Across the Continent a Summers Journey to the Rocky Mountains the Mormons a
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SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS. i, THE MORMONS. THEIR PRESENT ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE GOV ERNMENT. SINCE our visit to Utah in June, the leaders among the Mormons have repudiated their professions of loyalty to the government, de nied any disposition to yield the issue of Polygamy, and begun to preach anew, and more vigorously than ever, disrespect and defiance to the authority of the national government. They seem to be dis appointed and irate that their personal attentions and assurances to Mr. Colfax and ...his friends did not win from them more tolerance of their peculiar institution, and something like espousal of their desire for admission as a State of the Union. New means are taken to organize and drill the militia of the Territory, and to pro vide them with arms, under the auspices and authority of the Mor mon church ; and an open conflict with the representatives of the government is apparently braved, even threatened. I make these illustrative quotations from speeches and sermons by prominent church leaders during August and September : From Heber Kimball, first Vice- President of the Church.
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