Show I 1 from the st louis luemary Lu mmary ary 1 1 our paper we present before our readers this week i of our first effort at publishing 0 a newspaper how do you like it the work is is entirely new to us and we feel altogether the awkwardness awkward of our new position we have labored under unde the ac customary inconveniences and disadvantages felt more more or lost less by all in starting a newspaper but 1 faulty fault yand and deficient as it may appear we venture I 1 io 0 o send it forth in the world and humbly bumbly hope that our oar efforts will be appreciated however we feel assured that the saints and lovers of truth and justice will hail with p pleasure leasure the a appearance P pear anoe of the luminary I 1 the world has been too long stocked I 1 with falsehoods slander and misrop misrepresentations I 1 about mormonism and the people in i utah ou crimes have been represented to be so great and numerous our oar doings i so atrocious and vile our proceeds proceedings edi so abominable and disgusting that these statements have become suicidal they have I 1 been carried carri eil too far to answer the ends for which they have been put pat forth I 1 it is asked enquiringly enquiring ly where and who has felt all these hese evil influences who ever knew of its poisonous influences influence is or who has seen its deadly effects upon the country and who knows of his neighbor be coming becoming a worse maxi man a more re belious and corrupt citizen a less attentive husband and f father or less trustworthy and honorable for embracing I 1 mormonism who knows of the courts where his crimes are te corded since no affirmative in truth can be given to these questions the conclusion is natural enough clamors to reflective minds that the wordy clamor of the world is not reliable and ai as there is another side of the question they ask may not that side be more favorable we reply it is and the luminary will be devoted to the exposition of the favorable side of mormonism we hope to be heard and we are confident by the honest in inquirer after truth we s shall hll be heard and it is only to such we ad dress ourselves I 1 to those who delight in the filth and slander iander berof of tha age whose natural cravings clavings cravi are only satisfied with those up heaving and ex cite ments of society which ter terminate minata w i blood to all such appetites the U inary will fur furnish nisho nr nn provinden provi ndoc |