"By and by, you will find they will tear the Constitution to shreads, as they have begun now they won’t have to begin they have started long ago to rend the Constitution of our country in pieces and in doing so they are letting loose and encouraging a principle which will re-act upon themselves with terrible consequences for if law-makers and administrators can afford to trample upon justice, equity, and the Constitution of this country, they will find thousands and tens of thousands who are willing to follow in their wake in the demolition of the rights of man, and the destruction of all principles of justice, and the safeguards of the nation but we will stand by and maintain its principles and the rights of all men of every color, and every clime we will cleave to the truth, live our religion and keep the commandments of God, and God will bless us in time and throughout the eternities that are to come." And we will obey every institution of man for the Lord’s sake so far as we can without violating our consciences and doing things that are wrong and improper." We will cleave to the truth, God being our helper, and try to introduce principles whereby the will of God will be done on earth as it is in heaven. But let us be on the side of human liberty and human rights, and the protection of all correct principles and laws and government, and maintain every principle that is upright and virtuous and honorable, and let the world take the balance if they want, we don’t want it. You will see trouble, trouble, trouble enough in these United States. I will tell you what you will see by and by. We expect to do that, and to maintain all correct principle. We have prophecies something like this somewhere that the time would come when this nation would do as they are now doing - that is, they would trample under foot the constitution and institutions of the nation, and the Elders of this Church would rally around the standard and maintain those principles which were introduced for the freedom and protection of men. "And while other men are seeking to trample the Constitution under foot, we will try to maintain it. "That people (the Latter-day Saints), whom the very great majority have striven to obliterate, will step forward and continue to honor the Heaven-inspired Constitution bequeathed to us so rich a legacy by our forefathers." At that critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.” It will be so." "Will the Constitution be destroyed? No: it will be held inviolate by this people and, as Joseph Smith said, “The time will come when the destiny of the nation will hang upon a single thread. All that I am afraid of is that the Elders of Israel will forget their God." But the Federal constitution is trodden under foot. There is nothing but the people of God could enjoy under it. ![]() "There never was a better constitution on the face of the earth than the constitution of the United States. "Even this Nation will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the constitution is upon the brink of ruin this people will be the Staff up which the Nation shall lean and they shall bear the constitution away from the very verge of destruction." ![]() I know these things by the visions of the Almighty." Then the Kings and Queens shall come, yea the foreign saints shall come to fight for the land of my vineyard, for in this thing shall be their safety and they will have no power to choose but will come as a man fleeth from a sudden destruction. Then shall the Lord say: Go tell my servants who are the strength of mine house, my young men and middle-aged, etc., Come to the land of my vineyard and fight the battle of the Lord. " This people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction. "Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor’s rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample under foot the glorious Constitution and the people’s rights." "If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence." "We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. Joseph Smith who ran for the office of US President because of persecution:
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