
Semi-Weekly Telegraph. Vol. II. Great Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, April 9, 1866. No. 53.
THE ORIGINAL ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH. -- Thirty-six years ago, yesterday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized in Fayette, Seneca county, State of New York. Elder Geo. A. Smith kindly furnishes us the following names -- the six persons that constituted the first organization: |
![]() Vol.VI. Salt Lake City, U. T., July 27, 1866. No. 19.
Mountain Meadow Massacre.
A correspondent of the S. F. Bulletin writing from Callville, Arizona, under date of June 25th, says of the Indians in that vicinity: |
![]() Vol.VI. Salt Lake City, U. T., July 28, 1866. No. 20.
The Mountain Meadow Massacre.
In the letter of an occasional correspondent from Callville in yesterdays Bulletin, it was intimated that the Mormons were exciting the United States authorities to punish the Indians for the massacre known by the above name. The Mormons having their own troubles with the ndians are now accusing those collected in the neighborhood of of Muddy River of being the murderers, and in possession of the cattle and other plunder obtained by the crime. It will be remembered that in 1857 a large train of emigrants fronm Arkkansas were attacked at Mountain Meadow by a band of Indians or white men, and every adult, numbering 144 persons of both sexes slain, and a large quantity of stock, wagons, carriagess, jewelry, clothing and other property carried off. After the massacre 18 children, from eight years of age down to eight months, were pocked up amongst the bushes into which they had crawled for shelter. James Lynch, formerly superintendent of the United States post at Camp Floyd, has informed us that he was instructed by the United States authorities to inquire into this matter while stationed at the above post, and he had communications with John D. Lee, Hamlin, Bishop Smith and other Mormons, and they all acknowledged that the attack was made by Mormons assisted by five Paiute Indians. John D. Lee, boasting that he was the leader of the attacking party. They admit also the finding of the children and that there had been a consultation about them, one Mormon brute advocating their death on the ground that "they should destroy the nits while killing the lice." More humane counsels, however, prevailed and Hamlin took charge of 16 and John D. Lee of 2. These children were found by the United States authorities, in Santa Clara, in 1859, in miserable condition, and were given up to ouar informant. The eldest, a sharp intelligent child 10 years old, named Marry Dunlap, remembered distinctly the occurrences of two years before, and pointed out to Mr. Lynch the men who had taken part in the massacre. Mary Dunlap also testified to articles of dress and jewelry wfrn by John D. Lee's wife and other persons as being part of the plunder which she recognized; also carriages and wagons which formed part of the train then in possession of the Mormons with whom she had been living. Over 30 witnesses testified to facts proving the guilt of the Mormons in this matter before Judge Cradlebaugh and Eckell, Territorial Judges in Utah. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 45. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, October 10, 1866. Vol. XV.
THIRTY-SIXTH SEMI-ANNUAL CONFERENCE. The Semi-Annual Conference convened in the Bowery in this city on Saturday morning, Oct. 6th, 1866. President Young presiding. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. III. Salt Lake City, U. T., Wednesday, October 10, 1866. No. 84.
THE NEGRO. -- In a special number of the "Popular Magazine of Anthropology," by Commander Bedford Pim, R. N., we have a paper read before the Anthropological Society of London. For five thousand years, as Egyptian sculptures prove, the negro has been more or less in constant contact with high forms of civilization, and during that period he has never emerged from the lowest social position; never given to the world an idea of the remotest value in art, science or literature; never shown the slightest capacity, even, for self government. Is he, then, to be put on an equality with the white race? Certainly not -- unless by those who look back with reverence to a progenitor in the ape. Moreover, the negro will only labor when coerced. Left to himself, he is not merely incorrigibly lazy, but vicious and cruel. In juxtaposition with a minority of whites, his dominent idea is that of exterminating them and possessing their goods. In passions he is a brute, in capacity a child. Years ago, in total ignorance of the subject, we fancied, as some do now, that 'twas a mere question of skin, and that, give the negro a fair chance, he would run parallel with the white-man. We acknowledge our mistake. Long and unbiased study of the matter has convinced us that the negro, left alone, relapses, certainly, into his original barbasism, and is about as safe a neighbor as a wild beast.... |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. III. Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, October 12, 1866. No. 86.
ZION'S CAMP PARTY. -- Before going to press on Wednesday evening, our reporter, a member of the "Camp," furnished us the names of the remnants of "Zion's Camp," together with the names of the Twelve and others present by invitation. Being detained by business, we could only reach the hall at the commencement of the dancing; but once there, the agreeable society, etc., prolonged our intended "drop in" to away in |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 52. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, November 28, 1866. Vol. XV.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SISTER LAURA L. KIMBALL. On the 10th of September, 1849, being the first day of the sixtieth year of my age, I seat myself at my table in Great Salt Lake City, to commence the history of my life. |
![]() Vol.VI. Salt Lake City, U. T., Dec. 24, 1866. No. 14.
THE TABERNACLE. -- We attended the Tabernacle yesterday and listened to a lengthy address from Brigham Young, in which he urged unity of action on the part of the Saints, and vindicated the position he assumed in his reply to the card recently published by the merchants of this city. He stated that he had invited the strictest scrutiny, and had advised vigilance to be used in the discovery of the perpetrators of the murder of Dr. Robinson. He excused himself for not having adverted to the subject before. He alluded to the Mountain Meadow massacre, denouncing it in unmeasured terms, saying he did not believe there was a being in human shape, except savages, who could have committed so base a crime. He alluded extensively to the subject of the patrinage of Gentile merchants by Mormons, and counselled them to pass by the stores of those who, he said, were here for no other purpose but to destroy the Saints. He argued that there was in this community a class of men who were striving to deprive the Mormons of their houses, lands and money, and that all who patronized that class would be cut off from the Church. He launched forth many an invective against a certain sheet (which we forbear to publish), said sheet not being named but left to the conjecture of his audience. He frequently alluded to the subject of his published "Reply," and reiterated over and over again his determination to adhere to the policy expressed in his "Reply," and advowed his intention to carry it out to the very last day of his existence. He argued that the Mormons were doing no more than had been done by the professors of other religious denominations, in withholding aid and support from their enemies. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. III. Salt Lake City, U. T., January 5, 1867. No. 157.
REMARKS
I will try to speak to the people. I shall need silence in the house, and the close attention of my hearers. I expect the faith of the Saints even without asking for it. The faithful will exercise faith, and pray always for all who are within the reach of mercy. The good desire good to all. I have words to say to the good, and also to the froward -- to the righteous and to the unrighteous -- to the Saint and the sinner.... |
Vol. III. Salt Lake City, U. T., January 6, 1867. No. 158.
THE REST OF IT.
We have already given a fair view of the Munchausenish testimony offered to the House Committee on Territories, by Pat Connor and Pat's clique. We now finish the testimony of Pat's precious parson, McLeod.... |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. III. Great Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, February 1, 1867. No. 180.
AN INFAMOUS FORGERY --
The Mormons have accepted a decree of the Gods that their enemies ''can do nothing against the Truth; but for it," and coincident with this assurance of revelation is their own experience that the greater the vindictiveness of their enemies, the more certain are the latter to cover themselves with disgrace and humiliation. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. III. Salt Lake City, U. T., Thursday, February 28, 1867. No. 203.
CORRESPONDENCE.
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Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. III. Salt Lake City, U. T., Sunday, June 23, 1867. No. 302.
BRIGHAM YOUNG.
It is impossible to imagine a man more fitting to succeed Joseph Smith than Brigham Young, and he was as much a necessity to the Mormon mission and programme as Joseph himself. They are as two halves of one whole. Eminently they stand to each other in the two characters of the Prophet and the Fulfiller. It is certainly very remarkable that two such men should come together, and that, moreover, so close on their work that they seem to be not two, but one -- as wo have said, the two halves of one whole. And hence, also, the character of the Mormon work and the Mormon community bear the same features and relations, for each of these men, the Prophet and his Fulfiller, have typed the whole with their own character. Hence, though the Mormon Church is but thirty-six years of age, there are two distinct phases of development, both social and religions, represented in it and in its history. They are no longer a people whom we can distinguish as the church with prophets, apostles, revelators, seers, dreamers of dreams, and speakers in unknown tongues; nor can we now, when they offend our judgment and views of what ought or what ought not to be, have the satisfaction of calling them Impostors, fanatics, and pretended miracle-workers. All that they ever were of this they are still, but it is in their history of the past. They have, since Brigham Young took the Presidency of their Church, and molded and directed their energies and controlled their forces, been passing through an entirely new phase of character and of religious and social development. He has been transforming the people into his own form and likeness; and they are now so many greater or lesser Brigham Youngs, as they once were so many greater or lesser Joseph Smiths. Brigbam is the last man in the world that one could appropriately call fanatic; and we are all more apt to speak of his great executive qualities of mind than his aptitude to imposture. The whole of his presidential ministry and character is entirely free of the elements which make him either an impostor or a fanatic. He never sends out any new revelations, either to his Church or the world, and makes no manifestations of impositions. He makes no pretentions to being a seer or a prophet in the sense that Joseph Smith was, and never claims to be what he does not honestly believe he is. He is the chief apostle of Joseph Smith, and the fulflller of his mission. This he claims, and he claims to be no more. Of course this, in the eyes of the Mormons, would make him God's vicegerent upon the earth. The ruling power of the community fell into his hands in virtue of his being the chief apostle of the Mormon Prophet, and he carries on the work that was left to him, and consolidates and enlarges it. A very singular fact concerning him is, that he lays down no new programme superadded to that of his predecessor, leaves intact all the organizations and intricate ramifications of the Mormon priesthood, adheres with the greatest fidelity to all that Joseph Smith indicated before his death, or his mission leads to; and neither he nor the rest of the Apostles and Elders undertake, or expect, anything more than they undertook and expected a quarter of a century ago. Their Prophet laid down the entire programme, and founded all the institutions, and left it to Brigham to carry out; and if they are more to-day than at the death of Joseph Smith, it is because Brigham Yonug has fulfilled more than was fulfilled then; and if he succeeds with his people in accomplishing what the Mormon Prophet laid out in design, and prophesied as the results of his mission, he and his community have enongh to do for several quarters of a century to come, and perhaps fulfill the prophecy of John Quincy Adams [sic - Josiah Quincy?]. |
![]() Vol. VIII. Salt Lake City, U. T., June 29, 1867. No. ?
About The Mormons.
The London correspondent of the San Francisco Bulletin of the 20th inst., writing from that place, under date of April 30th, dishes up the following in his letter. |
![]() Vol.VIII. Salt Lake City, U. T., July 17, 1867. No. 10.
(From the Montana Post of the 6th inst.)
A recent article in the [Montana] Post, touching mildly on the abominations practiced by Brigham Young and his followers, appears to have touched a tender place in the Salt Lake Telegraph, and it thereupon devotes a couple of editorials to the Post. The Telegraph builds its article on this kind of theory: "The legalizing of prostitution is advocated in some of the States. Polygamy is no worse than prostitution, therefore why disturb it? This kind of argument is its own refutation, and would not merit a reply were it not for the following assertions: |
![]() Vol. VIII. Salt Lake City, U. T., Thursday, August 1, 1867. No. ?
A New Book -- Mormonism.
We are favored with the prospectus of a new work on the "origin of Mormonism, its rise and progress," to be published by D. Appleton & C., in September. It says: |
![]() Vol. VIII. Salt Lake City, U. T., Sunday, August 11, 1867. No. 32.
Special Correspondence to the N. Y. Tribune.
Salt Lake City, June 18, 1867. |
![]() Vol. VIII. Salt Lake City, U. T., Thursday, August 15, 1867. No. 52.
A VENERABLE PRINTER. -- Benjamin F. Cowdery died in Rochester, N. Y., on the 25th of May, aged something over 77 years. Deceased was a journeyman printer in the office of the Rochester American: did his regular work at the case up almost to the day of his death; and wrote a clear, legible hand, and good sense. He was the father of our friend J. F. Cowdery, Attorney, San Francisco. He has set type and published papers in half the states of the Union, printed the first Book of Mormon, traveled over the continent, did almost everything, by turns, that honest men do for a livelihood, an at length, weary with long wandering, settled down, perhaps not more than twenty or thirty years ago, to work at the case. Peace to his ashes! We trust his form is made up for glory. -- Trespass. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Thursday, September 5, 1867. No. 54.
RETURNING.
It is generally understood that the Mormon community expect, some fine day, to return to Jackson County, Mo., and possess, develop and beautify that promising region, as they are doing with this naturally uninviting one. We consider it very likely to be actually brought about, and not at a very distant day either. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Sunday, October 6, 1867. No. 81.
THE NEW TABERNACLE.
It seems proper, at the opening of the New Tabernacle, on the Temple Block, in this city to furnish our readers with some particulars concerning its construction, and to give such items of its dimensions, etc, as we have been able to glean from a few of the brethren who have had the oversight of various departments of the work. Brother Henry Grow, the designer and builder of the Tabernacle, furnishes us with a large proportion of the following particulars: |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Sunday, October 13, 1867. No. 87.
THE NEW TABERNACLE. -- When writing the description of the New Tabernacle, we gathered our information from those whom we credited in that report, and from others possessing any information that we could reach. Brother Truman O. Angel, the Church Architect, was not at the Tabernacle on the Saturday preceding Conference, at the time we were gathering the information, so that we could say but little of his labors. We had opportunity yesterday of conversing with him, and he tells us that he draughted the whole of the interior portions of the building, and detailed the same on the trussel board for practical execution, and likewise superintended the workmanship thereof, as chief foreman, until the opening of the building at Conference. We may have omitted in our report other persons deserving of notice. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, December 6, 1867. No. 134.
NEGRO DOMINATION.
A considerable portion of President Johnson's message is taken up with the subjects of negro suffrage and domination and Africanizing the country. He opposes indiscriminate suffrage, especially to the negro, and deplores the reconstruction policy which virtually gives the political majority in some of the Southern States into the hands the negroes, most of whom recently held the position of slaves and being extremely ignorant, have little idea of the true nature of the duties of citizens and electors. The President, from this source, anticipates trouble, serious trouble. He thinks it the greatest danger which now besets the country, and sure to entail enormous expense upon the nation, from the fact that a negro government over whites can not be maintained without the backing of a large standing army, an idea that is very likely to be true, for it is scarcely in Caucasian blood to sit down quietly and be ruled by negroes. Such rule is evidently reversing the order of natnre and Providence, and cannot be considered promisory of social or national peace, harmony or union. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Tuesday, December 10, 1867. No. 137.
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Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Wednesday, December 11, 1867. No. 138.
MORMONISM TO BE
Brick Pomeroy is rather heavy on the Mormon-eaters, if we may judge by the following from the La Crosse Democrat -- |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Tuesday, April 21, 1868. No. 249. MORE ABOUT THE K. K. K. A correspondent of the New York World gives a rather innocent and rosy meaning to the Ku Klux organization. It originated in Middle Tennessee, where and when Brownlow held iron ruIe, but is rapidly spreading all over the South. The impelling causes of the organization of the K. K. K. are thus presented -- "History is full of instances where a people greatly oppressed, and with no present remedy, have had secret organizations arise among them to dispense a wild justice in those cases where the laws are powerIess to either protect or avenge." |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Thursday, July 2, 1868. No. 310.
PRESIDENT KIMBALL.
In a notice of the decease of President Kimball, the Omaha Herald of the 22nd uIt., has the following: -- |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, July 31, 1868. No. ?
SOLUTION OF THE MOMON PROBLEM: -- If our fellow citizens want to abolish polygamy, why don't they act like men and every one marry a woman and honor her and her children, and leave no extra women to be taken care of and made happy by other men? If polyamy will ever be abolished, that's the way to do it, and no honorable polygamist would complain of or offer any obstacle to such a solution of the Mormon question. But so long as some men will rail in their obvious duties to the women, other men have sufficient generosity and right feeling to do all they can to honorably supply the deficiency Nor can they be righteously blamed for so doing. On the contrary, honors ought to be heaped upon them, and they will. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Saturday, Aug. 15, 1868. No. ?
ANOTHER MONSTER: -- We are told that one of the monsters now becoming so fashionable all over the country has been seen in Utah Lake. It will hardly do to make trout ponds until the reign of these monsters is over. No fear of them getting into Salt Lake. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Thursday, February 25, 1869. No. ?
The coming summer will be one of the most noteworthy in the history of the Great Basin, as it will witness the completion of the great railroad that consumates the spanning of the continent and binds the two slopes together in far more intimate relationship than heretofore. With the conclusion of the construction of the railroad will come a host of travellers of all kinds, and they will continue to come. Commerce will flourish in an unwonted degree, and population will increase much more rapidly than it has been wont. Mormonum will rise into greater notice and respect, because it possesses the elements which serve and eventually command respect. Work and pay will be abundant, and there will be the beginning of a more regular and lees fluctuating market for produce aid field for reasonable compensating labor than have been common in this territory. If the Central Pacific Railroad shall continue southward and eastward there will be an abundance of railroad work all through our valleys, and the whole length of the Territory will become one of the great highways of the world. ln times past Mormonism dwelt and grew in the remote interior of the continent, but that time is no more. The railroad brings up this Territory into prominent and central and close relation to the whole country, and especially to the vast Rocky Mountain region. This must be an evidence that the country and the world are about to accord to the Mormons the consideration of equal humanity, what has hardly been the case thus far. |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, U. T., Monday, March 1, 1869. No. ?
The track of the Union Pacific Railroad made its advent into this valley last evening, and was laid, when our informant left, to a point some one and a half miles west of Weber Canyon. Grading between the mouth of Weber and Ogden was all completed on Friday night last, and a temporary track had been constructed across the land-slide on the contract of J. W. Young. The side-track or switch at Taylor's mill was also completed on Saturday last. With a continuance of the present glorious weather, there is no reason why the track should not be completed to Ogden by the middle of this week. During the temporary lull of track-laying, caused by the incompletion of the grade at Slate Point, in Weber Canyon, the railroad company were enabled to store up a large quantity of track-laying material, and it was extremely fortunate that this reservation for a snowy day was accomplished; because, with the present blockade, it is hard to say when more material can be brought from the east. Whether the material on hand is sufficient to complete the track to Ogden or not, we cannot say; but hopes are entertained that it will be, and that this week will see the rails laid to Ogden the great railroad city of the future. |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Wednesday, May 12, 1869. No. ?
[After attending the driving of the golden spoke, editor J. H. Beadle wrote that] it is to be regretted that no arrangements were made for surrounding the work with a line of some sort, in which case all might have witnessed the work without difficulty. As it was, the crowd pushed upon the workmen so closely that less than twenty persons saw the affair entirely, while none of the reporters were able to hear all that was said.... [The] ceremony was then at an end, and general hilarity took place. The western train soon set out for Sacramento, but that of the Union Pacific remained on the ground till evening, presenting a scene of merriment in which Officers, Directors, Track Superintendents and Editors joined with the utmost enthusiasm.... At a late hour the excursionists returned to Corinne... |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Saturday, July 24, 1869. No. ?
A MORMON SENSATION.
A few days ago we mentioned the fact that William Alexander and David Hyrum, the younger sons of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, were on their way to Salt Lake City to set up the standard of the reorganized or anti-polygamy church. A singular interest attaches to the name of David Hyrum. A few months before Joseph's death he stated that "the man was not born who was to lead this people, but of Emma Smith should be born a soon who would succeed in the Presidency after a season of disturbance." Joseph Smith was killed June 27, 1844, and the son, named from his father's direction David Hyrum, was born at the Mansion House, in Nauvoo, on the 17th of the succeeding November. This prophecy is secretly dear to thousands of Mormons who are weary of the tyranny of Brigham Young, and yet hold to their faith in Joseph Smith. A few days ago the young men reached Salt Lake City, and soon called upon Brigham Young, and announced their intention to organize their church at once, asking permission to defend their faith in the Tabernacle, purposing to argue with the Brighamites from the original Mormon books. |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Sunday, August 15, 1869. No. ?
THE SON OF PROMISE -- Those of liberal sentiment -- and we hope no others are among our readers -- will peruse with curious interest the communication of David Hyrum Smith published in another column. The question will at once arise: How is it that "the son of promise," the successor and son of the Prophet, should use the Reporter as a medium to reach the public? Be it known that while no people talk so incessantly of "persecution" as the Brighamites of Utah, none are so bitterly intolerant and proscriptive to the extent of their power... The sons of the Prophet are forbidden a hearing by the man who claims to be his successor, and though daily maligned and their mother villified by the men who profess their father's faith, they are denied space to reply in the columns of the Mormon papers... The young Smiths are driven to a Gentile paper to get a hearing... We war against no man's religion; to us Mormonism is nothing; we contend only against the theocratic despotism set up by Brigham Young..." |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Tuesday, August 24?, 1869. No. ?
The special excitement in Salt Lake City, consequent on the mission of the young Smiths, seems to have quieted down and given place to a more quiet and argumentative discussion on the merits of the case. This is one of those singular controversies in which both parties "know they are right," and can prove it too. As far as human testimony can prove anything, it can be proved beyond a doubt that Joseph Smith, the Prophet, practised polygamy, while, with still more certainty, both by human testimony and documentary evidence, it can be proved that he constantly and bitterly denied it, that he "silenced" all the Elders who preached it, and that nearly the last day of his life he pronounced it a false and damnable doctrine. Sixteen women swore most positively, and allowed their affidavits to be published in the Nauvoo Expositor, that Joseph Smith had made proposals to them to become his concubines, and twelve women, now in Salt Lake City, subscribe to affidavits that they were the spiritual wives of Joseph Smith, and lived with him as such. It were difficult to prove a case more plainly. When the Expositor came out Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, Dr. Bernhisel, and all tho Nauvoo Council, composed of the leading Mormons, pronounced it an infamous libel and the women perjured liars, and destroyed the printing office. In conversation with Governor Ford,shortly after, both the Smiths, John Taylor, and Willard Richards most solemnly averred that polygamy or spiritual wifery was no doctrine of the Church, and that by such a charge they had been cruelly maligned by the publishers of the Expositor. Could that side of the case be more plainly proved? But there is other evidence. The Brighamites claim that the revelation authorising polygamy was given July 12, 1843; on the 1st of February, 1844, the following appeared in The Times and Seasons, Church paper at Nauvoo: -- |
Salt Lake Daily Telegraph. Vol. ? Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, September 3, 1869. No. ?
Last night we had the pleasure of meeting Ex-Governor John Wood, of Illinois, who, with his lady and daughter, and a number of friends, have been paving a brief visit to our city. Governor Wood proved himself a sincere and constant friend to our people through a period darkened by the bitterest of persecutions. When the Saints were driven trom Missouri and compelled to take refuge in Illinois, he was then Mayor of Quincy. He received the fleeing multitude with open heart and hands, administered to their necessities, and bestirred himself in their behalf with a large-souled philanthropy that did honor to his manhood. Many of the workmen in that city dreaded the result of such a large number of working men coming suddenly in among them, and manifested a disposition not to receive tbem kindly; but the Mayor stood their friend, then and subsequently; and in all our troubles in Illinois he was ever found on the side of the persecuted and suffering Saints. When at last they were driven from Nauvoo, and hundred, were lying exposed, suffering and destitute on the west bank of the Mississippi, he personally solicited donations for them, went, to Quincy and brought assistance to them, of clothing for the naked and food for the hunpry. One incident, related last night by President George A. Smith, will show the character of his friendship and active benevolence. Brother Moses Jones, now turned seventy years of age, and residing in Provo, was digging a well in Quincy, which caved on him and he was buried under the earth, where he remained for twenty-six hours and a quarter. Governor Wood worked all that time, hired men and kept them busy endeavoring to get Brother Jones relieved trom his living tomb, and never relaxed his efforts until he succeeded. It was a perfect miracle that the buried man could live through it; and when he was dragged out he thought every bone in his body was crushed; but, although the doctors said he could not live, in half an hour after he was got out he was walking about. President Smith mentioned the incident with a great deal of feeling, as illustrative of the untiring energy of the Governor in behalf of our people. |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Saturday, September 18, 1869. No. ?
Major Powell -- This gentleman, concerning whose fate the world of science and letters was long in suspense, has been spending a few days in Salt Lake City, where he delivered a lecture on Thursday evening, at Bishop Woolley's church. His subject was: "What I saw on the Colorado," which was quite interesting, though the lecturer labored under the difficulty of making a rapid selection from such a mass of facts as he had evidently collected. A painful uncertainty rests upon the fate of three men connected with the expedition. They declined to attempt the passage of the large rapids towards the latter part of the trip, and started to make the journey of nearly a hundred and fifty miles overland. The Major states that he has not yet heard from them, but within a few days a report has reached the city of three men having been killed by the Indians on that route. He fears that his former companions were the victims. Immediately on the conclusion of the lecture the Major took the stage for the east. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 37. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, October 20, 1869. Vol. XVIII.
BOOK OF MORMON -- ABSURD THEORY. A Col. J. W. Howard contemplates, it seems, delivering at an early date a lecture to the people of omaha on the origin of the Book of Mormon. A late number of the Omaha Herald contains some extracts from the proposed lecture. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 42. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, November 24, 1869. Vol. XVIII.
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH The report of the interview which one of the staff of the Philadelphia Morning Post had with Elder Brigham Young, Jr., has proved so interesting, and excited so much comment, that a second one has been solicited, with the object of obtaining views on certain matters which had escaped the attention of the reporter during the first interview. The reporter says that he has had a great deal of interesting knowledge relative to the belief of the Latter-day Saints imparted to him; but it would be entirely too voluminous for the columns of a newspaper. He omits everything that would not be of public interest, and many points that, doubtless, would be very readable, he cannot give for want of space. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 43. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, December 1, 1869. Vol. XVIII. "MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE." In the delivery of the lecture "Six Months in Utah," by Mrs. St. Clair, on Tuesday last at the Theatre, there was an allusion made by the to what is known as the "Mountain Meadow Massacre." There was nothing in her treatment of this point in her lecture that was offensive to her audience; but she evidently was unfamiliar with the facts, and as a general misapprehension exists abroad in relation to them, simple justice demands that they be correctly stated. Our silence upon this subject is frequently construed as an evidence of the inability of the people of this Territory to defend themselves against the cruel charges which have been made against them in connection with that tragedy. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 47. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, December 29, 1869. Vol. XVIII.
THE "MOVEMENT" AND "PREAMBLE"
We have had occasion to refer to the Nauvoo Expositor in previous articles. This paper was published by a few men who had been members of the Church and had made great professions of friendship for the Prophet Joseph, but had entered into a secret combination to destroy him. They had worked in the dark until he exposed their traitorous intrigues; then, after attempts to hide their wickedness, they came out openly and avowed their intentions, proclaiming as the reason for their action that Joseph was a fallen prophet. To judge by their own expressions, they were prompted by holy zeal, the reformation of the Church, the purification of its doctrines, and the salvation of the people being the incentives which prompted them to action. |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Saturday, January 15, 1870. No. ?
Salt Lake Correspondence.
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![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 29. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, August 24, 1870. Vol. XIX. LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS. KIRTLAND, OHIO. -- From a letter written on the 10th inst., in Kirtland, Ohio by Elder Edward Stevenson of this city we condense the following interesting items: |
![]() Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, August 31, 1870. No. ?
Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon, arrived in Salt Lake City last night, accompanied by Elder Edward Stevenson. Two members of the Des Moines Branch of the Church accompanied them to our city. |
![]() Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, September 3, 1870. No. ?
We had a call yesterday morning from Elder Edward Stevenson, who introduced Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon. Mr. Harris is now 88 years of age, and is remarkably lively and energetic for his years. He holds firmly to the testimony he has borne for over forty years, that an angel appeared before him and the other witnesses, and showed them the plates upon which the characters of the Book of Mormon were inscribed. After living many years separated from the body of the Church, he has come to spend the evening of life among the believers in that book to which he is so prominent a witness. Mr. Harris, who has a number of relatives in the territory, came from the east under the care of Elder Edward Stevenson. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. III. Salt Lake City, Monday, September 5, 1870. No. 242.
LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS.
SABBATH MEETINGS - the congregation in the morning was addressed by Elder Edward Stevenson, Martin Harris and President George A. Smith in the afternoon. The time was occupied by Elder John Taylor. The house was crowded to overflowing. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 31. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, September 7, 1870. Vol. XIX.
MARTIN HARRIS -- ONE OF THE WITNESSES Considerable interest has been felt by our people in the arrival in this city, of Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon. He arrived here at 7:30, p. m. yesterday, in the company of Elder Edward Stevenson, who left this city on the 19th of last July for the purpose of bringing him out from [Kirtland], Ohio, where he has been living since the Saints first moved there -- 1831 -- thirty-nine years ago. Bro. Stevenson has had a strong desire to have Martin Harris brought here. But he himself has thought for years that his mission was in [Kirtland], he feeling that the Lord required him to stay there and bear testimony to the Book of Mormon and the first principles, which he has been earnest in doing, and he has felt reluctant to leave. But when Bro. Stevenson corresponded with him about coming out to the Valley, he replied that the spirit testified to him that he should come here, and in every letter that he afterwards received from him he expressed a still stronger desire to come. Bro. Stevenson made a collection, and after raising sufficient means, went to Kirtland and brought him here. |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, September 12, 1870. No. ?
ARGUS, AN OPEN LETTER TO BRIGHAM YOUNG.
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![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol III. Salt Lake City, Monday, October 10, 1870. No. 272.
...MARTIN HARRIS, one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, arose and bore testimony to its divine authenticity. President George A. Smith spokes short time: he said it is remarkable to have the testimony of Martin Harris. The Book of Mormon, however, carries evidence with it. The promise has been fulfilled that those who do the will of God should know of the doctrine that it is true; thus the Book of Mormon has thousands of witnesses... |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, November 5, 1870. No. ?
ARGUS, AN OPEN LETTER TO BRIGHAM YOUNG.
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, February 11, 1871. No. ?
Lee and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, February 22, 1871. No. ?
Mountain Meadows.
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, July 15, 1871. No. ?
Argus' Letters. During a recent visit to Salt Lake City, we made arrangements for a continuance of the writings of this able correspondent and thoroughly versed historian of Utah. To-day (Saturday) the first of the new series of "Open Letters to Brigham Young" appears, and hereafter one each week until the completest history of Mormonism ever yet written, shall have been given to the world. There are only two men, living, capable of accomplishing the task of "Argus," namely, himself and Brigham Young. The latter dare not write the fearful autobiography, but the other meets the responsibility with a candor that is terrible to contemplate. |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Saturday, July 22, 1871. No. ?
HISTORY OF MORMONISM.
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, July 29, 1871. No. ?
HISTORY OF MORMONISM.
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, August 5, 1871. No. ?
HISTORY OF MORMONISM:
Closing Scenes at the Mountain Meadow Massacre -- The Crowning Horror -- The Bodies of the Female Victims Stripped Naked and Left Lying in the Sun -- Two More Children Murdered -- What Became of the Spoils -- Meeting of the Executioner and the Plotter -- The Grief of Brigham Over the News -- Lee Gloating Over the Massacre -- He is Rewarded for His Bravery by Four Additional "Wives" -- A Summing Up -- The Crime Fixed, Etc. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, August 12, 1871. No. 60?
HISTORY OF MORMONISM. The Object of These Letters -- Cause of the Mormon Exodus from Illinois -- Brigham’s “Policy” -- The Meshes of Polygamy Pervert the Mind of the Prophet -- His Minute Preparations for the Diabolical Massacre -- The Precautions to Prevent an Escape from the Bloody Scene -- The Arch Fiend Covered with Evidence -- Etc. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, August 19, 1871. No. 66?
HISTORY OF MORMONISM. Brigham Young’s Indifference to the Mountain Meadow Massacre -- His Army of Defense -- Appeal to the Proper Authorities to Investigate the Massacre -- The Guilty Should be Exposed and Punished -- Etc. |
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Vol. ? Corinne, Utah, Saturday, August 26, 1871. No. ?
HISTORY OF MORMONISM. The Revelation of Polygamy Invented by Joseph Smith as a Cover for Incest -- His Brother’s Widow the Chosen Victim -- She Burns the Document -- Brigham Young Returns from England -- Assumes the Presidency -- Counterfeits the Revelations -- Disbelief of the Mormons -- The Rogue and Liar of the Church -- Etc. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Monday, August 28, 1871. No. 73.
THE JOSEPHITES. -- A Semi-annual Conference of the Utah District of the re-organized ' church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, will be held in the Liberal Institute, Salt Lake City, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 30th and 31st of August. All are respectfully invited. By order of E. C. Brand, President of District. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, September 2, 1871. No. 78.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM. The Revelation of Polygamy -- Brigham Young as the Agent of the Almighty -- Gentile Laws or Obligations Not Binding on the Saints -- The Re-marrying Farce -- The Social, Moral and Abstinent Endowments of the Mormons -- Evil Effects of Polygamy on the Youth -- Etc. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, September 9, 1871. No. 84.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM. Revelations Refuted -- Blood Atonement, How Established -- Divinity Hedges the Prophet -- The Murder of Apostates -- Complete Exposition -- Prophecy and Petticoats. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, September 16, 1871. No. 90.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM. The Crime of Murder Defined for Brigham -- The "Cutting Off" of Haight and Lee from the Church -- Why it was Done -- Brigham Fears the Arch-Fiends of the Mountain Meadows Massacre -- The Prophet as the Very Embodiment of Hypocrisy -- The Head of the Mormon Church Openly Charged with Murder -- The Modern "Macbeth" -- Etc. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, September 23, 1871. No. 96.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM.
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, September 30, 1871. No. 102.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM. The Prophet's Sacred Person Guarded Night and Day -- His Abject Fear of Assassination. -- The Coward's Dread of His Own Shadow -- The Cost of His Protection -- Who Pays fot It -- The Cause of His Fear -- The Revelator's Guilty Conscience -- The Blood of a Hundred Murdered Innocents Before His Eyes. -- Etc. |
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, October 7, 1871. No. 108.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM.
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Saturday, October 14, 1871. No. 114.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM.
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Vol. IV. Corinne, Utah, Thursday, October 19, 1871. No. 118.
"ARGUS" LETTERS. The Corinne Reporter has a contributor who signs himself "Argus," who for some months has occasionally discussed the Mormon question with a candor unusual, and a vim and force more effective than often displayed by either party on this exciting topic. This apostate Mormon, for such he evidently is, has given Brigham Young's dynasty some of the most telling blows it has ever received. -- |
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Vol. V. Corinne, Utah, April 15, 1872. No. ?
Telegraphic...
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Vol. V. Corinne, Utah, September 14, 1872. No. 244.
Telegraphic... New York, Sept. 14. -- The fact that the Mountain Meadow Massacre was Mormon work, is fully confessed in an affidavit of Philip Klingen Smith, now of Lincoln county, Nevada. Smith says [he], at the time a Mormon bishop, at Cedar City, Utah, was forced to muster with a militia regiment, perpetrating the crime, that the assailed party, after four days fight, were induced to lay down their arms under promise of protection, after which all were shot down by the Mormon militia, except seventeen young children who were taken in charge by Smith and saved. The affidavit gives particulars and carries conviction to its truth. |
![]() Vol. II. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 14, 1872. No. ?
... [James W.] Simonton, chief of the associated press bureau in New York, sends a telegram west over his own signature, charging the Mormon people with the Mountain Meadow massacre, on the alleged confession of one Smith, now in Lincoln county, Nevada. This Smith, by Simonton's showing, is either a murderer or a perjured scoundrel, and in either case is amenable to the laws. He should be promptly arrested and brought to Utah on a requisition from Governor Woods to Governor Bradley, and if his statements could be substantiated by any credible testimony the guilty should be punished. But, the attempt made to charge the crime upon the Mormons, as a people, is an infamy only less in magnitude than the massacre itself. It has suited the malevolent policy of a few bitter anti-Mormons to refuse to avail themselves of every opportunity to fully investigate this matter, and continue to make general charges, which it seems they have at last got a second Bill Hickman to make affidavit to.... |
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Vol. V. Corinne, Utah, September 16, 1872. No. 245.
THE MORMON PRESS ON Whenever a Mormon falls from grace, which means a denial of the royal authority of Brigham Young, that moment the recusant is cut off, root and branch, as an apostate fore-ordained from the beginning to eternal perdition no less than mortal disgrace. To refuse to pay tithing into the coffers of ecclesiastical piracy is the unpardonable sun: far more so than to dispute the sangunary decrees of Blood Atonement. Depleting the treasures of the Church by contumacy in not pouring in the annual tenth of a man's net profits, sends out the anathemas of Zion; but when, occasionally, the dupe whose hands are gory in innocent blood shed by "divine" orders, repents his dreadful career by wholesome confession, then do all the curses of Danite theology find condemning speech to crush the penitent in his remorse, lest revelations of too worldly a character throw dangerous light on the dread secrets of Latter Dayism. Hence we find the Salt Lake Herald -- the Janus-faced organ of the Church -- in yesterday's issue making use of its choicest style of hypocrisy. The man Smith, who went into the slaughter at Mountain Meadow, was a priest of God, obedient to "counsel" when that crime of the century was perpetrated at the command of his then chief; but behold now the sanctimonious elder attempts to impeach the witness whose testimony comes up from the vale of murder! The Herald assumes a desire to bring Smith to Utah, in order that his declaration may be put to the test of corroborative evidence, so that "the Mormons, as a people," may not be charged with the crime. This is shallow. The Mormons, as a people, are not charged with the unparallelled massacre, but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as impersonated by Brigham Young, and his Apostles, did through them make the sacrifice of more than one hundred and twenty human lives, showing no mercy to its victims. The witnesses are hurrying in, of whom Smith is one, but, as many of those will soon appear; we shall now quote the Herald's comments which may be stereotyped for use in the cases of all others who are to follow, seeking amnesty from God and man, under the plea of "Guilty." |
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Vol. V. Corinne, Utah, September 20, 1872. No. 249.
MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE. We give below the affidavit of Philip KlingonSmith one of the bishops who obeyed the orders of Brigham in the butchery of Mountain Meadows. The fearful story requires no comment, nor does it admit of a doubt. |
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Vol. V. Corinne, Utah, September 23, 1872. No. 251.
"MURDER MOST FOUL." If we may believe the sworn affidavit of a Mormon who claims to have participated in the Mountain Meadows massacre, says the New York "Tribune" of the 11th instant, the well settled suspicion that that dreadful deed was the work of the Mormons is now an established fact. Bishop Philip K. Smith of the Mormon Church swears that the immigrants slain at Mountain Meadows were not killed by Indians, as reported by the Mormons, but by the Mormon militia, who were called out for that purpose. His affidavit which we publish to-day, explicitly details the particulars of this frightful affair, all of which he saw while he was in the ranks. Few people familiar with the history of those times have ever doubted that the Mormons were guilty of that massacre; and the testimony of Bishop Smith confirms the belief of those who long ago set up on the bloody spot where the immigrants perished a monument bearing the significant legend -- "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." |
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Vol. V. Corinne, Utah, September 24, 1872. No. 252.
MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE. We give below the affidavit of Philip Klingon Smith one of the bishops who obeyed the orders of Brigham in the butchery of Mountain Meadows. The fearful story requires no comment, nor does it admit of a doubt... |
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Vol. V. Corinne, Utah, September 27, 1872. No. 255.
Telegraphic... A correspondent of the Pioche Record endorses Philip K. Smith being formerly bishop of the Mormon Church, and says he is ready to return to Utah and give testimony in person relative to the Mountain Meadow atrocity. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 35. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, October 2, 1872. Vol. XXI.
For the information of those who do not understand, we may say that there is an intention cherished by certain parties to raise an extensive disturbance here the coming winter. The reason why this disturbance should be brought about, the conspiring parties themselves hardly know, but the whole affair is a species of diabolism, though its movers affect an entirely opposite character and intention. |
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Vol. VI. Corinne, Utah, January 16, 1873. No. 13.
JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN. The event of the week is the coming lecture of "Argus" on the awful tragedy of Mountain Meadows.... |
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Vol. VI. Corinne, Utah, January 17, 1873. No. 14.
MOUNTAIN MEADOW. -- When it is known that "Argus" is to speak at the Opera House on the subject of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, that is enough to fill the house with auditors. To-night is the time to listen to the story of the Blood Atonement. Go and hear "Argus." |
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Vol. VI. Corinne, Utah, January 18, 1873. No. 15.
ED. REPORTER -- Permit me through the columns of your paper, to assure the Salt Lake "Herald" man, that in my lecture last night in Corinne, I did "touch the meat question" -- the most slaughtered at the Mountain Meadows by the butchers of Brigham Young, the governor of Utah. |
![]() Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 22, 1874. No. ?
JOHN D. LEE.
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Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, December, 1874. No. 2.
The Basis of Polygamy.
Polygamy stands upon many legs. It is, according to Mr. Orson Pratt, who took the thing in charge as soon as it was born, founded in nature; and several species of cattle and fowls are pointed to that practice it without any interference of Congress, or other artificial impediments, and why should not man? Surely, why not. Must man be circumscribed, while other cattle have the range of nature? But when statistics interpret nature here, producing less females than males in every nation, and in Utah also there are less, it is seen that polygamy, as a rule, is physically impossible. Of course, Mr. Pratt's logical mind takes in this dilemma and provides for an escape, by having a sufficient number of men destroyed -- "slain of the Lord" -- to leave a plurality for what men are left. Thus the idea of killing is germain to that of polygamy. Hence, Lamech, the venerable polygamist, seventh from Adam, in a direct line from the equally illustrious Cain, when he, being the first to broach the subject and enter upon its practice, says, "I have slain a man to my hurt." Enoch, the seventh from Adam through Seth, walked with God; while Lamech, seventh from Adam through Cain, walked with the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning, and was the father of polygamy.... |
![]() Vol. IV. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 27, 1874. No. ?
MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE.
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Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, January, 1875. No. 3.
The Basis of Polygamy.
The several bases pf polygamy proving one after another to have weak places, proving not enough or else too much; extra props were suggested... |
Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, February, 1875. No. 4.
The Basis of Polygamy.
The revelation purporting to have been given July 12th, 1843, first paragraph, contains several noticeable points... |
Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, March, 1875. No. 5.
The Basis of Polygamy.
Paragraph nine provides for polygamists as follows... |
Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, April, 1875. No. 6.
The Basis of Polygamy.
After due reflection we return to this momentous paragraph twenty. We had proceded with this paragraph so far as to learn that the Lord decided to celestialize sin and abomination. Hence "Emma Smith" is charged to "receive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they WERE pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God." |
Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, May, 1875. No. 7. A Strange History. An article dated Salt Lake City, Utah, May 3rd, 1875, and published in the Chicago Times, over the signature of J. M. S., purporting to give a condensed history of the people of this valley, is certainly a curious production to have been written in a city where the writer could have been better informed had he sought for information, and where so many yet live who can testify to the falsity of many of his statements. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. VIII. Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, May 14, 1875. No. 147.
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Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, June, 1875. No. 8.
The Basis of Polygamy.
Those who have considered attentively what has preceded this upon this subject, will have seen the exceeding flimsiness of the grounds on which polygamy is based... |
![]() Vol. V. Salt Lake City, Utah, July 24, 1875. No. ?
MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE. Beaver, July [20]. -- Judge Sutherland this morning asked that the indictment against Colonel Dame be quashed, on the ground that there was a defect in it. He had intended to overlook the descrepancy and go to trial upon it, but learning that Lee's would be the first case tried, he made the request to quash. The error was that the crime was not alleged to have been committed in the territory nor in any county of it, but simply in Mountain Meadow valley. Mr. Carey immediately presented a new indictment, charging Lee, Dame, Elliott, Wilden, Wm. C. Stewart, George Adair, jr., John M. Higbee, Isaac C. Haight, Samuel Jukes and Philip Klingen Smith with conspiring with the Indians to kill certain emigrants, and in accordance to that conspiracy did kill them. The indictment will be read to-morrow, when Lee will be arraigned and plead to it |
![]() Vol. V. Salt Lake City, Utah, August 10, 1875. No. ?
DAVID WHITMER. David Whitmer, one of the three witnesses who testified to "all nations, kindreds, tongues and people," that they had seen the golden plates upon which were engraven the hieroglyphics, that were translated into the Book of Mormon, has been interviewed by a reporter of the Chicago Times, and the result is given in four columns of that paper on August 7th. We reproduce the subjoined from the published interview... |
Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, September, 1875. No. 11.
George A. Smith died on the 31st ult., -- leaving vacant the First Counsellorship to Brigham Young, and five widows. He has thus taken charge of a venue, from the bar of public opinion, before which he stood arraigned for complicity in the darkest crimes known to God or man -- the Mountain Meadows Massacre -- of which John D. Lee says: "It was not necessary a formal order should be given by the authorities, a crook of the finger was sufficient."... |
![]() Vol. V. Salt Lake City, Utah, September 18, 1875. No. ?
DAVID WHITMER. A gentleman from this city -- not a Mormon -- having entertained doubt of the genuineness of the reported interview of a Chicago Times correspondent and Mr.David Whitmer, relative to the coming forth of the Book of Mormon and other matters, as published in the HERALD some weeks ago, wrote to Mr. Whitmer, making inquiry as to the reliability of the statements attributed to him, and here is the answer which he received: |
Vol. I. Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 1875. No. 12. From Nauvoo Expositor. "It is with the greatest solicitude for the salvation of the human family, and of our own souls, that we have this day assembled. Feign would we have slumbered, and 'like the Dove that covers and conceals the arrow that is preying upon its vitals,' for the sake of avoiding the furious and turbulent storm of persecution which will gather, soon to burst upon our heads, have covered and concealed that which, for a season, has been brooding among the ruins of our peace: but we rely upon the arm of Jehovah, the supreme arbiter of the world, to whom we this day, and upon this occasion, appeal for the rectitude of our intentions. * * * |
Vol. II. Salt Lake City, Utah, November, 1875. No. 1.
History of the Reorganization of the Church of ... Having already shown, in the History of the Apostasy, that the church established on April 6th, A. D. 1830, was "rejected," dissolved or disorganized... it now remains to show how, when, where, and by what means and authority it has been reorganized and reinstated... |
Vol. II. Salt Lake City, Utah, December, 1875. No. 2.
History of the Reorganization of the Church of In the foregoing communication was committed to writing on the day it was received, in accordance with the injunction given; and on the following days it was read to several persons, among whom was David Powell, H. Lowe and J. Harrington... |
Vol. II. Salt Lake City, Utah, January, 1876. No. 3. Blood Atonement. A correspondent enquires, "What do you mean by blood atonement? I do not understand the doctrine." |
Vol. II. Salt Lake City, Utah, February, 1876. No. 4. Blood Atonement. This ghastly doctrine so clearly taught and practiced by the priesthood of Utah, has a two-fold object. It was found necessary, in order to establish and maintain polygamy; not only to leave the land of civilization and law, but to affix and enforce several penalties against those who violated their "endowment oaths," -- to do as they were told -- and those penalties which, for certain offenses was death, must be inflicted from time to time, or the "priesthood" would soon cease to be obeyed; but with all their secrecy in carrying out their executions, it could not be kept secret from a large portion of the people; for if a man or woman was put out of the way in the dead of night, and buried in gardens by the roadside, or in ditches -- many of their skeletons are being dug up in Salt Lake City -- still they were missed and mourned and inquired for, creating much uneasiness, suspicion and unpleasant comment. To avoid this, and prepare the people for those scenes that has "marked" all the principal settlements in Utah with human gore, it began to be taught as "strong doctrine" just becoming understood, to save the victims. The priesthood adopted that view, and the rest were cowed into silence through fear of it. Another object, and the chief one was to get rid of persons who were troublesome by reason of their rebellious apirit, or of knowing too much. |
Vol. II. Salt Lake City, Utah, May, 1876. No. 7.
History of the Reorganization of the Church of At the conference the branch known as the Yellowstone Branch, as being the most central, was made the principal or central place of business... |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. XXV. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1876. No. 27.
Death of Sidney Rigdon. -- The name of Sidney Rigdon is one familiar to the Latter-day Saints as being intimately interwoven with the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this dispensation. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. XXV. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1877. No. 49. Correspondence...
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![]() Vol. ? Salt Lake City, Utah, May 9, 1877. No. ?
THE MORMONS are becoming more defiant to government authority every day. It is even said that they are aiming to resist and attempt that may be made to arrest Brigham Young for complicity in the Mountain Meadows massacre; and if they were dealt with a little more summarily than has heretofore been the custom, the lesson would doubtless prove highly salutary. -- |
![]() Vol. ? Salt Lake City, Utah, May 10, 1877. No. ?
THE MILITIA.
We have denied so often the infernal lies manufactured in the Tribune office in this city and telegraphed to the New York Herald and San Francisco Chronicle, concerning the arming and mustering of the Nauvoo Legion, that it is becoming, like Brick Pomeroy's diet of onions -- fearfully monotonous. Although we have made diligent inquiry we have failed to learn that a single company of the militia has met for drill, or that any drill is anticipated. |
![]() Vol. ? Salt Lake City, Utah, May 16, 1877. No. ?
FEDERAL TROOPS FOR UTAH.
A dispatch telegraphed to the New York Herald from this city on Monday evening, and retelegraphed to Salt Lake City on Tuesday morning, informs us that Governor Emery has made a requisition or request for the reinforcement of the several military posts in this territory, and Fort Hall, Idaho, with several additional companies of infantry and cavalry. The text of the governor's letter to the secretary of war is not furnished, but the correspondent of the New York Herald and the Tribune etates that his excellency has informed the war department that danger to the public peace exists here to an extent demanding the presence of the additional troops asked for. If these reporters state correctly the governor's language, he must either have some information on the subject which is not in the possession of the public, or he has given his official ear and voice in aid of the little clique who are working up an excitement in regard to Utah for outside effect. Of course there can be no objection to having additional soldiers stationed in Utah, and there will be very few persons in the territory who will object to this movement, were it not that the peculiar circumstances under which the troops are called here apparently cast a stigma upon the people and seem to give credence to the insane and reckless efforts of a few mischievous busybodies to create the impression that combinations are forming in different parts of the territory to defy the execution of the laws and obstruct the course of justice. Being satisfied that every county and settlement of Utah is in the enjoyment of profound peace and that no disposition exists or has existed on the part of the people at any point to disturb the peace or interfere with the execution of the laws, we can but regard the action of the governor at this time as injudicious and ill-timed, unless he shall be in the possession of some relialble facts to warrant his call for troops which have not publicly transpired. |
![]() Vol. ? Salt Lake City, Utah, May 18, 1877. No. ? All Bosh. Lieut. Gen. Phil. Sheridan told a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat that "the news being telegraphed from Salt Lake city to New York in regard to a Mormon uprising in Utah, was all bosh." |
![]() Vol. ? Salt Lake City, Utah, May 22, 1877. No. ? HOWARD STILL ON THE DEFENCE. The New York Herald of the 14th inst. contains another long defence of District Attorney Howard's course from its correspondent here. It is astonishing what an elaborate and continued bolstering up of this officer is required to demolish the affidavit of Gilman, who has been set down by Howard as an utterly unreliable person, without any character to speak of. There is nothing new, however, in this paper save a statement to the effect that Mr. Howard has shown his hand to the Herald correspondent, who says he has had opportunities "of examining the startling evidence which will eventually be produced against those members of the Mormon priesthood who are seeking the destruction of the enemy who holds the cards against them." |
![]() Vol. ? Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1, 1877. No. ? [ ??? ] One of the most despicable and damnable plots ever conceived to rouse the feeling of the country against the people of Utah was sprung yesterday. Late in the afternoon it was rumored about the town that an attempt had been made to assassinate Jerome B. Stillson, the correspondent of the New York Herald, wko has been in this city for some weeks. The news spread rapidly, as such news always does, and within an hour from the time the story was first breathed on the street it was in everybody's mouth. Crowds of men gathered on the streets and eagerly discusseed it and the probabilities of its being true. The general impression and conviction appeared to be that it was simply a villainous sensation, wholly lacking in truth. Among the scores that we conversed with on the subject not half a dozen were found who credited the story in the least. Of course, the tale, from being often reported was changed greatly from its original shape and dimensions, and in different mouths grew to be a most bloody affair. Long before dark Stillson had been a cold and mutilated corpse. To our certain knowledge he was unhurt last night, and able to take his regular drinks with decided relish. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. XXVI. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1878. No. 50.
THE "MORMON BIBLE." An article has been going the rounds of the papers about "the original Mormon Bible." It started in the Detroit Post and Tribune, a reporter of which interviewed Major J. H. Gilbert, of Palmyra, who claims to have set up in type nearly all the matter for the first edition of the Book of Mormon, and worked it off on a hand press. He has the unbound sheets as he took them from the press and exhibits them as a great curiosity. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. XI. Salt Lake City, U. T., Wed., Jan. 16, 1878. No. 46. THE SPALDIN' STORY. Editor Deseret News: |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. XXVI. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1878. No. 52.
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![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 22. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, July 3, 1878. Vol. XXVII.
A GRAND VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. Congress adjourned without doing anything in the direction of an arctic expedition. A bill passed the house for an appropriation to aid the Eothen enterprise, but we believe it did not reach any action in the Senate.... |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 26. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, July 31, 1878. Vol. XXVII.
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![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. XI. Salt Lake City, U. T., Friday, August 16, 1878. No. 224.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We publish the following, the chief portions of a letter received from Dr. Poulson containing particulars of an interview with David Whitmer. We cannot afford space for the whole of the communication but give those portions which are likely to prove interesting to our readers, without being responsible for any of the statements made therein: |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 29. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, August 21, 1878. Vol. XXVII.
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We publish the following, the chief portions of a letter received from Dr. Poulson containing particulars of an interview with David Whitmer. We cannot afford space for the whole of the communication but but give those portions which are likely to prove interesting to our readers, without being responsible for any of the statements made therein: |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 30. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, August 28, 1878. Vol. XXVII.
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Having considered the cause that led the outcasts of Israel to determine to seek a home in a new and uninhabited land, we may be excused if we endeavor to follow them in fancy in their journey northward. We have no way of accurately estimating their numbers, but if the posterity of all those who were carried into captivity started on this perilous journey, they must have formed a mighty host. Necessarily they moved slowly. They were encumbered with the aged and infirm, the young and the helpless, with flocks and herds, and weighed down with provisions and household utensils. Roads had to be made, bridges built, and the course marked out and decided by their leaders. (Jesus distinctly states to the Nephites, that these tribes were led "by the Father out of the land.") Inasmuch as they had turned to the Lord and were seeking a new home wherein they could the better serve him, they were doubtless guided by inspired leaders, who, by Urim and Thummim, or through dreams and visions, pointed out the paths ahead. Perhaps, as in the days of the deliverance from Egypt, a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night guided their footsteps; no matter the means, the end was accomplished, and slowly and gradually they neared the frozen regions of the Arctic zone. The distance in a direct line from the conjectured crossing of the Euphrates to the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, would be about 2,800 miles or a seven months' journey, averaging 15 miles a day. But according to Esdras, one year and a half was consumed in the journey, which is an evidence that they were encumbered with families and cattle, who could only travel slowly and for whom many resting places had to be found where they could recuperate. It is highly probable that, like modern Israel in its journey westward to the valleys of Ephraim, they planted temporary colonies by the way, where the weary rested, and crops were raised for future use. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 31. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, September 4, 1878. Vol. XXVII.
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![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 43. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1878. Vol. XXVII.
REPORT OF ELDERS ORSON PRATT NEW YORK CITY, |
While sitting in the clerk's, or reception, room of the hotel, conversing with the proprietor, David Whitmer -- one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon -- came by, and was called in and introduced to Brother Pratt and me. He seemed somewhat surprised and delighted at seeing his old acquaintance, Orson Pratt. After a few moments conversation he left us saying he would come back to see us again. When he returned he was in company with Col. Childs, we accompanied them to Whitmer and Co.'s livery stables office, where we were introduced to D. Whitmer's son, David J., and grandson, George Schweich, John C. Whitmer, son of Jacob Whitmer, Col. James W. Black and several other gentlemen. We spent an hour in desultory conversation, on matters generally relative to Utah, and parted for dinner, agreeing to meet Mr. [David] Whitmer at his office again at 4:30. He apologized for not inviting us to his house, saying he and his family were "worn-out" and it was "washday." He said the heat affected his head, and he had to be very careful of his health. He was born Jan. 7, 1805, making him 73 years old last January, eleven months and sixteen days older than the Prophet Joseph Smith. At 4:30 Brother Pratt and I, agreeable to promise, ,called at Mr. Whitmer's office, where we found Messrs. James R. B. Vancleave, John C. Whitmer, W. W. Warner and George Schweich. Soon after Father David came in. The office being rather too public for any private conversation, we invited the party to our room at the hotel, to which they consented. When comfortably seated the following questions were asked and answered: |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 44. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, December 4, 1878. Vol. XXVII.
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Vol. X. Ogden, Utah, Saturday, June 7, 1879. No. 43. Cook's Alleged Lecture. Rev. Joseph Cook was advertised to give a lecture in Salt Lake last Sunday night on the "Certainties of Religion," but apparently the people who attended the Methodist Church at the time appointed were not entirely satisfied. From the account given in yesterday morning's Herald, it appears that Mr. Cook gave a prelude on "Mormonism," which he delivered without rising to his feet. After indulging for an hour in a torrest of jargon and vituperation, he announced to the people, nearly all of whom were leving the room, that the time being so far spent he would postpone his lecture to some future day! Notwithstanding this, the speaker did repeat his lecture -- or a portion of it at least, to the persons who remained. His prelude had occupied one hour, but the lecture itself, that which people had come to hear, was crowded into the space of forty-five minutes. We make the following short selections from the Herald's extensive report of the "prelude" and the proceedings during its delivery, as well as the opinions concerning it: |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 27. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, August 4, 1880. Vol. XXIX.
AN OLD TALE REVIVED. We have been asked by several persons to answer an article which appears in Scribner's magazine entitled "The Book of Mormon." We are always willing to reply to anything worthy of notice which is published against this Church, its doctrines, discipline, origin in or anything connected therewith. The article referred to purports to be from the pen of a distant relative of the late Solomon Spaulding. We are not able to say whether this claim is correct or not. It may have been prepared by some other person who induced the lady to lend her name to it, as was done years ago in the case of the gentleman's widow, when the stupid story of which the present chapter of Scribner's is but a very poor repetition, was first concocted by apostates and other conspirators against the truth. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 34. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1880. Vol. XXIX.
A NEW THEORY The latest attempt to account for the origin of that most remarkable of records, the Book of Mormon, appears in Mrs. Duniway's paper, the New Northwest. It is a statement from a gentleman living in Astoria, to the effect that his mother lived in the family of Sidney Rigdon prior to her marriage in 1827, and that the household then contained a "writing medium," and by the aid of this medium and "others in adjacent places," the "Mormon Bible" was written, "by an automatic power, which they believed was inspiration direct from God, the same as produced the Jewish Bible and Christian New Testament." Also that Rigdon, having learned, beyond a doubt, that the so-called dead could communicate with the living, considered himself duly authorized by Jehovah to found a new church under a divine guidance, similar to that of Confucius, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Swedenborg, Calvin, Luther or Wesley, all of whom believed in and taught the ministration of spirits. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 50. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1881. Vol. XXIX.
"THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND." Since the publication in Scribner of Miss Ellen E. Dickenson's article on the Book of Mormon and in Lippencott of F. G. Mather's contribution on the early days of "Mormonism," several paper papers have taken up these subjects making copious extracts from the magazines we have mentioned. The Troy Times published Mathers article in full the Syracuse Journal reproduced some portions of Miss Dickenson's, and other papers have copied the affidavit of Mrs. McKinstry. |
Vol. IV. Provo, Utah, Saturday, May 7, 1881. No. 344.
"UTAH AND ITS PEOPLE." The above is the title of an able and truthful exposition of the people and their doings in Utah, contained in the North American Review, and compiled by the Hon. George Q. Cannon. The article was written as a reply to one appearing in the same journal, dated March, penned by C. C. Goodwin, late of the Salt Lake Tribune. Judge Goodwin treats upon the "Political Attitude of the Mormons," and at times becomes very abusive and says things for which he could produce no authenticity. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. ? Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1881. Vol. XXX.
A Far-fetched Assumption We have refrained from noticing the report of the death of the confessed villain and murderer Klingensmith, and the absurd comments made by the press as to Mormon responsibility for his sudden taking off. But the reports concerning the affair are so wide spread that we take the opportunity of referring to them that it may not be stated truthfully that we dare not say anything about it. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 38. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1881. Vol. XXX.
THE SPAULDING STORY Scribner's magazine for August, contained an article on the Book of Mormon by Ellen E. Dickenson in which the writer revived the oft-refuted fable known as "The Spaulding Story." In the October number of the same magazine the lady has another communication on the same subject, containing letters and affidavits which we reproduce, as they form important links in the chain of evidence which encircles the Spaulding romance, fixes it as ait failure and holds it up as a baseless attempt to account for the origin of the Book of Mormon. The lady may not see it in this light, but it will so appear to all unprejudiced eyes. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 49. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, December 28, 1881. Vol. XXX.
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![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 15. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, May 2, 1883. Vol. XXXII.
THE TIMES-STAR IN A MUDDLE. One of the most ridiculous attempts we have seen for some time to explain the affairs of the "Mormon" Church, appears in a recent issue of the Cincinnati Times-Star. The confusion of mind exhibited by most eastern editors when they undertake to descant on "Mormonism," is food for frequent merriment in Utah. This instance of an effort of a journalist to explain something that he knows nothing about is more than usually diverting. |
Vol. I. Logan, Utah, Tuesday, May 29, 1883. No. 87.
L. O. LITTLEFIELD'S SECOND LETTER To Joseph Smith. President of the Re-organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lamoni, Iowa: |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 49. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, August 1, 1883. Vol. XXX. Missionary Labors -- Visit to David Whitmer -- Floods.
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Vol. III. Ogden, Utah, Thursday, August 30, 1883. No. 104. The Myth of the Manuscript. With the compliment of the Juvenile Instructor office, we have received a copy of an excellent little volume entitled The Myth of the Manuscript Found, or the absurdities of the Spaulding story, the author of which is Elder George Reynolds. It is a book of one hundred and four pages, and forms the eleventh book of the "Faith Promoting Series." |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 36. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, September 26, 1883. Vol. XXXII.
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Vol. III. Ogden, Utah, Monday, November 19, 1883. No. 173.
CHARLES C. RICH. It is with unfeigned regret that we now chronicle the death of anotehr great man in Israel, namely, that of Apostle Charles C. Rich, who died at his residence at Paris, Idaho, November 17, 1883, at 2:30 p. m.... |
Vol. III. Beaver City, Utah, Friday, December 7, 1883. No. 42. Spaulding Story again. Bishop Nephi Packard; of Springville, informs us that a certain book agent has been canvassing that town of late, with a large pictorial Bible, containing among other things historical sketches of religious denominations. It will be sufficient to inform the Latter-day Saints that the account given of the origin of "Mormonism" is nothing more nor less than the silly Spaulding story, to put them on their guard against patronizing such a work, which, if it bolsters up one such flagrant falsehood as that referred to, may readily be presumed to contain other statements equally unreliable. The agent for such a publication cannot expect to prosper among a people who are insulted and lied about by the very book they are asked to purchase. -- |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. Vol. XVII. Salt Lake City, U. T., Tuesday, March 25, 1884. No. 104.
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Vol. IV. Ogden, Utah, Wednesday, March 25, 1885. No. 274.
LAID BARE. "One by one the roses fade." So are the props of those who make a hobby of seeking to show that "Mormonism" is a fraud, kicked from under them, says the Deseret News, and they find themselves sitting in the mud puddle of disappointment and perplexity. The religious denouncers of polygamy have gradually receded from the untenable ground that the Bible does does not sanction, sustain, nor cojoin plural marriage. It is now generally acknowledged that such a proposition has not the shadow of a leg on which to stand. In consequence fanatical anti"Mormon" religionists, having no argument to offer, keep up the unreasoning whoop about a "superior civilization" and demands for the application of force to suppress that which they cannot exhibit as an error by argument. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. ? Salt Lake City, Wednesday, July 9, 1884. Vol. ?
THE TRAGEDY AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS.
Notwithstanding the proofs which have been given from non-Mormon sources that the tragedy known as the Mountain Meadows massacre was perpetrated without authority from the "Mormon" Church or its leaders, and from other sources that it was in utter opposition to authoritative instructions and in violation of fundamental principles of the "Mormon" faith, the charge is frequently reiterated that the terrible deed was done by direct order of President Brigham Young and that the "Mormon" church is responsible for it. That this is not only unfair, but really wicked and detestable most, persons who have impartially investigated that deplorable matter have frankly conceded. We seldom notice the absurd and malicious stories told in relation to it by those who write and lecture against "Mormonism." Everybody with ordinary sense ought to see the folly of charging to a society or a community the wrongdoing of a few of its members, particularly when the spirit and sentiments of the body are opposed to the evil complained of. We refer to this matter now because of a statement recently made by a seceder from the "Mormon" Church, one who is opposed to its teachings and authority, one and who has joined a hostile sect and whose testimony would naturally be of an unfavorable character, if possible. His name is John Hawley. He lived in John D. Lee's neighborhood at the time of the massacre and openly denounced the deed. He claims that he was warned to be more on his guard in his language but continued to express his abhorrence of the murder. His statement is published in the Lamoni Iowa Herald (the "Josephite" organ) of June 28th and is generally antagonistic to this Church. But he closes his letter with testimony that we think should be put on record. |
Vol. V. Beaver City, Utah, Friday, April 3, 1885. No. 7.
SOLOMON SPAULDING AND "The theory of the origin of the Book of Mormon in the traditional manuscript of Solomon Spaulding will probably have to be relinquished. That manuscript is doubtless now in the possession of Mr. L. L. Rice, of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, formerly an anti-slavery editor in Ohio, and for many years State printer at Columbus. During a recent visit to Honolulu, I suggested to Mr. Rice that he might have valuable anti-slavery documents in his possession which he would be willing to contribute to the rich collection already in the Oberlin College library. In pursuance of this suggestion Mr. Rice began looking over his old pamphlets and papers, and at length came upon an old, worn, and faded manuscript of about 175 pages, small quarto, purporting to be a history of the migrations and conflicts of the ancient Indian tribes which occupied the territory now belonging to the States of New York, Ohio and Kentucky. On the last page of this manuscript is a certificate and signature giving the names of several persons known to the signer, who have assured him that, to their personal knowledge, the manuscript was the writing of Solomon Spaulding. Mr. Rice has no recollection how or when this manuscript came into his possession. It was enveloped in a coarse piece of wrapping paper and endorsed in Mr. Rice's handwriting "A manuscript story." |
Vol. ? Logan, Utah, Wednesday, May 13, 1885. No. ?
THE SPAULDING STORY. The April number of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Sunday Magazine contains a fac similie of the religious department page of the New York Observer of February 3, 1885, on which appears this interesting statement: |
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Vol. ? Salt Lake City, Utah, May 17, 1885. No. ?
NEW LIGHT ON MORMONISM. BY ELLEN E. DICKINSON with Introduction by Thurlow Weed. New York: Funk Wagnalls. Price, $1. |
Vol. V. Beaver City, Utah, November 20, 1885. No. ?
We have received a copy of the pamphlet entitled "The Manuscript Found" or "Manuscript Story" of the late Rev. Solomon Spaulding; taken from a verbatim copy of the original now in the care of Pres. James H. Fairchild, of Oberlin College, Ohio. The book is published by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at Lamoni, Iowa. We may review the book some time in the future. |
Vol. V. Ogden, Utah, Tuesday, January 5, 1886. No. 207.
THAT REVELATION. Our readers will remember, that in the correspondence which passed between Elder Littlefield and Joseph Smith, Jr., of the reorganized church, some time since, Mr. Smith challenged Elder Littlefield to give the names of parties who were present and heard the revelation on celestial marriage read before the High Council at Nauvoo. Among the names given by Elder Littlefield was that of Leonard Lobey [sic - Soby?]. The Prophet of the reorganized church knew where Mr. [Soby] resided, and instructed a member of his church in high standing to draw up an affidavit stating that Mr. [Soby] was not present at such meeting, and never heard the revelation read. |
Vol. V. Beaver City, Utah, Friday, January 15, 1886. No. 48.
Incontrovertible Elder A. M. Musser having been incited by the reading of the article published elsewhere in this issue under the caption of 'That Revelation,' to make further inquiries concerning the same, wrote to Elder Thomas Grover, of Farmington, Davis Co., Utah, with the following result: |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 49. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, February 24, 1886. Vol. XXX.
TOO DEAD TO BE REVIVED The Philadelphia American speaks of "one more revival of the story of the Spaulding romance, from which it is alleged that Sidney Rigdon derived the Book of Mormon." That paper is mistaken this time it is not a revival, it is a funeral. The story was killed long ago and now the discovery of the manuscript from winch it was alleged the book was written, is a clod on the grave of the stupid story, of such dimensions and weight as will prevent any further "revival." |
Vol. IV. Logan, Utah, Wednesday, March 10, 1886. No. 56.
DAVID WHITMER. EDITOR JOURNAL. -- I believe the last you heard from me the Cannon Ball Railroad train was running away with me with lightning speed. Well, the ball struck the Lexington Junction, where I took a slower coach, 5 miles, 47 miles in all, and lodged at the Hugins House. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. ? Salt Lake City, Wednesday, March 31, 1886. Vol. XXXI. A Life Sketch. -- Sister Marinda N. Hyde, whose death occurred in this city yesterday morning, was the daughter of John and Elsa Johnson, and was horn in Pomfret, Windsor Co., Vermont, June 28th, 1810. |
Vol. IV. Logan, Utah, Wednesday, April 21, 1886. No. 76.
LEONARD SOBY'S AFFIDAVIT. Editor Journal: -- A few weeks ago I addressed a letter to Mr. E. H. Gurley of Lamoni, Iowa, soliciting from him a copy of Mr. Leonard Soby's affidavit, relative to the Revelation on Celestial Marriage having been read before the High Council in Nauvoo. It appears that I should have addressed his brother, Mr. Z. H. Gurley, Pleasanton, Iowa. But my blunder was kindly remedied by my letter being forwarded to the party for whom it was intended; and to-day the following copy of the affidavit in question came enclosed in a letter addressed to me by Mr. Z. H. Gurley. |
Vol. X. Provo, Utah, Tuesday, May 11, 1886. No. 38.
HIS TESTIMONY. In a recent issue of the Millennial Star there is an interesting letter from Church Emigration Agent Jas. H. Hart to President Daniel H. Wells, from which we have copied the following: |
Vol. IV. Logan, Utah, Saturday, June 5, 1886. No. 89.
MR. GURLEY'S LETTER. In this issue of the Journal we give space to a communication from Elder L. O. Littlefield, pertaining to the position of Joseph Smith, of Lamoni, regarding the statement of Leonard Soby. After what has been published in this Territory concerning the procuring of Soby's affidavit by Z. H. Gurley, it is just that that gentleman's letter should be published. There are a number of points in this letter which are interesting to notice. The statement of Mr. Gurley concerning the practice of plural marriage by the Prophet Joseph is open and fair. The idea, however, that the Prophet committed an error is not well sustained by facts, and that he would have repented is only a notion. The history of that period shows that the introduction of celestial marriage cost the Prophet much care and anxiety of mind. He deliberately and cautiously moved, having ample time to know that the steps he was taking were the proper ones. It is evident too that he realized the dangers which would beset his path when that doctrine was made known. From the best information we can obtain, we are led to believe the Prophet's position on that revelation can be expressed in the language of the Savior: "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless, not my will but thine be done." The Lord's will was done and Joseph Smith displayed remarkable courage in carrying it out. He faced an opposition which is terrible to contemplate. He knew that impurity was opposed to purity, and inasmuch as corruption existed, a pure principle would have to face it. Hence in view of these things, and considering the nature of the principle itself, the biblical evidences in favor of it, and its tendancy to remedy many of the disgraceful evils affecting mankind, we cannot find any reason for believing that Joseph would have repented its introduction. |
![]() T R U T H A N D L I B E R T Y. No. 21. Salt Lake City, Wednesday, June 9, 1886. Vol. XXXI.
AN OPPORTUNE DISCOVERY. The Hawaiian Gazette of April 20th contains an announcement of the death of Mr. L. L. Rice, whose name has figured prominently in connection with the notorious Spaulding story. It will be remembered that Professor Fairchild of Oberlin College, while on a visit to Mr. Rice in the Sandwich Islands, induced him to hunt among the old papers brought by the latter from Ohio, where he had been an editor, for the purpose of finding something in regard to the slavery question. And that the old "Manuscript Found." which was written by Solomon Spaulding was discovered. |
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The Territorial Enquirer. Vol. XI. Provo, Utah, January 4, 1887. No. 1.
THE BOOK OF MORMON. Its Declaration in Reference to Polygamy -- The Original Manuscript Not in the Possession of the Present Mormons, Their Anxiety to Obtain It. |