It is unlikely that any of these texts are still copyrighted due to how old they are. Most are from government publication departments.
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PDF Adobe Acrobat Format ASCII Text Format HTML Web Browser Original Format HTML Web Browser Modern Format Microsoft Word	Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in reference to the condition of affairs in the Territory of Utah. I encountered these documents in a government archive while researching the Mormon Militia Mountain Meadows Massacre. I have not found these documents anywhere on the 'net, so I suppose this is their maiden voyage on the 'net. If one compares Brigham Young's behavior to L. Ron Hubbard, for example,I think one will see many parallels. The sense of being "above the law" appears to be the most striking, and of course his going after the money no matter the consequences. Notes: 1) A man placing his arm on the back of a strange man's shoulder, as in the text below, was considered in the time period (1850s) to be sufficiant provocation to "demand satisfaction" (i.e., a duel) because it was "familiar:" i.e., insulting. The writer later wrote that Brigham Young commented that "some persons might get their hair pulled," which is another means, in that time and place, to offer enough insult as to "demand satisfaction" ending in someone killing another (or both dying, as was often the case) via duel. 2) The United States Government and its officials were bewildered by the authoritarian brainwashed cult behavior of the Mormons; they kept trying to apply reason in a situation where their adversaries had utterly abandoned reason. 3) There is excellent evidence within this document to suggest that Brigham Young was a sociopath.
Microsoft Word Version Adobe Acrobat Version	Special Report Of The Mountain Meadow Massacre By J. H. Carleton, Brevet Major; United States Army, Captain, First Dragoons. Major: When I left Los Angeles, the 23rd ultimo, General Clarke, commanding the Department of California, directed me to bury the bones of the victims of that terrible massacre which took place on this ground in September, 1857. The fact of this massacre of (in my opinion) at least 120 men, women and children, who were on their way from the State of Arkansas to California, has long been well known. I have endeavored to learn the circumstances attending it, and have the honor to submit the following as the result of my inquiries on this point: [....] [The Mormons are] are an ulcer upon the body politic. An ulcer which it needs more than cutlery to cure. It must have excision, complete and thorough extirpation, before we can ever hope for safety or tranquility. This is no rhetorical phrase made by a flourish of the pen, but is really what will prove to be an earnest and stubborn fact. This brotherhood may be contemplated from any point of view, and but one conclusion can be arrived at concerning it. The Thugs of India were an inoffensive, moral, law-abiding people in comparison.
Microsoft Word Version Adobe Acrobat Version	Across The Continent: A Summer's Journey To The Rocky Mountains, The Mormons, And The Pacific States, With Speaker Colfax. By Samuel Bowles Mr. Bowles went Overland to the Pacific Coast in May and June of this year, (1865) in company with Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives; visited the Mining Regions of Colorado, Nevada and California; spent some time with the Mormons; passed overland north to and through Oregon; sailed up the Columbia River; went through Washington Territory and Puget Sound; visited the British Provinces of the North; traveled all over California; passed several weeks in San Francisco; and returned home by way of the Isthmus in September. [....] How do the Mormon women like and bear polygamy? is the question most people ask as to the institution. The universal testimony of all but their husbands is, that it is a grievous sorrow and burden; only cheerfully submitted to and embraced under a religious fanaticism and self-abnegation rare to behold, and possible only to women. They are taught to believe, and many of them really do believe, that through and by it they secure a higher and more glorious reward in the future world.
ASCII Text Version Microsoft Word Version HTML Web Browser Original Format Version HTML Web Browser Modern Format Version	APPENDIX O. INDIANS OF UTAH. By Dr. Garland Hurt. This is an extract of a much larger manuscript, titled Report of explorations across the great basin of the territory of Utah for a direct wagon-route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859, by Captain J. H. Simpson. Made by authority of the secretary of war and under instructions from Bvt. Brig. Gen. A. S. Johnson. This text is pretty dang insulting, but I would say was typical for the time and place of the author. Dr. Hunt truely believed that enslaving the American Indians would be good for the Indians and the country. He considered himself part of "the superior race." The author mentioned the Mormon Militia Mountain Meadows Massacre and noted, correctly, that while the Mormons blamed the Paiutes, that explanation was extremely improbable.
HTML Web Browser Original Format Version HTML Web Browser Modern Format Version Microsoft Word Version ASCII Text Version	THE ORIGIN OF MORMONISM By Mrs. Dr. Horace Eaton, of Palmyra, N. Y. As far as Mormonism was connected with its reputed founder, Joseph, always called "Joe Smith," it had its origin in the brain and heart of an ignorant, deceitful mother. Joe Smith's mother moved in the lowest walks of life, but she had a kind of mental power, which her son shared. With them both, the imagination was the commanding faculty. It was "vain" but vivid. To it was subsidized reason, conscience, truth. Both mother and son were noted for a habit of extravagant assertion. They would look a listener full in the eye, and without confusion or blanching, would fluently improvise startling statements and exciting stories, the warp and woof of which were alike sheer falsehood. This text mentions where Joseph Smith probably plagerized the material for "The Book of Mormon."
HTML Browser, Modern Format HTML Browser, Original Format PDF Adobe Acrobat Format Microsoft Word Version	Life In Utah; Or, The Mysteries And Crimes Of Mormonism. Being An Expose Of The Secret Rites And Ceremonies Of The Latter-day Saints, With A Full And Authentic History Of Polygamy And The Mormon Sect From Its Origin To The Present Time. By J. H. Beadle, Editor Op The Salt Lake Reporter, And Utah Correspondent Op The Cincinnati Commercial. I have retained the original spelling for most of the incorrectly spelled words. Illustrations have also been retained. This book includes the Mountain Meadows Mormon Militia Massacre account, plus several other murders committed by the LDS Church.
Microsoft Word, Original Formatting PDF Adobe Acrobat Format HTML Browser, Modern Formatting	Life Among the Mormons, and a March To Their Zion: to Which Is Added A Chapter On The Indians Of The plains And Mountains Of The West. by An Officer Of The U. S. Army. by William Elkanah Waters, 1870. I have retained the majority of spelling errors and "typeos" found in the original document. This book includes a chapter on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which is why I include it in my collection. It also includes a chapter the author claims to be about the "Indians," which is not very flattering.
HTML Browser, Original Format HTML Browser, Modern Format PDF Adobe Acrobat Format Microsoft Word, Original Format	THE MORMON PROPHET AND HIS HAREM; OR, AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, HIS NUMEROUS WIVES AND CHILDREN. written by MRS. C. V. WAITE, this is the first biography of Brigham Young written and published. It gives an unvarnished account of Young's various murders, treasonous acts, as well as Young's debauchery and rape of little girls. I have retained most incorrect spellings and "typos." It mentions the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Microsoft Word format HTML Web Browser Format PDF Adobe Acrobat Format	In 1851 Lieutenant John Williams Gunnison (1812-1853) wrote the booklet The Mormons, or, Latter-day saints, in the valley of the Great salt lake; a history of their rise and progress, peculiar doctrines, present condition, and prospects, derived from personal observation during a residence among them. Within the text he wrote some unflattering facts about the LDS Church and Young. For his troubles he was ambushed on the Seiver river along with a party of engineers (surveying the geography); he was shot dead, then had his arms and legs hacked off, his gut and chest hacked open, his heart ripped out, and his tongue cut out. A all-Mormon jury sat and heard the trial of the perpetrators and found them all "Not guilty." And it wasn't even in Riverside California! The man who ordered the slaughter, Brigham Young, sent a letter to Lt. Gunnison's widow expressing his sincear sorrow that "Indians" had killed her husband. (What a fine fellow!) Young failed to mention that one of the "Indians" in the mob that murdered the survey party was one of Young's slaves out doing Young's bidding.
ASCII Text Version Microsoft Word Version HTML Web Browser	REPUBLICAN LAND POLICY --- HOMES FOR THE MILLION. (Homestead Act) Give the Public Lands to the People, and you settle the Slavery Question, obliterate the Frontiers, dispense with a Standing Army, and extinguish Mormonism. Speech by Stephen C. Foster of Maine. Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 24, 1860. [....] The people and Government of the United States have fallen far short of their duty to the Indian tribes, but their fault consists in not taking sufficient pains to civilize and Christianize them. [....] There is another evil which the remoteness and wildness of our immense Territories has fostered into fearful importance. I allude to polygamy, that foulest product of the nineteenth century, which seems to denote a decline in civilization. Mormonism, we are aware, sprung up in the older States, but polygamy was unheard of until the Saints removed beyond the reach of civilization. [....] The Democratic policy has now been ostensibly in operation since the foundation of the Government, and its effect has been, to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. Now, let us try the Republican policy, which is to give the public lands to actual settlers, in tracts of one hundred and sixty acres each. Whoever chooses to reside five years on a quarter section of the public domain will amply repay the Government for it, since he will be a pioneer of civilization and Christianity; he will, to that extent, curtail the area of the savage wilderness, and limit the territory to be defended by the army.
ASCII Text Version Microsoft Word Version HTML Web Browser Adobe Acrobat Format	Extract, Journal of army life written by R. Glisan, 1874. The pending Mormon insurrection, and a few of the Mormon murders and acts of war against the USA, are mentioned in this Army soldier's personal journal. "[...] According to the Constitution, we have no right to apply any religious test in the admission of a Territory; and, as polygamy is a part of their religion, it becomes a serious question how to dispose of the matter; for the civilized world, and the people of the United States especially, look upon this feature of Mormonism as decidedly immoral and degenerating. The question very naturally arises whether such a system as the Mormons profess can be viewed as a religion in the meaning of the Constitution. Our best interpreters of the law differ upon the subject. Hence the dilemma of Congress; and whilst the latter continues to stave off the question, the Executive is left in an embarrassing position in its dealings with this strange people. An open conflict with the United States authorities, it is feared, will result ere long.[....]
ASCII Text Version Microsoft Word Version HTML Web Browser Adobe Acrobat Format	Extract from Modern leaders, being a series of biographical sketches written by Justin McCarthy in the year +1,872. McCarthy visited Salt Lake City, Utah, and made various comments on the squalid conditions; he also noted the sexual enslavement of young women lured there by falsehoods and deception. Of Brigham Young he wrote: I believe Brigham Young to be simply a crafty fanatic. That he professes and leads his creed of Mormonism merely to obtain lands and beeves and wives, I do not believe, although this seems to be the general impression among the Gentiles who visit his city. I am convinced that he regards himself as a prophet and a heaven-appointed leader, and that this belief prevents him from seeing how selfish he is in one sense and how ridiculous in another. Any man who can deliberately put on such a coat in combination with such a pair of boots, as Brigham Young displayed during my interview with him, must have a faith in himself which would sustain him in anything. No human creature capable of looking at any two sides of a question where he himself was concerned, ever did or could present himself in public and expect to be reverenced when arrayed in such uncouth and preposterous toggery.
ASCII Text Version Microsoft Word Version HTML Web Browser Adobe Acrobat Format	Extract from John Brent, Chapter 8, "A Mormon Caravan," written by Theodore Winthrop in the year +1,864. "Perhaps we waste sympathy. A man who has no more wit than to believe the trash they teach, has no business with anything but stupid drudgery. He will never suffer with discovering his faith to be a delusion." "You may say that of a grown man; but think of the children, --- to grow up in desecrated homes, and never know the close and tender influence of family nurture." "The state owes them an interference and an education." "So it does; and the women protection from polygamy, whether they will or no." "Certainly. Polygamy makes woman a slave, either by force, or influence stronger than force. The state exists only to secure the blessings of liberty to every soul within its borders, and so must free her."
Microsoft Word Version HTML Web Browser Adobe Acrobat Format	New America, written by William Hepworth Dixon in the year +1,867. This book explores several cults that rose up in the mid 1800s in the United States, with chief examination of the Mormons. The men who planted these Free States — doing the noblest work that England has achieved in history — were spurred into their course by two great passions: a large love of Liberty; a deep sense of Religion; and, in our Great Plantation, liberty and religion exercise a power over the forms of social and domestic life unknown at home. In the heart of solid societies and conservative churches, we find the most singular doctrines, the most audacious experiments; and it is only after seeing what kind of forces are at work within them, that we can adequately admire the strength of these societies and churches. What I saw of the changes now being wrought in the actual life of man and woman on the American soil, under the power of these master passions, is pictured in these pages.
Microsoft Word Version HTML Web Browser Adobe Acrobat Format	A Rare Judicial Service Of Charles S. Zane, written by John M. Zane around the year +1,899 Gregorian Calendar. Publication of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 33. Judge Zane was appointed a judge in the state of Utah, where he was given the singular task of bringing some kind of justice to an otherwise unjust and quite lawless community: the Mormons and the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." While in Salt Lake City he was protected, without his knowledge, by two gun fighters at the behest and pay of his friends, least the Mormons attempt to murder him. Judge Zane was very liberal, and therefore not concerned with the cults beliefs; he was, rather, greatly concerned about the cult's crimes and abuses. This short history of Judge Zane's work in Utah also contains a very brief history of the Mormons that is one of the best I have read.
Available Formats: Microsoft Word Adobe Acrobat	THIRTY YEARS OF ARMY LIFE ON THE BORDER. Published in year 1866, Witten By Colonel R. B. Marcy, U. S. A., Author Of "The Prairie Traveler." Included is an account of the war between the Kingdom of Deseret (the Mormons) and the United States Army, which I found to be one of the more interesting parts of the book. Part of King Young's "proclamation:" "1st. Forbid all armed forces of every description from coming into this Territory, under any pretense whatever. "2d. That all the forces in said Territory hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice to repel any and all such invasion. " 3d. Martial law is hereby declared to exist in this Territory from and after the publication of this proclamation, and no person shall be allowed to pass or repass into or through, or from the Territory, without a permit from the proper officers. " Given under my hand and seal at Great Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah, this 15th day of September, A.D. 1857, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 82d. (Signed) " BRIGHAM YOUNG."