Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-13
Brigham Young on the office
holding GentileS.

Federal Officials who have lately left the
Salt Lake Valley are getting back to Utah,
and Of cottse. produce commotion among
the Mormons. That there is truth and
falseheod mixed iu the tales told by these
returning Officials, We have no Doubt
Those who took Federal appointments in
Utah were in the political old-clothes line,
and could not be expected to rank very high,
uorally or intellectually.
Brigham Young has been devoting a
sermon particularly to the fleeing Gentle
officials. 1t was delivered Sunday, June
7th, and We make a few extracts:
THE DEVIL IS A GENTLEMAN.
1t would please me much if the eongre-
cation that assemblies here from Sabbath
to Sabbath could hear the details of the
foul ISLANDERS of men who have been here,
that they may know what they will spew
out. The great majority of this people
have no idea what rottenness those char
acters carry within them, and they did not
find it here, they brought it from the
places whence they came. They come
here as full of foul matter as any she'll or
skin can be stuffed, and yet have heard
some Of the Saints say that such and such
one of the lot was a perfect gentleman.
Speaking as the world view men and things,
in the eyes of the vast majority of man
kind the devil is the greatest gentleman
that ever made his appearance on this earth.
In accordance with their estimate you can
not bzgin to produce a person WHO is so
much of "a gentleman as the devil himself
HE PRAYs FOR FIRE TO BURN THE CURSES.
l am exceedingly thankful that the ex-
cessive labors that have been upon me are
not on me now as they have been. The
spirit of reformation has taken hold no the
people, it has kindled the fire of the AL
mighty in Mount Zion to burn out many
of the ungodly that could not stand it, and
they have fled. l feel as though l should
endure yet for many years. But the labor
that has been upon me in observing the
grovelling backw;irdness of many of the
Latter Day Saints, to see where they were
going, was indeed hard to be endured
1t is not long since many of our Bishops
and other leading men in this community
could not tell Saint from devil. Do
you not suppose that that danger is before
me all the time? But within the last six
months, comparatively a hundred tons of
care and anxiety have been removed from
my shoulders, and l hope that this fire
will continue to burn among this people
until those poor, miserable curses, those
poor, miserable gentleman, shall all leave
us. I pray. that the fire of God tiay h1sra
them out. l pray for this continually.
THEY CAN'T TELL DECENT LIE.
Those whom the government send here
are most miserable set, and as general
thing, they do not know enough to tell
decent lie. But this is not altogether to be
wondered at, for they are in the same diff
Guilty as we are sometimes; it is hard for
them to tell man who has got brains in
his head from one who is filled with pud-
ding. The President and his Cabinet know
nothing about the characters whom they
send here, if they did, many who have
come here never would have been sent
If we cannot always discern the children
of men, it is no wonder that they are
blind and cannot send men here capable
of making decent lie. If they have not
already told every falsehood about us that
they can invent, they will be mighty sorry
when they think of it, for if they could
have told any more they would have done
so. They made and told every lie they
knew how to, and it there by any blame on
them for not lying more, it must be attri-
butable to their ignorance.
HE CARRIES THEM OUT ON CHIPS.
Government knows full well the misera-
bic nonsense and TRADE of abuse that is
heaped upon us, but what do they care
about it If they had the power of put
ting such characters on chips, as we do, and
carrying them out, perhaps they would
never give them office; but they have not
that faculty, as we have. Wee look men
out of our community, and they will run
and howl, thinking that their lives are in
danger.
l presume that there are still hundreds
and thousands of communications daily
sent to the President of the Uuited States
by applicants for'office, whom if he could
take up on chips, as we can, and set them
out of Washington, he would most gladly
so dispose Of But what is to be done? >
Why, give the poor, miserable dog crrnnb,
or an old bone, and say, "get out now,"
and that is the way they get here. To
the praise of few who have been here be
it said, they kept the law; but almost
universally the government officers that
have come here trampled the laws under
their feet and have spurned them to deri-
sion.
JUDGE DRUMMoND, THE HORSE DEALER.
Judge Drummond comes out with death
and thunder on the ''Mormons" but Judge
Drummond the HORSE DEALER, and
so it goes. And they publish that we
have thousands and tens of thousands of
men all over the world, full of fervor, in
tegrity and courage, and ready at any mo-
ment's warning. Just one word from
Brigham, and they are ready to slay all
before them; and they turn round and pro-
claim that the "Mormons" ought to be
used UP, and that you can do this and that
with them. 1t is all pack of nonsense,
the whole of it.
"The devil is mad I am glad.
And what can we do toplease him?"
know what think but l will not tell
it now. 1t would please me more to have
him kicked out Of doors than anything
else, and especially from this community.