Shall We Not Go On In Such

Blessed Be The Memory Of Those Few Brethren Who Contended So Strenuously For Their Constitutional Rights And Religious Freedom, Against Such An Overwhelming Force Of Desperadoes!

We Came To This Earth That We Might Have A Body And Present It Pure Before God In The Celestial Kingdom. The Great Principle Of Happiness Consists In Having A Body. The Devil Has No Body, And Herein Is His Punishment. He Is Pleased When He Can Obtain The Tabernacle Of Man. . . . All Beings Who Have Bodies Have Power Over Those Who Have Not.

This Doctrine Of Polygamy, Or Spiritual Wife-system, That Has Been Taught And Practiced Among Us, Will Prove Our Destruction And Overthrow.

Verily, I Say Unto You, That The Wisdom Of Man, In His Fallen State, Knoweth Not The Purposes And The Privileges Of My Hold Priesthood, But Ye Shall Know When Ye Receive A Fullness By Reason Of The Anointing: For It Is My Will, That In Time, Ye Should Take Unto You Wives Of The Lamanites And Nephites, That Their Posterity May Become White, Delightsome And Just, For Even Now Their Females Are More Virtuous Then The Gentiles.

[w]e Shall Have The Satisfaction Of Knowing That We Have Acted Conscientiously, And Have Used Our Best Judgment. And If We Have To Throw Away Our Votes, We Had Better Do So Upon A Worthy Rather Than An Unworthy Individual Who Might Make Use Of The Weapon We Put In His Hand To Destroy Us.