aud I10110T enough to resent injustice and
insult, and the money came ; and shall
Missouri, filled with negro drivers and
men stealers, go 'unwhipped of justice'
for tenfold greater sins than Franco ?
No I verily no ! White I have power
of body and mind ; while water runs and
grass grows; while virtue is lovely and
vice hateful ; and while a stone points
out tho sacred spot where a fragment of
American liberty once was ; I or my
posterity will plead the cause of injured
innocence, until Missouri makes attoue
ment for all her sins, -or sink disgraced,
degraded and damned to hell 'where
the worm dieth not, and tho fire is not
quenched.'
Why, sir, the power not delegated to
the United States and tho states, belongs
to the people, and congress sent to do the
peoples' business, have all power and
shall lilteen thousand citizens groan in
exile ? Oh, vain men, will ye not, if ye
do not restore them to their rights and
2,000,000 worth of property relinquish
to them, (the Latter Day Saints) as a
boby, their portion and power that be-
ongs to them according to the constitu
tion ? Power has its convenience, as well
as inconvenience. I he world was not
made for Caesar alone, but for Titus too.'
I will give you a parable ; a certain
ord had a vineyard in a goodly land,
which men labored in at their pleasure ;
a few meek men also went and purchased
witli money from somo of the chief men
that labored at pleasure, a portion of land
in the vineyard, at a very remote part of
it, and began to improve it, and to eat
ind drink the fruit thereof: when the
ord of the vineyard, rose up suddenly
and robbed these meek men, nnd drove
them from their possessions, killing many.
