Litchfield enquirer., 1869-10-07
WHOLE MO- a314

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 ful philosophy, ..they got my, goods, but they got me too, and d--n 'em, they can't getridsof me till I make up my mind to go.o fe~-,xaa so 3yuapfs aff 01 ,aTCw When the Mormon merchants commeno.
 ed putting up their s'Holine ness to the Lord" | signs, he got up burlesque which he. put over his own door, containing variety of sentiments and symbols which were very offensive to the Mormons. It had been up day or two when the Mormon Avengers
 assaulted the store one night and pulled it
 down. This he took very philosophically too. .'The fellow who led the mob, 2 said he, "thought he was doing big thing; but
 got square with him. Old Brigham
 didn't know he was so mucfCof g Mofmon
 till he pulled down, my sign, and then he
 thought he was h-l of a feller he'd send
 him on mission. And he did; sent him
 of without purse or scrip on the missiona-
 ry business. He didn't want to go; had to
 leave his business and all his wives and
 children, and everything else, and go of
 preaching Mormonism and paying his own
 way. But when Brigham has a revelation that man is wanted to 20 off on a mis- sion, he has to gos and there's no getting rid of it. 4 And he's gone, d-n him., said Trumbo, with smile. sa--sS7 sE se1 "Im going to have another sign likeithe
 old one, in little while, and I'm going 1 to put 1t up so it'll stay. I've just been over to White Pine. and the boys over there say Go ahead and we'll come down there If necessary and make it lively for ,em. So I'm going to do it. I'm Q pret- ty tough customer to freeze out. I've got
 nothing to loose-all my business is on commission. and I don't care what they do. You can just bet your life I'm going to stay here until I get good and ready to
 "Well." said ], :'is polygamy the worst feature of the church?'' -...~,
 'Oh, poiygamy be d-d," said he, ssthere ain't nothing to that don't care how many women they have. I'm blamed if I want any of 'em. They may have all the women they want for all me. know all about the polygamy business though. My father-in-law is one of the elders of the chdrch-a high cock-a-lorum 'mongst lem he's got three or foul. wives-but his first wife-my 'wife's mother-she ain't no Nor. mon--she lives with me, and you can bet your life know enough about it-haveait at my house all the time-have it, in my soup-oh the women business is bad enough-but that ism the worst of it; it's this cussedr blood atonement' as they call 1t. that's tho worst thing know about the Mormons.
 -- ''What's that" said I. .'s .! ' a.....~e u"Well these fellows get a grudge against man and they make out that he's done something he can't atone for except with blood, and then some of the elders have . revelation that the mans got to be got out of the way, and they go for him. Taint no use use the then These revelations do the busi. about it; and if you catch s,em, 'taint no use, they all stand by each other and you can't hang one of lem no way. Why, I said to my father-in law one day, I s'pose if old Brigham should have e. rev citation that it was your duty to, cut my throat, you'd do it, wouldn't you?" and he said, ''Yes,q of course; lift was the will of Heaven.'I .d4 T.. rn,o ads hue -sllossi sB 1"Well, n now" "" continued. he, hitching back his chair and smiling pleasantly, .D--n me ifit's nice thing to go to bed at night in such family as that, with your own father liable to have @ revelation any time in the night and get up and cut your throat because it's the will of Heaven.o F don't thing I quite like that sort of thing I'd ruther live where they don't have reye- lations." ..,r ,r,,
 The man bubbled over with all manner of quaintness of thought and speech, was voluble and witty, and though he spiced his conversation little more than would sound we'll in a parlor, confess was amused and entertained with it for e full B nour. lsioege sjG .44 tAa 1yd9a"' ID lo .9i UI