The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-07-06

he South would rise against the North, and
he North against the South and that they
would fight until both parties were destroyed,
IND FOR MY PART, GIVE 1T GOD SPEED; Tor
hey have spilleI the blood of the Prophet.
A yociferous I" Amen from the audieuce.)
do not wish to live in OF have anything TO
10 with the United States. L Will have Tree
md independent government for myself. where
may live and enjoy civil and religious liberty
A petition to the Governor and Judges
lsking them to leave was signed by sew.
kral thousand Mormons. A counter PEE
ition. denouncing the resolutions and
kondemning the assertions against the
hfficials as unqualified falsehoods, was
Iignad by every commissioned officer In
lamT Douglas. The Governor and
hdgs were waited upon by commit
| tes. hsulted by crowds of bullies in the
! pblio streets, and although heroically
| AID deerminedly refusing to be driven
| fom tie country, the Government even
! TALLY emoved Harding and Waite to
l,Es hottie localities. -.-..
| In tie above synopsis of historical
| ei-ents, we have sustained fully, we
| think, ar former position. IL embraces
! the establishment Of an absolute despot-
| ism within the limits of the United
States "a theocracy in which Brigham
| Young aFsu mes to be the Prophet of
| Co.: rbellipn, in resisting the Federal
troops and the action of their leader
/ duringthe late war defiance of law, in
the Asststion of Brigham Young, q | am
1 above 81 law and so are this people; "
/ criminaitv in persistinC in the practice
| of poly@my after the act OF Congress
| forLiddhg the same 10 the Mountain
| Meadow massacre and the order OF
Wells locally legalized abominations,
| i'm indiariminate intercourse, or mar
riage of pne man to mother and daugh-
| ters at tie same time, sanctioned by the
head of he church relic OF barbarism
as the d'ctrines enunciated by the head
OF the church, that women have no souls
and can Dnly be saved through man s
intervention, are degrading dogmas tc
enforce obedience through religious IA
naticisnl and satisfy the leecherous pro
pcnsities of their lustful beastiality al
the sacr ice of every moral principle
| Through the imbecility of Buchanan
administration, the trials of rebellion
| during Lincoln's, and the difficulties
attendant upon Johnson's, these things
while held in utter adherence by the
American people, have not been forcibl
dealt with. 1t will assuredly Teceiv,
the attention of the nation within
twelvemonth be embodied as an obnoX
ious and odious feature demanding i'm
mediate destruction in every politIca
platform during the campaign of OS, an'
unless these practices are expunged from
the Mormon Church, the entire institu
ton viii be wiped out, root, stem an
branch. Their leader is less crafty am
cunning than he has been credited witt
III he does not have it revealed to hin
ere long. that it is better TO abandon
polygany than his possessions. Th
| Telegraph gets up leader on our asseI
ton that they must come down from
the status of saints to that of Americ n
citizens" We mean all that the Ian
guageimplies. You will find that must
is our reading of the inevitable logic @
events, and you "must come down" no
from any admitted superior position, bu
from that mountain of vain-gloriou
pride and consummate folly you hav
builded under you; from that assume
position above the laws" which it
unsafe for any people to attain. Con
mending these facts TO our Contemporary
we assure them that at any future tim
we will be pleased to continue the cours
of instruction, having many interestin
details of the more recent and fully a
cuIpable and fiendish actions, promulg;
ted as the inspirations of Deity, bu
stained With blood that cries to Heave
against you.