wife and my first
children. who have ever begun to see the hard
times that have seen.
In my younger days l have seen the time,
when for two weeks together, we were under
the necessity of eating boiled milk weeds, and
that too without having to salt them, Have
any of you come to that yet?
The Momeons for Fillmore and Douglas.
President Grant, in a discourse delivered on
Sunday, March 22d, thus gives the politics Of
the Latter Day Saints.
A word about the politics of the Latter Day
Saints. We're we going to vote Tor President
of the United States, l presume our President
would recommend Millard Fillmore for that Of
fee, and Stephen A. Douglas for Vice Presi.