The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-10-28
TALMAGE ON THE moRmoNs.
He Wants tho Sevcnth Commandment
Thundered by fig Bore Cannon.

ho wants tho Sevcnth Commnudmen
Thundered by Big Horc Cannon.
| "Mormonism" was DR.. Talmage's top
&c. 'Sodom and Salt Lake City are sy
nonimus," said tbs preacher; "you car
hsrdly think Of one without thinking O
the other; both near an offensive, fables.
dead eea; both famous capitals of The
most accursed impurity; both doomed
This summer had an opportunity tt
inspect this iniquity. In regard to the
alleged subsidence Of Mormonism, I tel
YOU that 750 Mormons arrived at Sail
Icke City just before / got there. Ter
thousand were added last year, and there
will be more than that this ycnr. They
have 800 missionaries in Sweden, Nor.
way, Russia, Germany, England, Ire
land and Scotland. Many Scotch Pres
byterians were recently brought there
Emigrants are dcluded by false promi.
ses of gain, and when they get to Utah
they are taxed until the blood comes
There is no escape for them but in the
grave. Mormonism Is one great pro.
longed cruelty. I was shown cellar
where o mother and her two sons were
butchered because they had revealed
the secrets Of Mormonism. The Nor
mons have peculiar phraseology by
which they describe this putting to
death. They aay: "He was put out Of
the way" "They met with o bad acci.
dent" "They were used up" "They
were cut off just under their cars"
Laughter These outrages are stopped
because regiment of United States sol.
diers is now overlooking the city, ready
to destroy it If it dares to repeat such
atrocities. / charge Mormonism with
being q great blasphemy. Brigham
Young declared in ono of his sermons
that Christ himself was practical poly.
gamist; that Mary and Martha were
Christs plural wives. Bringhqm Young
said in the sa ne sermon that when Christ
turned water into wine it was the occa.
sion o. one of his own marriages.
charge Upon Normonism that it is dis.
loyal to the United States Government.
Mormonism would like to see this Gov.
ernment perish to-day. / charge upon
Mormonism that it Is organized filth. It
is built on pc 'gamy. There is a man in
Salt Lake City who has three wives,
mother, daughter. and granddaughter.
1t was related to me that when q man
takes q new wife there his house is en-.
larged, but no house wns ever large
enough 10 hold two women married to
the same man. Great laughter.I Think
of system that teaches that the more
wiyes man haa the higher will he his
seat in heaven! Think Of system that
commends man for living IL. marriage
at the same time with three sisters!
II tell you it is one great surging
RIGHTEOUSNESS, the seraglio of the repub.
lie, the centre of corruption, hell en-.
throned. 1t is power in American
politics. 1t receives $1,0OO,00O year,
with which it can influence national leg.
islation. In the last Congress the mat.
ter WAS referred to committee, and one
of the members of that committee said |:
"Why do you mako all this fuss about
poiygamy2 The Bformons make e. reli-
gion of having four or five wives. All
that is practiced by members of Congress-
witknut any religion" TSenaation. 7
would not interfere with any mans re.
/ ligion. The Mormc.s might believe
that Joseph Smith was God or that Brig.
ham Young was the second person in the
Trinity. You have no right to Interfere
| with such beliefs. But Mormonism is
not only antagonistic to Christianity out
90 Christian morals. Christianity stands
side by side with infideliiy n assailine
that which antagonizcs good morals.
"The tendency Of Mormonism is IS O
foe to free institutions. I tell you that
MOrmonism will never be DESTROYED until
it is destroyed by tho United States Gov
eTuRant. Why did they not let General
Johnston with his $500 troops destroy
it in 1857? There never has been moral
courage in the United Siates'to clean out
this national stable. Applause. We
have all gone 10 look ct it. Grant,
Thompson and Hayes went and looked
at it. The Mormons receive everybody
graciously. They bow you in and bow
you out. If there could be n transmigra.
tion of souls I should hope that the soul
of Andrew Jackson would get into the
body of some of our Presidents, who
would make proclamation that at such
day and hour each Mormon shall have no
more than ono wife, or shall go to jail or
leave the coun try. App!ause.l If the
Mormons woo d not submit would send
out troops, sud let them make the Nor.
mon Tabernacle their headquarters, and
with cannon o. the biggest bore thunder
into them the Seventh Commandment.
[Applause. Arbitration by all means, If
that will do; proclamation, if that will
do. But am sure that the bullets and
cannon would be necessary ut the back of
it oil. The United States Government
cannot survive the existence of com.
munity in its midst founded on O desola-
ted, destroyed, imbrutted womanhood. I
call the attention Of the American Con.
gress to this subject. The hour has come.
This thing has got to bo done. Let some
man come forth and speak the word in
tho name of God, and he will make his
political fortune. Instead of exhuming
the entcmbed mummy of a negro sls.
very in these presidential elections why
not bring up this live question Of Nor
monism?
"Now ask you, as the jury who have
considered the evidence against Mormon
ism, what shall Ii &c sentence be? It must
not be simply incarceration it must not
be slight censure. It must be the death
and extinction Of the abomination. But
where and when shall the execution take
placer Inc scanold should stretch from
the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nova.
da. Upon the grave shall be erected q
stone with inscription: Hero lies Nor
monism-the outlaw, the liberrine, the
murderer, the hero of the Mountain
Meadow massacre. Born Feb. 2, 1927
Died 1872" (Great Applause.]