Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-15
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Otau oIlDSs the DessTct NtDs, PooA'sNS~ -
Great Salt Lake City, up to the first OF octo-
Der. We Gull from it several extracts ind
eating a state of affairs there of the most ex-
traordinary and unexpected character even
for Mormondom. 1t is plain that matters are
getting to extremities, and that Young and
his conductors in misrule are almost at their
wits end. They are preparing the minds of
their deluded. but, in many cases, pitiable
followers for a change which can be deferred
scarcely any longer, and which they distinctly
perceive may eventuate inauspiciously for
themselves and the grinding despotism in
whose meshes they have entangled so many
thousand of men and women gathered from
many nations. What must be the pressure of
these exigencies may be inferred from the ma
ture of their propositions, as conveyed in the
discourses of Presidents Jediah NJ. Grant, Brig
ham Young and Heber c. Kimball. The
blasphemy and cruelty betrayed in these pro-
posas we should not expose to the eyes Of our
readers if tho aims of the "prophets" could
be told in any language as appropriate to the
subject as their own. Sunday, the 2lst OF
September last, seemed to be the day on which
the special work of breaking their purpose to
the people was to be done Brother Kimball
prepared the way for Grant and Young by
extollng their apostolic authority:
"When our President, our Leader, our
Prophet, speaks unto 8 from week to week,
end from Sabbath to Sabbath do his teachings
reach our hearts? Do the people hear! do
the people understand? If they do, they are
not all careful 10 practice.
81 have told you great many times, that
tho word Of our Leader and Prophet is the
word Of God to this people, and you play with
those words. and you neglect them. You ne
g,ect the voice and word of God, and it will
fall upon you in a way that you never expect
ed, and you don't expect it now. But there
is yet a chance for US to redeem ourselves.
" Let Us rise up as q people and
turn unto the Lord our God with full purpose
of heart, and peradventure our sins may be
RENTED and forgiven and blotted out This
is what the Lord has placed men to lead you
for. You cannot see God, you cannot behold
him and hold converse with him, as one MAJ
does with another; but he has given US man
that we can talk to and thereby know his will,
just as well as if God himself was present I"
This address was followed by one from
Young himself, delivered in a tone Of fierce
denunc:ation, and suggestive Of what might
be expected from his hands if the rising spirit
of characterization to his insufferable tyranny
should yet more distinctly develop itself. 1t
appears thst in order to be able to discrimi-
nate between those who are still willing to
submit and those who may be contemplating
disregard Of his rule, President Brigham
hos ho, -; 81 g. al h.
ed in a public place at which all the faithful
are called to renew their vows to the "true
church" 1t is to this he makes reference in
the extract from his sermon succeeding IL at
of Kimball. He says:
when we get the font prepared, that is
now being built, viii take you into the waters
of baptism, if you repent of your sins. If you
will covenant TO 1.-Two with your religion and
be Saints Of the Most High, you shall have
that privilege, and will have tho honor of
baptizing you in that font, or of sesing that it
is donc.
"a, for living here, as have done for a
length OF tine, hid up in the chambers of the
Lord, with people that are full of conten-
ton, full of covetousness, full Of pride, and
full of iniquity, will not do 1t. And if the
people will not repent, let the sinners and
hypocrites look out. l will repent with you
and will try with my might to get the spirit
Of my calling; and if have not that spirit
now to fullness 1 will get more Of it, so as to
| enjoy it to its fullness And if I should be
filled with the power and spirit Of the mission
| that is upon ne, L shall not spare the wicked
| shall be like flaming sword against them,
and 60 will all those that live their religion
1t is not to be suffered any longer. 4
If the people are disposed TO awake out OF
| their lethargy and walk up to their religion,
to their duty to the highest privileges that
| ever was or ever can be granted to mortal nan
upon this earth, which is eternal life, and will
| do so, then we will be brethren. And If not
the thread must be severed, for I cannot hold
| men and women in fellowship that serve the
devil aad themselves, and give no heed to the
| Almighty l cannot do it"
| After the civil Governor of the Territory
and chief of the Salt Lake hierarchy had con.
cluded, Brother Grant mounted the pulpi,
and addressed mis- hearers in terms yet more
| harsh and pointed than his predecessors. lie
hrst opened the scheme of personal immola
tion, resort which no doubt took even the
soundest " saint by surprise. Tho New,
gives no intimation as to bow this astounding
proposal was received.
"There are" says Grant, abominable
characters In our midst, and they will see X
unto wizards that peep, and to star-gazers and
sootbsayers, because thoy have no faith in the
holy priesthood, and then VIXEN they meet us
they want to DE called saints.
- say that there are men and women that
L would advise to go TO the President immedi.
ately, and ask him to appoint a committee to
attend to their case and then let a place be
selected, and let that committee shed their
blood.
We have those amongst US that are full of
all manner Of denominations, those who need to
have their blood shed, for water will not do,
their sins ere Of too deep dye.
You may think that 1 am not teaching
you Bible doctrine, but what says the apostle
Paul? L would ask how many covenant
breakers there are in this city and In this king
dom. L believe there are great many; and
If they are covenant breakers We need a place
designated, where VIC can shed their blood i"
1t has been the steady habit of the Mormon
publications in the cities of the United States
and elsewhere, to boast of the happiness and
contcntmcnt Of the spiritual wives'' of Utah,