Show froom the st leuis lum PROSPECT OF MORMON WAR I 1 MR MB EDITOR going the rounds of several public journals journal s such as the charleston mercury the washington star the new york times albany atlas and missouri democrat I 1 notice a strong disposition to get up an antislavery anti slavery slivery anti catholic antine anti ne briska braska and last but bat not least anti mormon excitement now whether this latter movement is ia intended to war against t utah mor mons or to prevent the he establishment of large gathering places in new ne york ohio missouri and california is a little ambiguous thee latter places from recent arrangements bid fair to receive a larger influx of mormons cormons than is ia donta contained ined by utah if the design of thelber anti mormon journalists isto is to subjugate and exterminate all mormons cormons Mor mons as such wherever located in the united states it ib is well for mormons cormons to know timely about it if the sons of 76 have so far outgrown their fathers breeches as to establish different castes among american citizens consigning mormons cormons to the gulling galling disabilities which jews have been compelled to endure in in many countries or to the iron rule abie a ancient patricians inflicted upon pie baans or if they mean to nip them in the bud through excessive scruples of conscience as the puritans bu hung 13 g and killed the witches in new england 1 I as an humble mormon w would like to know and aou wo uw I 1 like to hear the high minded men of t thy h nation speak out boldly unequivocally if this nation has beco become me so elevated in moral aal purity that forgetting their own abominations and they cannot only endorse past acts of anti mormon cruelty but sanction the same by a national subjugation and destruction of an isolated and innocent people living in peaceful solitude in their own dear mountain home then let them declare that this is their true design certain prominent journals have indeed I 1 most declared this to be their design but will this nation endorse the sentiment expressed in the charleston mercury washington star and missouri democrat such language savors of fanatic fanaticism im doubly steeped and of such precocious guilt as we would scarcely believe would ever be embellished in republican type the mormons cormons have never violated the first act odthe laws of congress neither have they trampled upon a single Z article in the constitution of 0 united states neither has there ever been filed upon a judicial docket of the united states court the first legal complaint against the authorities of utah or of any of her citizens but what do we hear why a new governor and new judges mastbe must be sent there the high min ded read shaver and snow were not belligerent li enough they did not leave theau the judicial d 1 cial bench and st stalk alk up to the pulpit platform of an ecclesiastical general conference in in order to lecture uron upon female chastity other men must tl tie e afore take their places and how must they take their places we are told that they are to go fortified so strong that they can execute the laws of congress but why fortified hitherto blither to there has been no resistance to any laws of congress nor even any complaint of resistance why then must the governor and judiciary 6 go go there fortified these officers do not go to kansas oregon minnesota or new mexico fortified I 1 what then is the cause of this stran strange cre political phenomenon of sending civil authorities there fortified so BO that they can execute the laws law s of Con congress by bv the drop of the bat now if I 1 were fere to give the two first letters to a remote hint of the real cause I 1 would say thus it is to raise the very devil with the cormons mormons Mor mons and that will redeem them of the scandal of the Grey town blunder ali ah so would I 1 have it democrat but some of the journalists aver that these are secret designs of the cabinet thrown out just as feelers after the popular sentiment As when the boy killed the frogs aroas it was sport to one side but death to tha the e other cowardly as such a design would appear it probably would be well before undertaking such an enterprise involving the robbery and wholesale murder of peaceful law abiding citizens citizens to inquire whether cheth er th there ebeare are assassin a enough in the united states to join them sons of nero herod and boggs bogg s dont all speak at once but send as tho the mccury mor Mc eUrY cury star and democrat these men appear to covet the honor of being bein 6 pioneers 1 in this Cali gulan gulau expedition granny ran what a long tail our puss has got reaching all the way from the st louis democrat office to that of the charleston mercury the middle of it must look mighty flee cy as it is strung atsung out by the white house a sure cure forche for the rhe Grey lown town bronchitis if it is only applied before the election of 56 from tho the broad hint about fortifying I 1 more than half suspect there is a covet design in quartering a body of i soldiers in the most central and populous s streets in salt lake city during the present silt or nine months at an enormous and uncalled for expense under these circumstances with a new aavo nor and judiciary it will not be difficult to kick up a row with the mor mons I 1 understand that a much larger body of troops is to be sent to the plains next nest spring under the same pretense of going to california while the true design is to concentrate cen them in utah now will the fhe american public suffer buffer the long abused elpa striated mormon community to be e chafed chafee and goaded into another scene of dire suffering and d dispersion is yours respectfully I 1 ORSON SPENCER cin cincinnati C n kati nov I 1 pearl 18 sailing vessels vessel s olympus Olyn pus and wind 24 walter C claxton lax ton 13 ship E Z 19 cutter hamilton 15 Tay leur favorite mary jane 14 unta santa anna 70 76 powhattan new era 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