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V WASHINGTON, D, C,
MR. FORNEY FOR DOUGLAS.
Mr. Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, addressed
his political friends at Reading on the 3d
instant, in which he commented at considerable
length upon the course of the Administration,
i \ aad took occasion at the same time to make an
, enthusiastic appeal ?n behalf of Mr. Douglas.
As the meeting adopted a resolution nomina'
ting Mr. Douglas for the Presidency, we are
to regard it as having been projected with a
I view to promote the aspirations of that g.-mmIrnan
for that position. We make the following
extract from the speech. Mr. Forney said:
u Gentlemen, I heard a resolution read by
my friend Swartz, a few minutes ago, in favor
of Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois. [ Repeated
cheers.] Let me say a word about him ; and
first to the Republicans, if there are any present.
1 have a right to talk to Republicans, for
1 have been called a Kepunncan oy every ag ministration
paper in the country for a year
[|| I pa?t. [cheers and laughter;] and they are pretty
good fellows. They voted with us in Congress
I against the Administration, and have done
other good things.
u There is such a thing as destiny in this
world, trnd though we cannot always divine it,
the future may Bometimes be heard in the present.
If 1 cannot read that future now. I can
hear it- The atmosphere is tilled with it. I
can hear in the coming year the acclaims of
the people as they march up to the ballot-box
and record their votes for tbi great man.
I : i , What has he not done ? Availed and traduced
['] ! j as he had been for his repeal of the Mis-ouri
Compromise line, denounced and persecuted
in house and home, he went back to Illinois,
after having successfully opposed the Lecompton
Constitution, and there, alone and unfriended,
he accepted the issues presented to him by 1
the Administration party and the Republican
party, and went before the people, traversing
the State from one end to the other, for months,
nigbt and day, with my gallant friend Sheridan
by his side, reporting his speeches, and won a
battle, and accomplished a result such as has
never been won or accomplished before, since
I | two wars for American independence. [Cheers.!
And why did he win? Because he held in his
hand the flaming sword of popular sovereignty,
' with which he hewed down the hosts of his op
ponents. Do you tell me, you white men who
are gazing upon me as I speak, that you will
not vote for this man? You cannot help it.
You will vote for him, if any Convention gives
you the chance. The hour that sees him offered
to the people for their suffrages will witness
such a response as was never before heard. If
?, it does not, then indeed Republics are ungrateful.
I" I have seen Stephen A. Douglas standing
almost alone in the Senate of the United States,
and I have 6een him when the bravest gave
way. I have ?een him when it was supposed
to be perilous to differ from a Southern man.
and when nis very life was in danger, standing
up there pleading for you and your rights. The
Democratic party is a wise and sagac ious par|
\ ty ; it reads the signs of the time. The Southern
people, belonging as they do to the Democratic
party, will take hii i, because he has been,
I and is, their fast and faithful friend. If the
Democratic party nominates liim at Charleston,
the honest men of the Opposition will come forward
and ratify the choice at the polls. [' True,'
H cheers. |
" The nomination of Senator Douglas, fellowDemocrats,
Insures to you victory, integrity,
honor, principle. If you want to elect your
county tickets, take him. I suppose there is
I some kind gentleman present who would like
i to serve hia country in the capacity of sheriff,
clerk, assemblyman, prothonotary, or what not;
j* , and 1 say to nnu, if you want to be elected,
take the 'man for your Presidential standardbearer,
in tile approaching national contest,
I { j who will be sure to secure your triumph. If
you go to Charleston, do you go there simply
to get a man who will only be etfectivc to defeat
you? If you do, you might just as well
i start fifty candidates at once, and break up the
I ( Democratic party without labor, expense, or
trouble.
"The clamor against Judge Douglas, so
i . . \ fashionable a year ago, and so actively stimulated
by the f ederal Administration, that he
would never be heartily supported by the people
/ of the South, is subsiding, precisely as all such
clamors must subside. His triumph in Illinois,
his brief, sharp, and explicit letter to Mr. Dorr,
of Iowa, have done much to convince DemoI
crats everywhere that he is not only the safest
man for the North, but that the South will per1
j petrate the most suicidal act, should they not
? 1 cordially support him. Indeed, his noblest triumphs
have been achieved in supporting Southern
rights in the free States. Interesting as his
whole public life has been, his record contains
nothing so striking as his stand against the
? 4'' sectionalism of his own State, and the violence
of extreme Northern members of the Senate,
while vindicating the constitutional guaranties
of the Southern people. And when we recollect
that, in his recent difference with the Ad
ministration of Mr. Buchanan, he took no new
ground, but followed steadily in the path marked
out bv the Southern statesmen themselves, and
(down to the period of the passage of the Kan,
sas-Nebraska bill, while even Senator Hunter,
of Virginia, declared that Judge Douglas deuervcii
the Presidency for his heroism in that
crisis, and also that he opposed an Administration
mea-ure not really acceptable to the people
of the South, but in itself so odious that Senator
Hammond deel- red that it ought to be kicked
out of Congress?it would be madness and folly
to suppose that the Southern people will not support
Stephen A. Douglas, when the proper time
shaU arrive- His name will be the bond of a
, national brotherhood, a concession to a sincere
public sentiment in the North, and an assurance
in favor of Southern rights, ten thousand times
Btronger than that which will be secured in any
other event.
1" We otTer you a man who will bring you
victory. It iB true, he will be a hard pill to
swallow in some quarters, but politicians are
V often forced to swallow such pills ; 1 have done
,1 11 it myself, and expect to do it again ; hut Douglas
will only be a hard pill to a very few men.
- I [Great laughter.] The leaders are feeble in
* comparison with the people, and the latter arc
. politicians only about three month* in the year.
They attend to their farms and their workshops,
and allqw the machinery of party to* be managed
bv a set of gentlemen who have nothing
else to do 5 and as long as these gentlemen do
right, and nominate good men, they acquiesce
!' in their management. If the people will take
* these primary elections into their own hands,
and see that an honest expression of Democratic
sentiment it allowed at them, them can
be no donbt but that Stephen A. Douglas will
]?e our candidate in 1860.
"In the person of Stephen A. Douglas you
. have a man whom you can support, because he
I | i has shown that he has capacity and courage to
fight power, crowned with almost imperial au,
A ' thority. I know but little of the leaders of the
t'l|| Republican party, but I can tell you, that so far
as the Republican masses are concerned, particularly
old Democrats who have joined that
organization, there is hardly one who does not
I I feel, when he thinks of the'Little Giant of the
I i West, ' there is the man I would like to have a
I | chance to vote for.' [Applause.]
I ) " Now, gentlemen, what are the especial adI
vantages of Douglas, outside of his own perI
sonal character ? Let me tell you. He believes
I that the people of a Territory, like those of a
USTI UIC Ilgui WUU OO IUUV piCftH' 111 reiI
I (? erence to their own affairs. I have explained
I i that principle already, in my own way, and need
I not elaborate it He is opposed also to the reft
I j. viral of the slave trade and to the establishment
ft | of a slave code for the protection of Slavery in
I | the Territories."
I Mr. Forney goes on to tell the people of PennI
gylvania that he is a tariff man. He began
I life as a tariff man, and he still sticks to it. But
I he failed to tell the people that his Presidential
I [ candidate is a friend to protection. Mr. Forney
| was discreetly silent on this point; for the fact
ft is that Mr. Douglas is fully committed to the
B free-trade doctrines of his Southern allies.
IK This speech of Mr. Forney in behalf of his
If* friend Douglas will not promote the popularity
19 of the latter in the South, or predispose that
I section to accept him as the candidate. His
I appeals to the Republicans to come lo the sup
pert of the champion of popular sovereignty
will be peculiarly distasteful to the Slavery
R Propagandists#
5555H5H5EH5HH55HH5HHSH25HHH
Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1859.
To the Editor of the National Era :
A friend has jost called my attention to ai
editorial in the Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner am
Herald of August 3d, which takes exception
to the representative basis suggested by me ii
a communication to the Era of July 14, for th
election of delegates to the Republican N ationa
Convention of 1860. The objections urged, i
true to the extent represented, I admit woul
be fatal, and ought to defeat the adoption of th
proposed plan by the National Committee
The editor of the Examiner and Herald,, how
ever, is very much mistaken. The article t
| which he refers was not only not written t
! secure any undue advantage to any State o
locality, but was written with a full knowledg
that the States whose vote would be slight!
increased by the adoption of the proposed basi
would, with probably one exception, cast thei
united vote in Convention against the mat
whom, of all others, the Republicans of Ohi<
desire to see selected as our standard bearer fo
1860. And so far from Ohio gaining any ad
! vantage, should the suggestions made be adopte<
by the Republican National Committee, shi
would stand precisely on an equal footing witl
Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, anc
indeed all the New England States. Three o
four of the Western States would have a smal
increase i? their delegation by the adoption o
the representative basis, and they are the mos
reliable Republican States in the Union. I an
at a loss to know how the editor of the Exam,
inrr and Herald could have made such worl
with his figures. He says: " New York, witl
33 members of Congress and district elector*
votes, would only have 57 votes in the Nationa
Convection. Pennsylvania, with 25 Congress
men, would have 39 in Convention. Michigan
4 in Congress ; in Convention, 14. Massachu
setts, i. ith 11 in Congress, trould have but 11
delegates in Convention."1 If the editor of tb<
Examiner and Herald will consult the electioi
returns for the States named, "hnd apply thi
basis I propose, he will find that New York
instead of having 57 delegates, will have 6(
Congressional delegates; Pennsylvania, instea<
of, 39, will have 50; Ohio, 42; Michigan, bu
11 or 12; and Massachusetts twenty-two, in
stead of eleven, as he has it. Michigan gain;
but 3 or 4 delegates, if I remember correctly
I have not the figures before me, in consequent
of the largely-increased Republican vote anc
her wonderful increase in population since
1850. After the apportionment of 1860, she
will be entitled, as will all the new States, te
the same number of delegates in our Nationa
Conventions, in proportion to their electoral
vote, as Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other States
are now entitled to, under the present Con
gressional apportionment.
No proposition probably can be made for se
curing an exact political representation in any
Convention, whether it be County, District, State
or National. Exceptions can be urged againsl
the adoption of any plan that may be proposed
Our duty is to adopt that plan which approxi
mates the nearest to giving a fair and full rep
resentation of the voters in the organization,
and not to the people as a mass, who may be
and are made up ot Democrats, South Ameri
cans, and negro slaves, but the representation
of the voting electors in the Republican party
as a distinct organization, is what we want in
a Republican National Convention.
Some districts will increase largely in popu
lation afler the apportionment for Congress or
for the Senate and House in the several States
has been made, while a few counties and dis
tricta, perhaps, will diminish not only in popu
lation, but also in the party vote. Now, is there
any justice in giving counties, districts, and
States, which fall oft' or do not increase theii
Keputmcan vote, tne same number ot delegates
or representatives in a nominating party Con
vention, with counties, districts, and States,
whose Republican vote has been doubled and
trebled ? if the people of all parties. Southern
slaves and all, in each State aud district, were
to be represented in the Republican National
Convention as they are in Congress, instead ol
the electors who make up the Republican party,
I might probably assent to the proposition, that
all districts and States should be equally repre
seated with cither one or five delegates in the
proposed Convention. But as I have no desire
to see the Buchanan wing of the Democracy,
or the South American slave trade and
slave code wing represented in the Republican
National Convention, or their voters and negroes
counted as a basis for apportioning Republican
delegates in the several States and
Congressional districts, whereby the number ol
delegates in the Convention would be largely
increased, and in the samo proportion the
voters in the party disproportionately repre
scnted, I should, as I doubt not the great ma
jority of the Republican party will do, object
most decidedly to any such basis being adopted
by the Republican National Committee. The
proposition of the Examiner and Herald
" That each State shall have ten Senatorial
delegates, and every Congressional district it
all the States Jive delegates each, without anj
regard to whether they have a Republican or
gauization or cast any Republican votes or not
is very objectionable. No rule perhaps conic
possibly be devised which would violate al
principles of right and representation more ef
fectually, while seeming to be fair, than the one
above proposed. For example, little Delaware
with but one Congressman, and but few Re
publican voters in the State, would have, if th<
ulan of the Examiner and Herald were adnnt
ed, fifteen delegates in the National Conven
tion. Virginia, a State without a Republicai
organization, and incapable of giving any Ro
publican candidate a thousand votes in the en
tire State. would be entitled to eighty-five dele
gates in the Convention.
It cannot be disguised that the adoption o
such a rule, and a call from the National Com
niittee, inviting all the elements of the Opposi
tiori to join in the election of delegates to a
National li Opposition Convention, would hi
virtually to disband the Republican party. I
would certainly be an invitation to those no?
outside ot the party to come into our Conven
tion and make our nominations, while thost
who now are, and have been from the first
earnest and reliable members of the partj
would be called upon and expected to do th
voting and electing.
The Examiner and Hcrahl further object
to the plan I suggest, because he says " it i
manifestly a Western movement to control th
nominations of the Convention" That thi
conclusion is erroneoua is eTidont from the fae
that a larger number of Republican journals ii
the West have objected to it, than all the paper
in the Middle and Eastern States put togethei
A majority of the Western papers, whose ot
jections I have noticed, have opposed the pre
posed plan because it was new, and they wer
fearful, if it was adopted, the Convention woul
be too large and unwieldy, while the fact is,
that plan is agreed upon, and the States of Mil
souri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, and Deh
ware, are fully represented, the Convention woul
k ~ J r f * a a a V
ut- cuLujjuscu ui uui iew over iour nunarea aen
gates. The editor of the Examiner and Herah
on the other hand, urges as an objection to th
plan I advocate, the fact that a representatio
on such a basis " would not be large enough;
and in order to get a thousand delegates U
gether, to represent somebody, he proposes tht
States and districts, without a Republican voU
in them, shall come into the Republican Ni
tional Convention with as many delegates i
proportion to their Congressional apportioi
rnent as the most reliable Republican State
1 he inevitable result of such a movement woul
be, whether designed By the editor of the E
aminrr and Herald or riot, to resolve the R<
publican party into a mere fusion, opposition
anti-everything people's party. The most ine:
perieneed man must know that, in such a Coi
vention, some obscure, non-committal, unknowi
but very learned conservative gentleman, witl
out any distinctive political principles, would I
more likely to be nominated for the Presidenc
than any well-known and tried statesman an
truly representative man in the Republics
party. If this is to be the programme, thos
who urge it might as well be advised, first s
last, that no such scheme can secure the assei
and co-operation of one-fourth of the Republ
can voters of the Union. And if, by any unfai
ness, such a scheme should be successful, (for i
no way can such a base movement succeed e
cept by the unfairness and treachery of thoi
intrusted by the party with its organization
the candidate thus nominated, ana represer
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ing SDch a body of men, would uot get a single
electoral vote in the Union,
j The " old guard " who led the van for Fremont
would again rally, nominate a live man
representing living issues, and at least sweep >
8 the States tney carried in 1856, if they did not
a elect their candidate. While the Charleston
e nominee would carry every single Southern
I State, and perhaps, by the division brought <
about by the calling of a fusion Convention and i
the nomination of a non-committal fusion oppo- I
^ sition candidate, succeed in allowing the Slave 1
e Power af ain to carry enough Northern States J
, to keep tie Government. Such a result would, 1
indeed, be .'eplorable, and the whole land would f
mourn; but would be far better for the cause ?
0 of Freedom and Hi manity in the future, than 1
0 to succeed with any man representing the Win- i
r throps, the Ketchunn, and Crittendens, and that <
e very respectable conservative class of Old Line ]
Whigs and Pro-Slavery Americans, who consti- j
^ tute a very small, select, and, in their own esti- i
8 mation, au immensely important body of men 1
r , in this country. This is tne class of men who, 1
1 together with a few professed Republicans,
j are demanding a surrender of the Republican <
organization, and a general fusion movement, 1
r with themselves as leaders, on either some new
- or old issue, or no issue at all, so the question <
i of .f reedom is ignored. They are sick, very <
-> sick, of the everlasting demands of the people <
^ tor free Territories, free homes, and a National Administration
favorable to National Freedom,
* and they desire the masses of the Republican 1
r party not only to give up the cherished princi- 1
1 pies for *hich they have been struggling for
f years, but to put these men, their life-long ene- '
mies, in the lead, and sustain them by their suf- <
frages. It is hardly probable that this very <
* modest request will be complied with. 1
It ought to be distinctly understood that at s
t least three-fourths of the electors in the Repubj
lican party will not only not consent to the dis,
organization of the party, or any arrangement ]
1 by which they will be misrepresented in National <
1 Convention, but that they will support no man 1
- nominated by any " Opposition Convention,
unless he fa rly and distinctly represent, in ?
his past acts and life, the fundamental princi- 1
. pies of the Republican party, as promulgated at i
^Philadelphia in 1856, and reaffirmed by every
J Republican State Convention in the Drtion from
i that day to this.
j I have urged the adoption of the representa- 1
tive basis for the Convention of I860, as I did <
J for the Convention of 1856, not only as one of i
J the best means of preserving the Republican 1
1 organization free from any and all kinds of
t compromises, but because I believe the princi- <
pie in the abstract to be the true one ; that the i
voters in any organizatipn ought tc be repre- <
8 sented in all Delegate Conventions, whether
' counjy, district, State, or national, exactly in
? proportion to the numerical strength they may ]
1 have in said con ties, districts, and States.
s I submit that thi s plan is the only one by :
[ which we can obtait* a reliable expression of J
' the wishes and wants of those who make up
I the Republican party, or indeed any political 1
L organization. If any Republican prefers a
larger number of delegates than the basis
[ would give which I suggest, the matter can
be so adj usted as to give one delegate for each
Congressional district, and an additional dele- 1
r gate for every 6,000, 5,000, or 4,000 Republican
and Republican and Union votes cast at f
the last general State election, and for every 1
fraction of 2,000 or 3,000, or more, another <
delegate. In this way the number of delegates t
can easily be increased to a thousand, if de- 1
sirable.
| I prefer the basis first proposed, for reasons 1
given in my communication of July 14th, and <
also because I preferred to have the number of [
? delegates in the Convention undej- rather than
over 500.
This principle of representation is adopted \
by all organizations, and the political parties
in all the States have uniformly been governed s
. by it, when calling their county, district, and
State Conventions.
Why, then, should we not adopt a principle
, conceded by all to be the correct and true one,
[ when we come to elect delegates to our National
Convention ?
i If there ever was a time more than another,
in the history of any great national party, when
the wishes and preferences of its individual
members should be fully and fairly known and
faithfully represented, that time will be with
the Republican party when its National Convention
for 1860 assembles. j. m. a.
RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATESINTERESTING
STATISTICS.
The Capitalists' Guide and Railway Annual,
by F. H. Stow, contains some interesting statistics
concerning railroads in the United
States, from which the following is condensed:
" It appears that in nine years, or from 1850
to 1859, the railways of the United States increased
from 7,355 to 27,944 miles in length.
In this period, the increase in the New England
. States amounted to 62 74 per cent., while in
eight of the Western States the increase was
1,201.41 per cent. At the same time, the for1
mcr gained in population 16.12 per cent., and
the latter 46.22. The total cost of the roads,
up to 1859, amounted to $365,451,070, of
which large sum it is supposed one-third has
1 been wasted in construction; yet by their influence
lands have been advanced in value,
' and the speed of internal communication
greatly augmented, and the whole country
J benefitted. There are at this time 28,000
r miles of finished roads in the United States,
and about 16,000 miles either under constrnc.'
tion or projected, requiring $400,000,000 for
, their completion. It is estimated, however,
. that manT ^ears must elapse before sufficient
capital c be diverted from other objects to
' carry the through. In the mean time, many
' project' n a spirit of rivalry to other roads
[ will be aoandoncd. It is calculated that 20,000
2 miles of railway are sufficient to do all the busi
such hand, ao such persons, or organization. I
hear of them only in the slanders of our enemies,
: . > xrji .J i-J?- ?iSi?
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ness ol the country at the present time, and (
" that 8,000 miles have been constructed, in part (
1 in rivalry to other roads, which have proved a j
dead loss to stockholders, and in the main will
pass into the hands of the bondholders. The
average cost of railways per mile has been ,
$36,328. In the Middle States, $40,919; iu
the Southern States, $22,906 ; and in the West- .
ern States, $36,333. ,
"The reason assigned for the cheapness.of (
1 construction of railroads at the South is, that (
? they were built on the cash plan. Among the
net earnings, the Panama shows the largest \
r returns, being $29,564 per mile; and those (
earning.the least, or nothing to stockholders.
e were found in Maine, Vermont, Mississippi, |
) ' Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, New York, Arc* The i
1 list of dividend-paying roads comprise seventye
eight; among which, two pay an animal dividend
of 12 per cent.; nine, 10 per cent.; two,
8 9 per cent.; ten, 8 per cent.; six, 7 per cent.; |
s thirty, 6 per cent.; five, 5 per cent.; one, 4 per
c cent.; one, 2J per cent.; and one, 2 per cent.
8 The list of delinquent companies on stock or J
* bonds amounts to thirty-three. The total bonded
n debts of the American railways, all of which |
8 mature between 1859 and 1874, amount to
" $411,199,702. The total debts of the States, .
'* including all liabilities, direct and indirect, in- ;
eluding loans to railroads and expenditures for
1 canal and banking purposes, amount, according
... to Mr. Stow's statement, to about $291,895,660.
Many of the liabilities incurred, however, for
canals, railroads, and banks, cannot be conj
sidered in the light of any direct charge upon \
the people, as they in most cases pay their inj
terest and sinking funds to the State, and in
1 some cases they yield a surplus revenue to the
e treasury. New Jersey has no direct debt, but
? an indirect liability on account of canals and
railroad bonds of some seven millions, which
forms no tax upon the people. Connecticut,
^ Delaware, Rhode Island, ana New Hampshire,
r have no debts at all, neither direct nor indirect."
n m . t*
The Goodwood Races?Triumph op the
9* American Horse.?The London Timet, speakd
ing of the Goodwood races, in which the Amerc"
ican horse Stark was the winner, says:
" Mr. Ten Broeck brought from America a
h stud of half a dozen horses. Prioress, in her
second year in England, after running in snch
a manner as to make all people believe that she
b would not be able to win a saddle and bridle at
uarnet r air, carnea on our principal handicap,
^ and nearly repeated her achievement a second
7 year in succession. Now we have to record
d the victory of another American importation.
n Stark, who until to-day had never shown racing
!e ability worthy of consideration, but who comes
13 and upsets the calculations of our shrewdest turf
tacticians, by winning a race which the owners
of English horses have for months been plan,r"
ning and scheming to obtain. Mr. Ten Broeek
in made no secret of the confidence which he
x" placed in his horse, and scarcely a man in the
s? ring' missed laying,' and that success, although
> J attained by an 1 outsider,' did not give the booklt
makers a turn."
)NAL ERA: WASHIN<
TWO HOURS WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG.
Salt Lake City, Utah, July 13, 1859.
My friend Dr. Bernhisel, M. C., took me this
afternoon, by appointment, to meet Brigham
Young, President of the Mormon Church, who
bad expressed a willingness to receive me at
2 P. M. We were very cordially welcomed at
the door by the President, who led us into the
second-story parlor of the largest of his houses,
fhe has three,) where I was introduced to Heber
C. Kimball, Gen. Wells, Gen. Ferguson, Albert
Carringtou, Elias Smith, and several other
leading men in the Church, with two full-grown
sons of the President. After some unimportant
conversation on general topics, I stated that I
bad come in quest of further knowledge respecting
the doctrines and polity of the Mormon
Church, and would like to ask some questions
bearing directly on these, if there were no objection.
President Young avowed his willingness
to respond to all pertinent inquiries, and
he conversation proceeded substantially as folows
:
H. Q.?Am I to regard Mormonism (so callsd)
as a new religion, or as simply a new development
of Christianity ?
B. Y.?We hold that there can be no true
Christian Church without a priesthood directly
commissioned by and in immediate communication
with the Son of God and Saviour of
Mankind. Such a Chureh is that of the Latter
Day Saints, called by their enemies Mormons ;
?re know no other that even pretends to have
present and direct revelations of God's will.
H. G.?Then I am to understand that you
egard all other Churches professing to be
Christian as the Church of Rome regards all
Churches not in communion with itself?as
ichismatic, heretical, and out of the way of
lalvation ?
B. Y.?Yes, substantially.
H. G.?Apart from this, in what respect do
four doctrines differ essentially from those of
>ur Orthodox Protestant ^Churches?t^e Baptist
or Methodist, for example ?
B. Y.?We hold the doctrines of Christianity,
is revealed in the Old and New Testament*?
ilso in the Book of Mormon, which teaches the
lame cardinal truths, and those only.
H. G.?Do you believe in the doctrine of the
Trinity ?
B. Y.?We do, but not exactly as it is held
by other Churches. We believe in the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost, as equal, but not
identical?not as one person, [being.] We
believe in all the Bible teaches on this subject.
H. G.?Do you believe in a personal devil?
i distinct, conscious, spiritual being, whose
nature and acts are essentially malignant and
svil?
B. Y.?We do.
H. G.?Do you hold the doctrine of eternal
punishment?
B. Y.?We do, though perhaps not exactly
is other Churches do. W e believe it as the
Bible teaches it
H. G.?I understand that you regard baptism
ny immersion as essential.
B. Y.?We do.
H. G.?Do you practice infant baptism ?
B. Y.?No.
H. G.?Do you make removal to these valey^
obligatory on your converts ?
B. Y. ? They would consider themselves
rreatly aggrieved, if ?they were not invited
lither. We hold to such a gathering together
>f God's People as the Bible foretells, and that
his is the place, and now is the time appointed
or its consummation.
H. G.?The predictions to which you refer
lave usually, I think, been understood to indicate
Jerusalem or (Judea) as the place of such
leathering.
B. Y.?Yes, for the Jews, not for others.
H. G.?What is the position of your Church
vith respect to Slavery ?
B. Y.?We consider it of Divine institution,
ind not to be abolished until the curse prolounced
on Ham shall have been removed
rom his descendants.
II CI A t.u ' ? .1 m ?
. iiic any aiavcn uuw ueiu 111 U11SJ i.eritory
?
B. Y.?There are.
II. G.?Do your Territorial laws uphold Slavery?
B. Y.?Those laws are printed ; you can read
'or yourself. If slaves are brought here by
hose who owned them in the States, we do not
avor their escape from the service of those
>wners.
II. G.?Am I to infer that Utah, if admitted
is a member of the Federal Union, will be a
ilave State ?
B. Y.?No; she will be a free State. Slarery
here would prove useless and unprofitable.
[ regard it generally as a curse to the masters.
! myself hire many laborers, and pay them fair
vages ; I could not afford to own them. I can
lo better than subject myself to an obligation
o feed and clothe their families, to provide and
are for them in sickness and health. Utah is
iot adapted to slave labor.
H. G.?Let me now be enlightened with regard
more especially to your church polity ; I
mderstand that you require each member to
jay over one-tenth of all he produces or earns
o the Church.
B. Y.?That is a requirement of our faith.
There is no compulsion as to the payment.
Each member acts in the premises according
x> his pleasure, under the dictates of his own
conscience.
H. G.?What is done with the proceeds of
:his tithing ?
B. Y.?Part of it is devoted to building temples
and other places of worship ; part to helping
the poor and needy converts on their way
*> this country; and the largest portion to the
iupport of the poor among the Saints.
H. G.?Is none of it paid to Bishops and
other dignitaries of the Churchy?
B. Y.?Not one penny. No Bishop, no Eller,
no Deacon, or other church officer, receives
iny compensation for his official services. A
Bishop is often required to put his hand in his
)wn pocket and provide therefrom for the poor
of his charge ; but he never receives anything
for his services.
II. G.?How, then, do yonr ministers live ?
B. Y.? By the labor of their own hands, like
the first Apostles. Every Bishop, every Elder,
may be daily seen at work in the field or the
shop, like his neighbors ; every minister of the
Church has his proper calling by which he
earns the bread of his family; he who cannot
or will not do the Church's work for nothing is
not wanted in her service; even our lawyers
ipoinung 10 uen. Jt erguson and another present,
who are the regular lawyers of the Church)
are paid nothing for their services; I am the
only person in the Church who has not a regular
calling apart from the Church's service, and
I never received one farthing from her treasury :
if I obtain anything from the tithing-house, I
am charged with and pay for it, just as any one
else would; the clerks in the tithing-store are
paid like other clerks, but no one is ever paid
for any service pertaining to the ministry. We
think a man who cannot make his living aside
from the Ministry of Christ ununited to fhat
office. I am called rich, and consider myself
worth $250,000; but no dollar of it was ever
paid me by the Church, or for any service as a
minister of the Everlasting Gospel. I lost
nearly all I had when we were broken up in
Missouri, and driven from that State; I was
nearly stripped again when Joseph Smith was
murdered, and we were driven from Illinois; i
but nothing was ever made up to me by the
Church, nor by any one. I believe I know how
to acquire property, and how to take care of it.
H. G.?Can you give me any rational explanation
of the aversion and hatred with which
your people are generally regarded by those
among whom they have lived, and with whom
they have been brought directly in contact ?
ti. Y.?No other explanation than is afforded
by the crucifixion of Christ and the kindred
treatment of God's ministers, prophets, and
saints, in all ages.
H. G.?I know that a new sect is always de
cried and traduced?that it is hardly ever
deemed respectable to belong to one?that the
Baptists, Quakers, Methodists, Universalists,
Ac., have each in their turn been regarded in
the infancy of their sect as the offscouring of
the earth ; yet I cannot remember that either
of them were ever generally represented and regarded
by the older sects of their early days as
thieves, robbers, murderers.
B. Y.?If you will consult the cotemporary
Jewish accounts of the life and acts of Jesus
Christ, you will find that he and his disciples
were accused of every abominable deed and
purpose?robbery and murder included. Such
a work is still extant, and may be found by
those who seek it.
H. G.?What do you say of the so-called
Danites, or Destroying Angels, belonging to
your Church ?
B. Y. Wbftt lln o T 1 ?
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GTON, D. C., SEPTEMB
H. Q.?With regard, then, to the same question
on which your doctrine and practices are
avowedly at war with those of the Christian
world?that of a plurality of wives?is the system
of your Church acceptable to the majority
of its women ?
B. Y.?They could not be more averse to it
than I was when it was first revealed to us as
the Divine will. I think they generally accept
it, as I do, as the will of God.
H. G.?How general is polygamy amoag
you?
B. Y.?I could not say. Some of those present
(heads of the Church) have each but one
wife; others have more ; each determines what
is his individual duty.
H. G.?What is the largest number of wives
belonging to any one man ?
B. Y.?I have fifteen ; I know no one who
has more; but some of those sealed to me are
old ladies, whom I regard rather as mothers
than wives, but whom I have taken home to
cherish and support.
H. G.?Does not the Apostle Paul say that
a bishop should be "the husband of one wife?"
B. Y.?So we hold. do not regard any but
a married man as fitted Tor the office of bishop.
But the Apostle docs not forbid a bishop having
more wives than one.
H. G.?Does not Christ say that he who puts
away his wife, or marries one whom another
puts away, commits adultery ?
B. Y.?Yes; and I hold that no man should
ever put away a wife, except for adultery?not
always even for that. Such is my individual
view of tlie matter. I do not say that wives
have never been put away in our Church, but
that I do not approve of the practice.
H. G.?How do you regard what is commonly
termed the Christian Sabbath?
B. Y.?As a divinely appointed day of rest.
We enjoin all to rest from secular labor on that
day. We would have no man enslaved to the
Sabbath, but we enjoin all to respect and enjoj-it.
Such is, as nearly as I can recollect, the substance
of nearly two hours' conversation, wherein
much was said incidentally that would not
be worth reporting, even if I could remember
and reproduce it, and wherein others bore a
part; but, as President Young is the first minister
of the Mormon Church, and bore the principal
part in the conversation, I have reported
his answers alone to my questions and observations.
The others appeared uniformly to defer
to his views, and to acquiesce fully in his responses
and explanations. He spoke readily,
not always with grammatical accuracy, but with
no appearance of hesitation or reserve, and
with no apparent desire to conceal anything,
nor did he repel any of my questions as impertinent.
He was very plainly dressed in thin
summer clothing, and with no air of sanctimony
or fanaticism. In appearance he is a
portly, frank, good-natured, rather thick-3et
man of fifty-five, seeming to enjoy life, and to be
in no particular hurry to get to heaven. His
associates are plain men, evidently born and
reared to a life t f labor, and looking as little
like crafty hypocrites or swindlers as any body
of men I ever met. The absence of cant or
snuffle from their manner was marked and
general, yet I think I may fairly say that their
Mormonism has not impoverished them?that
they were generally poor men when they embraced
it, and are now in very comfortable circumstancss?as
men averaging three or four
wives apiece certainly need to be.
If I hazard any criticisms on Mormonism
generally, I reserve them for a separate letter,
being determined to make this a fair and full
expos? of the doctrine and polity, in the very
words of its Prophet, so far as I can recall
them. I do not believe President Young himself
could present them in terms calculated to
render them- less obnoxious to the Geatile world
than the above.
But I have a right to add here, because I
said it to the assembled chiefs at the close of
the above colloquy, that the degradation (or, if
you please, the restriction) of woman to the single
office of child-bearing and its accessories,
is an inevitable consequence of the system here
paramount. I have not observed a sign in the
streets, an advertisement in the journals, of
this Mormon metropolis, whereby a woman proposes
to do anything whatever. No Mormon
has ever cited to me his wife's or any woman's
opinion on any subject; no Mormon woman has
been introduced or has spoken to me; and,
though I have been asked to visit Mormons in
their houses, no one has spoken of his wife (or
wives) desiring to see me, or his desiring me to
make her (or their) acquaintance, or voluntarily
indicated the existence of such a being or
beings. I will not attempt to report our talk
on this subject, because, unlike what I have
above given, it assumed somewhat the character
of a disputation, and I could hardly give it
impartially ; but one remark made by President
Young I think I can give accurately, and it
may serve as a sample ot all tbat was ottered
on that side. It was in these words, I think,
exactly: " If I did not consider myself competent
to transact a certain business without taking
my wife's or any woman's counsel with regard
to it, I think I ought to let that business
alone." The spirit with regard to woman, of
the entire Mormon, as of all other polygamic
systems, is fairly displayed in this avowal. Let
any such system become established and prevalent,
and woman will be confined to the harem,
and her appearance in the street with unveiled
face will be accounted immodest. I joyfully
trust that the genius of the nineteenth century
tends to a solution of the problem of woman's
sphere and destiny radically different from this.
_ B. O.
Senator Wade on Presidential Letter
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following good story of Senator Wade:
" During the Presidential canvass of 1844, a
great many speeches were made in Ohio by
Judge Wade, the present able and popular
Senator from that State, in favor of the election
of Henry Clay. One day, in returning from a
week's tour in the rural districts, he picked up
a Cleveland paper, and found therein Mr. Clay's
famous ' Alabama letter,' which did so much
damage to his cause in the Northern States,
and lost him New York, and with it the Presidency.
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