1849-09-19-Frontier Guardian-More Opposition to General Taylor
More Opposition to General Taylor
Frontier Guardian, v1 n17, 19 September 1849, p. 3.
- From the New York Herald
MORE OPPOSITION TO GENERAL TAYLOR-THE MORMONS IN THE FIELD.
Misfortunes never come singly. They pour upon the victim by the bucket-full. General Taylor has not been able to evade the inevitable law. To the awful howlings, and fierce assaults, and perpetual accusations of the Union; and the yells, and threats, and menaces of thousands of disappointed office-beggars, who all charge upon the President every error, and every sin of omission or commission with which the administration is chargeable, we must now add the relentless opposition to the Mormons. The desperate band of martyrs and heroes have just entered the field. They are not all engaged in digging gold in the great valley of the Salt Lake. A remnant is amongst us, and they are not disposed to give sleep to their eyes, or slumber to their eyelids, till they consign General Taylor to utter perdition. Here is the first proclamation:—
Whereas a Document has been issued by Zachariah Taylor, the so-called President of the United States, appointing the first Friday in August next, as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, on account of the calamities with which Almighty God, in righteous judgment, is about visiting this land of high-handed wickedness, pride, and abominable hypocrisy:—and whereas said Taylor calls on all professing Christians to suspend their usual avocations on that day, and assemble in their churches, there to beseech God to avert his threatened judgments, particularly the pestilential
who is King over all nations, by the authority vested in me by Almighty Jehovah, pronounce the said Zachariah Taylor a base hypocrite, a bloody robber and murderer, and a usurper of power and authority that belong not to him. I also declare that his proclamation or recommendation of
And of no binding force or obligation whatever. And I invoke the burning curse of Jehovah upon every one who observes the day according to his recommendation.
May God speed on the war, famine and pestilence, and destroy all the wicked! Amen.
- SAMUEL S. SNOW.
- MOUNT ZION, July 22, 1849.
