The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-10-28
TALMAGE ON THE HORIZONS.
He Wants the Seventh Commandment
Thundered by Big Bore Cannon.

He wants the seventh commandment
Thundered by Big Bore Cannon.
"Mormonism" was Dr.. Talmage's top
ic. 'Sodom and Salt Lake City are sy
nonimus," said tbs preacher; "you car
hardly think of one without thinking O
the other; both near an offensive, FISHES:
dead sea; both famous capitals of the
most accursed impurity; both doomed
This summer I had an opportunity to
inspect this iniquity. In regard to the
alleged subsidence of Mormonism, / tell
you that $50 Mormons arrived at Salt
Lake City just before I got there: Ten
thousand were added last year, and there
will be more than that this year. They
have 300 missionaries in Sweden, Nor.
way, Russia, Germany, England, Ire.
land and Scotland. Many Scotch Pres.
byterians were recently. brought there.
Emigrants are deluded by false prohii-
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. l was shown a cellar
where mother and her two sons were
butchered because they had revealed
the secrets of Mormonism. The Nor.
mons have a peculiar phraseology by
which they describe this putting to
death. They say: "He was put out of
the way" "They met with bad acci
dent" "They were used up" ''They
were cut off just under their ears"
Laughter. These outrages are stopped
because a regiment of United States SOL
diers is now overlooking the city. ready
to destroy it if it dares to repeat such
atrocities. I charge Mormonism with
being a great blasphemy. Brigham
Young declared in one of his sermons
that Christ himself was practical poly
gamist; that Mary and Martha were
Christ's plural wives. Bringham Young
said in the same sermon that when Christ
turned water into wine it was the occa.
sion of one of his own marriages. I
charge upon Mormonism 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. 1t
is built on polygamy. There is man in
Salt Lake City who has three wives,
mother, daughter, and granddaughter.
1t was related to me that when asman
takes new wife there his house is en-.
larged, but no house was ever large
enough to hold two women married to
the same man. Great laughter. Think
of system that teaches that the more
wives man has the higher will be his
seat in heaven! Think Of system that
commends o man for living in marriage
at the same time with three sisters!
"I tell you it is one great surging
licentiousness, the seraglio of the repub-
lie, the centre of corruption, hell en-
throned. 1t is q power in American
politics. 1t receives $1,0OO,000 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 make all this fuss about
polygamy? The Mormons make reli-
gion of having four or five wives. All
that is practiced by members of Congress
without any religion" Sensation. /
would not interfere with any mans re.
ligion. The Mormons 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 but
to Clristian morals. Christianity stands
side by side with in6delity in a:sailing
that which antagonizes good morals.
"The tendency Of Mormonism is as q
foe to free institutions. l tell you that
Mormonism will never be destroyed until
ii is destroyed by the United States Gov
ernment. Why did they not let General
Johnston with his $500 troops destroy
it in 1857? There never has been moral
courage in the United States to clean out
this national stable. Applause. We
have all gone to look at it. Grant,
Thompson and Hayes went and looked
al it. The Mormons receive everybody
graciously. They bow you in and bow
You out. If there could be a transmigra.
ton 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 a
day and hour each Mormon shall have no
more than one wife, or shall 60 to Jail or
leave the country. Applause. If the
Mormons would not submit would send
out troops, and let them make the Nor.
mon Tabernacle their headquarters, and
with cannon of the biggest bore thunder
into them the Seventh Commandment
Applause. Arbitration by all means, if
that will do; a proclamation, if that will
do. But am sure that the bullets and
cannon would be necessary at the back of
it all. The United States Government
cannot survive the existence of COM
munity in its midst founded on o desola.
ted, destroyed, imbrutted wonanhood. l
cali the attention Of the American Con.
gress to this subject. The hour has come.
This thing has got to be done. Let some
mau come forth and speak the word in
the name of God, and he will make his
political fortune. Instead of exhuming
the entombed mummy of negro sla-
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 the sentence be? 1t must
not be simply incarceration; it must not
be slight censure. 1t must be the death
and eytinction of the abomination. But
where and when shall the execution take
place? The scahold should stretch from
the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Neva.
da. Upon the grave shall be erected q
stone with inscription: Here lies Nor
monism-the outlaw, the liberrine, the
murderer, the hero of the Mountain
Meadow massacre. Born Feb. 9, 1927.
Died 1872" Great Applause.
"Jf the gentlemen acho report this bill
,cW put in a section, that all acho partici.