Universal Liberty
Times and Seasons, vol. 3, pp. 722 to 723
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The following correspondence between Doctor Dyer, of Chicago, and General Bennett, of this city, copied from the "Genius of Liberty," is of a highly interesting character, and breaths the sentiments of brave and philanthropic hearts. We would like to see "Missouri turn pale at the sight of gathering hosts," and her penitentiary walls reel like the votaries of Bacchus. If Missouri does not find in us the suaviter in modo, she will find the fortiler in re; and while her face and hands are yet dripping with the blood of murder perpetrated upon a guiltless, devoted, and defenceless [defenseless] people, on consecrated ground-it would be well for her to regard the cries of the living, and the dead,-let Justice sit in Judgment, and reason, sober reason, once more resume her throne. The cause of humanity cries aloud for help, while suffering Justice is bleeding at every pore. "Why do the heathen rage
and the people imagine a vain thing!" for God will surely judge the wicked, and avenge the wrongs of the oppressed. I go for "UNIVERSAL LIBERTY to every soul of man-civil, religious, and political."
N. B. Some of the Mormon slaves referred to in Missouri, are the children of murdered parents; others of Mormon parents now in this city.