The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01
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In The name of ISraers God that you shall melt
away as the snow before o July sun.
We are not to be prosecuted as we have been
we can say Come as mob and we Will
sweeter you up right suddenly" They never
did anything against Joseph until they had os-
tensibly legalized a mob and shall treat then
army and every armed company that attempts
10 come here as mob. CThe congregation res
ponded amen. You might as well tell me that
you can make hell into a powder house, as TO
tell me that you can let an army in here and
have peace. intend 70 tell them and show them
this, II they don't keep away. by taking this
course you will ind that every man and woman
feels happy, and they say, IAN right, all Is
WELL" and say that our enemies shall not slip
the bow on old Bright's neck again.
Referring to the same subject, President
Heber c.. kimball, in August, 1857, deli
vered q discourse in this city, found III
volume S, page 1873, of the Journal Of Dis
courses, in which he used the following Ian
guage:
win the President in his chair Of state be tip
ped from his Seatl Yes. he Will die an untimely
death, and God Almighty will curse him, and He
will also curse his successor IL he takes the
same stand, and He will curse all those who are
t1iS CONDUCTORS and all who sustain him. What
Tori For coming here 10 destroy the kingdom
Of God and the prophets and apostles and in
spired men and women, and God Almighty will
curse them, and curse them in the name Of the
Lord Jesus Christ according to my calling; and
II there is any virtue in my calling they shall be
cursed every man that lifts his heel against US
from this day forth.
Elder Orson Hyde, in q discourse deli
vered in this city, and found in the Descret
Nelus, volume z, page 275, used the follow
ing language:
80 Toe last eastern mail, I think. brought me a
p pamphlet or tract written by Elder Orson Pratt
at Liverpool, England-subject Gathering Of
the Saints and building up the Kingdom OF
Cod The whole matter is handled in mas
terly way, free from blind ob5curity, unchecked
and unrestraiued by fear and untrammeled by
the religions n DOl1tiCa1 dOUu1aS n the [
is the product Of clear head, of a strong heart,
and OF an untinchlng hand. In short, II is hea-
VEINS eternal truth. do exceedingly regret
having mislaid it, for would ike 10 send 1t TO
Senator Douglas with request that he read il
faithfully before he applies The knife 10 'cut out
the loathsome ulcer" Having read it, then if
he shall be disposed and able TO cut, cut away,
and carve up 10 suit his own peculiar appetite
and that al of his friends. win some person
having said tract or pamphlet be kind enough to
mail II to Hon Stephen A. Douglas, Washing
ton, d. CT But let all men. however, know that
If what the honorable gentleman calls the loath-
some ulcer be cut out, according 10 his views
and suggestions, the United states VIII be cut
off from being nation, and her star Of empire
set and set In blood.
In September, 1857, Brigham Young, in
an address delivered in this city, and found
in volume 3, Journal of DiScOurses, used the
following language:
There cannot be a more damnable, dastardly
order than was il sued by the administration TO
IllS people Wnlle they were IL an iQOlaQ cOuQ-
try il 1916. Before we left NauvOo, no less than
two United States Senators came to receive q
pledge from US that we would Leave the United
States, and then, while We were doing our best
70 leave their borders, the poor, low, deg aided
curses, sent a requisitiOn for five hundred OF our
men TO go and fight their battles. That was
President Polk, and he Is now weltering IN hell,
with old Zachariah Taylor, where the present
administrators will soon be if they do not re-
pent. Liars have reported that
lhs people have committed treason. and upon
their lies the President has ordered troops TO
aid in Oficering this territory, and if those Of
. hcers are like many who have previously been
sent here and we have reason to believe that
they are, or they would not come when they
know they are not wanted they are poor, mis-
cradle blacklegs, broken Gown political hacks,
robbers and whoremOngerS, men that are not lit
for civilized society, so they dragon themselves
upon Us for officers. feel that won't bear
such cursed treatment and that is enough TO
say, for we are just as free as the mountain air.
There is high treason in Washing
ton, and II the law was carried out it would
hang up many OF them, and the very act OF
James h Polk in having so Of our men, while
We were making our way out OF the country,
under an agreement forced upon US. would have
hung him between the heavens and the earth If
the laws had been faithfully carried out. And
now, If they can send force against this people,
We have every constitutional and legal right to
send them 10 hell, and we calculate TO send
them there. Our enemies had
better count the cost. for II they continue the
Job they will I%Sat to let il out TO sub contrac
tors before they get half through with it. II
they persist in sending troops here, I want the
people in the west and in the east to understand
that it will not be safe for them TO cross the
plains.
Whether such language as the above in
stigated the Mountain Meadow massacre,
or whether that horrible butchery was
done by direct command of Brigham Young,
will probably ne e. Ibe known; but it is Z
a part of the history of this Territory that
about this time party of peaceful emf
grants, who were PASSING through Utah on
their way te California, consisting of about
one hundred and thirty men. women and
children, were mercilessly butchered by
men under the command of John D. Lee
and c 4ptain Dame, both Mormons of high
standing.
On the 4th day of April, 1859, Judge era
dlebaugh caused the following order to be
SAtered in the records of his court, to-wit:
This court has sought diligently and faithfully
10 uo Its cuty, to administer the laws OF the
United States and of this territory. 1t could
have no otner object. But at every turn 1t has
had 10 encounter difficulties and embarass-
meuts Men high in authority in the Mormon
church as well as men holding civil authority
under the territorial government, seem 10 have
conspired 70 obstrucJ the course of public jus
tice and 10 cripple the earnest efforts of this
court. The whole community presents united
and organized opposition to the proper admins
tration OF justice every ant and every eXpedi
ent have been employed to cover up and conceal
have been prevented by threats OF violence
from obeying the summons of this court
others that have testified have been driven
to seek safety IN the protection OF United
States troops stationed near here-who
Il is proper to say are here on the re
uuisition OF the court, and for whose presence
Inc court is responsible. The absolute neceS
-Isity of having these troops here has been fully
demonstrated by all that has TRANSFERRED during
the session OF the court. To crown all, the granu
Jury, sworn TO perform q high public duty, has
"A willing instrument TO This
opposition to the laws of the country and refused
TO meet its obligations. A most willing lncllna-
ton has been manifested 10 prosecute Indians
and other persons not MorInonS LOT their
onenses, while Mormon murderers and thieves
are allowed TO go unpublished. This court has
determined, as its action manlfests, that 1t will
NOT be used by this community for It's protec
ton alone but that ii will do justice to all, or II
will do nothing Not being able TO do this the
!. TSipred JNO CRADLEBAUGH,
Judge, Second judicial district.
Counsel for applicants, however, con
tend that the feelings OF The people of the
Mormon church towards the government
have undergone change, and that in later
years
TIE FORMER FEELING OF HOSTILITY
has disappeared, or become greatly modi-
fed. The evidence, however, does not sus
tain this claim. In January, 1887, at the
dedica IL. Of the St. George temple, vii
ford Woodruff, now president of tht
church, prayed for the destruction Of the
government in the following language, &c
wit:
Therefore, o Lord our God, we pray thai
Thou wit give Thy people faith that we may
clam this blessing Of Thee, the Lord OF Hosts:
Thou wilt lay Thy hand upon Thy servant
brigham unto the renewal Of his BODY, and the
* ipg Of all his infirmities, and The lengtheL
inF;{ut OF his days and years. Yea, Q Lord, may
he live 10 behold the inhabitants OF Zion unlte