pletely, and there was left to him only the memory of his indignation at the wrong
proposed and of his duty to resist to the highest limit of his power such wrong and
encroachment. Of course, your people know something of the courage and loyalty of
Mr. Blaine towards you in oppression; but the summit and sublimity of it all was
reached when he stood in this small committee room and smote down with the giant
strength of his indignant wrath this further attempt in a free government to degrade
still further a people already wronged too much. If you but knew the burning words
with which he spoke, the spirit with which he spoke, I am sure that the name of Blaine
would never pass Mormon lips without the blessing of a prayer following the spoken
word or the unspoken thought.

This marked the limit of the high tide against the Mormon people in Congress.
Wrong had gone as far as it was possible for it in its malice to go. From that day it
receded. Having curbed it in Congress, then it became necessary to spread out the
feeling represented by Mr. Blaine over this wide nation and mollify all the great ele-
ments into something of the same feeling—nearly all of which, sharing in a preju-
dice and a hatred which were the more intense because of their ignorance of the facts,
were almost implacable at the mere mention of the name of Mormon. Religious intoler-
ance far outruns political intolerance, as you know; and, having checked the highest
tide of this feeling in political circles, it then became necessary in a government of
the people to go back to the sources of all the powers of Congress and mollify all the
great elements toward the final and ^end^ which has now come. In surveying the field Mr.
Blaine, Colonel Trumbo, and myself felt that the next step was to secure, first a
larger tolerance in the Republican party, and finally the active friendship of that
party in behalf of justice to your people and Statehood for your Territory. It had
been the fate of this party, driven forward by the crusade of the churches against your
Church, to be in possession of the government and therefore to enact and enforce the
laws that public sentiment coerced from Congress in enactment against your people in
some of your practices as a church. The first practical step to be taken along this
line was to take away from the so-called Liberal party in Utah, which had always been

pletely, and there was left to him only the memory of his indignation at the wrong proposed and of his duty to resist to the highest limit of his power such wrong and encroachment. Of course, your people know something of the courage and loyalty of Mr. Blaine towards you in oppression; but the summit and sublimity of it all was reached when he stood in this small committee room and smote down with the giant strength of his indignant wrath this further attempt in a free government to degrade still further a people already wronged too much. If you but knew the burning words with which he spoke, the spirit with which he spoke, I am sure that the name of Blaine would never pass Mormon lips without the blessing of a prayer following the spoken word or the unspoken thought.

This marked the limit of the high tide against the Mormon people in Congress. Wrong had gone as far as it was possible for it in its malice to go. From that day it receded. Having curbed it in Congress, then it became necessary to spread out the feeling represented by Mr. Blaine over this wide nation and mollify all the great elements into something of the same feeling—nearly all of which, sharing in a prejudice and a hatred which were the more intense because of their ignorance of the facts, were almost implacable at the mere mention of the name of Mormon. Religious intolerance far outruns political intolerance, as you know; and, having checked the highest tide of this feeling in political circles, it then became necessary in a government of the people to go back to the sources of all the powers of Congress and mollify all the great elements toward the final end which has now come. In surveying the field Mr. Blaine, Colonel Trumbo, and myself felt that the next step was to secure, first a larger tolerance in the Republican party, and finally the active friendship of that party in behalf of justice to your people and Statehood for your Territory. It had been the fate of this party, driven forward by the crusade of the churches against your Church, to be in possession of the government and therefore to enact and enforce the laws that public sentiment coerced from Congress in enactment against your people in some of your practices as a church. The first practical step to be taken along this line was to take away from the so-called Liberal party in Utah, which had always been