--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1841 to 1842. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 3 number: 10 published: 1842-03-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Universal Liberty,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 10 (March 15, 1842): 722–723." printed_title: UNIVERSAL LIBERTY. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-03-15_3_10 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n10.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-03-15_3_10 start_page: 722 end_page: 723 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1842 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-03-15_3_10 publication_year: 1842 --- # Universal Liberty 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.