Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
I^n^ a great discourse delivered by President Young on he
said among many other important items, "The Constitution of the United
States was got up by inspiration. It gives all men the rights of conscience
So it will be in the Millennium. It will be like the Constitution. All
will have to bow the knee and acknowledge the Lord that it is his right
to reign but they must not blaspheme; but they may enjoy their own religion
Men talk about making a law to stop Polygamy
in Utah that would be an expose facto law and the Constitution declairs
that Congress shall make no such law and if the time comes when the
United States do make a law and send men to punish me for Polygamy
or having more than one wife as there is no law against it you may
make up your mind that I shall send them to hell. I do not
think they will do it but if they do you may tell them they had
better send 100,000 men with provisions for five years and they
may make their calculations upon it they will want to make forts
from one end of the route to the other so that they can step from one
to the other. There is a sweeping clause against this proceding. When
they charter a ship company to build ships and control them they cede
up their right in the case. So it is in the Territories. They have
a Territorial Government. This people should have the right to
govern their own institutions
News of the Murder of Parley P. Pratt.
