Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-26

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This book it is said. contains stories about events
in America 1000 wears ago. 1t iS understood,
however to be q mere romance. written hy ore
Spau'ding.
The immortality Of the Mormon doctrines es-that
of pniygamv in particular-recommende them 10
the Gad the idle. anl the worthless so that Smith
soon found himself, in 1888. at the head Of over a
thousand followers They FIRST established them
selves in jackson County, Missouri, but their
principles and their practice being alike depraved,
they were driven frum the State by the outraged
people. TIL Y then located at Nauvoo, Illinois,
and there err' t d magnificent temple, and re
ceived ss rs to their ranks of men of proper
ty. At length, in seeking to organize an indepen'
d. MT communi V. they set al hancc the laws ot
Illinois Difficulties cnsTed--JoSeph Smith and
his brother were arrested AMI lodged in lail-a
mob broke into the pr son in July, 1911. and Kill
led them. The Mormons still continued The ob-
iects of popu al odium. Finally, they sold their
possessions, abandoned their temple and city OF
10000 inhabitants, and proceeded across the
Rocky Maintains and near the Great Salt Lake,
they founded a magnificent capital. Brigham
Young, their present leader, was made Governor
of Utah by President Fillmore. In the meantime
they had sent their priests abroad, who have been
making proselvtes in America and Europe-their
numbers have increased to surprising degree
In 1850, they even asked for admission into the
Union.
In Utah they have gone on, as in Missouri anu
Illinois, to set themselves up as an independent
community Shut in by the Rocky Mountains
and the wilderness of the West. they have grown
defiant and bold Under the directions Of Brigham
IL ! hiob hon
mons have had their own way-have disregarded
their obligations to the United States Government,
and condemned its authority. Recently force
was sent to Utah. under Col. johnson, to assert
the authority Of the Government. tbs SAID that
Brigham is determined to resist, and is marshall
inr his forces. The result is anxiously awaited.
II is to be hoped that they will be broken; that
their leader will be stripped of authority; that
their organization will be destroyed; that their
corrupt practices and villainous deceptons will
cease: and their creed fall to the ground. Their
success has been the success OF tlmmorahty-thelr
triumph must be but temporary. Truth-purity
the Bible-these crushed to earth must rise
again.
We also subioin the Proclamation of the redoubt-
able polygamist the warlike and chvalrous
BRIGHAM YoUSG:
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force. who are evidently assailing us to accom-
nlisb our overthrow and destruction. For the
last twenty. five years we have trusted officials OF
the government, from constables and Justices, TO
indens. Governors and Presidents, only to be
scorned, held in derision, insuted, and betrayed.
Our houses have been plundered and then burned,
our fields laid waste, our principal men butchereo
v bile under the pledged faith of the government
for their safety and families driven from thelr
homes TO find that shelter in the barren wilderness,
and that protection among hostile savages, which
were denied them in the boasted abodes OF Chris
tianity and civilization.
The constitution Of our common country guar
antees unto US all that we do now or have ever
claimed If the constitutional rights winch per.
tian unto US as American citizens were extended
n Utah according to the spirit and meaning
thereof, and fairly, impartially administered, 1t
is all that we could ask-all that we have ever
asked.
Our opponents have ayailed themselves of pre-.
iudice existing against us, because Of our reg-
ous faith, to send out formidable host to accom-
plish our destruction. We have had no privilege
nor opportunity of defending ourselves from the
false foul and unjust aspersions against us oe1ore
the nation The government has rot condesenG-
ed to cause an investigation committee or other
person to be sent to inquire into and ascertantp
truth, asis customary in such cases.
We know those aspersons to be false, but that
avails us nothing. We are condemned unheard,
and forced to an issue with an armed mercenary
mob, which has been sent against us at the III
stigation of anonymous letter writers, ashamed 10
father the base siarderous falsehood which they
have given to the pubc-of currupt officials, who
have brought false accusations against US 10
screen themselves in their own infamy, and OF
nd hopl
tute the truth for filthy lucre's sake
The issue which has thus been forced upon US
compels US to resort to the great first law OF self
preservation, and stand in our own detence-a
right guaranteed unto us by the genius OF the IN
stitutions of our country, and upon which the
government is based. Our duty to ourselves, to
our families, requires US not to tamely submit 10
be driven and slain without an attempt to preserve
ourselves. Our duty, to our country, our holy re-
lgiop, our God, to freedom and liberty, requires
that we should not quietly stand still and see those
fetters forging around u.s. which are calculated 10
ensave and bring US in sublecuon to an uniawlu'
military deSpotiSm, such as can only emahate IN
country of constitutional law, from usurPaton,
tyranny and oppression.
Therefore l. Brigham Young, Governor and Su'
perintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory Of
Utah, in the name of the people OF the CmteH
States. in the Territory of Utah. forbid,
First. All armed forces of every description
from coming into the Territory under any preiense
whatever Second. That all the forces IN Saio
Territory hold themselves in readiness to march al
moments notice to repcl any and all such IN,
yasion. Third. Martial law is hereby declared
to exist in this Territory from and after the pub
lication of this proclamation, and no person snal
be allowed to pass or repass into, or through, OF
from this Territory without permit from the
proper officer.
Given under my hand and seal, at Great Sal
Lake City, Territory of Utah. this fifteenth day o.
September, 4. D., eighteen hundred and nifty,
seven, and of the Independence of the United
States Of America, the eighty second:
BRIGHAM YOUNG.
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