Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-07-26

Protestant churches, aud the congregation
all join in the Amen,
Brigham Youngs preaching to-day was
very unsatisfactory. disappointing per-
formance. There was every incentive to
him to do his best he had an immense
audience, spread out under the "bowery"
to the number of 6 or 6OOO; before him
was Mr.. Colfax, who had asked him to
preach upon Mormon doctrines; around
him were all his elders and bishops, in
unusual numbers and he was fresh from
the exciting discussion of yesterday on
the subject of polygamy. But his address
lacked logic, lacked effect, lacked wholly
magnetism or impressiveness. 1t was
curious medly of scriptural exposition,
exhortation, bold and bare statement,
coarse denunciation, vulgar illusions,
cheap rant and poor can't. So far as his
statement of Mormon belief went, it
amounted to this: that God was human
material body. with like flesh and blood
and passions to ourselves, only perfect il
all things; that he begot his son Jesus in
the same way that children are begotten ::
that Jesus end the Father looked alike
and were alike, distingushable only by
the former being older that our resur-
rection would be material, and we should
live in Heaven with the same bodies and
the same passions as on earth that Nor.
monism was the most perfect and true re-
ligion that those Christians who were not
Mormons would not necessarily 60 to hell
and be burned by living fire and tortured
by ugly devils, but that they would moi
occupy so high places in Heaven as the
Latter Day Saints: that polygamy was
the habit of all the children of God il
the earlier ages, and was first abolished
by the Goths and vandels who conquered
and constructed Rome that Martin Lu
ther approved of it in a single case at leas
that a clergyman Of the church o
7 England once married man to a secon'
wife while his first was living; and tha
g in England now, if a man wanted t
Z change his wife, he had only to offer he
t at auction and knock her off for a pot o
, beer or shilling, and marry another
, (This last statement called out voice 0
dissent from and English working fac
! in the audience.) A good deal of boast
! ing of the success of the MormoEs, thei
t temperance, frugality and sharp denunci
: alton of the "few sinking lawyers VIII
t lived down in whiskey street, and for fiv
: dollars would attempt to make lie int
e truth" were the only other noticeabl
= features of this discourse of the Presiden
d Of the church of Latter Day Saints. ]
e was very material Interpretation of tn
n statements and truths of scripture, YER
n illogically and roughly rendered an
}, calculated only to influence a cheap an
v vulgar audience. Brigham Young ma
!, be a shrewd business man, an able organ
J. izer of labor, bold. brave person i
h dealing with the practicalities of life
t he must, indeed, be all of these, for W
r see the evidence all around this city an
C country but he is in no sense a
e impressive or effective speaker, judged b
+. any standards that | have been accu
e toned to.
n His audience, swollen or 2O0O NOR
h could not have helped drawing a shar
IS contrast--dull in comprehension and t;
n uatically devoted to him as most Of the,
n probably are--betwecn hi, speech and b
|. style, and those of Mr.. Colfax, who at
!, later hour this evening delivered in u
8, same place by invitation ofthe church an
e city authorities, his Chicago Eulogy o
Q the Life and Principles Of Abraham Lii
,e coin. He spoke it without notes, an
!. with much freedom and fervor to an al
II dience unused to so effective and eloquer
y q style, and more unused. We fear, to sue
,e sentiments; and he received rapt after
d tion and apparent delighted approv,
g. throughout the whole. Mr.. Colfax
y other and informal speeches here, and h
D. whole intercourse with the authoriti
il andipeople of all parties, considerate q
is ways but frank and ever consistant wit
% his principles, had won him the respe
4. Of all and the affection Of many; b,
q. the pronouncing Of this eulogy has /,