Show BANCROFT A correspondent who uses the initials CE R T 11 sends send us the following from a late issue of a newly established evening paper 11 in this city george bancroft is 89 he says he still remembers his early days when he got only two dollars for an article and was glad to get it before he held up the mormon church on the history racket using this clipping for a text E B R T 11 writes as follows the rhe enclosed clipping from your eveni evening ng contemporary is a fair illustration of the intelligence that directs the assaults made by that paper and a certain morning sheet upon all who are so indifferent to popular prejudice as to say a word I 1 in favor of the mormon church when in their opinion the facts justify it the ignorance of the paper referred to is so dense that it is unable to distinguish between george bancroft the historian of the united states state s whose identity is familiar to the very school children sn aal 1 hubert howe bancroft the distinguished author of native races of the pacific states the last named in his volume on utah gives it as his opinion that the facts do not point to the mormon church as the instigator of the mountain meadow massacre mr bancroft is known hy by his voluminous and exhaustive work above alluded to wherever the english language is spoken and scholars and students of archaeology of the highest eminence have testified to th the e great value of his work in w all its details but particularly as re regards garde its fair impartial spirit and reliability so thorough has been his bis research so 80 broad and comprehensive his grasp of all the facts pertaining to his subject in these volumes that the encomiums lavished upon hl hie is work by those who have made a life study of the history and archaeology of americal america are sufficient to impress one and all with the thought that he who undertakes to disparage the ability or impugn the motives of one whom all capable critics acknowledge to be great writes himself down an ass ago to take issue with mr bancroft upon a question of evidence would have been the exercise of a right belonging to all but to assail as corrupt to stigmatize as false to all sense of honor or shame as was recently done in your morning contemporary a man whose life public and private is above reproach simply on account of a biffl difference arence of opinion is the act of a blackguard and denotes the absence of the ali first st instincts of a gentleman |