Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1869-09-04
Number 13.
THE MORMON sCHIsM.


accounts of the difficulty in tho Mormon
camp. A meeting was held In Salt Lake
CITY on August the Sth. We give a portion
Of an account Of tho meeting;
Brother Coray then gave way for tho re-
gular speaker, Joseph +, Smith. He is my
iavorte among their preachers, but never
remember seeing him so excited and nor
vous as he was on this occasion; and well he
might be, for the case was ono to try the son
of Hyrum Smith the nephew of Joseph
and the cousin of Young David, lie had
heavy task TO perform. Be it remembered
that the data Of this pretended revelation III
favor os polygamy is AS early US July I'm.
1913, hut that it was never published until
September, 1859; that In February, 1874.
Joseph and Hyrum Smith published card
in the Tunes and Seasons, AT Nauvoo, deny
ING that thev received any such revelation;
that in April 1871, Hyrum Smith made an
address TO the elders starting on mission in
which he emphatically denied the doctrine
and forbade their preaching 1t; that about
the same time he wrote letter to the mis-
sion in Lapicrre county, Michigan, again
DENYING that such was q doctrine oil the
church, and that all these things were pub
| lished in the church paper and are not de-
Wot ot # ,to ' la,,sr nrove nolvcamy did then
a,j', ,'',. "ni, ',,' ,roro Joscnh and Hvrum to
H. tn'." w o,'S u,rs Tbe,o donials haye
| been made much Of by tho sons OF joseph,
I," - II" KAN anaionco Iosenh T. stood
10" -" s. n,.o ,o,a liz ,,.n eatLoro linrl And
ai,s, lilJ ia, ho 's',ncaolod in doing IT, He
hn,,a,, k,. a,','o,,rcin,, ,hat many would run
a,,1r IA. ynnn,, Smiihs .imply because thew
wero tLo snns'of Josenh Who would treat
MIN MN c"o,om"t @ i INV N other norson who preach
"a en-, sno,a 1on,rjno Tn view of this fact,
!, has bonn dstnrmined To hold series Of
mo",irgs " elm in ,his and o,bor wards, TO answer
,bo s> s,"tSm"nt ~, Of Davd uyrum, and before
NAV wars tbro,,rb thc Brirhamtes purposed
IN nrosent ,e.,imony to CONVINCE any hon
a',t, w n'G ,,inS who bcori /, and damn any who
so;oo,,,Ii,
Ia sta,od ao, ba had in bis nossession and
wnn,i nra,an, ,ho ofiIayits of twelve wo-
n,on ,nn, Ii,,i,c ,hot ,hrv were tho spiritual
"isos nf tnsan6 Sn,;,b md 40 contiHued to
tha ,ir,a of IL d.otb. that he had the evi-
Janon ,'' of b,ndrods of man who had been
,onnS, ' ,ha Joc,ri,o of Iosonh and Uyrum.
snTS IL, H. la Lno~ ~ a cor,aiu,v ,hnt his faith.
"r u"rnm , Smith had two other women
wbila lia mother wos sill aliye. This seem
ed nronf enonrb int .Iosenh Il. was mower
6nIIy wrourht nm os we'll as tho audience,
ard he wcpt on AZ soma lenpth in an inter.
s.tirr acconrt of affairs at Nuyoo, 81 can
not p ,aid ba "heln the nosition this places
my "a fbor ard Iosanh IN os 10 their denials.
I onlv know these facts But everybody
tno,ys the "onnlo then ,yero not nre,ar,d
rnr ,boso ILiny, and il was necesuarv 10 be
con,ions TEny wnrn in tho midst Of tbcir
ensn,ies and In a Stote wber. this doctrino
would bovo a,ns them ia the nenitcntiary.
Tbe hrathror were moi free nstbev ara here.
thc deyil wns rapinr about NSuyoo, and
there vera tho traitors on every hand; yes,
rigbt in ,holr conncils the rir6t.hand man
of tbo pronhet ono Marks was traitor of
In. hlarkest dve And whom ,Josenh md
uyrnm lcf, Nanvoo. while tbe nah WINS af.
,as ,hcm and cro..ed into Iowa intending
10 co,nn IN tbe Rocky Mountains and nick
oyt riiae for tbe naonln aa hundreds of
ncr.o,s nov in this civ krow their inten.
Han wos That man Marks and Emma Smith
;o,nod IN wr,,ing than n letter, In which
tbov collpd them eowurls unraithful shep.
erdS wbo had lert ibe sheen in danger and
Ged, And when Jo,epb read that letter, his
Grant heort WINS overcome. and bo said III
rbat il MI nv host friends care for NV life.
thon don't cara for II. and he nnd Hyrum
came boek. coye themselves I'M. and were
taken IA CARTHAGE and mnrderod. And the
blame rest. mon INT woman. thei, mother.
Fmma smith Tbisi. hard bnt want these
man 10 know that If thew came bere Ia raise
,bMr marty wewiIl riye them facts. and
soma of thcso facts viii Font. md if ibev don't
want ] tbrm told lat Them 10 owny ma keen
their montbs shut And say in ploin (act,
that tho blood of ,Joseph and Hyrum IS up.