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The MormoDs celebrated the Twenty-third
anniversary OF the founding of Salt Lake City,
July 2J;b, with considerable fervor; and the de-
mOnstTaiiOn included a speech by Brigham
Young. This was a remarkable affair, spiced
more highly, even, than usual with audacity
ignorant rant, and blasphemy. Treating upon
the possibility Of coercive policy being at
tempted by the United States government,
Brigham recited the history of the abortiye
''war Of James Buchanan upon the Latter-day
Saints" He boosted that the Saints would have
laid their city in ashes, and made the fruitful
valley bowling wilderness had the United
States descended upon them as threatened
Continuing, he remarked in his choice yernac-
ular:
I'VE are here, and we calculate to STAY here
IL we do not guess IL toI be glory 10 any one else
Eh9 comes. Enough on that point, We do not
Hook for any such thing. I think we have got
through with this, and If we have not and de-
serve such chastisement hereafter as we have
received IN former years, hope we will be able
10 take the spelling of our goods joyfully and
acknowledge the hand of God in it, But i
reckon We will stay here. We have good laws
here, we have splendid laws in our state gov
eminent That We lived under from 1Si7 to 1851,
Abiding to the charge made that he dictated
the Z" elections" Brigham rather acknowledged
the corn in a boasting way. He said:
al don't feel disposed to dictate elections; If
you get the best men up for Office. that Is all i
4 Il
seeking office certainly would, if could, drop
the stool from under him and tet him fan"
But the most noticeable part of Brigham's
speech was upon the matter Of Polygamy-or
Celestial Marriage" Plurality of Wives
as the Mormons prefer to phrase IL. On this
point the Prophet said:
al want to tell you what have done. sent
former Delegate, and W. III. Hooper our present
Delegate. that, II they would pass a law that
every man in this government that is capable OF
taking care OF himself, shall marry a wife, and
then add penalty to every man who interferes
with his neighbor's or with single women zoe
'riH diSmIss oar irives. II they will punish such
with death or imprisonment. Congress setting
the pattern, We will dismiss our wives and have
but one each. But uHtd you do that zoe lciU zee
you - 'reii. dnytrhsre. We shall try aad full
tbs commanding Of the Lord. but could we NOT
live a. other men do . l. il not NV privilege
to lead about q wife a sister, a neigh
bors wife or any female as much as any
olheI man ;: certainty out when do IL,
do II legally and lawfully, not clandestineiy.
i his is the curse that is upon this nation aud
one Of the greatest curses in the sight of heaven
and justice that now rests on the United St t-s
Its their abuse OF females. millions of them are
wasted. According 10 their ow n show ing thou
sands OF females have persisted in the streets OF
New YORK since We have been in these valley,
probably double and almost treble the entire
number of females We have in this Territory"
IL Will he noticed here that Brigham incau-
toGsly abandons all the Eumbuggery about
polygsmy being religious duty imposed upon
the Saints by Divine revelation. Just as il he
was negotiating trade for a horse or a cow he
states the conditions on which the Saints will
- dismiss their wives" But IL the Gentiles will
not make this bargain, the MormoDs will see
them in - before they will give up their
wives Following upon this DIT OF profanity,
however, Brigham drops into the sanctimonious
vein, and adds /" we shall tfy and fulfill the
commandments of the Lord" What a com.
POUND of cant and blasphemyI