| 115 the world may be warranted in believing that ''Mormonism' does not indorse [endorse] nor favor in any degree the criminal policy of Brigham Young and assistants, and further that we request the press of the United States to keep the matter before the public continually, and make such statements that are due us [as] a corporate body, which desires the welfare of our beloved country and the just and supreme administration of the laws thereof."
The committee to whom was referred the foregoing resolution, would most respectfully present for your consideration, and action, the necessity for "Congress to inaugurate more decisive measures in the suppression of misrule and tyranny in Utah." That there is a distinctive line of demarcation between the tenets and practices of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, under the leadership of Joseph Smith, and those under the leadership of Brigham Young, in Utah, has been fully set forth before your honorable body in a former Memorial, and presented to the Senate of the United States by the Honorable Lyman Trumbull, May 5, 1870, and was referred to the committee on Territories.
Your memorialists do not deem it necessary to recapitulate those doctrines at this time; but in brief, would say that in Utah, "doctrines are held and practiced which are at variance with the proper usages of civilized nations, and opposed to the law of our common country;" whilst on the other hand, "we do most fully, freely, and unreservedly affirm, that there is nothing required by the law or polity of the church, that can render its members violators of the laws of the land in any of their legal provisions."
We would respectfully represent that from our knowledge of the teachings and practices of the leaders of the Utah church organization, it is opposed to all free governments, and especially to the government of the United States; in proof of which we refer to the following declarations from their leading men, and published by themselves:
"Our ecclesiastical government is the government of Heaven, and incorporates all governments in earth and hell. It is the fountain, the mainspring, the source of all light, power, and governments that ever did, or ever will exist. It circumscribes the governments of this world."-Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 141.
"The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe. All other governments are illegal and unauthorized-any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making and by officers of their own appointment are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God."-Orson Pratt's Kingdom of God, part 1, page 1.
And in accordance with the above teachings, the government of the United States is considered illegal; and in Utah, an intruder. In proof of which, we refer to the forcible resistance to the entry of United States troops and federal officers, and the obstacles thrown in the way of the federal courts, and the constant evasion of the United States law.
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