The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-09-01
Editorial Correspondence of the N Y. Tribune.
Horace Greeley i'm Utah---Two Hours
With Brigham Young.

Editorial Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.
Horace Greeley in Utah---Two Hours
With Brigham Young.
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SALT LAKE Crrr, Utah, July 1s, 1858.
My friend DR.. Bernhisel, NJ. c., took
me this afternoon, by appointment, to
meet Brigham Young, President of the
Mormon Church, who had expressed a
willingness to receive me at p. M.
We were cordially welcomed at the
door by the President, who led us into
the second story parlor of the largest
of his houses (he has three,) where l
was introduced to Heber G. KimbaH.
Gen. Wells, Gen. Ferguson, Albert
Darlington, Elias Smith, and several
other leading men of the Church, with
two full-grown sons of the President.
After some unimportant conversation
on general topics, stated that had
come in quest of fuller knowledge re-
specting the doctrines and polity of the
Mormon Church, and would like to ask
some questions bearing directly on
these, if there were no objections
President Young avowed his willing
ness to respond to all pertinent inquir-
les, and the conversation proceeded
substantially as follows:
Ell. Gam | to regard Mormonism
(so-called) as q new religion, or as sim
ply a new development of Christiani-
ty?
b. WE hold that there can be no
true Christian Church without priest
hood directly commissioned by and in
immediate communication with the Son
of God and Savior of Mankind. Such
Church is that of the Latter-Day
Saints, called by their enemies Nor
mons we know no other that even
pretends to have present and direct
revelation of Gods will.
III. G.-Then | am to understand
that you regard all other churches pro-
Tossing to be Christian as the Church
of Rome regards all churches not in
communion with itself-as schismatic,
heretical, and out of the way of saliva
ton?
B. Yes, substantially.
Ell. G.-Apart from this, in what re-
pect do your doctrines differ essentially
from those of our Orthodox Protestant
Churches-the Baptist or Methodist,
for example.
B. Y.-We hold the doctrines of
Christianity, as revealed in the Old and
New Testiments-also in the Book of
Mormon, which teaches the same car
dinal truths, and those only.
H. G.-Do you believe in the doc
trine of the Trinity?
b. Y.-We do; but not exactly as
it is held by other churches. We be-
lieve in the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, as equal but not identical
mot one person [being.] We believe
in all the Bible teaches on this subject
III. G.-Do you believe in a personal
devil-a distinct, conscious, spiritual be-
ing, whose nature and acts are essen
TALLY malignant and evil /?
b. Y.-We do.
Fl. G.-Do you hold the doctrine of
Eternal Punishment ?
B. Y.-We do; though perhaps not
exactly as other churches do. We be-
it as the Bible teaches it.
. III. G.-I understand that you re-
gard Baptism by Immersion as essen
tial.
B. Y.-We do.
II. G.-Do you practice Infant Bap-
tism
B. Y.-No.
III. G.-Do you make removal to
these valleys obligatory on your con-
verts?
B. Y.-They would consider them
selves greatly aggrieved if they were
not invited hither. We hold to such a
gathering together of Gods People as
the Bible foretels, and that this is the
place and now is the time appointed for
its consumation.
I'll. G.-The predictions to which you
refer have usually, 1 think, been under
stood to indicate Jerusalem (or Judea)
as the place Of such gathering.
B. Yves, for the Jews-not for
others. Oh
III. G.-What is the position of your
Church with respect to Slavery
b. Y.-We consider it of Divine in
stitution, and not to be abolished until
the curse pronounced on Ham shall
have been removed from the descend
ants.
III. G.-Are any slaves now held in
this Territory?
B. Y.-There are.
III. G.-Do your Territorial laws up
hold Slavery?
b. Y.-Those laws are printed-you
can read for yourself. If slaves are
brought here by those who owned them
IN the States, we do not favor their
escape from the service of those own
ers.
III. Gam l to infer that Utah, if
admitted as a member of the Federal
Union, will be Slave State?
B. Y.-No; she will be Free State.
Slavery here would prove useless and
unproftable. Iregard it generally as
curse to the masters. / myself hire
many laborers and pay them fair wa
ges; could not afford to own them. l
can do better than subject myself to an
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