Show intolerance the beai raid now being nude upon alio Mo imons by the pulpit anil press of thi this s Ite publican land is a striking evidence of alie excess to which people will be lej by and bigoted prejudice no community of the same strength lifts ever done more lor their country or exhibit greater patriotism under similar circumstances than the cormons mormons Mor mons per from the infancy of the church and left without protection at all limo by the duty it wu to intend between ahrn and the wicked foe they have never lot an opportunity to do homage to the or to the excellence cel lence of our fundamental government they havo endured excessive wrongs and unexampled privations for over forty acau and in alic lace erected a commonwealth in what would have remained a wilderness for many years to come but for their hardihood and valor yet theao people may of whom are the direct de of alie revolutionary fathers are to bo pronounced for diring to exercise the highest privilege of an american citizen that of thinking and acting according to alio dictates of conscience they arc not even to bo tried by a jury of their peers or to bo given n hearing before eliat august body which presumes to condemn them it is that they aio mormon and the very name aim is to secure their conviction vic tion i could our forefathers who fought and bled that liberty might leavo a name and a place upon thu land but lave seen tho groat of the in alo short space of buo ouo hearts would undoubtedly have shrunk from the sacrifices of war and never have been achieved their great and constant ambition was t direct a structure that would withstand tho and be a boon of pricel esit worth to their generations erat ions after tham they had nl fenily buffered the bitter hand of ie legious persecution and biad led many of unwilling exiles from their that alicy might here enjoy the privilege of worship ing hod according to ho of for this they wee willing to rik all their liven and their lionora the anino privileges which they so highly und so valiantly fought to establish aro now denied the lati tor day saints and tiong have afen olid ore bf ing heaped upon klicin and other fedrial gent from abroad heir ex alio light to veto anny and nil acl by the legislatures and aliu by flit fiat of one giai con tho will of ho aholo people bo defeated they arc ahe to boar armi and aro stationed in heir alicy in religions opinion and aro hicl convict oil and publicly proclaimed by tho highest in tho land all without duo process of law and without tho tho t of justice choir patient endurance of theu wrong lint to lio hatred of their enemies and the the piratical budget who pretend to administer the law but trani plo eutico iu dust in le coutho of ent ahoi buo or lie hat ud them will crumble ciul decay and tyranny cannot exist together not even in ft republic for sooner or latter one must full and tho other ahsert ita supremacy As to which it will bo will eventually gain the ascendancy in this land let tho rulers of tho nation decide alie hint alicy now establish will er long bo applied to other than those of tho cormons mormons Mor mons and when they are alio llio sarno patient now exhibited by them will not to m and per the unity of tho nation |