John Taylor disparages abolitionism and "n---er stealing."

Date
1858
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
John Taylor
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

John Taylor, "Ignorance and Low Condition of the World—Past Experience, Present Position, and Future Prospects of the Saints," August 23, 1857, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Asa Calkin, 1858), 5:157

Scribe/Publisher
Unknown
People
John Taylor
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

We are moved by a higher law. They talk sometimes about a higher law in the States. Greeley is a great man to talk about a higher law, which means, with him, stealing niggers. We do not care anything about that. We want to do something better—something higher and more noble. That is rather too low for us; consequently, they need not be afraid of our stealing their niggers: we will let them have all the benefits of them as one of the grand institutions of Christians, together with the amalgamating process as another of the institutions of Christianity. And another grand institution they have among them is prostitution.

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