MORMON SLAVES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2186, 26 February 1881, Page 3

MORMON SLAVES.

To the liditor of the Gloat. Sib, —About sixty yean ago there lived, in ona of the Western States of America, the Bay. Solomon Spaulding, a man of a speculative and ingenious term of mind. By way of amusement, he composed a sort of romance, nnder the title of " The Manuscript Found," purported to have been found in excavating in one of the curious mounds found in those parts. This tnanusoript was afterwards sent to a printer to be printed, but was returned to the owner as not likely to pay expenses' and was thrown aside. Some years afterwards the manuscript was in the possession of a relation of Mr Spaulding, who Jived in the State of Wow York. About that time Joseph Smith, a disreputable fellow, who wandered about the country professing to discover lost articles and tell fortunes by means of a "seer stone," was an inhabitant of the district. Although Joseph was averse to work, ho occasionally what the Americans call "hired out," and at one time lived with the relative of Mr Spaulding who was in Sossession of " The Manuscript Found." So ttle value was set upon that document, that it was kept in an old trunk, where Joseph Smith had ample opportunity of examining it. Shortly afterwards Joseph gave out that, by means of his " seer atone," he had found some remarkable plates, oovered with hieroglyphics. Then, with the assistance of one Bigdon, a printer, who had seen the manuscript, he pretended to decipher the plates by the aid of his " seer stone"—while one deoiphored, the other wrote down. The result of this collusion was tho production of M The Book of Mormon," full of astounding rubbish. However, so easily gullible are country people, that when Joe Smith announced his disooveiies and began to preaoh his Mormon dostrines he soon had many followers. Mrs Spaulding has since made Affidavit before the United States authorities that in " The Manuscript Found," written by hor husband, the name Mormon frequently occurred, also Maroni, &c, and others have made Bimilar affidavits.

Now, air, what I want you to note is, that the Mormon religion was mainly concocted by a Boamp who would take considerable trouble to live without work ; illiterate, but ahrewd and cunning. Therefore, I think we may conclude that the Hierarchy which has aueceeded Joe Smith in manipulating the Mormon government ia strongly imbued with his scheming prinoiplea. Many people have wondered how it ia that the Mormons take ao much trouble and are at so muoh expense to obtain proselytes. The fact ia, they want strong men to work for them—slaves! There are many different ways of obtaining slaves, besides catching them in Africa. When slavery was an institution in the United Statea, a well-grown young adult negro was worth one thousand dollars. Now, if the Mormona can obtain white slaves, strong men, *t a cost of two or three hundred dollars each, they may oonsider them cheap. So the sue«essora of Joe Smith and Brighann Young •end out apostlea to wheedle ignorant ablebodied people into their torntorfr. Once there, they are bound hand and foot; a thousand eyes are upon them; n 6 running away ; they are ruled with a rod of iron. And yet, air, they do wheedle a good many simple) people to go with them. I do not intend to enter into a controversy with Mormons. I have merely tried to give a short unvarniahed aeoount of their origin and designs, and have done with them. Their object is so palpable that it certainly is aurprising that any one can be led away by them. Yours, &c., OLD OALIFOKNIAN.