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• Times and Seasons/2/5
  ...m the instructions recently addressed to all the Postmasters of the United States by the Postmaster General: "Postmasters may enclose money in a letter to a ...the peculiar circumstances than I am; and I feel great confidence in your united wisdom, therefore, you will excuse me for not entering into detail: if I sh
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• Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
  ...r the fear of consequences: but we are no longer forced to appeal to those states that are now situated under the influence of popery for examples of injusti ...his <i>faithfu</i>l suporters, the office of governor in all the different States, for the purpose, we presume, of more effectually consolidating the governm
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• Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
  *Jubilees 11:4, 7, 16, pp. 14, 15.<ref>The Book of Jubilees only states that they made molten images to themselves.</ref> ...o be thrown into a fiery furnace for his disobedience. The Book of Abraham states that he was bound on an altar and about to be sacrificed by the priest of E
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• Times and Seasons/1/6
  ...gration, as hundreds of families moved in from various parts of the United States and Canada.-Some time in the month of March, President Joseph Smith jr. arr ...publication, that it may have a general circulation throughout the United States.
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• Times and Seasons/2/10
  ...ashing, in south western Virgina [Virginia]. Perhaps no part of the United States have heard as many false reports from Mo. as the citizens of the before men ...eans-England making war upon China and Egypt, and the people of the United States strongly excited, revolutionizing their Government. To what end is the tide
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• Times and Seasons/1/5
  ...t; in short one system of religion, one church, or assembly of worshippers united in their doctrine, and built upon the TRUTH; and all bearing the general na P. S. Editors through the States would oblige us by publishing the above.
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• Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8/Post-Election Events
  ...sition 8 exercised the most sacrosanct and individual rights in the United States — that of free expression and voting.'' ...Mark Paredes, national director of Latino outreach for the American Jewish Congress (Paredes is LDS). It was "demanded that Paredes retract his financial contr
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Appendix B
  |L8=Response to claim: 462, 617n14 - The United Order was claimed through revelation to be "everlasting," "immutable and un |claim=The book states that it was predicted that "the elect shall be gathered into one place 'aga
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• Times and Seasons/1/3
  ...e from uncivil authority, for if a man did not testify as he or Birch, the states Attorney taught him, he was thrust into prison and totally deprived of his ..., so as to make it a sufficient tool to commit free citizens of the United States to jail, for the testimony from beginning to end was known to be as black a
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Double standard on race
  *The most extensive research on integration was undertaken jointly by the United Lutherans, Congregational Christians, and Presbyterians (U.S.A.). They foun :If the Government of the United States, in Congress assembled, had the right to pass an anti-polygamy bill, they had also the r
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• Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?
  ...y did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?== ...assumed that because the Church opposed a proposed amendment to the United States constitution known as the Equal Rights Amendment, the Church must have also
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• Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
  ...rom their writings and form public document no. 189, published by order of Congress, February 15, 1841, showing that Mormonism authorizes the crimes of theft, ...the presses were in continual uproar throughout New England, and all other states, bitterly opposing and lying against the saints. Anti-Mormon meetings were
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• Journal of Discourses/1/17
  ...THE HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH ...THE HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH
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• Journal of Discourses/1/18
  ...OF HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE ...OF HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE
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• Journal of Discourses/1/19
  ...of Hon. Z. Snow, Judge of the First Judicial District Court of the United States for The Territory of Utah, to the Jury, on the Trial of Howard Egan for the ...with my faith, and watching with my prayer, and reap the benefits of their united operation.
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• Journal of Discourses/1/29
  When the officers returned from this territory to the States, did we send them away? We did not. But I will tell you what I did, and wha ...t to let out. But allow me to tell you, Elders of Israel, and delegates to Congress, you may expect an eternity of cats, that have not yet escaped from the bag
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• Journal of Discourses/2/5
  ...n the storm clouds shall lower, and fierce persecution rage, be enabled by united faith and energy to bid defiance to "Mormon" foes, whether they come in for ...would keep pace with the times, we must progress also. The youth of other States, Territories, or Nations, must not outstrip us in the arts and sciences, no
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• Journal of Discourses/2/12
  ...s introduced to the modern world by Joseph Smith. The people of the United States abandoned him to martyrdom, and his followers to fire, and sword, and plund ...the animal magnetic phenomena, all the trances and visions of clairvoyant states, all the phenomena of spiritual knockings, writing mediums, &c., are from i
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• Journal of Discourses/2/30
  |H=THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ILLINOIS—NAUVOO CHARTER AND MUNICIPAL COURT—WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ILLINOIS—NAUVOO CHARTER AND MUNICIPAL COURT—WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
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• Journal of Discourses/2/31
  |H=THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS
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• Journal of Discourses/2/32
  |H=THE PRIESTHOOD AND SATAN—THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS ...: THE PRIESTHOOD AND SATAN—THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS
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• Journal of Discourses/2/36
  ...sm," to know what we believe. Probably there are but few men in the United States but what know that we look up to President Brigham Young as our leader, Pro ...o unto us, and for that reason many of us have been driven from the United States; I say many of us, for a great many who are now here have not been driven h
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• Journal of Discourses/2/48
  ...ding, of the business transactions and responsibilities of our Delegate in Congress. It is a matter this people have not immediately before them, it does not d ...tly satisfied with the labors of their Delegate during the last session of Congress; or, in other words, it would be hard to find an individual who is the leas
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• Journal of Discourses/4/6
  ...hey are in Zion's ship. This is the main reason of so many leaving for the States, California, and other places. Send those persons among their enemies, amon Though the people in the States are daily becoming more hardened against the truth, yet if I was in New Yor
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844
  he unsuccessfully petitioned the [[Federal Government of the United States|federal government]] for help in obtaining reparations. ...] to meet with President [[Martin Van Buren]] and [[United States Congress|Congress]] ({{Harvtxt|Bushman|2005|pp=392–94}}; {{Harvtxt|Brodie|1971|p=260}}).
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• Journal of Discourses/4/60
  ...ongress for the Admission of Utah as a State—Condition of Society in the States—Return of Apostates]] ...that matter than any king upon his throne, or the President of the United States. Why? Because she goes in my authority.
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• Journal of Discourses/4/62
  ...ongress for the Admission of Utah as a State—Condition of Society in the States—Return of Apostates]] ...him they show despite to the authority that sent him—to the whole United States, in case they had sent him.
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• Journal of Discourses/4/64
  |H=THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GUARANTEES ALL WE ASK—HOLLOW GENTILITY—POWER OF THE "MORMON" LEADERS— |T=Journal of Discourses 4: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GUARANTEES ALL WE ASK—HOLLOW GENTILITY—POWER OF THE "MORMON" LEADERS—
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• Journal of Discourses/5/3
  ...e the most important information that is or has been current in the United States for the last season. I was talking with a member of Congress, who was very pious, (he was a minister, by the bye,) and he intimated that
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• Journal of Discourses/5/23
  ...NCE BETWEEN THE SPIRIT OF ZION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—DOINGS IN THE STATES, ETC. ...NCE BETWEEN THE SPIRIT OF ZION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—DOINGS IN THE STATES, ETC.
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• Journal of Discourses/5/24
  |H=APPROVAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELEGATION TO CONGRESS—CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 5: APPROVAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELEGATION TO CONGRESS—CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, ETC.
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• Journal of Discourses/5/25
  |<=[[../24|Approval of the Proceedings of the Delegation to Congress—Condition of the People of the World, etc.]] And as President Buchanan, the President of the United States of America, holds the keys of the government of this whole nation, so Brigh
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• Journal of Discourses/5/26
  ...religion, we are exiles here to-day, having been denied citizenship in the States from which we came. Our Prophets have been cruelly martyred in cold blood, ...a better solution of the matter than the waters or troops which the United States are now sending here to destroy us? God grant that the earth and the heaven
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• Journal of Discourses/5/27
  ...k as we do, that we act as we do, that we endure as we do, that men can be united as we are, that people will leave their homes and traverse seas, oceans, de ...to the Constitution and the very genius of the institutions of the United States, they want to lay the sin at our doors that they themselves are guilty of.
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• Journal of Discourses/5/37
  |H=THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION AND UTAH ARMY |T=Journal of Discourses 5: THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION AND UTAH ARMY
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• Journal of Discourses/5/40
  You know, I said that I had wives enough to whip the United States; and why? Because they will whip themselves, and my wives would not have to Is there a collision between us and the United States? No; we have not collashed: that is the word that sounds nearest to what I
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• Journal of Discourses/5/61
  I had the pleasure, while in the States, of being subject to the Sabbath-keeping rules of the railroad company. I w ...hese we find that scarcely any two writers agree. The Greeks were about as united in the worship of their gods as the Christians are who profess to worship J
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• Journal of Discourses/6/2
  |H=THE WORK OF REFORMATION—THE UNITED STATES' ARMY—LABOURS OF "MORMON" MISSIONARIES—JUDGMENTS OF GOD, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 6: THE WORK OF REFORMATION—THE UNITED STATES' ARMY—LABOURS OF "MORMON" MISSIONARIES—JUDGMENTS OF GOD, ETC.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/3
  |<=[[../2|The Work of Reformation—The United States' Army— Labours of "Mormon" Missionaries—Judgments of God, Etc.]] ...or {{page break|20|top}} instance; then represented our case to the United States.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/19
  ..., without purse or scrip, and held Conferences through all the New England States, and exhorted and taught the people to go to Jackson County and purchase th ...to the house of Israel in these Valleys, and he will do it; and the United States cannot buy them. God Almighty has got them by the bit. What?—Israel? Yes.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/23
  |H=SELF-GOVERNMENT—CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES—CHURCH GOVERNMENT, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 6: SELF-GOVERNMENT—CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES—CHURCH GOVERNMENT, ETC.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/52
  ...the priests say to you? Can you recollect what they said in the different States where this Gospel was first preached?—what arguments were used against yo ...truction; disease is spreading so fast among the inhabitants of the United States, that they are born rotten with it, and in a few years they are gone." Said
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• Journal of Discourses/6/54
  ...t upon each and every soul now waiting before thee, that our hearts may be united as one, and that we may approach thee in a manner acceptable in thy sight. May the Delegate from Utah, now in the Congress of the nation, be clothed upon with the Spirit and the power of Elijah's Go
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• Journal of Discourses/6/63
  ...being married, like thousands and tens of thousands that are abroad in the States and in all the world among the nations of Christendom: they have to live co ...as sincere in supposing these laws to be good as the people of the United States are in supposing there should be a severe law against polygamy.
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• Journal of Discourses/6/64
  ...nd rolled forth with as little opposition as it has received in the United States. Every species of oppression and opposition, which has aimed at the destruc ...he mother country, and landed in Connecticut; and so a number of the early States were formed by settlers who fled from their native country through religion
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• Journal of Discourses/7/2
  ...from their possessions, and kill a great people. Revolution in the United States is progressing; but to the true spirit of Democracy and the science of gove What ought to be the Government of the United States? And what are Whiggery and Democracy as they now exist? Nothing, and a litt
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• Journal of Discourses/7/18
  ...same intelligence, and blessed in the same manner, and, consequently, were united together in the bonds of the everlasting Gospel, and associated by the gift ...fferent nations—in Germany, France, England, Scotland, Wales, the United States, in the Canadas;—no matter where, go where you will, and let a man receiv
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• Journal of Discourses/7/26
  ...n concerning a certain gentleman who has been in high office in the United States. The person I was conversing with placed much stress upon the circumstance ...can foresee the results of the acts of individuals, of legislators, and of Congress fifty years hence? Where is there a nation that has been able to preserve i
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• Journal of Discourses/7/34
  ...nd death, came from the old countries, and first landed in the New England States in 1620. They are called the Pilgrim Fathers. They established morality and The American Congress do not pretend to inspiration. The Speaker, who occupies the highest and mo
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• Journal of Discourses/7/36
  ...reside over the people of God in the North and in the South, in the United States, in South America, in Europe, and in all the nations of the earth, and of t ...ence of the persecutions of some portions of the inhabitants of the United States; and many of those who did not participate in the actual persecutions said
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• Journal of Discourses/8/26
  ...rohibitions upon {{page break|112|top}} citizens outside the boundaries of States. ...e Constitution to interfere with that system. But the Congress, the United States as a Union, are restricted in this particular; they are prohibited from gra
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• Journal of Discourses/8/33
  ...in intelligence in relation to national policy, the Congress of the United States, with the President at their head.
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• Journal of Discourses/8/37
  ...e have heard this morning. Brother Andrew Moffat started from here for the States, last fall, on business; and he has labored most admirably in buying cattle ...ved nearly sixty years, and am acquainted with many portions of the United States, somewhat acquainted with Europe, and historically acquainted with many par
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• Journal of Discourses/8/50
  ...ent, credentials, recommends, &c., the President of the United States, the Congress, and officers of state are ready to receive him with the respect due to his
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• Journal of Discourses/8/59
  ...riven us:—the counties, States, and the General Government of the United States, proffer to take {{page break|223|top}} me back to the land of my inheritan ...the very things you are trying to avoid, like the Government of the United States, which is striving with all its might, and calling to its aid the best wisd
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• Journal of Discourses/8/78
  During my absence on my recent mission to the Eastern States, I found but few willing to listen to the truths I had to proclaim to them. ...ed appetite which has taken possession of the people throughout the United States. There were some few who were disposed to investigate and inquire into our
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• Journal of Discourses/8/81
  ...he did not go far enough in removing the deposits and spoiling the United States Bank. But the administration of King James Buchanan, what an administration ...ation. They are so wonderfully smart! That is the difficulty. Every man in Congress is so smart that he is looking to the presidential chair. The boys of West
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• Journal of Discourses/9/1
  ...er; and if I have not, my name shall not remain as President of the United States," he could have reinstated us in our rights. A few words from the General G ...untains in Vermont, from whose summits you can look down upon the Atlantic States; and I feel chagrined and mortified when I reflect upon the condition of my
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• Journal of Discourses/9/4
  ...county, in 1833, Joseph Smith prophesied that if the people of the United States would not bring to justice that mob and protect the Saints, they should hav ...et up a crusade against slavery—to make the men who live in the Southern States turn over their slaves.
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• Journal of Discourses/9/8
  ...g up. We have as good machinery for making paper as there is in the United States or in the world. We have brought it here at a heavy expense—it has cost u ...ade than is made here. Eat the new cane sugar that is made in the Southern States, and it has a very unpleasant taste. Take our sugar and cleanse it as they
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• Journal of Discourses/9/14
  ...Gospel being established in the minds of the people, and the people being united, there is no power in existence that is able to interfere with or mar the c ...s of the Rio Virgin, he would be apt to describe it as a certain member of Congress described the Louisiana purchase made by Mr. Jefferson. He {{page break|68|
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• Journal of Discourses/9/15
  ...prevent it. Do you think they believe it? Yes, the Congress of the United States have more trouble about us than they have about the whole world besides.
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• Journal of Discourses/9/29
  ...ed of it. It is time to cleanse the inside of the platter; and if a United States' official says it is mob law, let him say so until he is tired. We will tea ...uggy, but, to his consternation, found it appropriated. Now this member of Congress was not only brave, but fleet on foot; for it is said that he arrived in th
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• Journal of Discourses/9/34
  ...God as it has been established in these last days. In regard to the United States, Great Britain, and European nations generally, they have a knowledge or a ...sure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." The nation of the United States have got to reap that which they have sown, and to receive {{page break|182
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• Journal of Discourses/9/50
  ...f Deseret into the union of States upon an equal footing with the original States. ...national convention, pledging the great and rising party of the country to united {{page break|263|top}} opposition to our admission in consequence of an ite
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• Journal of Discourses/9/65
  ...as individuals. Compare, for instance, the colonial history of the United States with the history of the settling of the wild and desolate regions of Utah b ...ey never suffered anything in comparison to what the people in many of the States are now suffering.
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• Journal of Discourses/9/71
  ...brother Musser has told us that we are a great deal a-head of the Western States. Really, if we are not we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. We have had wis ...the Mormons were there, and if the inhabitants and citizens of the United States were as intelligent and industrious and as thrifty as the Mormons were then
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• Journal of Discourses/10/8
  ...this step bring upon us the disapprobation of the Government of the United States? That is not for me to say; it will be as God may direct. ...n the Constitution for Congress to act upon is reserved to the people. But Congress assumes powers that does not belong to it, and if it continues to do so, so
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• Journal of Discourses/10/10
  |H=CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES—GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD |H=10. CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES—GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD by Brigham Young (38-42)
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• Journal of Discourses/10/25
  ...e camp of Israel. This same Mr. Benton said to the President of the United States, in the presence of some other persons, "Sir, they are a pestilential race, ...e asked that we would not perform? No. But if the Government of the United States should now ask for a battalion of men to fight in the present battle-fields
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• Journal of Discourses/10/50
  ...ade a treaty with the Latter-day Saints, and we agreed to leave the United States entirely. We did so, and came to these mountains, which were then Mexican t
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• Journal of Discourses/10/57
  ...f the Scarcity of Breadstuff—the Sufferings of the Ungodly in the United States—the Popularity of the Gospel Undesirable]] ...rge them and cast them out, what course would the government of the United States take? They would declare war against Mexico, to vindicate the honor of the
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• Journal of Discourses/26/2
  ...g and the loyalty of the Latter-day Saints to the government of the United States, than the fact that in our breasts and throughout these mountains, there pr ...ggars either at the door of the National Congress, or of their neighboring States and their fellow citizens. When other places were visited by grasshoppers,
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• Journal of Discourses/26/5
  ...bow in humility and submission to His requirements, whether in the United States, in Canada, in Mexico, in Central or South America, in Europe, in Asia, in ...top}} would not care anything about it." When I have plead with members of Congress in Washington, and told them this institution was part of our religion, the
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• Journal of Discourses/26/8
  ...others. In this respect we act and operate as other citizens of the United States do, and in this respect we have rights, privileges and immunities as others ...t if the law did not prevent you carrying out the law of God in the United States. If these worthy ancients had lived here, they would not have allowed them
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• Journal of Discourses/26/10
  ...e not thou into their secret; into their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united." We expect to be associated with more honorable principles, and with more ...e states that he was approached on the subject by a gentleman, a member of Congress, who had visited here. He told Brother Cannon that when he was here he was
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• Journal of Discourses/26/11
  ...upreme Court of the Territory, and then to the Supreme Court of the United States. ...y to be brought before and had cognizance of in the Congress of the United States to ascertain if they will make laws to oppress us, but these laws can be ta
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• Journal of Discourses/26/15
  ...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—SELF-PRESERVATION REQUIRES US TO BE UNITED—ALL REPUTABLE MEN AMONG THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS HOLD THE PRIESTHOOD—WE HA ...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—SELF-PRESERVATION REQUIRES US TO BE UNITED—ALL REPUTABLE MEN AMONG THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS HOLD THE PRIESTHOOD—WE HA
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• Journal of Discourses/26/16
  ...mmunities, which belong to us as individuals and as citizens of the United States, in common with others. And seeing that things were quite loose in those fa ...ade to punish us as criminals. I have never broken any law of these United States, and I presume that some of you, whom our enemies now seek to criminate and
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• Journal of Discourses/26/23
  ...living things in the earth including man. The male and female principle is united and both necessary to the accomplishment of the object of their being, and ...forbid to marry. In one of the Epistles of Paul [1 Timothy iv. 3|top}} he states that in the latter times there would be those who would forbid to marry. We
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  ...LY IMPARTIAL, JUDGMENT AND RULE WILL BE GIVEN THEM—NOT ALL IN THE UNITED STATES ARE ARRAYED AGAINST US—WEAKNESS OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT—POWER OF SEC ...LY IMPARTIAL, JUDGMENT AND RULE WILL BE GIVEN THEM—NOT ALL IN THE UNITED STATES ARE ARRAYED AGAINST US—WEAKNESS OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT—POWER OF SEC
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  ...em without stint of numbers to the people of this great nation, the United States; have endeavored to inform them ever since the year 1830, and especially si ...n of the Holy Spirit. What did Brother Brigham say before he left us? When Congress passed the law of 1862, I heard him make this remark—rather startling at
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  ...hands of their rulers is emphatically stated to be reserved to the several States or to the people. There are again other branches of government among the several nations, or States in the nations, as well as in this nation; there is martial law and civil l
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  ...but a few hours or days would pass before they were again and for evermore united. And this is a characteristic in which we glory. But to illustrate this in ...rpose for which you and I have come from the Old World, from the different States in the New World, and from the different parts of Europe and the islands of
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  |<=[[../18|Progress of the Saints to Union in Faith and Practice—The United Order]] ...and whether you were appointed by the legitimate authorities of the United States or not. If not, they would pay no attention to you; they would look upon yo
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  ...or by the authority of the United States; and the government of the United States feels itself bound to back up his acts, the same as a mercantile firm would ...sometimes, don't we? He has shown us how and in what way our wives may be united with us in the eternities to come, and how we may have our children sealed
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  ...s which bind man to man and family to family, and make of a nation a grand united whole. ...mall for her spreading population, and in all the adjacent Territories and States, those who {{page break|333|top}} have been drawn together under her instit
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  In the first place, I will say with regard to our Delegate to Congress who has addressed you this afternoon, and this I will say for myself, that ...f {{page break|270|top}} polygamy a transgression of the law of the United States? How are we transgressing that law? In no other way than by obeying a revel
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  ...came to negociate [negotiate] with us to leave the confines of the United States, and of the public domain. It was understood that we were going to Vancouve
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  ...gree of sympathy for the suffering people of God. We think that the United States survayor [surveyor], Isaac Allen Esq. the attorney general, and Governor Lu ...until death. We say that God is true, that the constitution of the United States is true, that the bible is true, the book of Mormon is true, that Christ is
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  ...ng strange, however, in this; for a great many parties, both in the United States and in the governments of the old world, have believed in the kingdom of Go Well, but do you not hold allegiance to the government of the United States also? Do you not believe in the laws and institutions thereof? Yes, we have
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  ...States, we should never be troubled by them again. We did leave the United States, and now Congressmen say, if you will renounce polygamy you shall be admitt
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  ...laws or the Constitution in our defence. When the President of the United States was applied to, all he would say was, "Your cause is just, but we can do no ...y, and our firm and determined adherence to the Constitution of the United States, have carried us through the whole of it.
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  ...epting sometimes, by a little persecution they help us to be a little more united, that's all; and we do not thank them for this, for it does not come with t ...h {{page break|221|top}} them. It is true that in France and in the United States magistrates are authorized to officiate in solemnizing marriages. But in Fr
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  ...the law; they do or should understand the law of the United States, of the States, and of the Territories and cities in which they live, and whenever they ha ...e would go to ploughing again. One lawyer has actually lived in the United States who did not depend upon the practice of the law for a living, but followed
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  ...them for their good or bad opinion, that we are dependent upon the United States for peace and tranquility, and that we are dependent upon popular feeling f ...eligion before we came here. We have been mixed up with them in the United States, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and other
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  ...the latter should correspond with the former. When our faith and works are united we can call upon God for help to enable us to accomplish that which he requ ...he Pacific Railroad, and that it all belongs to the citizens of the United States, and not to Brigham and his crew. We speak advisedly when we say Brigham an
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  ...ed and to which we had been driven by our enemies, was ceded to the United States. ...re guaranteed by the Constitution of our country. We do not ask the United States for anything more. We do not want liberty that is not thus guaranteed; but
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  ...d the titles; and when the day arrives that the Constitution of the United States becomes absolutely the supreme law of the land, so that all men can be prot ...the Temple, which was one of the most beautiful structures in the Western States, and dedicated it unto the Lord. They were progressing with other large bui
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  ...not to us what the press says, or what that judge or this officer, or what Congress says. We are here in these mountains; the Lord has called and led us here a It is near twenty-five years since we left the confines of the United States. Go back there and you will {{page break|90|top}} find hundreds, and perhap
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  ...as a gentlemanly outside merchant, but the moment he got an opportunity he united with our enemies to oppress us. ...of the Senate committee, to which the petition was referred, reported that Congress had no business with it.
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  ...res. The only way for safety to the people of the government of the United States is to repent of their sins, turn away from all their iniquities, receive th ...as sticks, written upon, one for Judah and one for Joseph, that should be united together by the power of the Lord in the latter days preparatory to His com
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  ...de upon us, either by contestants for the supremacy in this kingdom, or by Congress itself. These are my feelings. ...at, so long as these witnesses remain, it will be a pretty hard matter for Congress or for apostates to make many inroads upon the truth, while the servants of
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  ...d in the garden to keep it and till it, they, as two immortal beings, were united in the bonds of the new and everlasting covenant. This was before man fell, ...great Roman empire—namely, the nations of modern Europe and the American States. This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for pro
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  ...our operations; and as far as the influence of politicians and members of Congress is concerned, it would be employed in obtaining our admission into the Unio ...s operation the supernatural part, and the people of the world, members of Congress included, would be pleased; and the Vice-President would be proud of us. Th
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  ...s, would not consider it right to do. How would it look here in the United States of America to enter a large meeting house like this, move out the benches, ...d when the ladies say send such a man, he is pretty sure to go if they are united and determined that it shall be so. The ladies may not know that they wield
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  ...lected that the mobbings, drivings and expulsion from cities, counties and states which we have endured, and our exodus to these mountains all took place bef ...is document and says, "I am empowered to act. I am sent over by the United States as ambassador to the Court of Great Britain." "Where is your commission?" "
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  ...is concerned, or any encouragement or assistance extended from the United States to the people of the Territories, their children must be raised in absolute ...refer you to certain little difficulties that have occurred in neighboring States in relation to the handling of school funds, and other important items, whi
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  ...ith the list of names attached to it, was published by order of the United States Senate, it was thought proper to read it to the congregation that all might ...of China and the East Indies would pass through the heart of the American States. We have lived to see these predictions fulfilled.
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  ...n, perhaps not so capable of filling the office as his neighbor, better be united on and with him, and give him your faith and your prayers, and he will answ ...have, and pretty good people. I recollect one old lady that we left in the States. She said she was too old to gather up with the Saints. Her friends were Ba
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  ...ndamental principle in the Constitution of our country which provides that Congress shall make no law in regard to religious matters that would, in the least d ...guaranteed to us, so far as other ordinances are concerned. For instance, Congress would never think of making a law in regard to the form of baptism, or of a
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  ...ay be regularly nominated, say for the position of President of the United States? I know of no such restriction; there is none. ...or portion of the Constitution of our country would be violated by such a united effort? None whatever; because it is the privilege of the people to unite o
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  ...light and knowledge we possess, just think of the influence that we, as a united body, could wield among the inhabitants of our land, and in fact among the ...ration the forty millions of people that live under the flag of the United States—and giving it national importance? This is one of the most extraordinary
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  ...of the strongest arguments that was made in favor of keeping up the United States army up to its present numbers was, that there would probably be riots in l ...is fought, the more it is written against and talked about, the more that Congress is stirred up to take steps against it, the better the principles of our fa
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  ...cording to my judgment, speaking as one of this family, not as a member of Congress, not as a "Mormon" but as one of the family I have described. The latter la ...about the law of 1862, nor the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States affecting it; but I want to deal with the facts that stare us in the face.
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  ...but unless I could find a people with the love of Christ in their bosoms, united together as the heart of one man, a people who loved one another, I do not ...all the difficulties we have had to contend with. I have remarked this in Congress myself, that whenever I want to accomplish anything in connection with our
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  |>=[[../41|The Work of God Cannot Be Hindered—The United States to Be Afflicted By Judgment]] ...hat we as a people bear a significant relation to the people of the United States in a political point of view, and without undertaking to review the various
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  |<=[[../41|The Work of God Cannot Be Hindered—The United States to Be Afflicted By Judgment]] ...obtained timber to build our houses and to fence our fields; it was by the united labors of the Latter-day Saints, that we constructed water-ditches and cana
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  |>=[[../47|The Spirit and Principles of the United Order]] They were working in union in a kind of united order; but not of course fixed up in that order. But as we are operating to
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  |>=[[../11|Union is Strength—United Order Will Bring About Temporal Salvation—The Time has Come to Favor Zion ...the States of Missouri and Illinois, and in the various countries of those States, and the history of this people has been a very peculiar one. It is true, a
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  ...ad several hundred houses, and other towns and villages were springing up. United firms were being organized, which were putting into cultivation very extens ...ew on the subject with Mr. Van Buren, at that time President of the United States, and the answer that he gave has become almost a household word. Said he—
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  |>=[[../24|The United Order is the Order of the Kingdom of God and Christ Dwell—The Law of the ...tern hemisphere I speak of it as it now exists. In those days the land was united; the eastern and the western hemispheres were one; but they dwelt in that p
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  ...DER DIVINE LAW—THE GOSPEL A PERFECT LAW—THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES A JUST INSTRUMENT—SAINTS MUST BE PATIENT AND LONG-SUFFERING—LATTER-DAY ...DER DIVINE LAW—THE GOSPEL A PERFECT LAW—THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES A JUST INSTRUMENT—SAINTS MUST BE PATIENT AND LONG-SUFFERING—LATTER-DAY
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  ...s. I remarked to members of Congress, of the House and of the Senate, that Congress was paying us a great compliment, a people so insignificant numerically, so ...red together who are united, not so much as they should be, but still more united than they were before they heard this gospel, and I rejoice that this is th
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  |<=[[../44|Congress and the Saints—Efficacy of Prayer—Strength of Character Necessary—The ...we divest ourselves of every evil, stand before God blameless, and become united as the heart of one man in sustaining the cause of Zion. The responsibility
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  ...ught upon it by its enemies, brighter, stronger, more firmly planted, more united than it was when the difficulty commenced, or the trouble was first visited ...boyhood, I have been taught to believe that the constitution of the United States was revealed of God, and that the destiny in store for the Latter-day Saint
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  ...immortal beings who were capable of enduring to all ages of eternity were united together in marriage. ...s, towns and settlements in this Territory, emigrated from the New England States, and they had fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and ances
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  ..., how did you come? In steamships; and when you crossed through the United States to Omaha, how did you come? In steam cars. And when you crossed these deser ...ith silence; but by and by, when the proper time come, the Lord stirred up Congress and the great men and capitalists of the nation to go forth and construct t
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  ...cribe to you the emotions, the feelings which I have in being once more re-united with you, for you have heard them expressed by others so frequently, and al ...ve this to say, that I do not know to-day a public man in either branch of Congress, who has visited Utah Territory, who is not—that is, so far as the rights
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  ...ident of the United States, he dared not face the issue, but declared that Congress had no power to deal with a sovereign State for its treatment of the Latter ...rfield, I may say, was my personal friend, we having served eight years in Congress together. I have been intimately acquainted with him during that time, and
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  ...people in the Rocky Mountains. Years before we were compelled to leave the States, he predicted that the South would rebel, and that the civil war would brea ...r protection; for the day will come when stable government in these United States will be very hard to find. The elements are already operating that will pro
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  ...of the United States and been sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States. Nevertheless—I now speak for myself—I lay it down as a proposition tha ...r-day Saints. They have risen in their religious conventions in the United States, and told to my positive and certain knowledge, as black and infamous lies
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  ...fast developing themselves in the midst of the large cities of the United States. The government has, to a certain extent been mismanaged. We are an illustr ...ider themselves members of this Church. We must stand together: we must be united. We must exercise faith in God, and we must do that which he requires at ou
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  ...t our Territory are far better than the general crop throughout the United States. The destructive insects and elements which you have had to struggle agains ...on, for instance, who is soon about to go to Washington as our Delegate to Congress, and you know the influence that has been exercised against the people whom
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  ...where. And it will not be long before there is trouble again in the United States. These inflated times will by and by bring about a great reaction, and then ...himself to President Cannon) George, how many representatives have they in Congress?
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  |>=[[../6|The Southern States Mission, etc.]] ...to Bear Lake a copy of the form of petition which we are now presenting to Congress. I think it was on Wednesday that it was sent out from here, and on Saturda
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  |<=[[../6|The Southern States Mission, etc.]] ...thren for,) that while I have traveled through various parts of the United States and the Canadas, also in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany
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  ...me line marked the boundary between the southern confederacy and northern. States during the war, for the division commenced in the churches, and it was the ...the "Mormon" Battalion, was a "Mormon" colony shipped from the New England States, who took with them a printing press, and planted their feet upon the shore
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  ...nd out what he could tell them about us, and I am informed that members of Congress and other leading men are making the "Mormon question" a special study. I h ..., that it should spread until it would attract the attention of the United States and of the world. This was one of the earliest predictions that was uttered
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  ...my to Utah. It was told to us that there were a million of bayonets in the States ready to be turned toward Utah. We did not count them, but we know the deta ...of the people of this great nation, called the Constitution of the United States, that instrument was framed by our forefathers, who purchased the power to
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  ...they call upon him in faith. Thus they went, traveling through the United States and Canada, and afterwards crossing the ocean to the Old World, proclaiming ...eople; they who were not were from New York, Pennsylvania and other middle States. But they were known as Yankees, and, as their enemies asserted, abolitioni
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  ..., let me ask, did this? Was it the Congress or the President of the United States? Well, now, I would dislike very much to say anything that could be constru
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  ...to show that they are not even true believers, for they are certainly not united and one with Christ as He is one with the Father, nor as His ancient discip ...e exceedingly in what I saw manifested there. Does God hold the members of Congress responsible for their acts as he does the Elders of this Church? No. They w
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  ...upon us chiefly through the religious element of the country to influence Congress to extraordinary legislation against us, are perhaps, the reasons why my mi ...a gentleman in Congress. It was proposed that the bill, now being urged in Congress against polygamy, be so amended as to include adultery; the gentleman to wh
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  ...s: He stated, and his statement was published widely throughout the United States, in the religious journals, that whilst preaching to some of you Sanpete pe ...me not thou into their secret, unto their assembly, mine honor be not thou united." Do them good? {{page break|240|top}} Yes, but do not enter into the assoc
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  ...at have spread over the earth. We therefore are not indebted to the United States for these rights; we were free as men born into the world, having the right ...eir God. But when they interfere with our rights as citizens of the United States, it becomes our business to look after our liberties.
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  ...law, so far as their action was concerned, and the President of the United States who signed the Act and who appointed the Commissioners under it, and the Co ...yonets, of cannon and musketry to destroy us, and when it seemed as though Congress was in such a mood that it was ready to pass any law or to frame any enactm
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  ...attempted to shape their legislation accordingly; and in the recent law of Congress, known as the Edmunds law, they have especially, in the amendment they have ...would then strive to enlighten our statesmen and the people of the United States, pertaining to social ethics and the purposes of heaven in the union of the
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  ...ted States, from off the eyes of the members of the Congress of the United States, and from off the eyes of our enemies, if this veil were lifted they would ...doing this for the last fifty years. We are still doing it, in the United States and other parts of the world. We shall continue to labor among the Gentiles
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  ...LL—CAUSE OF FORMER HOSTILITY—SAINTS TO CONTEND FOR LIBERTY—RIGHTS OF CONGRESS—OTHER THINGS TO BE DREADED MORE THAN HOSTILE LEGISLATION—EFFECT OF SUCH ...LL—CAUSE OF FORMER HOSTILITY—SAINTS TO CONTEND FOR LIBERTY—RIGHTS OF CONGRESS—OTHER THINGS TO BE DREADED MORE THAN HOSTILE LEGISLATION—EFFECT OF SUCH
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  ...he Republican or Democratic form of government established in these United States—(the foundations of which were laid by our fathers over a hundred years a ...ty. In former times the efforts that have been made in Congress and out of Congress to press the representatives of the people to hostile and unconstitutional
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  ...ing in their character, the people of God have remained true and faithful, united and undisturbed. ...th, he having taken a very prominent part in the discussion of our case in Congress, in the House of Representatives, a representative by the name of Haskell,
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  ...party during the passage of the Edmunds' bill in the Senate of the United States a little over a year ago, and the exercise of the influence of the same man ...right on the "Mormon" question in the 47th, have been returned to the 48th Congress, than of those who pursued the opposite policy. We should entertain no fear
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  ...r your destruction. It was for this reason that the Congress of the United States, a little while ago, was compelled, by an influence and a power that it cou ...t of officers of the law who have been sent by the President of the United States to rule over us; that this murderous propensity, and this power for evil th
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  ...gether and their influence combined against the work of God to destroy it. Congress was being pushed forward by a power which the Members could not resist, and It was only a few days before I left home that some Members of Congress, with whom I was acquainted, came to the city. One very intelligent man and
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  ...e say they cannot understand how it is that these Latter-day Saints are so united, unless they are held together by some secret bond or some kind of tyranny. ...there not some kind of coercion in your political affairs? You seem to be united in your voting, not only in your Church matters, but in your politics. How
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• Journal of Discourses/25/2
  ...o carry out his ideas; but, ultimately (in 1843) he gained assistance from Congress, and his invention of telegraphy was demonstrated a success, and is now mad ...States, the Congress of the United States, the Supreme Court of the United States—would learn the responsibility the God of heaven will hold them to it, th
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• Journal of Discourses/25/12
  Regarding Salt Lake City, where he resided for some time, he states: "The criminal record of Salt Lake City, for 1882, shows that in a populati ...men, many of them. We refer to certain laws that are being enacted by our Congress as unconstitutional, etc. Why, we expect they will yet pass many laws of th
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• Journal of Discourses/25/14
  ...that is not quite the phrase to use—but which led them out of the older States of America, where persecution had followed the Saints from their earliest h ...he various towns of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and back into the Eastern States, while others of the poor and less able, though earnest in the faith and ab
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• Journal of Discourses/25/15
  ...olate constitutional law, and the enactments of the Congress of the United States. Upon this point I desire to make a few remarks. ...us to practice our religion and be free before God and man. I hold that if Congress has a right to enact a law in relation to marriage, it might just as consis
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• Journal of Discourses/25/17
  ...ranslated the prediction of Nephi, which {{page break|122|top}} prediction states that when the Book of Mormon should be published, it should be received by ...ritings of the fruit of the loins of Judah; when these two Books should be united, it should have a remarkable effect—that is, their union should. They sho
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• Journal of Discourses/25/22
  ...will be compelled to admit as was admitted to me by a prominent Member of Congress, who was one of our bitter enemies, that it is the greatest organization on ...s indeed an inspired Prophet of God; for there has been no action taken by Congress, nothing has been done to us by mobs, or by any combination, that has not b
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• Journal of Discourses/25/26
  ...ND ORSON PRATT OBTAINED THEIRS-HOW ABRAHAM AND MOSES WERE TAUGHT-ACTION OF CONGRESS CONSIDERED ...ND ORSON PRATT OBTAINED THEIRS-HOW ABRAHAM AND MOSES WERE TAUGHT-ACTION OF CONGRESS CONSIDERED
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• Journal of Discourses/25/27
  ...be protected in the free exercise of that belief. As the language states, Congress is not to pass any law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibi ...the right to practice their religion under the Constitution of the United States?" The dividing line is very simple, as truth generally is. It is very easy
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• Journal of Discourses/25/29
  ...t is yet unfulfilled, that the time would come when our nation through its Congress, would do the very thing that is now being done, that {{page break|241|top} ...eat those whom they love; let the world do this, and how long should we be united? Why, the influence would be towards disintegration. Worldly influence woul
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• Journal of Discourses/25/31
  ...been governed by the "Mormon" people; and there is no part of these United States that compares with this Territory for prosperity, for good order, for good ...overnment would be preserved in the land. Some of our enemies have come to Congress, and have complained about "Mormons" holding office. I have said, gentlemen
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• Journal of Discourses/25/38
  ...RIME—CRIMINAL STATISTICS—HORRIFYING STATEMENTS OF CRIME IN THE EASTERN STATES—WARNING TO THE SAINTS ...RIME—CRIMINAL STATISTICS—HORRIFYING STATEMENTS OF CRIME IN THE EASTERN STATES—WARNING TO THE SAINTS
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• Journal of Discourses/25/41
  ...E COMMITTED BY MORMONS AND NON-MORMONS—THE WICKEDNESS OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. OFFICIALS AS EXHIBITED IN THE COURTS OF UTAH ...E COMMITTED BY MORMONS AND NON-MORMONS—THE WICKEDNESS OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. OFFICIALS AS EXHIBITED IN THE COURTS OF UTAH
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• Times and Seasons/1/10
  ...warning voice and extending the invitation of the gospel to the principle States in the Union, and to the Islands of the sea, and also to foreign lands. ...rk of which we have been speaking, will have respect to each other, and be united in their exertions, holding up each other's arms effectually, in their feeb
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Quote mining
  ...pot. This will always be so...''If the Government of the United States, in Congress assembled, had the right to pass an anti-polygamy bill, they had also the r
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 16
  ...on our necks again; and all hell cannot overthrow us, even with the United States to help them. It is not pleasant to the natural feelings to be obliged to t If the Government of the United States, in Congress assembled, had the right to pass an anti-polygamy bill, they had also the r
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• Word of Wisdom/Temporal salvation of the early Saints
  ...t below that of non-Mormons living in Utah or in other areas of the United States) and that people who abstain from these substances are at much lower risk o ...the same time the CEOs of every major cigarette manufacturer stood before Congress and, with their arms raised, swore that they believed nicotine was not addi
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909
  ...her, and the trip produced no reparations. Whatever sympathy Van Buren or Congress might have had for Mormon victims was canceled out by the importance of Mis ...let Illinois repeat that bloody tragedies of Missouri and one or two other states follow, and the Mormon religion will not only be known throughout our land,
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings
  ...arried by priesthood authority, not the "wicked and disbelieving." Bushman states that "the worldly wed became single again, and a permanent cap limited thei ...he temporarily instituted a form of [[religious communism]], called the [[United Order]], requiring Saints to [[law of consecration|consecrate]] all their p
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• Times and Seasons/1/11
  ...ust be met-Missouri must be met, not only by the Mormon people, but by the states-and all the friends of liberty and equal rights should gird on their armour We are requested to say to all those living in the United States, who have communication by mail, with the following persons, viz: Brigham Y
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/3
  ...State of Missouri: comprising more land than did the old "Thirteen United States," and may emphatically be called ''the heart of North America.'' It is abou ...oint, when I call it THE LAND OF ISRAEL. Time will tell whether the United States will be so humane as to gather all the wandering tribes of the forest, and
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/1
  ...g to meet the Lord, when he comes in his glory. I rejoice while the United States' army is penetrating into the western wilds to make treaties with the rude ...es, containing a population of 156,310, have held treaties with the United States, and that there is an Indian population east of the Mississippi, of 92,676,
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/4
  ...y may one day, be gathered by the gospel. Our venerable President of these United Sates, speaks of the Indians as follows:— ...ded to us, no one can doubt the moral duty of the Government of the United States to protect, and if possible, to preserve and perpetuate, the scattered remn
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/9
  Elder Leonard Rich states to us verbally, that he left Kirtland about the 12th of April, travelled in ...enjoy the privileges guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States, and a willingness that all others should have the same, to the utmost, of
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/12
  It is expected that the cotton growers in the Southern States will be able to take up the drafts drawn on the American houses in England ...s in the Presidents Message relative to the relief that may be afforded by congress its present session, have cast a gloom over some of the fond anticipations
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/1
  ...e second reduction on coffee, and the second reduction on salt, enacted by Congress in 1830, went into operation in Jan'y. The duty on coffee is now only one c From any other place, or in vessels other than those of the United States.
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/3
  This desolating sickness is spreading steadily over the United States. The account of its ravages, in many places, we cannot give: The whole numb ...improvements this year, more than $1,000,000. The President of the United States, has put his veto to the bill, rechartering the U. S. Bank. The remains of
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/11
  ...great faith had anticipated. Many churches have been built up in different states, and some hundreds of members have come up to this land, and are striving t ...despatched [dispatched] from thence, on such an errand of mercy. Capt. H. states they even followed him to the water's edge, and there, in attempting to giv
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• Times and Seasons/6/2
  ...sed with the spirit that prevails among the saints in that place. They are united in fellowship-they are one in heart, one in faith, and one in their resolut ...c for 1845, contains statistics of the various denominations in the United States. It seems that the Methodists, including their various organizations are th
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• Times and Seasons/6/4
  July, which once dawned upon the virtue and independence of the United States, now dawned upon the savage barbarity and mobocracy of Missouri. Most of th ...ack breed, and much inferior to the large white grass breed of the eastern states. If any could introduce this breed among the brethren in Zion, what little
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• Times and Seasons/6/11
  ...presiding officers of branches in the same great cause. Thus should all be united in the great purpose in which they were engaged, viz., the salvation of the ...the best of his knowledge were much improved. The officers in council were united, and there was a probability
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• Times and Seasons/6/14
  We sent you a fifty dollar, United States note some time ago, if you have received it, please acknowledge the receipt ...s, Oliver, Frederick, and myself, being agreed, bowed before the Lord, and united in prayer, that God would continue to deliver me, and my brethren from Doct
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• Times and Seasons/6/18
  On the 10th, had a council of the United Order, in which it was agreed that the Order should be dissolved, and each To the President of the United States of America:
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• Times and Seasons/6/19
  ...tates is authorized to make the call upon the executives of the respective states; and the laws of this state empower the "commander-in-chief in case of actu ...tates is authorized to make the call upon the Executives of the respective States." Therefore, we your petitioners, in behalf of our society, which is so sca
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• Times and Seasons/6/21
  ...those rights which belong to us as native free born citizens of the United States. ...r as would be required at our hands, as free born citizens of these United States, and as fears have been expressed, that we designed hostilities against the
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• Times and Seasons/6/23
  |L6=MORMONISM IN CONGRESS. ...of the governors of the several States, and of the President of the United States, and of the friends of humanity and justice in every clime, and country on
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• Times and Seasons/5/1
  ...in gathering the harvest. The saints in Pittsburgh are truly a lovely and united people, and do their duty to a man: 'Honor to whom honor is due. ...ing followed those several branches of manufactures, either in the eastern states, or in the old world: and when the above named dam shall be erected, it wil
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• Times and Seasons/4/4
  ...s. Our people are mostly the working classes of community, from the United States and Great Britain and her Provinces. They are a very intelligent people, es ...aptist Church;" and as he is generaly [generally] known in the New England States, we presume that the above logical and conclusive expose of our principle,
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• Times and Seasons/4/22
  ...we petitioned to the state of Missouri, but in vain. We have memorialized Congress, but they have turned a deaf ear to our supplication and referred us again ...orrespondent of the London Morning Chronicle, under the date of August 17, states the particulars as follows:
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• Times and Seasons/5/2
  ...and obtained for her the title of "free and independent" among the sister states. More than forty years of my life can I boast of being a happy citizen of M ...s our history has been pretty fully made known to the people of the United States. Near Haun's Mill, a company consisting of about forty men with their famil
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• Times and Seasons/5/3
  ...ch payment had been made in full; the benefits of which payment the United States now enjoy, and has ever since the purchase. There had large numbers of the ...ivilities. The constitution of the United States provides, that the United States shall give to each state a republican form of government. Is it a republica
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• Times and Seasons/5/4
  ...stians, priests and people, with all the devils from the infernal pit, are united and foaming out their own shame.-God forbid that I should bring a railing a ...e east, and standing now upon the confines or western limits of the United States, and looking into the vast wilderness of those that sat in darkness;-how na
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• Times and Seasons/5/8
  ...numbered with the figures 1 and 2, will take the presidency of the several states to which they are appointed. ...different states, will appoint conferences in all places in their several states where opportunities present, and will attend ALL the conferences, or send e
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• Times and Seasons/5/9
  ...h of our national existence to the year 1832, can the annals of the United States of America be found, to blast the character of her noble sons, by telling t ...them funds, again purchased lands, to a considerable amount, of the United States. Although Jackson county was the place of our choice, where also, through t
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• Question: Was the Mormon priesthood ban simply a policy or was it doctrine?
  ...ought it was a mere ploy for the implementation of communism in the United States. But Benson is an outlier among the dominant attitude of support for the CR |summary=In 1850, the U.S. Congress created Utah Territory, and the U.S. president appointed Brigham Young to t
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• Question: How do Mormons believe that same-sex marriage affects religious freedoms?
  ...Latter-day Saints' opposition to legalized same sex marriage in the United States. This is illustrated by the Church's indication that it is not opposed to ...igious beliefs. For example, advocates and government officials in certain states already are challenging the long-held right of religious adoption agencies
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• Times and Seasons/2/7
  ...aphim, and Images, whatever name is given to them; are found in the United States of America. And when Israel according to the 3rd chapter of Hosea, shall se ...nd by the politeness of R. M. Young we have been favored with a copy. What Congress may do on this subject, we are not able to divine: but we sincerely hope th
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• Miller and Roper: "This was long enough to bring them (mammoths) to the time of the Jaredites"
  ...2nd International Congress, 2005), 200-204.</ref> In the contiguous United States Mead and Meltzer provided an age of 4,885 years for a dated mammoth specime ...age to the Americas. Its range extends as far north as the Northern United States and as far south as Costa Rica.
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• Question: What is the "White Horse Prophecy"?
  ...h strangers and commissioners. You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber.” At
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egyptologists say they represent?
  ...tor, either Amon-Re or Khnum. When thus depicted with four heads, this god united within himself the attributes of the gods Re (the sun), Shu (light), Geb (t ...h resides in Karnak’ swelled to fifteen members.”<ref>W. J. Murnane, ''United with Eternity: A Concise Guide to the Monuments of Medinet Habu'' (Cairo: O
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• Criticisms of M. Russell Ballard
  ...n that monitors financial market activity to ensure compliance with United States law. In 1962, the SEC charged M. Russell Ballard with "engag[ing] in activi ...dure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, First Session on S. 1160, S. 1336, S. 1758, and S. 1879, Bills to Amend th
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• Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon
  ...nth day of June, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1829, JOSEPH SMITH, JUN., of the said District, hath depo In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copie
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• Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language?
  ...e particular must be sacrificed to the general interest. If the members of Congress are too dependent on the state legislatures, they will be eternally forming ...se the term to refer to non-Masonic groups, books translated in the United States, legislature bills, grand jury instructions, and works which so characteriz
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• Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
  ...is shown by the following clause: ‘Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional ...78, in company with President Joseph F. Smith, Elder Pratt visited several states east of the Mississippi in the capacity of a missionary; and at Plano, Illi
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• Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?
  ...m the representations we had read of them, whereas, if what Mr. Winchester states be true (and we have no reason to doubt him,) we can recognize them as prof ...hich had sprung up in broad day from amidst the civilization of the United States…" <ref>Juley Remy, ''Journey to Great Salt Lake City'' (1861), 2:82–83;
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• Question: How was the decision reached to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''?
  ...mob in 1837.<ref>"Today in History, November 7," United States Library of Congress. {{link|url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov07.html}}</ref>
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that the government would be overthrown and wasted?
  ...hecy has already been amply fulfilled by events in Missouri and the United States soon after Joseph's death=== ...udge [Stephen A. Douglas], you will aspire to the Presidency of the United States; and if you ever turn your hand against me or the Latter-day Saints, you wi
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• Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Influenced by Joseph Smith's background
  ...k of Mormon does not resemble democracy as it is implemented in the United States.}} ...d local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States?}}
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• Question: Was Surveyor General David H. Burr threatened with death by Mormons while he was in Utah?
  ...id not mention any threats against his life even in his official report to Congress=== It is claimed that the Mormons' hostile attitude to the United States is revealed by death threats made against U.S. surveyor general David H. Bu
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• Question: Was prosecution of those responsible for Mountain Meadows Massacre blocked by the Church?
  ...te self-determinism (read: slavery). The Jeffersonian republicans believed states' rights were paramount except as to powers specifically delegated to the fe ...f worship about the lack of virtue in their plural wives, and testified in Congress about Mormon debauchery. These judicial efforts to crush the Mormon theocra
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• Times and Seasons/2/12
  ...rts of Europe and from Canada as well as the different parts of the United States are present, and among all a unanimity of purpose and feeling prevails and ...is, apparently well authenticated, that the Chief Magistrate of the United States William H. Harrison, died on the 4th inst. of pleurisy.
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  ...oo with great propriety, that the office of Chief Magistrate of the United States, filled as it is by the voice of the people (which is the voice of God) is ...brought about through the mercy of God the intercession of Jesus, and the united energies of living and dead saints, we being made perfect by them and they
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• Times and Seasons/2/14
  With united voice they cry. ...covenants of said church; which was accordingly done; and several members united with them; making in all twelve members. They then made choice of Thomas Ke
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• Times and Seasons/2/23
  ...pectfully ask you, sirs, to point me out in the Constitution of the United States, or in that of the State of Pennsylvania, a single clause that warrants any ...e Constitution of the United States, adopted 4th of March, 1789, declares "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting t
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• Times and Seasons/2/24
  ...ted voice of the General Conference to address the churches in the eastern states to advise with the brethren in those regions, and devise ways and means whe ...ccomplish this great and desirable object? Let the brethren in the eastern states, who have lands which they wish to dispose of, so that they may remove hith
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• Times and Seasons/3/24
  ...ghboring counties, and the opposite side, Missouri. Another New York print states that Joe Smith has been kidnapped and taken, no one know where-that the gre ...000 years duration, has by God's providence been established in the United States of America, by sending his holy angel to make known unto the people the fun
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  ...merican press amongst the people generally, and especially in the halls of Congress? What think you of the sentencing of three men from the Quincy Mission Inst ...in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States, and the precepts of Jesus Christ? Is it to be submitted to tamely, that th
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• Times and Seasons/4/5
  |L1=CIRCUIT COURT OF THE U. STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. ===CIRCUIT COURT OF THE U. STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.===
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• Times and Seasons/4/9
  ...And as we do now exchange with most of the principal papers in the United States, both east, west, north and south, we flatter ourselves, that with the faci ...the kingdom; and as it is written, Whatsoever ye shall ask in faith, being united in prayer according to my command, ye shall receive; and ye are called to b
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• Times and Seasons/5/10
  ...nd our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said, without reference to color or conditi ...trymen, the illustrious Washington, said in his first inaugural address to congress: "I hold the surest pledges that as, on one side, no local prejudices or at
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• Times and Seasons/5/11
  ...r executive councils, and her legislative halls; and as we have petitioned congress to take cognizance of our sufferings without effect; we have judged it wisd ...ons of the people in my behalf, as a candidate for President of the United States; but I do not so consider myself. That much depends upon future events, and
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• Times and Seasons/5/12
  ...us the blood of innocence stains the constituted authorities of the United States, and thus have two among the most noble martyrs since the slaughter of Abel ...arkham. It was a vast assemblage of some 8 or 10,000 persons, and with one united voice resolved to trust to the law for a remedy of such a high handed assas
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• Times and Seasons/5/15
  ...) Letters to the editor must be paid-and subscriptions in specie or United States' bills. ...ay, he would never return or see his father again. He went to the southern states and Mexico;-on his return took sick and died in Virginia. In addition to th
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• Times and Seasons/4/3
  ...d learned article on Habeas Corpus,' written by Justin Butterfield, United States' Attorney, for the District of Illinois, is worthy of attention. He shows, ...st; are given and imposed by that clause of the Constitution of the United States. which declares 'that a person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, o
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• Times and Seasons/4/16
  ...e circumstance that might transpire, in, and about this, and the adjoining states; as well as of distant provinces and nations. Among the many robberies, ear ...and expense was exculpated in Springfield, before Judge Pope of the United States Court for the District of Illinois. The persecution and injustice of Missou
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• Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?
  ...The Church’s ''Gospel Topics Essay'' entitled "Race and the Priesthood" states: <blockquote>In 1850, the U.S. Congress created Utah Territory, and the U.S. president appointed Brigham Young to t
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• Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen/Race Problems - As They Affect the Church
  ...egro leader, and a member of the Congress of the United States. The United States News published this interview in its September, 1952 issue. That was before :Q. “In comparison with the number of intermarriages in the United States, would you say that it was an equal or a greater number or a lesser number?
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• Question: What was the MX Missile System?
  ...end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War Cold War]), the United States Department of Defense at the behest of the Jimmy Carter administration wish ...rch and elsewhere. It had received bipartisan support in the United States congress, would have brought a huge spur to the local economies, and would have aide
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