The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27

The CorinDe (Utah) Reporter has further
4accounts of the difficulty in the Mormon
camp. meeting was held in Salt Lake City
on Aug. s. We give portion of the account
8of the meeting:-
Brother Coray then gave way for the regu-
lar speaker, Joseph f. Smith He is my
favorite among the preachers but never re-
member seeing him so excited and nervous as
ne was on this occasion, and we'll he might
nc, for the case was one to try the son of
4 hyum Smith, the nephew of Joseph, and
the cousin of young David. He had a heavy
task to perform. Be it remembered that the
&date of this pretended revelation in favor of
a poygamy is as early as July -, 1913 but that
it was never published until September, 1852;
that in February, 1874 Joseph and Hyrum
Smith published a card in the Times and
n Seasons, at Nauvoo, denying that
they ever received any such
4 revelation; that in April, 1874, Hyrum
s. Smith made an address to the elders starting
on a mission, in which he emphatically denied
N the doctrine and forbade their preaching it;
s. that about the same time he wrote a letter to
n the mission in Lapeer county, Michigan,
81 again denying that such was doctrine of the
n Church, and that all these things were pub
G lished i'll the Church paper, and are not de-
81 MED by the Brghamtes; and it wih be plain
q that if the latter prove polygany did then
b exist, they only prove Joseph and EIyrum to
q be most inyeterate liars
"These denials have been made much of by
81 the sons of Joseph, and in view of these facts,
81 in presence of large and excited audience
4 Joseph L, stood up to prove his own
a father liar And / must add that he sue
81 ceeded in doing il. He began by announcing
that many would run after The young Smiths
simply because they were the sons of Joseph
4 who would treat with contempt any other
person who preached the same doctrine. In
view of this fact, it has been determined to
hold a series of meetings in this and other
wards, to answer the statement of David
Hyrum, and before they were through the
Brighamites purposed to present testimony to
convince any honorable man who heard it
and damn any one who rejected it.
''He stated that he had in his possession,
4 and would present the affidavits of twelve
women, now living, that they were the spiri-
tual wives of Joseph Smith, and so continued
to the time of his DEATH that he had the evil
. dence of hundreds of men who had been
taught the doctrine of Joseph and Hyrum,
+. and that he knew to a certainty that his
4 father Hyrum Smith had two other
women while his mother was still alive.
This seemed proof enough, but Joseph f.
was powerfully wrought up, as well as the
audience. and he went on NJ some length in
cannot he said, help the position thisplac6smy
father and Joseph in as to their denials. |
d only know these facts. But everybody knows
the people were then not prepared for these
things. and it was necessary to be cautious.
They were in the midst of their enemies, and
in State where this doctrine would have
sent them to the penitentiary. The brethren
were not free as they are here; the devil was
raging about Nauvoo and there were the
traitors on every hand; yes, right in their
IA councils, the rght-hand man of the prophet.
one Marks, q traitor of the blaclest
dye. And when Joseph and Hyrum left
Nauvoo, while the mob was after them, and
crossed into Iowa, intending to come to the
a Rocky Mountains and pick out a refuge for the
4 people, as hundreds Of persons now in this
city knew their intention was, that man
Marks and Emma Smith joined in writing
II them a letter. in which they called them
towards, unfaithful shepherds, who had left
II the sheep in danger and fled And when
n Joseph read that letter his great heart was
" overcome, and he said:-''If that is all my
best friends care for my life, then don't care
for it," and he and Hyrum came back and
gave themselves up, and were taken to Car
thage and murdered. Andthe blame restsupon
that woman, their mother Emma Smith This
is hard, but | want these men to know that if
they came here to raise their party we will
give them facts, and some of these facts will
n cut and if they don't want them told let them
N 90 away and keep their mouths shut. And
say in plain fact, that the blood of Joseph
and Hyrum is upon the souls of Marks and
Emma Smith, and there it will remain until
burned out by the fires of hell
''By this time the excitement of the au,
n dience was intense, and the suppressed
breathing of the audience showed how deeply
they were wrought upon by this recital. He
continued his recital of facts in very effec
tive manner, and succeeded in making the
H occasion one of great interest to me from itl
historical value. No people talk so earnestly
"A of one true Church as the Mormons, and nc
W people are so divided in so short time.
81 The original Mormon Church has,
IA from time to time, split into twenty
I'll survive. When they left Nauvoo, abou
Fl 10000 followed the Twelve, and afterward
81 united under Brigham; Sidney Rigdon led
M large party of the most wealthy to Amity
PENNSYLVANIA, where he still resides, while hi
church has vanished; Strang took a still large
M body to Wisconsin; White led a colony +
Texas; the Cutlerites went somewhere else
@ while those who went with Sam Brannan t.
# San Francisco mostly apostatized or wen
crazy, the only alternative left.
"a ''The interest awakened by this late move
ment here is wonderful; the mass of the MOI
:. mons are fully impressed with the idea tina
they are on the eve of a great change; an
many of them begin to have visions an
dreams presaging something grandly myste
rious, though they hardly know as yet wha
it Is. 1t has been a settled point in the MOI
81 mon creed for years that there must be
great split in the Church before the tina
gathering. and the impression is general her