The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-02

DluUCu III Tue blDl0 or Dy local
laws of the government that under
! the Constitution alone has control
of domestic relations. No wonder
the large minded Lincoln refused
his assent to the "anti-polygamy
act of 1852" and did all in his power
to render it of no effect by appoint
ing polygamist as United States
district attorney Of Utah to see that
it was not enforced.
Avaunt! We 18O,OO0e00 followers
of Mohammed. This republic is the
asylum for the oppressed of all
lands" save you religious believers
in the plural wife system, although
it is true it is countenanced by our
Holy Bible. We are holier than We
Shame upon you, o Queen of Great
Britain and Empress Of India!
Why, oh why, don't you erterminGte
the "polygamist" IN India-or at
least try it On-as did the immacu-
late and immortal Boggs. erstwhile
most pusesant governor of the rob
ber-state" of Missouri, with his
army of state militia against the
little handful Of Christians there,
called Mormons, in 1888? And when
shall we place the heroic Jimmy"
Buchanan, with his United States
army that came out here to "wipe
out" this polygamic, theOcratic, dis
loyal and damnable crowd, and
some way or other didn't do it?
Are there no more BOggseS and
Buchanans left? Shall we have no
more cakes and ale? Can it be pos
sible that the late Henry J. Ray
mond, of New York, was right
when he wrote: Were we not
guilty of a culpable oversight in
confounding their (Mormon) per-
Sistent devotion with the insubor-
dination of ribald license and ap-
plying to the one the same harsh
treatment which the law intends
for the latter alone?"
"And applying to the one the same
harsh treatment which the law in
tends for the latter alone?"
Mr.. Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati,
says it is not so much polygamy as
the sstheocracy" of Mormonism,
that is dangerous to our republican
institution. If that gentleman
would come out here and candidly
investigate the matter as he and
others should do who undertake to
write upon it, he.would see it in a
much less Objectionable light. If
a s'thocracy" be to have no pam
pered priests as barnacles upon the
body polite "Who divine for money
and preach for hire. making mer-
chandize of mems souls" then am l
grateful to live under it. l have
examined Mormon history and
teachings, and 1 defy any man to
show a 1ike-sized community where
more liberality of opinion is not
only tolerated, but, in fact, encOur-
aged; where there is so little litiga-
ton and crime. I find this state of
things quite general, therefore L
honor the Mormons.
ono might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure Escape; back woundlng
calumny
The whitest virtue strikes; what king SO
Can tie the gall up in the slanderOus
toDgue?"
The testimony Of self-cOnfessed,
monstrous murderers and notorious
liars, of disappointed, nOtoriety-
seeking, divorced plural wives, and
of penny-a-line scribblers should
have no weight upon fair minded
men and women, in a question in
volving the welfare Of 10000 peO-
| pie. Why not hear both sides of
the question before rendering your
verdict, Messrs. Congressman? Why
go back, gentlemen, nearly SOC
years, TO the sickening days of
. pious OWlish James l., who declared
of the Puritans, to whom this free
republic owes its existence: Il will
| make them conform, or will harry
them out of the land, or worse
only hang them, that's all" and 81
would rather live like Hermit in
the forest than be king over such {
people as the pack of Puritans are
that overrule the lower house. The
sect of Puritaus is inSufferable III
any well governed commonwealth.
The Mormon Prophet JOSEPH
Smith Ecertainly was no fool, what
ever may be said OF him. In the
brief 50 years Of his life, he per
formed a very wonderful work. Hi
reported teachings are most liberia
and tolerant. His faith in hi:
mission never wavered, nOtwith
] standing it was tried as was .nC
other religious reformer or enthu
last in America, and he sealed i
with his blood
Permit me to pay tribute to his
memory by presenting to Congress-
more especially, and the nation, al
least one phase of his character, as
exhibited in the following Ordin
ance drawn up and presented by
him as an alderman. and adopted by
the first municipal council Of
| NauvoO, Illinois, in 1871:
Bet Ordained. by the City Cou1cil
of the city Of Nauvoo that the Catholics
Pre-byterians, Methodists, Baptist.,
Latter-day Saints, Quskers, Episcopal.
ians, UniYersalists, MohsmmedSns, snc
all other religious denominations what
ever. shall have free tolerstion, and equa
privileges in this city; and should any
person be guilty Of ridiculing and sbus'
ing, or otherwise depreciatlHR smother
in consequence of his religion, or disturb
ing or interrupting any religious meeting
within the limits of this city, he shall, on
conviction thereof before the mayor OF