Show gehi awn uri TUU MAY 9 aw ac correspondence of the y UNION i vic OK 3 r SALT LAKI CIT Y i may ath 1865 85 f tir ir editor we wish to say FL a word in regard to the now nightly conduct of the self appointed conceited men who have taken the law in their own hands bands and seem determined to show the gentiles G in this city that their character ci ar acter if truly represented would compi ise iso onry only a mi mixture c or of vulgar und brutish jealousy it hardly seems possible that this can be a civilized community it would seem that a people situate in i n the midst of an intelli intelligent intel lh ent nation w would 0 it id not be so wanting in the first attribute ol of power dignity being followed last evening by some half a dozen of be sham faced acee fl liguori muses ay as two other gentlemen and accompanied by ladies ladief were enjoying the delightful weather ber by a promenade we inquired ed as to the motives of their in insulting allegations and were informed that the following was their role to carry arms to be aed ab ed at their discretion to dog the footsteps toot stepa ol 01 ay any and till all gentlemen found walking in in the streets in the eveni evening tig with ladies and nd at their option to stop them and order them as to their further actions during the lie evening now who are they that thus pr presume prestine estime to control the actions of intelligent C and respectable men 2 As I 1 laras I 1 t as our experience one night goes this officious night guard is composed ot of young youn m men and their purpose 1 is j clai claimed nied to be the protection of female purity in tap community the prime cause of their actions is in our opinion igno ranee rance in their ignorance they altri bute the result and effect of their ir ou otan n actions and institutions not to the pro per can cause but to the convenient object of their hate bate the gentiles 5 bartering ing in flesh as the leaders do setting betting the example in the broad light of the day to their females they destroy deliberately the bulwark of aluir virtue self respect presuming C that a more intelli gent generation wi will 11 accept all these thes debasing practices as heaven ordained they are astonished and nut outraged raged when a woman seelig only abasement in the practise of other her religion chooses to totes les sen the burden of her sins by one uy hy po cracy there is also another cause tor for ili their lr actions brought 0 up in ignorance L the young men of 0 the mormon church will not compare favorably lavor ably with tho e of any other corn coin their qualities not bt being such as to attract it the attention ol of the fair sox sex they seek by force to prevent competition nd ron ronze equen quent neglect at their hinds b ands how long loner 0 shall it be said that the n i t ti tion on so long recognised recognized as the protector 0 of f freedom allows its citizens to be so grossly in insulted stilted by a body of fanatics crazy in the exercise of he first tran power they ever pos possessed eseed cju god 0 1 0 grant that as they carry their ends by force they may soon be paid in their theil own coin and when th the time comes perhaps their insults may bear findt ft uit in strong arms and staunch hearts A |