Show salutatory Y ill ii tilt tho wide wa of newspaper literature tile latin launching ehing of another bark ai whose lloc bloc tiny bails will woo the vari variable abl and ever shifting breeze of popular favor i is 3 AI we 0 sue ale amaie ii I 1 matter of little bjoin moment nt to tile great pi cat buying C on oil either continent I 1 in it these latter days of improvement enterprise arid and civilization the great lever ever of human society lifting it up to a higher point and tile mighty inight y regulator vf of mans finans doings it ib a fice un trammelled and independent crebs g tile the civilized civi lied lived it is tile boast of tile nineteenth century talat it lias has its bicad pinions until the silver lining of its thousand wings brightness 11 over all the land and its ita arnis arms penetrate every village vil laft C and almost every hamlet As the watery waters cover the sea so ao does the press cover both the great areat continents wherever eia ch and it d progress pro giess have lave stamped stain ped the character chai acter of nations ending cil cling the world with its lialo of light and life arid and joy on tin this s wide ocean among the multitude ude of crafts which dot its do we ave today to day launch our little vessel vesel hoping for gentle breezes on oil our onward course and trusting tiu sting in a conscious leati tude tilde of purpose to keep us its clear cle ar of the shoals and bic akeis and c which ta eft such andel takings n on oil evoi eveia y liand hand as is our appearance appeal appe alance anac and 1 t sur pa e a decent respect for the I 1 i y of 01 1111 mankind 1111 kind as is well as 1 I 1 sa ac a c Y iii akes it wit on lib to 0 in i x oc our aliv bow to the gleat public and alard i lard the motives which impel us its to ui 41 u i c iu f firstly then we find ceic a u UM i t fit I 1 for the efforts or of the i alist la list we are arc dwelling in the i an organized organised organ sed of the tate boating boasting a population of alb avilo possess but one vencial i r which to L gather ather news and tb and 0 which they can call i etc ate with the outer tin this s f is an and lias has no A within tire boun boundaries dalies of the i tate ti tes secondly the gentile so 1 artion odthe of the coll community 11 i include 1 y within this lias has ld oni of publicly netting settem 0 foith its PI cal I 1 illitia lica till its thom n its um ting or ic le butting either at home or abroad the want of a press for these and similar purposed purpose lias has been shiely baiely felt since rince tile ti oops ai lived in these thebe valleys and we iv pi to supply the want so bo far as our ability and limited space will per pel mil to every rightly constituted mind it has been a boince of reg 1 that the t existing between the mass mas of tile people and the military in utah have not been of flier a cordial 0 or aniie the fult linh representation lias has brought 0 it lit thit thin mi untoward toward state of foiling beelin beit ti Mori mormon and gentile indich lias has led 1 alli lormer former to believe that the latter ire ir chocie choc ii and appointed vilen nc mies lies v L ur ut r that they aliey but the re I 1 I 1 I 1 ves of a gover caking s ecking 1 it and annihilation annilu lation of tile the 1 I rm na g IH pinions sake and all such it t k n 0 pro vinet to attempt to t fal ir 0 af e ci il ii por sons to b ring bring about ca conflict inflict in this territory between the military and the civil binl inhabitants a the appeals of ambitious crafty designing men inc to wean the people front from the government that their own ends may be sub served who constantly vilify and abuse alj the officers of the best government with which this or any any other people eople vaa a ever blessed it will be our duty to expose the bold de denunciation arid and tile covert m ert sneer silver litkei uttered ed aag against aillet tho nation iame becoming M a foreign foe or the open lebel than tl those loze who here enjoy the protection tec tion cne cale and blessings 1 1 of tile figest 1 greatest grea test a and rid 1110 4 patel lial government elit on oil aal th L irate grate harshly on oil tile ear and conie come not we ave would fain believe from froin the heart or of the people the teachings C which border on oil treason ti eason if indeed they fill not the full fill tic abille of iniquity tile avalli whisperings whimper ings C of soo some and the defiant speech of others appealing 0 to the passions prejudices pie arid and feivor of the multitude seeking 0 to wean ivean them thein from froin their loyalty to tile nation we ine fiust and belice have found no to deep abiding 0 place in the mind and of the great mass of the people of utah if they have we propose to calmly aggue at 1 gue the on with them thein if in excitement ci cit ement and amid misrepresentation they have indeed been led astray we ave ask them thein to hear us its in the quiet arid and peace of their own lelii ed homes we propose to appeal ft horn oni cw baisar nar drunk to casar sober front from an tit excited and impassioned populace to the calm reflection of a thinking 0 reasoning im 0 coni community bioni the alie teachings arid and prejudices of scribes arid and eadels banow leidl high 0 or low to tit alie plain common sense of plain coin common nion honest nien men for those bold bad men if such be who to compass their own ends seek to mislead the multitude as to the intentions arid and alie tives civil and military in utah wo we have little respect arid and far less care but for the mass of the people whom we ave know to lie ile honest and sin coic ceic though 0 mistaken mist aken and it may inay be prejudiced we have both to them we ave propose to talk in our own plain homely way with their domestic ie lelit lations ions arid and inter interior iop life we ave have naught anauo ht 0 to do other than at as 0 good citizens citi ens we may entel entertain tain and on oil proper occasions occasions prop oily eily our own opinions on oil any subject touching touching the general weal iveal while as soldiers wo ave canic came not to make inake war on oil this people neither in this enterprise is it our design 0 to intrude upon their ever every Y day life when we ave say that the pi amary object of sending troops to utah last year was the protection of the Ov overland eiland mail arid and telegraph 0 lines we ave but lefeat what eveia nian man of culinary intelligence 0 knows to be the fact arid and when we add that tile the constant effort of sonic some lias has been to abray the people against tile the government arid and tile soldiers eis arid and inculcate the ciron eiron idea id c a that the latter sent hither to persecute and destiny desti dest oy toy we ave but say what the signs igus 0 of tile the times and the plesent state of feeling el alove piove arid and what it were ivere meic hypocrisy to attempt to deny with the coil schou arcos of stating the truth wo we um that this bad state of feeling ha has 4 0 not nu lawen bc occasioned boned by any intentional let t of tho officers of this command arid and know not a sil single 10 inki instance tance of oppression opp 11 or wrong on th c pait odthe troops 1 has lot inet will the discountenance and an pi al orritt I 1 debuke of the geller in conia 1 11 on oil tile the other hand haild who cannot call from froll accent Ill memory ellory repeated acts and ins tiling gendill ten dill to provoke difficulty if f not t in deed to court I 1 trollie troll Me with the try authority but all ebullition i of r feeling under instances of pro probation Pation has been quelled arid and the Lit inott lord leai ency extended towards public which were far better left u fir aad without indulging in ethreal or menace ftc C j we fc feel el called upon to say that bat ahil i ity tho the desire of the military live in ill peace protect the intel interests ests and au vance e t alie it 3 of the people of mah fur for the government arid and tile the ins institutions I 1 it ti I 1 of the land should be voluntarily accor accorded ded by one and all hig high it and low tild arid toleration for disloyal fneels is no part of the duty of the true citizen whether official or otherwise it is the earnest earliest fisli 1 of every man inan attached atta clied to tile conini command and to live on oil celms of amity and good will with the people of this territory so long 0 as we shall sojourn with avith them and it were a burning shame to permit that feeling to be 1 by 1 a I tri cagle intriguing 0 few while therefore it is not the mission of tile the california column in utah to in insult suit oppress or persecute tile people of these valleys it must not be forgotten that the nation our own native or adopted homo is today to day st struggling u gling with a gigantic unholy 1 le ob bellion ellion and the dut duty y of every goo good d citizen to sustain by word arid and thought choup 0 lit and deed our common country is as plain as it is imperati im Ae e we say this as we ha leave ve be beun begun in un our enterprise in tile the best of feeling 0 trustin trusting 0 and believing that our language will not be distorted into au aught alit that savors of tin cat or unkindness but as the friendly voice of those ablio seek the good and the prosperity of every man woman arid and child in utah who have not n at voluntarily placed themselves beyond tile pale alc of charity cli arity and friendship our first duty is to the nation choso whoso preservation and advancement every good citizen holds next his ill s heart our second ittoli fa ro 91 gicas ca s of whose people we ave know to be the desire of the general commanding and those united with him in the discharge of public duty |