Year: 1866

mon Tabernacle, which we copy as an ev-
idence of the treason and aboninable cor
ruptiOn of the self-styled Saints:


From the Vedette of April 9th.


Meeting opened with prayer. Elder
Blank spoke on individual responsibility;
thought the Brassfield case ought to be
considered an evidence that this people
were the chosen of God; said the "regen
orators" were a miserable set of chicken
thieves; wanted the people to right every
day; said the Mormons were the most
tolerant people on earth warned every
one that, if they didn't behave them
selves, they would be sent to hell across
lots; hoped the fate of Brass6eld would
be warning 10 all who attempted to in
terfere with the Latter Day SIints (;
thought Utah was the most loVal country
on earth; that they had always obeyed
every law which Congress had any righv
to make; that no government had any
right to legislate for the Mormons that
they owned this Territory; that interio-
pars had no business here and that the
Mormons were perfectly capable of man.
aging their own affairs, as witness the
late administration of justice in our
streets.


Elder Shortfellow spoke of the divine
origin of polygamy. 1t was not good
for man to be alone" consequently the
more he was together the better good it
was for him. Hence, polygsmy is di-
vine." Utah had the most peaceful com
munity on earth; he had lived here, off
and on, for nearly twenty years, and had
not been shot in the back once he
thanked God for that Ia general chorus
of amens). and he presumed he might
live here twenty years longeI-if he be
haved himself"


Song-"The Mountain Brave"


President Oldfeld said that it was the
happiest day of his life; since last Mon
day night, about nine o'clock, he had ex
perienced renewed evidence that this
people were indeed the saints of the lat
ter days. For two or three years past.
things had looked little dark, but now,
thank God the good days were coming
again. People must obey counsel. Some
times the atonement OF blood was neces-
sary to the salvation of the soul, Who
would not rather have his blood shed
here than to suffer in he'll hereafter? The
people are free-free to speak, free to act
but they must obey counsel. The peo-
pie here have been prosecuted, and their
leaders maligned, but it was Oetter to suf-
fer wrong than to do wrong, as witness
the affair on Monday night. He had al
ways taught that Mormonism was ter
ror to nations, to pretended republican
governments, and to all the world" and
he intended to practice what he preach
O1 olI


The choir, remembering the hqnd-cart
train, sang with great pathos and effect
an excellent strain, ''Oh, my poor feet. "


President Chesterfield said that the
whole world, outside of Mormonism, were
a set OF low, mean, miserable cusses (;
Judge -w was one; he hoped some
cne would give the Judge his respects
and tell him he said so. If any United
States Judge undertake TO marry any of
my women, I'll shoot him; if l don't
shoot him some one else will no, Pll
shoot him myself. We have some dry
branches which we will haYe to cut of.
No man can he Mormon who is not a
Polygamist. The sisters must round up
their shoulders to the work. The saints
are the happiest people on earth. only
they do not quite comprehend it yet
There is to be theater tonight. Let
all the faithful attend. Song, Hail,
Happy Land I" Benediction.


From the Vedette of April 10th.


Prayer for all the enemies of the Nor
mons-that they might find short road
to hell. Christian doctrine illustrated
The Mormons were the worst abused peo-
Pile on the earth; they started in the
United States thirty years ago, and had
been maligned, prosecuted and driven
from place to place ever since. Other
sects and creeds were not so abused. The
Shakers and Quakers were ar odd set Of
people, different from almost every one
else; and yet. they were never molested
by the Government. Even the .Ioseph-
ite Mormons lived quietly and respecta-
bly, in the Eastern States, and were not
In fact nearly all religions
known to civilized nations were tolerated
excepting ours. The Government seems
TO have particular spite against Brigham
Young. The President of tue United
States would not deign to consult him in
relation to the affairs of the nation; if he
had done 30, the last war would have
been avoided; in fact the next war could
be prevented if the President would ask
Brigham's advice How strange that
The rulers of the nation will learn not
wisdom They don't even know that
the capital has got to be moved to this
valley, of course they don't; the Lord
keeps them In ignorance in order that
hey may be more consistently damned
Brigham Young could tell them all about
It, but they are too proud to ask him.


The rulers that have been sent out
lere have always been set of low black
guards, the scum of the earth, always in-
terfering with what did not concern them.
There may have been an exception or
Two, but the exceptions are good for
nothing, harmless old grannies, who nei-
ther opposed the Mormons nor acted
With them; men who wished to be let
alone, and who were of no earthly ac-
,oant to any one but themselves. These
men have gone to hell, and there is yet
room for more.


Mormons should be consistent. You
pray for the sudden destruction of your
enemies, would you ask God to do what
you would not do yourselves? Certainly
not; then let your faith be shown by your
works. God is bound to bold these val
Ieys for the faithful among his people,
1t is true our enemies understood this,
men that are not blinded by their own
Iusts cannot fail to see it. There are
some men whom God makes blind for
his own purpose. Whom the gods wish
to destroy they first make blind" is the
correct reading of the old Roman pro-
verb. We see it illustrated here nearly
every day. Men receive warning upon
warning and refuse to pay any attention
to them, and the first thing they know
the warning becomes true, and then the
saints" are blamed for it. God Almighty
makes them blind in order the sooner to
their destruction.


Polygamy is religion; therefore all
those who practice polygamy are saints,
and all who do not will be ''cut off. !" both
in this world and the world to come
Polygamy is also very essential to the
of these valleys. If it was
not so God would never have revealed it
to Joseph Smith. 1t is true that Adam
had but one wife, and that at time
when the world needed populating more
than it does now, but Adam was an old
fool, and easily satisfied. If it had been
brother Heber or brother Brigham, for
Instance, accompanied by a sly wink,l