moksha wrote:asbestosman wrote:Tidejwe wrote:Brigham Young tells the Legislature in Utah on Jan 23, 1852 to legalize slavery because "we must believe in slavery" because God meant it to be so.
Do you have a reference for that one?
A referenced link with the exact quote would be nice.
The Following sources all relate the the above claim of Brigham Young claiming slavery must be legalized by the legislature. It could be mentioned that Pratt also supported enactment of African-American slavery in Utah 23 January 1852 while attempting to indefinitely postpone a bill authorizing Utahn's to purchase Indian slaves and legally register them for up to 20 years as indentured servants. Related sources for this include (but are not limited to):
Journals of the House of Reps, council and Joint Sessions of...the Territory of Utah, held at Great Salt Lake City, 1851 and 1852, 67 (13 Jan. 1852), 85 (23 Jan. 1852), 116 ([2]9 Jan 1852), 39 (24 Jan. 1852); Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Passed By the First Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Utah, Begun and Held at Great Salt Lake City on the 22nd Day of September, A.D. 1851 (Salt Lake City: Brigham Young, Printer, 1852), 93.
Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, Passed At the Several Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah (Salt Lake City: Joseph Cain, Public Printer, 1855), 161 (4 February 1852); Newell G. Bringhurst, Saints, Slaves and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981), 67-70, 226; also Jack Beller, "Negroe Slaves In Utah," Utah Historical Quarterly 3 (Oct 1929): 122-26; Dennis L. Lythgoe, "Negroe Slavery in Utah," Utah Historical Quarterly 39 (Winter 1971): 40-54; Ronald G. Coleman, "Blacks in Utah History: An Unknown Legacy," in Helen Z Papanikolas, ed., The Peoples of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1976), 116-22; Ronald G. Coleman, "African Americans in Utah," in Powell, Utah history Encyclopedia, 2.Obviously for the exact quote I referenced of BY see the Legislature notes reference on that date, though it is also in most of the other sources listed too. For those of you who like Quinn, it's also referenced in Extensions of Power pg 749 under 1852 Jan 23rd. I could continue on with church interference regarding Utah slavery and we could reference countless sources but I was simply trying to make a point and add an example...typing out all the references manually really sucks as most of my already typed out references are locked up on my broken down laptop at the moment! :)
As it is relative to the thread in General, note that Pratt once said:
"Ours is an ecclesiastical Church and an ecclesiastical state." -Journal of Discourses 8:105 (O. Pratt/1860)
He had no reservations admitting Utah didn't keep church and state separate.
We could also reference that 21 March 1856 George A Smith seconded a motion to add the following to the proposed constitution (which already legalized Slavery):
"We recognize the right of the people of this state to adopt and regulate African Slavery, as they in their wisdom may deem proper."
(Native American Slavery was illegal, so it had to be specified). It was later changed and submitted as allowing the people of the state to regulate it and decide on slavery, and this time even pro slavery advocates voted it down because they didn't want the people to be able decide the matter by popular vote.