The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

nate officials were selected from the hierarchy Rec
ognizng the danger to the unlawful code the church
had adopted while under the jurisdiction of the Ma
tional Government, the church petitioned Congress
for admission into the Union under the statehood
it had chosen.
By this time Brigham Young had accumulated
seventeen wives, eleven of the twelve apostles had
from two to twenty apiece and the protection of
home rule ardenty espoused by those offenders
against national law and morality, as they were
administered under the compact of the republic
This statehood scheme did not secure the sanction
of Congress and the domain of the lecherous con-
spirators was subsequently included in the boundaries
of the territory of Utah. and in 1850 President Fill
committed the mistake of appointing Brigham
Young Governor of the territory for term of four
years
Through the efforts of the Mormon hierarchy to
admission into the Union public attention had
become attracted to the growth of polygamy, which
thriving in its wilderness isolation, and it be-
came necessary prepare for the defense of in
stitution without which the Mormonism of the
church leaders would lose all of its attractions.
A special conference of the church was therefore
assembled in Salt Lake City on the 28th of August,
1852, over which Brigham Young presided. 1t was
this conference that the last revelation to Joseph
Smith, deceased, the revelation of July 1843, COM
handing plural marriage first proclaimed, and
there has never been any reasonable explanation of
the conceament to which it subjected during the
intervening nine years.
The family of Joseph Smith, the head of a sepa-
rate Mormon organization, says "the prophet
given any such revelation and never committed
himself to any such doctrine and the reasonable
conclusion is that it pamed off the members
of the church by the hierarchy at the conference of
tLa io1,+ Of
divine sanction the credulity of the ignorant fol-
lowers of tho man whom they believed had become
a celestial saint through martyrdom.
The revelation was thereupon Incorporated into
the book of Doctrine and Covenants" and desig-
mated as Section 1872" where it masquerades as the
command of God transmitted through the medium of
a prophet whose lips had been sealed in death
eight years before. In the same book is printed a
revelation through Joseph Smith, said to have been
transmitted by the Lord in March, 1884, twelve years
earlier, in which it stated Paragraphs Is and
16, page 1879:
And again 1 say unto you, that whose forbidden
to marry is not ordained of Cod for marriage is
ordained of God unto man;
Wherefore it is lawful that he should have one
wife, and they twain shall be one fesh and all this
that the earth might answer the end of its creation
So the invention of Brigham Young to cover his
deHlqueLCles anu the uelqueHCleS VI ls dssooldleo
was charged up to God and designated by Mr.. Young
as "the foundations of Zion."
After the conference of 1852, the hierarchy took
possession of the government of Utah and the Ma
tional Government endured the affection until 1857,
when President Buchanan appointed new Governor
for Utah Brigham Young refused to recognize the
appointee, dehed the National authority and it
necessary to send General Albert Sidney Johnston
to the scene with a sufficient number of soldiers to
enforce obedience to the laws In his message, the