Show expressions FROM TILE THE PEOPLE HOW now LONG WILL HISTORY CONTINUE TO REPEAT ITSELF SALT LAKE CITY march 1885 editor deseret mew new to criticise criticism critic crift ise else the acts of men and comment ment disparagingly upon the same without just cause is a wrong that should always be avoided espee especially ally aily if they occupy positions of public trust but to allow an officer no matter what department of the government be he represents to transcend the limits of his powers to suffer him first to inaugurate and afterwards to continue he the practice of USURPING POWERS unjustly claimed under the garb of county state or national authority and that too undisturbed by comment both of people and press or other actions more pronounced by way of protest against such usurpation would stamp the people thus trampled upon as the cowards an officer of the government is the servant of the people and not their master although a few in different periods of american history have thomy thouy thought lit otherwise and have acted as though they were the great nigh HIGH MUCK A MUCK I 1 while any who should oppose them theland the mand and their acts must be treated as disloyal dis loval and traitors but these always were and always will be short lived in thit this land of freedom for america is essentially a land of liberty its true form of government being a government of the people and by the people and the usurper sooner or later will be made to understand this no matter what his position the book of mormon contains some very significant expressions upon this point the brother ot jared declared that it was a choice land above all other lands and whatsoever nation should possess it should be free from bondage and from captivity and from all other nations under heaven many centuries later the prophet nepal spoke as follows and this land shall be A LAND of LIBERTY and there shall be no kings upon the tiie land alq I 1 wj will 11 fortify this land agai agal against ast all other nations and he that fl flights ats against zion shall perish saith goy god without quoting from rom the historical part of this ancient record any of the numerous examples named therein in proof of these prophetic sayings fr ry 11 for the world will not accept it as authority in the least degree I 1 will merely go go back a century or two for EXA THAT CANNOT BE DENIED in the reign of Jam james esthe the Sec second of england the work of demolishing the cherished institutions of the people that had had quite a long existence was begun sir edmund andros was appointed hinted royal governor ot of new ell eri england lind land 11 dudley the tile former president was retained as chief justice and to cap the climax randolph was made chief secretary as also censor of the press nothing whatever could be printed without his sanction popular representation was abolished voting by ballot prohibited town meetings forbidden men were arrested upon tae flimsiest flims iest pretexts and when they plead in court the privileges leges of the great english charter that had stood unquestioned for four hundred and fifty years were coolly told that the great charter was not made for lor the p people euple of america the hist historian orlan declares that the chief justice was in the habit of saying to his PACKED JURIES now worthy gentlemen we expect a good verdict froin from you to today daysi aud ard verdicts were accordingly rendered during the rei rel rein n ot this inquisition the charter of massachusetts was declared fer forfeited felted the plymouth colony fared no better new hampshire followed as did also rhode island some of the colonists of rhode island brought forwald indian deeds to their lands but were sneeringly told that the signature of the tile indian chief Massasoit or any other chief was not worth as much as the scratch of a bears paw the MEMORABLE SCENE at hartford connecticut will ever live in history andros attended by bv an armed mob called by him his guard guird demanded the surrender of the colonial charter A spirited debate followed the demand and etwas it was plain to be seen that it must be yielded up then it was as if by concerted action the lights were put out and the intrepid joseph wadsworth snatched up the precious document bore it away in a the darkness and concealed it in a hol low tree which tree has ever since been endearingly ye remembered as the CHARTER OAK but the inquisition Inqui was too powerful for the time being and the government af f connecticut was changed this happened two centuries ago can anybody see in the history of today to day a parallel not perhaps of the identical scenes themselves but the same biter proscriptive prescriptive tyrannical spirit the same intent design and und purpose employing every agency within their power to accomplish the same ends if this is not billit fully aV parent apparent to us then are we blind in indeed eed but the SEQUEL OF THIS HISTORY jiow how did it end wid chy hy in a few Y years ears every colony in new england had its for former er liberties restored james the second was dethroned dethroner his despotic rul rui levas ru ewas crushed to tb atoms andros and his minions fell with the despotic king for while in the act of escaping from the wrath ot of a justly incensed people they were caught ana and imprisoned if the present crusade against the mormon I 1 people has a paralea in tile the history of acm 1689 by the same parity of reasoning may we not conclude that the finale to this play will end as disastrously to tile the present actors as those of two centuries ago WE WILL WAIT walt AND SEE in speaking of the puritans the historian says they were a vigorous and hardy people nirm firm set in the principles of honesty and the practice of virtue they were sober industrious frugal resolute zealous and steadfast they esteemed honor above preferment and truth more than riches loving home and native land they left both for the sake of freedom freedo m finding binding rinding it they cherished it with the zeal and devotion of martyrs without ence they became influential without encouragement great despised and mocked and hated they rose above their re vilers in the school of evil fortune hey they gained the discipline of patience suffering without cause brought resignation without despair themselves the victims of persecution they became the founders of a colony a commonwealth a nation they were the children of adversity the fathers of renown has this second picture A PARALLEL as well as the first future generations will decide that it has and will place them side by side as the ver very y counterparts of each other I 1 while their oppressors will be placed side by side also as worthy only the company of one another for future ages will see to it that justice is done to both parties the history of the STRUGGLE OP OF THE COLONIES against the oft repeated oppression of the mother country in less than a century succeeding the cruel acts under james the tile second is too well known to need more than a sli sil slight ht mention the same intolerance persecution and tyranny was again sought to be forced upon the pe people ople opie but was met with such a determined opposition begotten by that love of liberty which the i e eternal one b has as implanted in the breast of every in man an which principle is particularly I 1 indigenous to toi tol American soil and the I 1 inhabitants nn h abi abl tants of this favored land tiie the sequel of the bitter contest is familiar to every schoolboy it was kotbin nothing 11 I 1 more nor less than liberty triumph triumphing 11 over despotism freedom over bonda bondage et right over wrong H how ow has HISTORY REPEATED ITSELF the origin of the colonies may perhaps be properly dated back to the year 1583 when under the direction arid patronage of sir walter raleigh his stepbrother GlIbert took possession of this country in the name of the kneen of england the disappointments and sufferings consequent upon the attempt to found these colonies na need ced not be mentioned here suffice it te to say that james 11 II a century afterwards became envious of the people who were enjoying liberties that had been bought at such untold sacrifice and thou though til 1 he himself was fully cognizant of the e chartered rights of the people that had been bestowed upon them by his pre rep his tyl annibal soul res rested ted not until a pretext was found to rob them of these dearly bought and highly cherl cheri cherished shed blessin blessings s As already shown his success was only short lived for he himself as well as the tools he employed were disgraced forever foi ever A century more of time had hardly elapsed when the same country We mother of america sought to inaugurate again a similar DESPOTIC REGIME but was most signally defeated in her pur purpose jose pose for the colonies passed from under her rule entirely assuming the powers of government they became a mighty nation and the parent no now vv was compelled to pay homage to its own child A third century has hardly passed away ere the sons nay let us hope they are foreign born or bastards of those very sires who fought bled and died didd to establish liberty upon this american continent for all the ages succeeding assume the roll of tyrants f and ind pass proscriptive prescriptive and unjust la laws ws quote to them the great charter of america as the colonists of connect connecticut ti did that of england and the answer of the wicked chief justice given over two centuries ago is repeated with thi this addition that it has either been amended to suit the purpose or its provisions have been interpreted construed by the tribunal from which there is no earthly appeal and shown to lawfully apply ay in the law and thus is the terrible api injustice I 1 justified the packed juries of two hundred years ago are duplicated in this age and the good verdict asked for and expected yesterday is rendered again today to day and so on to the end of the chapter e WHAT WILL THE SEQUEL BE why as liberty triumphed over tyr rany oppression mis misrule rulo rule bigotry and hate in the seventeen seventeenth til century and her ber tyrants were brought baroug to shame and as a much greater triumph came to the oppressed of the eighteenth cen century tury so 1 I predict will I 1 it t occur be fore the nineteenth century passes away with this difference however t that at no tyranny will ever again be exercised over the Inhabit inhabitants ints of this land of liberty history in this regard will cease to repeat itself and that too forever PROPHETIC |