The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-31

| the Six or seven hundred murders
that have been committed here, and
not one murderer has ever been
brought to justice.
They say, ave are loyal citizens,
and demand admittance to the Un-
ion as our lawful right. JEFF
Davis is q more loyal man than
these Mormons; and if they had
the power they would wipe out the
U. S. tomorrow from the face of
the earth. And I know that the
wishes of this people were for the
success of the South during the war.
Their religion is the worst lie of
all. First, the prayer: Invokes
the blessing of the Almighty upon
''this thy people of the Latter Day
Saints, gathered together from the
fOur quarters of the globe, to build
up thy kingdom and cause the dcs-
ert to blossom as the rose. And
especially bless thy servant Brig
ham Young, and endow him with
wisdom whereby he shall be enab-
led to overcome his enemies, and
may the Vaccinations of evil men,
who now persecuLe us, fall upon
their own heads and utterly destroy
them from the face of the earth
And all the people say, amen" They
teach that regeneration is by bap-
tism, and only by immersion, and
laying on of hands by the Elders
and Apostles. They believe in
Christ, but more in Brigham. If
Christ says, "love your enemies"
and Brigham says, ''cut their
throats," they obey the latter,
and would do it, if it was not for
Judge Mexican and camp Douglass.
They hold to their blood atonement
with the same ten2city that they do
to polygamy. l was talking to-day
with one of their Elders, who threw
some light on the State question.
talked with him some time, almost
boiling over with suppressed indig-
nation, but managed to keep cool
enough to get at his real position.
He came down rough shod on the |
social evil of the world, and said |
he made it point to present poly |
gamY as the only practical solution |
of that question, and it carried con-
viction wherever he preached it in
the States or in Europe q give his
words.) "Preach the gospel to every
creature, and give the world time to
accept, and then cut off from the
face of the earth those who reject it.
Danish every Infringement of the
seventh commandment, as well as
with death, and the evil is
cured" "But," says j, "You pro-
pose to compromise, and give up
this part of your religion for a
State?" aft they are fools enough
to think so, let them. We give up
they can impose such
terms as they choose, but do you
think any laws of man can force US
TO disobey God?" "But," said I,
evil not your accepting those
terms oblige you to keep your part
of the contract" ave are only
fighting the devil with his own
weapons. When we get our State
we can run this institution and all
nj haro IN sIIit ourselves -
There is no hope of reformation
for the greater part of the adults,
but there is every encouragement i'll
helping the young. The Methodist
school, only three years
old, has now $50 scholars, mostly of
once Mormon families. But it is
the Mormon policy to keep the peo-
pie in ignorance, and it will take
years, and may cost blood, to re-
generate them.
The Institute of which spoke is
the Temple of the Apostate. The
goddess of liberty stands out in bold
relief, as large as life, and twice as
right behind the pulpit;
and she listens to all the Liberal
ism, Spiritualism, Frceloveism,
Deism, Darwinism, and
all the other isms, taught under her
benign smile, and don't blush. Ut
is owing to the same cause that
some of her mundane sisters can't
painters faulty Yet
there is much virtue and 1 believe
true and saving faith in Christ
among the people. l talked with
good, faithful sister not long since,
who has been reading Bill Hick-
mans book. The air of sincerity in
it has set her to thinking, that it is
possible Brigham Young is a bad
man. "But," said she, "if Brigham
and all the Apostates and teachers
are bad men, 1 will hold on to God
and Christ as my Savior, and to my
hopes of heaven, and will not give
them up for all of this world"
There is more of that kind of faith
here, too, than we from our stand
point would at first view think
possible.
There is more mud here this win
ter than l saw in Colorado during
all of the years lived there. And |
the political and moral affairs of
this Territory are about as muddy |
as the streets of Salt Lake City. |
The streams will never be pure till
the fountain is clarified. 1 have |
tried to look at both sides, Impair
TALLY, yet our prejudices often color
the picture. We must take what is
said on both sides with a wide mar |
gin, else we shall not get the true
state of the case. w. III. II.