1856-09-30-New York Herald-The Mormons on Sunday

The Mormons on Sunday

New York Herald, 30 September 1856, p. 4.

The Mormons on Sunday

To The Editor of the Herald.

New York, Sept. 29, 1856.

I was very much astonished in seeing an article in the columns of the HERALD of this morning, headed "Disturbance at the Mormon meeting," stating that while I was addressing the meeting last evening, at Brooks' Assembly Rooms, on Polygamy, &c., a young man arose and called me a liar, &c. A more wilful and malicious falsehood was never uttered. There was a congregation of some three hundred persons present and listened to the discourse with breathless attention. There was not a word uttered by any one in relation to the doctrine advanced. No one arose in the meeting. There was no tumult, nor signs of any, neither was polygamy mentioned, or the least reference or insinuations made relative to it during my discourse, which was from Rev., chap. 14, v. 6 and 7. All appeared well satisfied, and the meeting throughout was conducted and dismissed in a peaceful and becoming manner. All present will bear testimony to the same. Why is it that nearly every article published in relation to the Mormons must be a tissue of falsehoods and misrepresentations? I pronounce the author of the article a base calumniator and falsifier, and he dare not meet me or the congregation and make the statements contained in his article. You have been basely imposed upon by some one. Justice to yourself, the Mormons and the community requires a correction of the same.

W. I. APPLEBY, of Utah.