The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-07
eUBJEcT-"MoRMoNIcM,"

OUT OF nehNen'
sodom and Salt Lake City are synony-
omous. You can hardly think OF one
without thinking of the other Both
rested in the midst of fertile plains, Sid
dim and Utah. Both were near salt and
fishless seas. Both were the capitals of
the most acCursed wickedness. Both
are doomed. In 1857 company Of en-
igrants from Arkansas set out to better
their condition in California. They were
good, respectable people, but they die
what appears to me most terrible thing
made the transit of tine continent by
an emigrant wagon. They suffered ev'
erything on their way. By night fires
kept away the wolves. By day they
stared danger and starvation in the face;
tender Womanhood and children were
there crying for rest. There were l79 in
the company, and their way lay across
Utah territory. 1t had been the custom
for the emigrant trains to stop in the
Utah country and take in new supplies
of provisions; but Brigham Young had
heard of this company, and forbade any
one extending even the hand of bought
kindness to these emigrants-and why? ?
It was a revenge for the fate of Elder
Pratt, who had been killed in Arkansas
where he had stolen away mans wife
and brought her into Mormonsm. On,
on went the emigrant train, suffering all
indignities, until they came into Noun
tain Meadow. The Indians dashed down
upon them, but temporary barricade
was successfully thrown up. Then the
Mormon militia came down to their
murderous work; but you know how
men fight when they are fighting for
their wives and children. They were
imprisoned in deathtrap, and oh, how
they suffered for water, with the spring
Just outside under the sweep of the
Mormon rifles. Two little girls, clad in
white, were sent out from the barriCade
to get water. No sooner were they seen
than they were shot dead; appeals were
made, and three brave fellows volunteer
to go out to make the attempt to push
on to California and secure help. They
were prayed for by the whole band and
went out to be butChered. Time passed
by and one day wagons were seen com.
ing. They were met, and assurance was
given the emigrants hat they could pass
on peacefully upon giving up their arms.
They laid them down and walked out
first the men, then the women and the
children. Then came that blot upon our
Country's record, the Mountain Meadow
massacre. Mormon rhes and dag
gers and knives slew all save few little
children who were thought too little to
tell she story. Women sick within the
barriCade were taken out into the pres
enCe of h,ir murdered husbands, strip.
ped of their clothing, and hurled, as
they received their death wounds, upon
the heap of Corpses. Stock and jewelry,
dresses and effects, in all $500 600 worth,
were taken by the Mormon government,
Years after, one of those saved children
saw a dress in the possession of a Nor
mon woman, and exclaimed, THAT is the
dress that mamma used to wear. Oh!
what have you done with my mother?"
John D. Lee was the presiding spirit of
that massacre; and when, fifteen years
after, he gave his testimony, he S i'd he
had orders to do what he did, and that
the property taken went to the Mormon |
power. Gen. Carleton passed over the
grounds and ga hered the skeletons of |
the martyrs into decent graves, placed |
over them the inscription, Vengeance
is mine, will repay, saith the Lord"
No wonder Brigham Young, when he !
saw it, ordered it to be torn down.
1t is this same Mormonism that ar.
raign to day for trial before you, jury
of American people, for disgracng man.
hood and dishonoring womanhood.
Cory, ghastly, hideous, revolving Nor
monism, stand up and look upon the
face Of the American jury that is to try
you. This summer, as on previous oc.
Casion, l had the opportunity of inspect
ing this inquity, of asking some ques.
tiOhs and having them answered by anti
Mormons and Mormons. The G vernon
of Utah called upon me, and asked me-
when l got home to present the subject
to he people of the East. | promised
to do 80, and this morning Iredeem hat
promise. They tell Us it is dying out.
1t is lie. Seven hundred and fifty ar
rived but few days before we got there;
ten thousand have been added the past
year, and 300 missonar es are now out
to gather up victims from other lands
Our own fair East, and Great Britain,
Norway and Sweden are secured by the
licensed proCurers, and only recently a
number Cf Scotch Presbyterians fell into
their hands. These missionaries are
compelled to 90 out, for this whole sys.
TEN is cruel and HerodiC. These mis-
sionaries go to those who have to strug
gle for life, and beguie the weary with
fair promises. Come with US to Utah
and We will give you farms and gardens
of your own" No wonder some of these
people flee from poverty to get into a
most stupendous swindle-for you sho'd
see them carrying the tenth of their in
comes 10 the tthing house. They are
thAeu III Juo DlOOu COmeoi anu Ju6 Ouly
escape is the grave. | charge Mormon.
ism with being one great cruelty. No
one denies the existence of the Danites.
The Hickman butcheries were Brigham
YouDg's own, and he should have fallen
for their expia ion. l saw cellar in
which a mother and her two sons had
been murdered for no reason but that
they had divulged the secrets of the
Endowment House. They have delic-
ious vernacular When they speak Of
putting party to death, he either has
met with an accident" or "has been
unfortunate" or "has been cut off just
below the ears" Why have these at
roCities stoppedP Because a regiment of
United States troops are stationed on
Ahn lila nunrlnnhir,a. Ahn oil.. 4 49,. |