Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-04

| a warning to all who attempted to interfere
with the Latter Day Saints; thought Utah
was the most loyal country on earth that
they had always obeyed every law which
Congress had any right to make; that no
| Government had any right to legislate
for the Mormons; that they owned this
Territory; that interlOpers had no business
here; and that the MOrmOns were perfectly
capable of managing their own affairs as
witness the late administration of justice i'll
our streets.
Elder Shortfellow spoke of the divine
origin of polygamy. 1T was not good
| for man to be alone" consequently the
more he was together The better was it for
him. "Hence, polyganly is divine" Utah
had the most peaceful community on earth;
he had lived here, off and on, for nearly
twenty years. and hadn't been shot in the
back once; he thanked God for that Ga gen
eral chorus OF amensi, aud he presumed he
might live here twenty years longer-if he
"behayed himself"
| Song 1.-The Mountain Brave"
| President Oldhead said that it was the
| happiest day of his life; "since last Monday
night, about o'clock" he had experienced
a renewed evidence that this people were,
indeed, the Saints of the latter days. For
two or three years past, things had looked
Il little dark, but now, thank God, the good
days were coming again. People must
obey counsel. Sometimes the atonement of
blood was necessary to the salvation of the
soul. Who would not rather have his blood
shed here than to suffer in hell hereafter
| The people here are free to speak, free to
act-but they must obey counsel. The
people here have been prosecuted, and their
rulers malisned, but it was better to suffer
wrong than to do wrong, as witness the
affair on Monday night. lie had always
taught that MOrmonism was "a terror to
nations, to pretended Republican Govern
ments, and to all the world" and he intend
ed to practice what he preached. God
bless you all, amen"
The choir, remembering the hand-cart
train, sang with great pathOs aud effect that
excellent strain, On, my poor iect!'
President Chesterfield said that the whole
world, outside OF MorlnOni,m, were set
OF low, mean, miserable cusses; Judge
was one; he hoped some one would give
| the Judge his respects and tell him he said
| so. 1t any United States Judge undertakes
! u marry any one of my women, I'll shoot
| him; ii | don't shoot him some one else
will; no, I'll shoot him myself. We have
| some dry branches which we will have to
cut off. No man can be Mormon who is
not POlygamist. The sisters must round
up their shoulders to the work. The Saints
are the happiest people on earth, only they
| do not quite comprehend it yet. There is
to be a Jheater Tonight. Leta the faith
full attend. Song, Hail, Happy Land!'-
Benediction.
From the same of the 1Othl
| CONDENSED REPORT OF TABERNACLE MEET
| INGS.
| Prayer for all the enemies of the Nor
mOns-that they might find short road to
| hell. Christian doctrine Illustrated. The
MOrmOns were the worst abused people on
the earth; they started in the United States
thirty years ago, and had been maligned,
| prosecuted and driven from place to place
ever since. Other sects and creeds were
not so abused. The Shakers and Quakers
were an odd set of people, different from
almost every one else, and yet they were
never mOlested by the Government. Even
the JOsephite MormOns lived quietly and
respectfully in the Eastern States, and were
lot prosecuted. In tact nearly all religions
known to civilized nations were tolerated
excepting ours. The Government seems
t. have a particular spite against Brigham
| Young. The President of the United States
would not deign to consult him in relation
to the affairs OF the nation; if he had done
SO, the last war would have been avoided
in fact the next war could be prevented it
the President would ask Brigham'S advice
How strange that the rulers of the nation
will not learn wisdom They don't even
know that the Capital has got to be moved
to this valley-of course they don't; the
Lord keeps them in ignorance in order that
they may be more consistently damned
Brigham Young could tell them all about
it, but they are coo proud to ask him.
a buUa
have always been a set of low blaCkguards,
the scum of the earth, always interfering
with what did not concern them. There
may have been an exception or two, but
tle exceptions were good Or-nOthing,
harmless old grannies, who neither opposed
the MOrmonS nor acted with them; men who
wished to be let alone and who were of no
earthly account to any one but themselves.
These men have all gone to HE'LL and there
is yet room for more.
MormOns should be consistent. You pray
for the sudden destruction of your enemies;
would you ask God to do what you would
not do yourselves? Certainly not; then let
your faith be shown by your works. God
is bound to hold these valleys tor the faith
tul among his people. 1t is time our enc
mics understood this, and men that are not
entirely blinded by their own lusts cannot
fail to see it. There are some men whom
God makes blind for His own good purpose.
"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first
make blind" is the correct reading of the
old Roman prOveIb. We see it illustrated
here nearly every day. Men receive warn
ings upon warnings and refuse to pay any
attention to them, and the first thing they
know the warnings become true, and then
the "saints" are blamed for iG. God AL
mighty makes them blind in order the SOON
er to encompass their destruction.
POlygamy is religion-therefore all those
who practice polygamy are "saints"-and
all who do not will be "cut off" both in this
world and in the world to come. Polygamy
is also very essential to the population of
these valleys. If it was not so, God would
never have revealed it to Joseph Smith. 1t
is true that Adam had but one wife, and
that at time when the world needed popu-
latng more than it does now; but Adam
was an old tool and easily satisfied. Ii it
had been Brother Heber or Brother Brig
ham, for instance accompanied by sly
wink ,Non't you think things would have
been different? [Cries of "you bet!' and a
general chorus OF "amensw] Well Brother
| Ill. has | don't know how many wives, but in
| fifty years his descendants will outhumber
the present population of Utah; and it is
the sanle-or more so-With Brother Brig
ham. Don't you see how God is bound to
make us great nation by Ourselves?
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