Show communicated G S CITY april 1864 editor vedette edette 11 sir having a leisure hour tile the passing moments may not bo be culp employed loyed in ill penning a i leis few thoughts for our valuable ibl 0 piper paper by way or of acknowledgment for pleasie afforded in perusing is co contents tit ants and working alio good in others rs hould It I 1 suppose fr from ln tit the extensive cai dilation circulation of tile the vt D raf in so choit t 1 a time NN athile bile hiving baving had to resist accumulated prejudice priestly pi estly influence encoyand and interest it had public favor and afforded many unfeigned delight its readers are daily becoming more numerous hence bence you chii 1 may I a y rely on has ing troops of fi sends is not this s encouraging the VEDETTE is indeed working vor king a nun man clotis clous work and a wonder it must be comforting to yourself and co work ers in in a liberal eliberal cause to have the assurance that efforts in nude ide to please awl enlighten art arc effective and so generally appreciated it is not always so how abortive th the labois of many good men lave have been in as good a cause you aie aware but there inthis is this much to bensaid be baid your coarse I 1 la aa been As ell chosen and the people N ere ripe for liberty they hunger and chii bt for kno knowledge ledge for having been so long led on stale sickly indigestible stuff and empty promises a change ot of diet is is willingly illin gly accepted men soule sometimes times art are master of their fite fate but the divinity was alia shaping I 1 your end certainly when tile lie hl h hippy l p t thought boug t was conceived of publishing a daily dail paper a or in this rity city your success is ample refutation to the ti ad alced idea that this community was not prepared for a daily paper that it would not support one disregarding this you launched forth timely on thu the 11 tide tia that leads to fortune now having past the shoals and gained the open sea who shall resist you your nunly manly liberal independent course on cn cOlli ages ilic wavering but strikes terror into the hearts of priestly priest ly tyrants and ahmay amon amongst st the ranks of traitors that your paper is devoted to the interest of the in masses asses is is appi apparent rent by the eagerness with which it is sought sough t A debei dese deserving iving vi n public awake to its own interests inter ests decides by its patronage a and nd expressed good gcoy NN will ill that the VF VE is a necessity the hueie re is a class and the number d daily ally increase inci inc ease tease who Pl irately read your paper and yet are not sufficiently advanced though liberal in sentiment to throw off the cringing yoko 01 0 of servile e bondage charity casts an eye favorably towards progress progressive L ivo hil humanity manity assured they cannot continue reading your liberal 1 l without t being enlightened enlighten ed and induced to throw off the bondage th thit it enslaves them but contempt pity and 1 laughter aughter alternate all commingle on our part toward some who read your paper gladly themselves but deny it to 0 o others though a rew few even of these dim lights of the flock are stricken by the shafts of liberty but being remnants of a dark age will necessarily be slow blow to manifest the brighter light of modern mental progress straws show which way lay the wind blows the th extended forefinger of tint tinie directs ed eyes ees of to an im imploring P lorin e billiter filiere fil inre ue e to 3 ample evidence of tile the d doing in tins this good your Minni alty I 1 may ay bo be ann round laige number ticking asking what la iw ath in th considered arto erto con forbidden I 1 b but ut nev eythl bierl pd and important tant questions i pave inquire and would be slaves indeed a daring Tf to 0 did rot not soon demand they answers to thi 7 ebur dious the usual pa parrying crying off with r coit is fl ill I 1 not appease the groag str gro wing impei imp ti y people awakening from rom delusion of it ual lial oppression no they are thinking and a spirit will vigorously Y their thought bonghui bong thinking hSi g a n li 1 it is said that csisar casar would to mile not have lion but that ho be b presumed it that bat the I 1 r w were ere but lambs ile he pres presumed timed toot so it ill be too mallch nv found I 1 in utah the thewl long sleep has been taken for ta lameness people 4 menis N they are awakened your ow paper his call on them loudly to arouse themselves lied T ves for ito dawning dy day was ivas upon them an and in result they are best bestirring irrin 1 1 themselves elies 01 urn their til course is onward d tyrants and but priests fulminate but intelligence has inured may nm ita ik tei let who shall es limite the blesin liberal newspaper devoted to tile the of a intel interests the masses it is the dread of t of t t the he enjo of exclusive privileges legs craft irao and crasso either political social or rel religious ivious look lock with horror on the spread of liberal senti ments it is be mare marato to theu them for Pl plebeians plebe belans ians when enlightened hurl burl bad baci ia the ha scorn the idea that the they y live lire merely Ilie rely that others may be 91 giedt mt or 1 tich ch confiding in liberty for the masses I 1 with pride behold buds of promise blooming n hope for a speedy speed Y deliverance fro from n thralldom yours etc |